ivankirigin

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by ivankirigin 8y ago
This is probably my favorite youtube channel.
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
If you're new to being a startup founder, you might be surprised by how much time you must waste on this area. Getting it right isn't optional, but most technical founders have a weak finance background. Spend money on tools like
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
I welcome an absolute definition of poverty. We talk about the richest and poorest quintiles much more often, which is worse than a moving target. There will always be a lowest quintile. The cynic in me thinks this is a job protection progr
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
There are some actions in Asana, like tags and projects, which are immediate and inline, often with a hotkey. In jira, it could literally be 4 full screens. Other examples include filtering and search. Google has raised the bar so high in b
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
There is a difference between thoughtful disagreement and treating the speaker as an outcast. We should engage and attack ideas based on merits. One of my favorite ideas here recently is a "steel man" argument. It's putting t
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
Many companies make a good plan of burning $X per month, with a runway of Y months. This is often a worst case scenario with projections of growth from their roadmap.
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
Congrats to Jason and Daniel! It's hard as hell working on a startup for 10 years, and their team's consistent commitment is so impressive. My first startup was YC W08, Tipjoy. We were just two people, my wife and I. I feel lucky
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
Heavily discount offers until you have real termsheets.
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
I founded YesGraph, almost exactly 5 years ago. AMA
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
It's even better than that too, given their commitment to invest pro-rata. So the money is there if you can get another firm to lead. Because this policy is public, there shouldn't be signalling issues.
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
Presumably you'd need to generate 1.3M liters off of only daylight hours, making it more like 130m*130m per 10K people. Cairo has a population density of 18K people per km2, so this would mean covering 2% of the area. For contrast, str
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
To hit that rate you need energy storage at your house, right? In the context of grid power, that's an even bigger issue given cost and pollution from base load generators.
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
Gustaf is awesome and has been a great help at my startup YesGraph. YC is lucky to have him!
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by ivankirigin 9y ago
There is a way for the remaining founders to get exactly what they want. It's called "recapping". Let's say that there are 30M shares now, and you each have 10M shares. They can take that $500K and make it on a pre-money
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
Awesome work. How soon before it can open doors and go up stairs? More importantly, do your customers care?
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
I wrote up some free startup ideas around digital work. http://blog.kirigin.com/digital-work tldr: smartphones are a platform to learn skills, to facilitate a network of contractors, and to do work. Put that together for s
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
We used https://www.graphistry.com to visualize hundreds of thousands of edges for https://www.yesgraph.com/twinmaps/ The minimal eng required to get good performance was wonderful
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
5M home sales yearly, so this shouldn't be done by anecdote.
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Should Lawyers Learn to Code?(medium.com)
2 points by ivankirigin 10y ago|0 comments
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
YesGraph, Bay Area, 1st Business Hire This is our first non technical position. We wrote up a blog post here, where you can see our YC Demo Day pitch from a few days ago! http://blog.yesgraph.com/biz-hire/ Email me: iv
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YesGraph (YC W15) – 1st business hire(blog.yesgraph.com)
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
The reason people do this is that the list gets bigger far faster. Don't make decisions on aesthetic sensibilities alone.
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Show HN: Twitter Graph Visualization
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
Hey folks! My team made this as a visualization side project. Let me know what you think!
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
Probably a lot more hand sanitizer and other precautions that aren't in your house too.
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Boost B2B Team Onboarding with Domain Targeting(blog.yesgraph.com)
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
Sam, what do you think about YC companies whose founders support trump? Or on the other side Apple not supporting GOP convention?
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by ivankirigin 10y ago
The difference between Uber and other subprime lenders, like mortgage companies, is that the recipients can actively become lower credit risks. They can just drive the car. At the rates Uber pays, probably around a full day a month. So not
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Sam Altman's Bubble Talk Bet Is 1 Year Old(blog.samaltman.com)
132 points by ivankirigin 10y ago|69 comments
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GM Closes Acquisition of Cruise Automation(wsj.com)
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