jaypaulynice

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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
http://seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 As much info you can get for now...it says 15B invested Airbnb alone has almost a third of that.
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
I think there are some implicit bias. I've noticed that most black startups in accelerators cater to other black groups or hail mostly from Africa. If not being strong enough was a criteria then you could guarantee that every startup w
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
I'm very curious about the success rate of YC companies when it comes to race/gender...any data regarding that?
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
I've worked as a software engineer in a lot of industries and I think advertising/marketing and finance are full of people like this. But in the end, it sucks to live like this always paranoid and watching your back. When I see so
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
"As A Man Thinketh" James Allen...About to read "Man's Search For Meaning" next
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
What a saga...Benchmark to Kalanick: resign....Shareholders to Benchmark: you resign....lol
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
My guess is they will fund some Startup School founders with a small amount of money like they did with the Fellowship. Then again it's all up in the air. They raised 700M last year or so. They could also be piling up cash for bad ti
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
So 2 spaces only on a typewriter?
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Anyone else noticed 2 spaces after a period and 1 space after a comma in the writings? I've always done the same, but for some reason 1 space after a period is correct.
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Nice! You're right in that regard.
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
This is not true for even the best entrepreneurs of our times...many are divorced multiple times so gambling on staying married is a bigger risk. Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are just a couple examples. Your spouse can dump you at any second
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Why the flame war? This is from my observation and personal life. My wife and I have friends that are a lot older and this is the reality that no one talks about...betrayal in business is a very common thing...it's the nicest and good
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
You don't think financing your spouse education is a gamble? Who is to say you won't get divorced right after she's done? That's honorable, but at the same time a huge risk.
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
I like this post. I wish I really started a startup in college or right after. A regular corporate job turns you into a zombie and you become out of touch with reality especially if you're well paid and well fed. A lot of people are
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
If your place seems to be buzzing, it could attract more customers right? If it's empty, then less people will come for sure. Ever walked in an empty coffee shop and thinking what happened? You could print the password on the receip
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
>In a lot of places, having a talk with your manager about your salary before going off and actively looking for other offers is going to go down a lot better Business is business. If they find someone to replace you at a fraction of yo
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Never stay at a job once you've shown your manager you have other offers. Use the current job to up your salary in the next job. Again never stay...you'll be gone in time for sure.
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
With GV being an investor in Uber, the whole lawsuit seems very weird. Any GV partners on Uber's board? How did they not know? I'm not sure Google wants to manage a large network of freelancers/drivers without benefits. Wou
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
...they would have to fold under the Uber brand. Alphabet/Google automatically gives it credibility.
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Sounds like a good experiment, but your biggest competition is stores that offer financing. Why wouldn't I finance and then sell or move away with my furniture? What if the furniture is scratched, broken etc...Do I have to pay the fu
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Akamai handles 15-30% of all web traffic on any given day with 200k-300k servers...does Facebook have that kind of load in a day? The problem is mostly a CDN one, crunching data and writing to the servers are second to actually serving user
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
"We estimate that Facebook has 830,000 servers in 2017." No way this can be true. Facebook scaled primarily using CDNs like Akamai. Akamai is the largest CDN in the world and has no more than 300k-350k servers all over the world
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
What?! How am I promoting what you just said?
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
>but it pretty much sold by itself It's called execution...
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Wow...Travis Kalanick has his flaws, but come on, he will come back bigger just like Steve Jobs. That hurts! A company like Uber needs an aggressive CEO, not a pushover CEO...this is one reason why investors kill companies. I see this hap
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by jaypaulynice 9y ago
I like how they make it look so simple, but then you go to do it, you'll keep cursing at this thing...I think debugging problems might be difficult...I wish in something like this they show a real video making this work and how long it
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Haha...the original is 12MB. I reduced it to 1MB...it's hard to keep the details if the image is any smaller...
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
I use var _this = this
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Security hasn't gotten any worse than it's been. It's much more visible now and all systems are practically connected through APIs.. Lack of security knowledge is the problem I think. In fact most companies that are hacked
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
This is the reason we're working on RESTfender https://restfender.co We're in semi stealth mode but more to come soon!

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