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   by jedc 14y ago

   Unstable pricing?? App Engine pricing stayed the same for years, then made a big shift as it officially came out of preview. Yes, it was a big change, but it's only happened once. I'm a novice developer using App Engine and while there are
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   Google acquires Nik Software; Google+ hits 100million monthly actives(plus.google.com)

   3 points by jedc 14y ago|0 comments
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   by jedc 14y ago

   I just started using Pocket, and have found it a much nicer experience than Instapaper all around. This reminds me to take the Instapaper button off my bookmarks bar...
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   by jedc 14y ago

   Whoa! I literally had no idea there were sub-reddits so, um, specific.
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   by jedc 14y ago

   I served in the US Navy for six years, spending three of those as a submarine officer. Even though I've never seen a shot fired, I've been in some hairy situations. Steve's message is the same thing that I took from my experiences, and why
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   by jedc 14y ago

   Why was the original thread deleted? ("Good reasons" were mentioned, but not explained)
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   by jedc 14y ago

   And I think the solid relationships with big publishers is the big part that's hard to replicate. That said, you could probably more easily approach smaller (more local?) publishers that are more willing to experiment to get traction. Is t
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   by jedc 14y ago

   It's an early start (I hesitate to even talk about it here since it's such early days), but I put together Seed-DB ( http://www.seed-db.com ) for all accelerators; YC and all the rest. I'm a day or two behind on updates because of work trav
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   by jedc 14y ago

   So their biggest competitor is Anybots, but they're funded (through YC) by Anybot's founder and going through YC in the same physical space as Anybots? It strikes me that the main axis of competition is simply price. Otherwise it just seem
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    by jedc 14y ago

    I don't agree with your logic of Sales/Ops guy -> "all strategic decisions will be made by Google and passed down to the subsidiary". Dennis Woodside is a very respected and capable executive at Google. He's the kind of guy that woul
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    by jedc 14y ago

    I'm the guy who created Seed-DB, where the data comes from for this post. The biggest caveat is that I currently only get data from Crunchbase on funding and number of employees, and there are a lot of gaps where companies haven't updated t
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    by jedc 14y ago

    PG originally made the comment in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4291075 on Seed-DB. I launched Seed-DB earlier today ( http://www.seed-db.com ) where you can find these data points for all companies that have been throug
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    by jedc 14y ago

    YClist is a bit out of date. It gets information from the Google Spreadsheets I used to maintain, but which I've since deprecated.
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    by jedc 14y ago

    I get funding data from Crunchbase; I hope by being transparent with Seed-DB it helps improve data quality there, too. (Though I also want founders to eventually be able to add it in themselves on Seed-DB.) If there's a missing exit, pleas
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    by jedc 14y ago

    This is just the first step; I've got more planned to make this better. But I also believe that by publicizing this it will encourage accelerators to have their startups monitor/clean up their data on Crunchbase. (And I personally think th
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    by jedc 14y ago

    That's a little bit longer term for me, but would like to do it. (For context, this is the first webapp I've ever built.)
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    by jedc 14y ago

    It's my confidence level in the exit values. Only a few have been public or widely reported. The rest are purely my guesses. I wanted to put a High / Medium / Low confidence against each value. Looks like I should make this more clear in
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    by jedc 14y ago

    It's on the site, but currently hidden because it's not a "seed accelerator" by the definition I use: http://www.seed-db.com/about/definition (Similarly, Seedcamp isn't shown on NESTA's Startup Factories site.) Basically, as I understand
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    by jedc 14y ago

    I can't remember if it's explicitly on the roadmap, but it's something I do plan on adding.
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    Seed-DB(seed-db.com)

    52 points by jedc 14y ago|28 comments
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    Introducing Seed-DB: a database of seed accelerators and their companies(blog.jedchristiansen.com)

    9 points by jedc 14y ago|8 comments
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    The Art of Organizational Manipulation - Google I/O video(youtube.com)

    1 points by jedc 14y ago|0 comments
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    by jedc 14y ago

    Does this mean NowMov has pivoted and/or is concentrating on this? Or is it a separate company (like Justin.TV & Socialcam)?
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    by jedc 14y ago

    Agree that there are privacy implications, but don't believe they'll be quite as drastic as you make out. From what I understand, Google Glass connects to your mobile phone, so it's effectively outsourcing a mobile phone's camera, video spe
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    by jedc 14y ago

    Nope, the Nexus 7 is getting sold in a number of different countries to start. It's the Nexus Q that's US-only right now.
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    by jedc 14y ago

    I believe it's simply a part of the JellyBean Android OS.
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    by jedc 14y ago

    And the video mentioned the project was on Kickstarter when it's actually on some other random crowdfunding site.
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    by jedc 14y ago

    The "you need to leave at 10:14 minutes because it'll take 16 minutes to get to your 10:30 appointment" (because of local traffic/public transit) looks AWESOME.
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    by jedc 14y ago

    They did this a couple of days ago; I think I noticed it on Saturday...
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    by jedc 14y ago

    I learned this in my Aero Engineering courses in college. My professor mentioned that occasionally if the light hits the wing at the right angle, you can actually see the shockwaves. But for all my years of flying since, I've yet to see it.