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by jedc 16y ago
My favourite quote from the article: "a guy named Rahul, a slender 27-year-old Englishman of Indian extraction who's 50 percent hair and 50 percent brain." Which is a hilarious description of YC/HN's own http://news.ycombinator.com/user?i
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by jedc 16y ago
That's separate from the Google Fiber for Communities project. I haven't seen any news on that since all the applications were submitted. I'm sure the selection / due diligence / contracting process is ridiculously complex, though! I woul
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by jedc 16y ago
Damn, I'm an idiot. Make that direct investment costs of 208 startups is <$5million. (Order of magnitude error; shouldn't have been multitasking when I wrote the comment!) Still, YC has still returned (and potentially as much as quadr
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by jedc 16y ago
My back of the envelope calculation over all YC acquisitions so far has them at ~$12million returned. (Over half of that is from Heroku.) That could arguably be anywhere from $5-$20million based on your dilution assumptions, though. And d
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by jedc 16y ago
Yes, based on the spreadsheet I keep: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
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by jedc 16y ago
Two dozen is only about 10% of the 208 YC startups to date. I'm surprised that that few have done a Series A. I would have thought it would be a much higher percentage.
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by jedc 16y ago
Seriously, come to London if you want to see this all the time. Walk through Mayfair and you'll see Porsches, Astons, Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, Bentleys parked on the street all over. It's crazy... Sometimes it's not contempt, it's just wha
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by jedc 16y ago
Agree, but: 1) They're a huge, huge outlier 2) Any of Renaissance's funds are not nearly as scalable as a passive index fund 3) As a hedge fund will still take a big chunk out of returns as fees
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by jedc 16y ago
I think the dupe filter only checks for stories within X number of days. This was past the limit => new thread.
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by jedc 16y ago
Perhaps he (and the dealership) were making more money from the financing than from the sale of the car itself. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case...
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by jedc 16y ago
One of the alumni companies was PagerDuty, who went on to get YC funding in the last (YC S10) class.
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by jedc 16y ago
Interesting. I've played around with Kayak's API, but has anyone used it for any projects? I'm curious what others think. As for the IPO... good luck to them!
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by jedc 16y ago
Google doesn't have a Dropbox product, but Google has put together a series of APIs so that you can create a similar product of your own off their infrastructure. http://code.google.com/apis/storage/ It was presented at Google I/O 2010; t
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by jedc 16y ago
Huh. I thought it might end up being a link to my list here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l... I agree; it would be very useful to understand where that came from. Though it looks like someone may have take
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by jedc 16y ago
With "CONFIDENTIAL: INTERNAL ONLY GOOGLERS ONLY (FULL TIME AND PART TIME EMPLOYEES)" at the top it's hard to believe they might have thought it wasn't confidential.
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by jedc 16y ago
That said, the acquisition only closed very recently. Within the last few months if I remember correctly.
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Google Place Search: a faster, easier way to find local information(googleblog.blogspot.com)
9 points by jedc 16y ago|0 comments
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by jedc 16y ago
I would guess (I certainly don't know anything) that contests like these will open outside the US when the GoogleTV devices are available outside the US. I'm hoping that's coming soon...
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by jedc 16y ago
There are times where I wish HN had a one-time-daily-use +10 vote button, because I would use it here. The post was obviously satire, and I personally thought it well-written and hilarious. Fundamentally, a technical startup needs to event
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by jedc 16y ago
Just check my HN profile. :) And I would absolutely appreciate any/all corrections. I know the early years of YC data aren't as accurate as the last few.
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by jedc 16y ago
That's probably what Google Translate and speech recognition and text-to-speech probably all sounded like ten years ago. But now all of these are able to work together to make a universal translator, turning speech in one language into spe
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by jedc 16y ago
It looks like it was written in near real-time. Going through the main site ( http://thebln.com/blog/ ) there are notes for what looks like every talk. If you read it in that context it doesn't seem so bad...
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GMail: Threaded email launched(googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
4 points by jedc 16y ago|0 comments
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by jedc 16y ago
Congrats to Andrew, Toby, and Dan for making such a great hire. It bodes well for the next months!
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by jedc 16y ago
Perhaps, but the effect of the GSUs (and annual bonuses) would likely more than make up for any sort of lowballed salary.
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by jedc 16y ago
Or the book "Certain to Win" which was written by one of his "disciples" with Boyd's input on how to apply all of Boyd's thoughts (which are far more complex than what the blog post shows) to business situations. http://www.amazon.com/Ce
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by jedc 16y ago
I bought a Jeep ages ago, and decided to try it out off-roading. I went to a Jeep Jamboree weekend and spent an entire day going down what seemed like impossible trails and through muddy streams and more. It was cool that an absolutely st
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A fun bookmarklet to change the web you see(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
1 points by jedc 16y ago|0 comments
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by jedc 16y ago
Interesting development. The fees look to be identical to PayPal and Checkout, but calculated on a three month average. There seems to still be room for another competitor here, given the problems with both PayPal and Checkout.
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Christchurch Quake Map - Cool visualization run on App Engine(christchurchquakemap.co.nz)
1 points by jedc 16y ago|0 comments

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