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by jedc 9y ago
If you want a laugh, check out what I think is the funniest Storify story ever - https://storify.com/ahchrissawyer/the-peanut-factory-sex-bur... (The Peanut Factory Sex Burglars)
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by jedc 9y ago
If you go looking for the Snapchat S-1 SEC filing, it essentially has a user guide for the app inside. (So that potential investors could figure out what the hell it was all about.)
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by jedc 9y ago
The direct and easy integration with BigQuery seems like a potential "killer app" for Data Studio.
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by jedc 9y ago
Former submariner here. My thoughts echo those of a ex-submariner group I'm a part of -- it makes sense across the board. It's 1) a cost saving measure, 2) WAY easier to get replacements, and 3) WAAAYY easier to train new people
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by jedc 9y ago
Based on most of the big funding rounds happening these days, I just assumed it was SoftBank.
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by jedc 9y ago
Ditto; & well-said. A number of friends and colleagues from my solar car days (at the University of Michigan) are now working at SpaceX, Scaled Composites, etc.
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by jedc 9y ago
Lots of stats on Seed-DB here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011
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by jedc 10y ago
"Google Student Blog" // "Google news and updates especially for students" Important context for this blog post and the comments in this thread.
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by jedc 10y ago
That's the exact same thing I thought as soon as I saw the headline.
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by jedc 10y ago
I know for a fact key Dragon solar array team members at SpaceX have extensive solar car racing experience, so if they're not trimming cells for maximum coverage, it's for a reason. (I would suspect the benefit doesn't outwe
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by jedc 10y ago
I find it weird that they didn't mention the name of the UK airline in the article. When they launched around Demo Day it was all over the news that it was Virgin & Richard Branson, and all of those articles are still online.
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by jedc 10y ago
Google had an internal prediction market. It hasn't operated for many, many years.
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$20B raised by seed accelerator companies; 75% to just 4 programs(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
3 points by jedc 10y ago|0 comments
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by jedc 10y ago
Techstars has shown stats for all companies for years, and has a 10% failure rate. - http://www.techstars.com/companies/ (78% active, 12% acquired, on a base of 800 companies) Techstars and YC appear to have pretty dra
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by jedc 10y ago
Getting downvoted for citing numbers and a gut reaction? I don't get HN'ers sometimes...
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by jedc 10y ago
Quick analysis: 1297 YC companies (from here: http://www.ycombinator.com/press/ ) 860 YC companies listed as either active or acquired (from here: http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ ) = 33% failu
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by jedc 10y ago
Yay! I can finally make sure Seed-DB data is 100% correct (rather than 95% correct) - http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011
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by jedc 10y ago
"Y Combinator has funded 1,500 startups" Really? http://www.ycombinator.com/press/ quotes 1297 startups http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 has 1069 companies (
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by jedc 10y ago
You can check out some stats here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 (Seed-DB is a side project of mine... funding data comes from Crunchbase)
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by jedc 10y ago
How many startups presented off-the-record?
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by jedc 10y ago
I'd LOVE to read a post about that!
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by jedc 10y ago
Definitely true. I was in Beijing to see a couple friends competing in the 2008 Olympics. (Rowing events; a 2km race that takes ~6.5 minutes). One friend got bronze, but was <0.25 second from gold. She was ecstatic! Another friend go
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by jedc 10y ago
It hasn't been their core business historically, but all they're doing is commercializing stuff that's been in internal use for many years. And they've publicly been making a VERY hard push into the cloud business... th
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by jedc 10y ago
Former navy submarine officer here. So SIGINT is absolutely a capability of US submarines, but isn't necessarily a primary purpose. But there are absolutely times and places where the ideal source of intelligence for the US governmen
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by jedc 10y ago
Former US Navy submarine officer here. It is very difficult to attack/destroy a submarine. And it's pretty easy for submarines to attack/kill surface fleets. That's why I've been similarly skeptical of the Navy
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by jedc 10y ago
It is. When I hired last summer the Galvanize full-stack course was all Ruby/Rails. By this winter/spring it had shifted to full MEAN stack. I get the sense that it's an industry shift. (Which I personally find a bit frus
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by jedc 10y ago
Relevant project that's usable now: https://camlistore.org/
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by jedc 10y ago
They didn't "triple the price". They changed the model of what they charged and how. For some users, this definitely screwed them. For many others the list price could have gone up quite a bit, but with just a bit of perfo
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by jedc 11y ago
Is Cayley mature enough for production? I thought it was still relatively new. Would love to know a little more about how you're using it.
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Going Through Multiple Accelerators: The Data Might Surprise You(blog.imranghory.org)
6 points by jedc 11y ago|0 comments

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