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by jedc 11y ago
I've absolutely experienced this, most notably in the Boulder, CO area. I met a number of interesting retired drivers, including people who had had some pretty impressive careers and just wanted to get out of the house regularly. Of c
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by jedc 11y ago
And the first Techstars Ventures fund was a $5million fund that invested in angel rounds of Uber, Twilio, SendGrid, GroupMe, and more - http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/01/raise-150-million-vc-fu... As Brad
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by jedc 11y ago
I personally (speaking for myself) never cared for "the #1 startup accelerator" wording, and now that Techstars has built a small marketing team you'll have noticed that we talk about Techstars a lot differently - http:&#x2F
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by jedc 11y ago
If you want to see the companies that went through the 500startups accelerator, just go here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=2001 (500startups does mix the two on their portfolio page; Seed-DB o
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by jedc 11y ago
Actually, David Cohen wrote a check in Uber's angel round - http://davidgcohen.com/2014/07/14/the-ponys-lucky-horseshoe/ And the list of Techstars companies shows only the stats of companies that
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by jedc 11y ago
Urs might have kicked off Google+, but the execution was all Vic, and that's where any blame should be placed.
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by jedc 11y ago
Probably because they have "the specific scanning hardware" mentioned?
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by jedc 11y ago
> 4000 employees is just insane for what they do. Yes and no. Twitter will make ~$2 Billion in revenue this year (and it's their massive revenue growth that's kept the stock price where it's at). That takes a LOT of sale
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by jedc 11y ago
I LOVED this film. It goes through many of the key steps in creating a piano, the people who build the pianos, and is a tribute to true craftsmanship. I'd highly recommend it.
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by jedc 11y ago
Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head here. Facebook began with an expectation around an account tied to a real-life identity, and Google didn't. Google totally mis-read the cultural implications of integrating G+ into existing G
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by jedc 11y ago
Check out http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators to get better data. YC companies have raised >$7billion. 18 YC companies have raised >=$50million - http://www.seed-db.com/companies/funding?value=50
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by jedc 11y ago
I really agree. The work I've done with Neo4j (and in particular the easy way I can query data via Cypher) blows the socks off most people I show it to.
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$10B – has been raised by seed accelerator graduates(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
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by jedc 11y ago
I know the team at Knyttan ( http://www.knyttan.com ) which has awesome tech to enable industrial-size looms to do knitting on-demand. If Jacquard fabric was used on Knyttan-enabled looms, anyone (designers, anyone else) could eff
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How to Build a Unicorn from Scratch – And Walk Away with Nothing(heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
22 points by jedc 11y ago|2 comments
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by jedc 11y ago
This strikes me as one of the most fair/balanced comparisons of YC and Techstars that I've ever read. Thanks!
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The Developer as CEO(medium.com)
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by jedc 11y ago
Fun historical fact. One of the few prediction market companies to get VC funding was a UK company and their product HubDub. But the team saw the direction of their business and decided to switch everything they were doing and go into same-
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by jedc 11y ago
Um...they were. Quote from the article: "And as such, it is not without competition, with much larger companies like Mulesoft also making some big strides in providing platforms to connect APIs and others like Tibco, as well as smalle
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by jedc 12y ago
Not that I've ever heard. But considering they applied and were accepted to Techstars in London, Sherman and Karl had a ton of connections to London that they were using to fundraise. Techstars wants founders to be where founders wan
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by jedc 12y ago
When I used to interview at Google (non-Eng interviewing), I found the "Tell me about a time when..." questions hugely helpful. The initial answer is just the start of a conversation where I as an interviewer could go deeper and
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by jedc 12y ago
It was launched in September 2008 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Moderator
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by jedc 12y ago
"What it does is it allows us to land the first stage for GTO missions on the drone ship." Yikes! That's a pretty substantial upgrade.
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by jedc 12y ago
I know a German couple where both parents speak English and German. (Though the wife is much more comfortable with English than her husband.) The way they interact with their daughter is that the father always speaks German to her, and th
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by jedc 12y ago
I know a beta tester of the new Pixel, and the battery life of 12 hours is absolutely for real. I've been pretty impressed from the bit of it I've seen.
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by jedc 12y ago
In my case, I wasn't interviewing for software engineers.
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by jedc 12y ago
> most of which (afaik) is a datacenter Ha! Nope. While there has been some datacenter space in the building, the vast majority is office space. (It's way cheaper to build data centers in Iowa and the Carolinas than in Manhattan!
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by jedc 12y ago
Good point. Most roles at Google have a specific job req... you find the right person and the job is filled. But there are roles where that's not the case and where what I said doesn't necessarily apply. (That said, I'd ar
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by jedc 12y ago
> I've actually been pressured to hire someone just to hold onto the req at a large company, with the up-front, stated intention to fire the person in a month or two and keep looking. Wow, that is seriously f ked up. While I got p
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by jedc 12y ago
I used to work for Google and did a ton of interviews for roles where I was the hiring manager, as well as others. One of the more painful things that I came across regularly was that we often had multiple great people go through the full i

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