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by jedc 12y ago
The Leanplum guys appear to be quite a bit cheaper: https://www.leanplum.com/pricing $79/month for up to 1.5k users.
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by jedc 12y ago
Anyone remember "The Dan Plan"? http://thedanplan.com/a-summary-of-the-dan-plan/ A guy (30-year-old photographer) who never really played golf before is trying to reach the PGA Tour through 10k hours and del
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by jedc 12y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I found it both interesting, and "actionable". It's helped me in very tangible way, particularly in stressful situations where I might have otherwise lost my cool.
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by jedc 12y ago
is! - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sivers
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by jedc 12y ago
How much would they have paid for 2500 machines that can do 230 Ghash/s each?
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by jedc 12y ago
Maybe https://www.goconspire.com is part of that workflow? At least the maintaining my contacts over time part.
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by jedc 12y ago
IIRC, the YouTube annotations system stems out of Google's acquisition of Omnisio, a YC W08 graduate. (They went from starting YC to a $15million acquisition in ~6 months.)
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by jedc 12y ago
Wow. That's a lot of hate toward App Engine! I've successfully used (and am using) App Engine for a few projects. For prototypers and small-scale users like me, it's been a God-send. I'm not a developer with 15+ years
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by jedc 12y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I was in Zagreb, Croatia for the very first time last year and wanted to eat dinner somewhere other than my hotel. I tried Google Maps and it was worthless. I pulled out Foursquare and found a restau
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by jedc 12y ago
because it strikes me as an inside term, possibly only used inside the military. Maybe I'm wrong on that?
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by jedc 12y ago
When I was in the Navy, I knew a guy who had moved half-way around the world between postings. Virtually all of his "household goods" were in a container... that was lost overboard in a storm. It had happened to him years before
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by jedc 12y ago
But CPC erosion is more likely due to higher % of searches from mobile devices. As Google's ads team works furiously to improve mobile ads, this will likely only go up. (Except that right now growth in the sheer number of mobile ads
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by jedc 12y ago
Dropbox, AirBnB, and Stripe are the companies that have publicly achieved valuations of >$1Billion; those three alone likely drive 80%+ of the numbers.
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by jedc 12y ago
There's definitely dilution. YC gets common (aka founders) shares for their initial 5-7%, so they get diluted just like founders do.
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by jedc 12y ago
http://www.seed-db.com collects stats for YC and every other accelerator, too... the companies they've funded, who's invested for how much and when, etc.
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by jedc 12y ago
Check the data out for YC (and any other accelerator) here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators In addition to the lists of what companies have gone through which programs and when, I also have an Investor Graph to open up
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by jedc 12y ago
I got into a black taxi once, and read off the text that my wife had sent telling me where to meet her. She didn't know the name of the restaurant and got the name of the street wrong. The taxi driver just said, "Do you mean [res
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by jedc 12y ago
Anyone who has a particularly strong opinion (coupled with strong evidence) is likely full of crap, since it just recently rolled out across the company. By the end of the year it'll be more clear what the long-term effects are.
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by jedc 12y ago
The 1.0 to 5.0 system doesn't exist any more. What is in the OP's blog post is how it's done as of 2014. (Very recent Xoogler here).
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by jedc 12y ago
Ha! When Google is fighting battles with all sorts of European regulators, it's a VERY smart idea to point to where they're investing in European culture. This isn't going away anytime soon...
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by jedc 12y ago
In the notation he used: M=1000 and MM=1,000,000, so $625M = $625,000. I would LOVE it if the financial world got rid of Roman numbers (M=1000) because it's just confusing when Roman and metric units are intermixed.
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by jedc 12y ago
Former submariner here. I'm glad they included my favorite Navy definition, which I think can be important for startups, too. "50/50/90: Used to describe the phenomenon whereby a question that statistically has a 50&#x2
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by jedc 12y ago
Brad Fitzpatrick talks about it as a "data dump truck". You put everything you have into it, and it takes it when you want it to go. What's cool is that you can abstract where it's stored... want to use S3? Point your d
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by jedc 12y ago
It's on the front page now...
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by jedc 12y ago
Try Seed-DB (my site) for lists of YC companies and every other accelerator I know about globally: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators 3700+ companies, >$4Billion in funding, and an investor graph of thousands of investo
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by jedc 12y ago
I hate the finance-style Roman-numeral notation. There's no good reason I've ever heard why to use it instead of metric-style notation (other than tradition).
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by jedc 13y ago
check out my site, Seed-DB, for numbers on all accelerators worldwide: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators
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One day to YC W14 Demo Day and 74% of class has launched(twitter.com)
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Unbabel (YC W14) Launches A Human-Edited Machine Translation Service(blog.ycombinator.com)
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by jedc 13y ago
It seems NASA's safety culture erodes in cycles: Apollo 1 fire - 27 January 1967 Challenger disaster - 28 January 1986 (19 yrs later) Colombia disaster - 1 February 2003 (17 yrs later) There's probably an interesting thought exper

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