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by jedc 13y ago
Another way to do file syncing without a particular cloud provider is Camlistore: http://camlistore.org/ Brad Fitzpatrick is one of the creators (LiveJournal, memcache, etc.) and it's rapidly getting better and better.
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by jedc 13y ago
It can be quite a bit different in Europe. In the US, you get to be an airline pilot either via a) military or b) years of hard graft and low-pay regional carriers. Compare this to a recent "Future Pilot" program that British Air
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by jedc 13y ago
This talk/interview of Keith Rabois is great when it comes to talking about what a COO does: http://firstround.com/article/Keith-Rabois-on-the-role-of-a-...
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by jedc 13y ago
I think the first half of your statement is true (employing a third-party service to take Bitcoin) but the second half (automatically exchanging them to USD) is an assumption that can change over time as Zynga gets comfortable managing Bitc
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by jedc 13y ago
And remembering the lessons of "The Innovators Dilemma", this strikes me as a potentially dangerous place for Apple to be in. (A company should always try to disrupt their own industry... instead of others doing it for them.)
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by jedc 13y ago
Do they still? I would have thought that by this stage they'd have started building their own (at least mini-) data centers.
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Google Webmaster Blog: Indexing apps just like websites(googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk)
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by jedc 13y ago
Everyone's work on prediction markets at Google was a 20% project, so Patri would have had his main job doing something else.
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by jedc 13y ago
And Dick Costolo said earlier this year (maybe late last year) that Jack hasn't been involved on a day-to-day basis in quite a while.
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by jedc 13y ago
Twitter can have value to people that post nothing. (This is the case for a number of my friends on Twitter.) And what you're describing has existed since Twitter was created as Twttr.
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by jedc 13y ago
There was a prediction markets company that YC funded in its second-ever batch: Inkling Markets. ( http://inklingmarkets.com ) It's still going, from what I understand through enterprise sales. Also, for those of you that h
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by jedc 13y ago
Lighthouses are regularly used for navigation, so they need to have almost guaranteed up-time. Don't think that would always be the case for these particular kinds of lights.
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by jedc 13y ago
When I was in business school, I took a class on venture capital from one of the earliest VCs in the valley. (He invested in Intel, for example.) One of the two founders of Genentech was a good friend of his, and so he had the opportunity
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by jedc 13y ago
There are at least six YC companies that have raised money from Khosla: http://www.seed-db.com/investorgraph/investorview?investorid... (InterviewStreet isn't listed because they haven't added their funding d
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by jedc 13y ago
Also, his first two funds were self-financed. He did well enough on those that when he started Khosla Ventures III he was able to raise $1Billion in LP money.
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by jedc 13y ago
MoPub was the best-funded company from their original class, and the second-best-funded company overall: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=2002 Congratulations!
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by jedc 13y ago
Fascinating that they're all national security related, except for the ex-CEO of Wells Fargo. I'm honestly curious how that came about...
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by jedc 13y ago
Is Lanyrd leaving London? I didn't see that mentioned anywhere...
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by jedc 13y ago
Congratulations, guys! This seems like a really natural fit. The slidedeck was a thoughtful touch to explain it, too. :)
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by jedc 13y ago
There are a couple of different lists. The first is the list of accelerators, which I update as soon as I learn about a new accelerator. (Often I add it before they've funded any companies.) The next list is the list of startups for
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by jedc 13y ago
I'd like to make it easier for founders to "claim" their startup on Seed-DB, which would lead to the ability for them to privately rate their accelerator and their VCs/Angels if they've received funding. I'm no
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by jedc 13y ago
I'd just like to say that the reason I created Seed-DB ( http://www.seed-db.com ) is because the world of seed accelerators should be more transparent. I've currently got a list of 170+ accelerators around the world,
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by jedc 13y ago
Details are here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=95003
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by jedc 13y ago
The 'agreement' between them is meaningless (in a legal/financial sense) until they both sign the docs to officially transfer money for an equity stake.
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by jedc 13y ago
This is mainly because a) most accelerators are new so the companies haven't developed enough to exit and b) it takes time to build a program that reliably finds/develops companies that can exit.
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by jedc 13y ago
Hi, creator of Seed-DB here. I'd stress that "exit" values are just that... for known exits only. Even if companies have raised money at billion+ valuations, that number is going to be zero for them. Assuming a 2-10 year h
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by jedc 13y ago
Is it just me, or are there a number of fairly high-profile writing tools that have launched recently? The ones I'm thinking about: * Draft http://draftin.com * Editorially http://editorially.com * Quip htt
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by jedc 13y ago
I assumed that he meant ethical for the survival of the business (by bringing in $$).
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I Don’t Want to Meet Your Company at Demo Day | Hunter Walk(hunterwalk.com)
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More YC companies public pre-Demo Day - thoughts?
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