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by jedc 13y ago
I'm sorry, but it's really difficult to take that "seminal work" seriously when that work is an in-depth analysis of the "MacLeod Model of organizational sociology". Do you know what the "MacLeod Model&quo
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by jedc 13y ago
Correct; YC doesn't do any follow-on investing. But all of the YC partners individually invest in follow-on rounds. (as individuals) I'm fairly sure that this is much more lucrative than what they make from YC funds.
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by jedc 13y ago
You mean this? https://developers.google.com/cast/ Where it allows Android/iOS/ChromeOS/MacOS/Windows developers to integrate a little code into their apps to make it very easy to send stuff to a TV
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by jedc 13y ago
It's also in his XKCD store if you want to make Randall a few bucks: http://store.xkcd.com/products/money-poster
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by jedc 13y ago
Obligatory reference to the excellent XKCD chart: http://xkcd.com/980/
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by jedc 13y ago
Does anyone know how this does/doesn't compare to Camlistore? http://camlistore.org/ (which is also written in Go)
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by jedc 13y ago
That's not the case for Java apps on App Engine anymore. According to http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/google-app... and http://www.jboss.org/capedwarf I run a number of app
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by jedc 13y ago
Exactly. To really be fair you need to compare the audience for each play, and for Pandora/Spotify it's just one person per play versus X (hundred/thousand) for regular radio.
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Passion Capital - Plain English Term Sheet(scribd.com)
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Enabling Google App Engine to run in the Private Cloud with CapeDwarf(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
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by jedc 13y ago
Some of the examples mentioned in this post are astounding. WTF??
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Why Some Founders Fail(medium.com)
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by jedc 13y ago
1 million applications received. Say 10% of those go into some sort of evaluation process = 100k assessments/year. Say 10% of those go through an interview panel of (on average 3 interviews) = 30k assessments/year For 30k employe
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by jedc 13y ago
They've reported receiving 1million applications per year. If even a fraction of those get interviewed (with 1-5 interviews per candidate) that's a good chunk of data. Correlate that with regular performance reviews of 30k emplo
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by jedc 13y ago
Obligatory post to what I consider the best framing of MBAs: "It's fine to get an MBA but don't BE an MBA" by Hunter Walk. http://www.hunterwalk.com/2011/12/its-fine-to-get-mba-but-do...
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by jedc 13y ago
Something like this? http://churnalism.com&#x2F ;
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by jedc 13y ago
I would suspect that YC has done very well as a fund. But I also suspect that the partners have all made FAR more by investing individually into YC companies after they've been in YC. Here are links to some of the investments YC partners h
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by jedc 13y ago
Disclosure: I work at Google and have been dogfooding this on my personal account for a while. I draw a distinct line between my work e-mail and my personal e-mail. In my work e-mail I have a lot of rules, filters, automatic labels, and us
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by jedc 13y ago
And Saul Griffith is also Tim O'Reilly's son-in-law.
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by jedc 13y ago
I highly recommend the book "The Box" which goes deep into the history of the shipping container. http://www.amazon.com/The-Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller/dp/... In a nutshell, it was messy. It's not easy in the physical/infrastructure w
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Pmarca archive has moved - no longer on Posterous(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
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by jedc 13y ago
I've really enjoyed building on Google App Engine. (Disclaimer; I work for Google, but not in engineering) You can use the Datastore for NoSQL data, or connect with CloudSQL if you want to use a traditional MySQL database. It's quite forg
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by jedc 13y ago
Like the other commenter, I think the opportunity is more for tablets, too. There are just so damn many things that need to be logged and tracked on paper and that don't have anything to do with [reactor operations, SUBSAFE, emergency/DC pr
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by jedc 13y ago
There's very little space on board a submarine. If the Navy was willing/interested in putting paper-based workflows onto Android devices, it could save a good amount of physical space on board.
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by jedc 13y ago
I found it interesting that they specifically called out use on Virginia-class submarines. As a former submarine officer myself, there certainly are some applications on board where this would certainly make sense. (Not in the engine ro
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by jedc 13y ago
Congrats to the team for being the third-biggest exit to date of a company to come from a seed accelerator. http://www.seed-db.com/companies/funding?value=exit [edited; originally said FB bought OMGPOP but it was Zynga. Sorry I was wron
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by jedc 13y ago
If people are interested in YC numbers (and individual companies) compared to the 150+ other accelerators around the world, check out Seed-DB. ( http://www.seed-db.com ) YC startups have raise >$1billion in funding, approximately half
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Seed-DB Investor Graph: which VCs/Angels invest in YC/TechStars/etc companies?(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
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Malaysia - adopting Google Apps for Education for 10million students(googleblog.blogspot.co.uk)
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by jedc 14y ago
Fun fact; if you look at the robots.txt file for ycombinator.com, this page (dday.html) is the only one that's disallowed.

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