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by jforman 9y ago
Peppa Pig doesn't sleep. She merely sits in waiting during the nighttime hours.
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by jforman 9y ago
Lockheed makes those, too. Lasers have unmatched range and speed and would be very useful in some situations.
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by jforman 9y ago
All three startups I have been involved with have had board-level approval for individual equity grants. I have never seen any real push-back on them, but I have also never heard of the board relinquishing control over something so vital.
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by jforman 9y ago
Indeed, "running a process" is the important skill, which includes the deck, storytelling, etc. I was using "pitching" loosely.
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by jforman 9y ago
I think everybody is aware that if you never need anybody else's money (as in ever, which includes an IPO), you can write your own rules. Although YC companies seem by definition to already not be included in that group.
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by jforman 9y ago
I had assumed they did this already. As much as we hate to admit it, pitching (or "running a process" — see comments below) is critical to the success of a company and therefore a required skill for founders. And YC seems to be
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by jforman 9y ago
Well... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00335-8 Maybe the first startup YC should fund is one to mutate the enzyme to avoid immunoreactivity while preserving function...
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by jforman 9y ago
Home care is important, but technology can make major impacts, too. Here is a Kaplan-Meier curve for statins: http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/337/bmj.a2423/F2.large.jpg?wi... That is a lot of life that th
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by jforman 9y ago
Every disease is a different beast, and biology is very hard to tame. We've thrown probably trillions of dollars at cancer over the past few decades, and only in the past few years, with immuno-oncology, has there been any real hope o
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by jforman 9y ago
These days, that is mitigated partially by salaries that are closer to market (and sometimes even higher than market) than was historically the case for startups. But the AMT/exercising problem can be severe if you're unlucky.
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by jforman 9y ago
If Fin is a gauge, the "interesting enough to a large-scale business" number is $1/minute.
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by jforman 9y ago
Of course you CAN impact the world on $10k. But the Gates Foundation doesn't run on $10k. You can found zero biotech companies on $10k. Money, alas, has value, believe it or not.
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by jforman 9y ago
Only if "whatever you want" means lounging on a beach or a yacht. Most of the people on that list had aspirations to impact the world as much as possible, and there isn't a limit to the wealth you can use to do that. You cou
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by jforman 9y ago
To be fair, there are a LOT of early employees at Facebook that got churned through, or who didn't make it to the executive tier. Chamath almost got churned through, but he hit it big on the Growth team. That's the difference be
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by jforman 9y ago
Having a high-security option will be useful for more than executives and politicians. Lawyers, doctors, Equifax employees — anybody who touches highly sensitive data will benefit. Email is used as a privilege escalation path to pwn almost
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by jforman 9y ago
I was a common undergrad in the computer science department, and my freshman Tutor was an awesome guy from the div school. I had no part in politics (although I was aware FAS sat higher than DIV on somebody's totem pole); I just saw n
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by jforman 9y ago
These schools are big places, so it's not all that surprising different people have different experiences. What department, out of curiosity? I had experience in molecular biology and computer science at Harvard and mol bio at Prince
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by jforman 9y ago
"A professor known for harsh grading gets a question from his department head and next year the curve shifts a little." Professors just don't care about undergrads and teaching to near the degree that you think they do. 95%
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by jforman 9y ago
Agreed — hence the privileged place of the second half of that sentence
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by jforman 9y ago
This article has very little basis in reality based on my experience at Harvard as an undergrad and at Princeton as a grad student and TA. Yes, students are arrogant and push for grades quite a bit. But I saw zero evidence of systemic cate
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by jforman 9y ago
"Not available for sales in the USA" And these are point-of-care devices, not DTC devices. There are a lot of POC diagnostics devices out there and very few DTC diagnostic devices.
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by jforman 9y ago
Did you submit a 513(g) to get classified as (apparently) Class I Non-Exempt?
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by jforman 9y ago
Requestatest.com also offers Quest (& LabCorp in some states) DTC orders, and Everlywell does the sample-collection-by-mail thing in the US as well.
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by jforman 9y ago
That's far more simplistic than what the law actually says (where "law" is the collection of statutes and judicial interpretations). As an example: http://resources.uscannenbergmedia.com/2016/08/vide
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by jforman 9y ago
A VC's reputation is privately held data. The same for a founder's reputation. Public data is largely useless. And there is, of course, evidence that Khosla is not 100% founder-friendly, as there is data for every other VC and e
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by jforman 9y ago
I've lost a parent and left a startup I founded, so I can sympathize with how incredibly terrible it must be to deal with two huge losses at the same time. But Uber has grown to impact an incredible number of souls. Gurley et al. have
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by jforman 9y ago
A humiliating year of PR that makes it impossible to fill the empty executive ranks, followed by a crippling power struggle because I submitted a resignation I didn't mean? I would 100% have expected Sequoia to sue me after I took thei
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by jforman 9y ago
The quasi-firing of TK isn't an indictment of Uber as a product, or an overall social good (although both have been intensely debated). It is an indictment of Uber as a business. Even if we grant that Uber is a huge overall social goo
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by jforman 9y ago
Lots of companies have been improving attribution online. Offline is quite a different beast.
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by jforman 9y ago
I find your analysis to be incorrect. To avoid needless bickering about it, here are the first few paragraphs of the ruling, which people can derive their own conclusions from: "By way of summary, this order finds plaintiff Waymo LLC

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