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by jimhi 7y ago
From your comments it sounds like you referring to domestic planes which I have no doubt is true. There is definitely a capacity issue internationally - particularly between China and anywhere near to China and the USA
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by jimhi 7y ago
I have been shipping masks for the last 5 weeks. Prices I am seeing are in the $1.50 and up range
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by jimhi 7y ago
I've been shipping hundreds of thousands of masks to different institutions from China for the last 6 weeks - Universities, Government Agencies, Postal Companies, etc through my company ZipX. Supply is a factor - the prices are ridicul
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by jimhi 7y ago
I don't agree with this. Twitch was sold for a billion dollars 8 years after Google bought Youtube. Netflix, Pornhub, there's other video websites that thrive just fine.
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by jimhi 7y ago
This is a pretty unfair assessment. He didn't have to use his acquisition money to start YC or create the community site you are using right now. You are also completely dismissing that Y Combinator grew from nothing into the top seed
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by jimhi 7y ago
In 2014, the CEO Yishan Wong and lead investor Sam Altman said they were promising equity to some users of Reddit https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6874353/reddit-50-million... Any update on this?
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by jimhi 7y ago
Did you move to Hubei? I have been in Shanghai through this entire thing and have an extremely hard time believing you saw any corpses ferried out of your apartment complex. 94% of the reported deaths are in Hubei - what city are you in exa
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by jimhi 7y ago
It’s not even a question. We do E-commerce all over Southeast Asia and most people are on their phones and can range from not very tech savvy to pretty tech savvy. We offer form, phone number, email, and chat. I would guess 40% chat, 40% di
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by jimhi 7y ago
On my website it goes straight to my phone which I do respond to instantly every waking hour which covers about 9am to midnight. I am going to assume for a vast majority of companies you are right, but just letting you know sometimes its re
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by jimhi 7y ago
Gary is clearly investing in the person, Chrys Bader, and his mission. Not the idea. It's an early stage app that isn't even publicly launched. They can make changes to it or pivot at any time. These are always fragile and look st
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by jimhi 7y ago
I believe moderation is more relaxed when it's anything somewhat related to YC. It's a good policy.
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by jimhi 7y ago
"WordPress is used by 62.5% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 35.8% of all websites." - https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress It's okay if you hate
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by jimhi 7y ago
You still can. We sure make things more complicated than they have to be sometimes.
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by jimhi 7y ago
Most of those exploits are from plugins. If they aren’t using those they can also change the default login url. Also Wordpress lets you export and reimport to current versions without coding. I think it’s one the best future proof platforms
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by jimhi 7y ago
According to a different article, one of Peter Thiel's 20 under 20 recipients eventually started/run Cleaview. I do not think he knowingly invested in this company.
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by jimhi 7y ago
So roughly 10,500 then? These figures were shown at demo day?
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by jimhi 7y ago
My source was estimating this with other YC folk, but here is what's publicly known. ~200 companies a batch and supposedly a 2-3% acceptance rate puts it at 6,600-10,000. They stopped updating their statistics: https://twitt
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by jimhi 7y ago
I have also noticed a general trend of less hackers lately. I think there was a temporary surge because the social network movie and all these tech companies IPOing and making everyone rich that finally died down recently. I think the appli
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by jimhi 7y ago
I will let you in on a secret then, this is how 1/3 of stories work. I have gotten such stories written about my companies. These writers are under constant pressure to churn out stories and welcome someone doing most of the work for t
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by jimhi 7y ago
That’s my point, why would a startup implement it if it’s not mainstream and can bring a lot of customers. Startups barely pay attention to China and India consumers, much less a cryptocurrency holder.
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by jimhi 7y ago
There is like ~5 million people using crypto right. I could see this being possible if that number was closer to 500+ million
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by jimhi 7y ago
"Just like the dot com craze kicked off the idea of an internet startup (and a decade later, just about every tech startup uses the internet in some way), I believe that by the end of the 2020’s almost every tech startup will have some
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by jimhi 7y ago
That’s impressive, but I feel like you are avoiding the main criticism in that link. Testing doesn’t matter at your stage. Imagine if you spent a bunch of time perfecting the human resource procedures for your websites, it’s too early to th
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by jimhi 7y ago
They had Amy who was a trained psychotherapist during both 2015 and 2017 when I went through. Anyone could schedule time to talk to her at anytime but it was generally used for resolving founder conflicts. She went off to be an executive co
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by jimhi 7y ago
I don't want to be too harsh on this guy. He should be proud he pushed out 5 projects and he seems really really passionate about Keto. The fact he made even one dollar is impressive, it is always hardest at the start. But some of the
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by jimhi 7y ago
The irony is he could afford to keep outsourcing his content if he had a software job on the side
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by jimhi 7y ago
The main reason to take a role at a startup "crappy" or not is to leapfrog your title. Want to be a Product Manager or Growth lead or Senior role? You can immediately at a startup and even if it fails, you have that on your resume
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by jimhi 7y ago
I assume the parent comment is talking about op's website but thanks! I have been trying to write about all the things I wish I knew when I started.
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by jimhi 7y ago
I am astonished just reading this, what have been some reactions handing these out?
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