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by jm20 7y ago
> riding electric scooters after a few pints is about as much thrill as I get these days You're literally advocating drunk driving. Whether or not you're driving a car or a scooter, this is dangerous, illegal, and you should ne
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by jm20 7y ago
We have a decently popular kids app, Kodable, that helps kids learn to code. While this is something we’re mostly already in compliance with and have never actually included ads, I worry about the analytics. We use anonymous analytics to tr
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by jm20 8y ago
Correct, you don't just "gift" them more equity, you have to pay more (usually a much higher per-share price) to keep that equity.
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by jm20 8y ago
A lot of smaller/early stage/seed startups actually do this. It's a restricted stock grant. And for the people saying they don't do it because of taxation on an illiquid asset, this is why 83(b)'s exist. They let yo
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Kodable is hiring engineers to help teach millions of kids to code(angel.co)
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by jm20 8y ago
I can only imagine the amount of bug reports, real and false, that a company of Apple's size must receive on a daily basis. Is there any company at that scale that can reliably filter through all of them to find actual, critical bugs q
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by jm20 8y ago
This has actually been around for a couple years now. It is so good, in fact, that we actually require new hires at Kodable to read this as part of their onboarding, since it describes how we operate and make decisions as a company so well.
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by jm20 8y ago
This is really only an issue with low-margin licensing subscriptions like Spotify and Netflix, where they would lose money on every purchase if 30% of their margins went to Apple. While I definitely think there are some problems with the Ap
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by jm20 8y ago
Most lead investors at the series A level look to take a board seat, and spend a lot more time per-company than at the seed round. There's a finite amount of time in an investor's day, and somewhere around 20% ownership of a compa
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by jm20 8y ago
We've had a pretty popular kids coding app in the App Store for about 6 years now (Kodable). We've never remotely considered having ads and never will, and from the article it sounds like this heavily skews towards the ad-heavy Go
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by jm20 8y ago
Don't forget, Scrolling 3.0 is only available on this year's New ScrollBar(tm)
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by jm20 8y ago
Odds in a lottery are uniform and do not account for personal attributes. Assuming 1 ticket per person, anyone that buys a ticket has an equal chance of winning. A 98 year old grandmother has the same chance of winning as a 21 year old man.
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by jm20 8y ago
Exactly, if you're at the point where you're sending 1 million emails a month you're either spamming people or you don't care about the difference between $100 and $900.
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by jm20 8y ago
~50% of the top 10 companies in the world by market cap (Facebook, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon) were all started by founders aged 30 or younger. The rest are companies that are over 100 years old (or merged from ones that were) and W
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by jm20 8y ago
YC does not invest in multiple competitors 'in the hopes that one will pan out'. They just don't use competition as an exclusionary criterea like many VCs do. They invest in founders first and ideas second. When the idea is a