jonbischke

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by jonbischke 16y ago
I don't disagree but it's tough to scale YC. Same with Thiel fellowship. However, it isn't unreasonable to see a situation in which follower counts on sites like Github, Dribbble, Quora, etc. do become scalable ways of signaling. They aren'
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by jonbischke 16y ago
BTW, if my math is correct, the entire amount spent on the Thiel fellowships ($2 million) is the equivalent to what Americans spent on higher education every two minutes . Interesting perspective eh? (~$500 billion/365/24/60 = ~$1 million/
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by jonbischke 16y ago
Posted this as a TechCrunch comment but wanted to cross-post here: The challenge higher education is going to face is that the signaling mechanism that higher education provide (i.e. you were good enough to get into Harvard so you're good e
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2 Comp Tickets for Unleashed Talent 3/10 in SF (normally $595)
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by jonbischke 16y ago
"Now, it is possible that some extremely niche businesses have found limited utility from ads (for example, BustedTees and social games may be the lucky few)." Um, I don't know that I'd refer to to social games as an "extremely niche busine
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Cubeduel: Hot Or Not Meets LinkedIn. Your Darker Side Will Love It.(techcrunch.com)
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by jonbischke 16y ago
There are some elements of truth in here but a lot that doesn't seem to make sense. For example, the statement that companies like YouTube, Facebook and WordPress have failed to make "profitable revenue" is strange. As is this comment: "P
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Facebook And Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses(businessinsider.com)
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by jonbischke 16y ago
There sort of is: Profounder. More info here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/profounder-launches-to-help... and interesting thread of whether this is actually legal here: http://www.quora.com/Is-ProFounder-in-violation-of-any-secur...
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The State of Jay-Z's Empire(online.wsj.com)
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by jonbischke 16y ago
$2 million for Khan Academy is one of the best investments for improving education ever made.
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Is TED the New Harvard?(fastcompany.com)
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by jonbischke 16y ago
An "App Store for Education" should be in the works. I don't if there's an opportunity here for an entrepreneur or whether Apple will do this but it's not just about iPads. Students are going to be increasingly learning on all sorts of mo
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Quora: What are some interesting startups in the education space?(quora.com)
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by jonbischke 16y ago
I've read a ton in this area so let me offer some of my findings. If I get time this weekend I'll put together a blog post and link to it from here so I can include references, etc: Generally thought to be good for the brain: Fish oil (Omeg
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by jonbischke 16y ago
I collected some startup pitches/demo and did a blog post a while back. There are some good ones here including Loopt, AdMob, Dropbox, etc. http://jonbischke.com/2009/11/13/a-dozen-of-the-best-start-u...
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by jonbischke 16y ago
In the last six months -Knewton raised $12.5MM -Eleutian Technology raised $10MM -Orbis Education raised $8MM -LiveMocha raised $8MM -Kakai raised $7.5MM -Moonshoot raised $6.6MM -Cramster raised $6MM That's about $100MM in the last six mon
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by jonbischke 16y ago
I'm curious as to where the author got the "$100 million max" number. There has been significantly more than that invested in the industry. Four companies alone that I can think of have raised about $100MM alone (2tor, Global Scholar, Gro
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Vegas casino develops technique for ablation of the amygdala(neurocritic.blogspot.com)
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Creativity and the Neuroscience of Slumber(psychologytoday.com)
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by jonbischke 16y ago
I think a very small % of founders raise money solely for their own salaries. However, given that human capital is often the majority of costs for early stage start-ups (especially consumer Internet) and that small teams can accomplish a l
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by jonbischke 17y ago
A free (legal) audiobook version can be found here: http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Self-Developmen...
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by jonbischke 17y ago
The Immortality Institute forums have some great discussion on nootropics. This one for instance: http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=35751 This comment in particular I thought was very thought-provoking: The MOST importan
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by jonbischke 17y ago
Some might argue that the documentary above is a horror movie.
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by jonbischke 17y ago
ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year (TBT) is an ETF that moves inversely with US Treasury bond prices. In other words, if interest rates rise then you make money. I think it's getting harder (although not impossible) to envision a future in which
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by jonbischke 17y ago
I don't know if these are exactly what you are looking for but try the following: -A Touch of Greatness -The Class -The War on Kids -Declining by Degrees: Higher Ed At Risk I'm incredibly passionate about this topic so will be interested to
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Bill Gross: What has become of the American nation? (investmentnews.com)
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Chomp Reveals Itself To Be A Yelp For iPhone Apps(techcrunch.com)
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by jonbischke 17y ago
Interesting to note too that at the same time all this is going on, Citibank is jacking up credit card interest rates to 29.9% for many of its customers: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2370258/citibank_ra... Laughing all the way