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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
The ship building industry is alive and well here in the PNW. I think the biggest threat is the work force. Many people are retiring and we're not doing enough to back fill what we're losing. Add that the Jones Act keeps internati
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
As someone who runs an accelerator focused on the maritime industry (maritimeblue.org) this is awesome! I've seen some of this technology being tried in the nordic countries and it's nice to see it being built here in the US. If I
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
Stealth Startup | Sr. Machine Learning Architect | Remote/PNW This company is looking for a Sr. Machine Learning Architect who will end up owning the development of the platform. The industry is within sales, but the platform is much m
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
It's a good point. It does seem like some VCs have short term memory.
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
I think this is the old way of thinking in the VC world. Yes, it still happens, but I think enough VCs have been burned by garbage deals that they are starting to look under the hood more carefully. No VC wants to be funding the next Theran
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
"But it doesn't matter much either way. It's the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act is always now." So agree with this sentiment. It matters less about when y
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
That's amazing. It reminded me of Livermore, CA. They have a bike trail that follows a creek. Wherever it crosses a road (in most parts) the trail dips under the road. A few times every decade the creek floods making the trail there un
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
Oh man I can look at this all day. What an interesting take on how we do city planning and how it really hasn't changed over the years. I'd be more interested in taking this a step further to look at the infrastructure overlay and
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
I remember when Cloudability first did this to manage AWS costs. They ended up getting scooped up by Apptio, but what they built was pretty awesome. It was especially useful for big teams who often spun up a large EC2 instance for testing,
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
As someone who started a company in my 30's and is considering another one in my 40's, my advice to you is that you just have to be more pragmatic. I have a wife, kids, mortgage, etc and I spend more time vetting the idea than I d
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
As someone who is building a VC firm with a focus on social impact I can say unequivocally that this can be done. You can be focused on doing good while also being a capitalist. It's not a binary. If an investor is interested in only m
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
"Keep the advertisers happy, but try to reduce the reliance on advertisers." I actually think the opposite is going to happen. He's already said he wants Twitter to be the most prolific site for advertisers saying that he thi
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A new paper claims SARS-CoV-2 bears signs of genetic engineering(economist.com)
91 points by josh_carterPDX 4y ago|39 comments
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
Just makes no sense that this app has been given so much leeway here in the states when it has been proven time and time again that the Chinese government is using TikTok as a way to track US citizens and to influence our young people. Also
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
I completely disagree. I think WeWork and Theranos are causing a ripple effect in all stages of VC right now. No one wants to be the investor of the next catastrophic failure. Investors are looking under the hood to ensure the company is re
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
In every recession we have seen a big uptick in startups being created. If you look at the last big one in 2008 a number of notable startups got their start including Twilio. So I would imagine the same will happen if we dip into a big rece
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by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
I don't know that this is normal. It's certainly not unheard of. In this case I just think it's such a huge acquisition that they probably just want to hold off until they get a clear vision from Elon. Why spend a bunch of ti
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
I want to see their returns 5-8 years from now based on this new model. I've always thought of YC as the ultimate "throw spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks" type of program. Should be interesting to see how other progr
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Maritime Blue Innovation Accelerator Selects 10 Companies for Third Wave(mailchi.mp)
1 points by josh_carterPDX 5y ago|0 comments
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Maybe. Checking it out. Thanks.
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Yup. josh@1859.vc
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
I currently work for a startup program in Washington state and it's my third program. One of the biggest challenges we have (that I am sure is not unique to our program) is that we have a large community of mentors as well as founders
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Love this! Congrats on the launch. Can't wait to try it out.
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
I find it interesting that the only reason the investors took any action was because of the attention this is getting in the press. As many have already read, Garg had a reputation for bad behavior yet SoftBank and his other investors let i
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Because if you need a private 5G to solve your own supply chain problems, why not set it up so you can also make money off of it.
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Digital Trends has a good article about this. You can read it here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/5g-vs-wi-fi/
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Not sure I agree here. 5G offers lower latency and more bandwidth. Also, what I've outlined is just one use case. If we're talking about a port there are multiple layers of operations in which a high speed network could make thing
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Tacoma, WA is planning on deploying a private 5G network to make port operations more efficient. You can imagine containers coming in and out of ports are slowed when someone has to physically inspect them for damage. There are a few compan
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
Amazon is known for doing this to early startups. They "partner" with a small team, learn what they do, and then copy it which screws the original team. They have teams of lawyers so suing them does no good. EDIT: I assumed this w
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by josh_carterPDX 5y ago
We tried to do this back in 2016 with BrightWork. We got a lot of traction, but it came on the heels of Parse being shutdown by Facebook after acquiring them for a ton of money. The lesson I learned from that experience is that there is sti

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