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by kapilkale 10y ago
I understand the point here; it can be useful to understand the abstractions on top of which you are working. But given most engineering projects are crud apps without scaling problems, and PaaS companies like Heroku totally abstract away t
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by kapilkale 10y ago
Oh man, I'd take this bet! Loser donates money to the winner's charity of choice. Pick an amount up to $200, and tweet @kapil so it's in the public record.
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by kapilkale 10y ago
No issues with that on our end. Plenty of investors using funds or LLCs with multiple members to invest. You'll want to work with a lawyer to structure the vehicle, and have a full understanding of legal, compliance and tax considerati
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by kapilkale 10y ago
Agreed; we do this for regulatory reasons. We've got a limit on how many investors we can have per fund, and we can't sidestep that requirement by spinning up duplicate funds. The high minimum investment is our equivalent of surge
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by kapilkale 10y ago
Pretty sure this is not a Webvan scenario. The question at hand should be "if Uber ran out of funding, would they die" For Webvan, it was yes. The answer for Uber is no, at least in the short term. a) Uber would stop subsidizing d
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Why InDinero's Jessica Mah Doesn't Want VC Funding(blog.angel.co)
1 points by kapilkale 10y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 10y ago
(disclosure: I work for AngelList) Much-needed article. Worth adding some color on AngelList syndicate incentives: Syndicate leads are compensated by earning carried interest on the additional capital that follows them. [1] [2] [3] Carry cr
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by kapilkale 10y ago
Market cap isn't $161M - they're issuing 11.5M shares, but there will be over 80M outstanding after the IPO. Market cap will be just under $1B.
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Open Source 409A(medium.com)
3 points by kapilkale 10y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 11y ago
Former Bain consultant. We used comps from public companies to sense-check things. The interest rate for an energy conglomerate would not be something you would also use for a non-diversified tech company like Dropbox. As long as we could s
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Huckberry: Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Proud(huckberry.com)
1 points by kapilkale 11y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 11y ago
> especially now that it's so easy to get that initial traction It's gotten much cheaper to get traction. In some consumer markets, it is basically cost-free; all it takes is a motivated technical entrepreneur with a couple mon
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by kapilkale 11y ago
There are so many faulty premises here * silicon valley doesn't produce much hardware (evidence for this being true? obviously we hear a ton about software, but what about tesla, intel, nest, apple, google, etc?) * businesses such as s
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by kapilkale 11y ago
AngelList - SF, NYC, REMOTE Eng team is 14. We look for generalists who can do product too. Email me directly - kapil at angel.co https://angel.co/angellist/jobs
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by kapilkale 11y ago
Usually recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...
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Jobs at startups currently in YC(angel.co)
3 points by kapilkale 11y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 12y ago
AngelList is hiring full-stack engineers in San Francisco & New York Only 10 engineers run all of AngelList, and most are ex-founders. The culture is awesome: http://www.slideshare.net/fcosaez/joshua-slayton Built
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by kapilkale 12y ago
Is this true? Peapod was acquired by Royal Ahold in 2001 and thus cancelled its contracts with all other grocery stores that were not Royal Ahold-owned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peapod
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by kapilkale 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer or accountant, and you really should consult one of them about your specific scenario. Short answer: it's complicated, but probably C Corp. For the reason that if there's any chance you're go
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Amazon Unable to Fulfill New Fire TV Stick Orders Until After Christmas(amazon.com)
3 points by kapilkale 12y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 12y ago
$19 makes this an incredible impulse buy. I recently lost my apple tv remote and buying a fire stick is more attractive than trying to figure out where to buy a new remote and how to set it up.
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by kapilkale 12y ago
Relevant section: But Ms Poitras has one surprise left to spring, and it may turn out to be a big one. Mr Snowden presently lives in Moscow, where he claimed asylum after the American government cancelled his passport while he was travellin
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More NSA Leaks Coming Soon, According to Snowden Documentary(economist.com)
9 points by kapilkale 12y ago|2 comments
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by kapilkale 12y ago
No- they account for 11% of foreign home buyers.
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by kapilkale 12y ago
Is there evidence of them not maintaining the houses? How are they screwing up the rental markets? I work with hedge funds that do this in CA, and neither of your points strike me as true.
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by kapilkale 12y ago
We faced this problem at my last startup, and I think we handled it reasonably well. The team remained 3 founders until Mar 2012 (1 year after launch) when customer support and other operational tasks started significantly distracting us
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Youtube to buy Twitch for $1B(sfgate.com)
1 points by kapilkale 12y ago|0 comments
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Sparehire: Contract I-Bankers, Consultants for Hire(sparehire.com)
4 points by kapilkale 12y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 12y ago
In the features section where they compare their camera vs. that of another smartphone, they're doing some shady stuff. The two pictures are identical! They've photoshopped the original to look shittier, and passed it off as being
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by kapilkale 12y ago
It doesn't necessarily make world of difference. When you compare students who attended top private schools vs. those who were admitted but attended state schools, they actually have equivalent incomes down the line. What's likely

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