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by kloncks 15y ago
I'm against strong general statements like this. But this is a really really nice book. I bought it after reading Fred Wilson recommending it and it's been awesome so far. It reads like a book, not a manual, and minus a few parts (term shee
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by kloncks 15y ago
Now, I just disagree with this view. The vast majority of companies don't take VC money. Many great companies had ideas that were quickly dismissed by these "VERY smart VCs and entrepreneurs". Of course, there's also the argument that the 4
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by kloncks 15y ago
So a cryptographer dismissed this result and the police aren't looking at it. Third or fourth time someone's cracked this, this year. Why is this special? Seems he took a lot of assumptions. Forgive me. But I've seen Glenn Beck and Jon Stew
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by kloncks 15y ago
The "logic" escapes me. So, if you didn't make it into a program that gets 600 requests and accepts 2%(1) go ahead and apply to a company that four years ago got 1,000,000 applications a year and only accepted 0.05%. (2) I get what he's say
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by kloncks 15y ago
Why try and achieve something hard like profitability when you can easily be valued at $8b and raise $800m to keep that going? I don't mean to be too critical but sometimes I wonder if this is better than, say, Twitter finding out that it c
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by kloncks 15y ago
I'm stumped by this view. And here I was thinking it's near-impossible to criticize a company that might finally be profitable while creating a new clean-energy car tech hub right here in the United States...
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by kloncks 15y ago
Cool idea. But a) How in god's name do they keep costs to $150/month for only 9 passengers. Those passengers will collectively pay $1350 a month for unlimited flights? Are they assuming the majority will end up only flying once or twice? Wh
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by kloncks 15y ago
They're looking for "tech geniuses": https://twitter.com/#!/PlaneRed/status/93572991077715968
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by kloncks 15y ago
We're aiming to do that from the start. We're not just limited to Google Checkout - though that's an option - so we'll try and give you access to a payment gateway that you can get on. Sign up on Kout.me and we'll shoot you an email when we
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by kloncks 15y ago
Kout: We're working on an exciting implementation. Launching soon. http://www.kout.me (Full obvious disclosure: I'm the co-founder)
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PowerSet.
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by kloncks 15y ago
Aren't all funds, in a sense, like that? You typically get much further from an invitation or an introduction than anything else.
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Bey2ollak: An Egyptian Start-up Success Story To Aspire To(thenextweb.com)
2 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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by kloncks 15y ago
Absolutely agree. Too many conflicts come from sides that focus on their few differences rather than their many similarities. This is coming from an Egyptian who realizes that Israelis (and Jews) aren't so different from my Arab Muslim self
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When Your Beta Testers Like Your Idea Then Clone It And Become A Competitor(businessinsider.com)
3 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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by kloncks 15y ago
CrunchFund.com, which according to the article was only recently registered, is about a product called CrewBuyer. What is that?
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by kloncks 15y ago
Color is an app founded by three ex-tech-giant guys. :)
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Alexis Ohanian On Startups In Egypt & The Future(huff.to)
10 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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by kloncks 15y ago
Undoubtedly. It's really up to you. With most things, it's really about the execution and first-mover advantage is increasingly becoming even less important. As for competition, that's generally a good thing. It simply means that you might
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by kloncks 15y ago
Background story: Something we're personally facing and I wanted to post on HN to see if HNers could help answer.
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[Ask HN] Chances that a UK-based startup receive funding from SV?(quora.com)
3 points by kloncks 15y ago|1 comments
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by kloncks 15y ago
Startups are significant investment. Are you prepared to undertake that? There's a lot of sacrifices to be made to be successful. And it really is a hard process to go through. Ask yourself that. As for asking others, you should ensure that
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by kloncks 15y ago
It's really not that bad. I hated the new Facebook layout before liking it again. Who knows how I'll feel in a few weeks. It's all about metrics anyways. If this layout raises activity on site or visits, then good job. If not, I'm sure they
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by kloncks 15y ago
I rarely say this. But seriously, this: Lean Startup philosophy says the last thing you want to do is raise a whole lot of money, build a product in secret, then spring it on a world that may not want what you've built at all.
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by kloncks 15y ago
Here you go: http://www.ihany.com/article-through-hn-not-mine/ (Page not public. Not taking credit. I'll take it down in the morning.)
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by kloncks 15y ago
I don't mean to distract, but wow. What a gorgeously designed clean website. I meant to read the article - and I did after a while - but the first thing I did was CTRL + U to check out the source code.
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by kloncks 15y ago
Transactions are really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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by kloncks 15y ago
How can one find out the percents owned in a public company? For example, can anyone tell me how I'd find out how much O Omidyar owns of eBay? Or, where I could find such information for public companies?
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by kloncks 15y ago
One factor in YC's boom is the added incentive that every startup accepted by YC automatically now receives a $150,000 investment when they graduate, courtesy of Yuri Milner and YC founder Ron Conway's SV Angel fund. YC founder Ron Conway
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by kloncks 15y ago
Would rebranding YouTube in the near-future make sense as well?

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