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by krn 8y ago
The U.S. Startup Barometer paints an entirely different view[1]. Nevertheless, I am talking about the entire world, not a single country. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/startup-barometer/
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by krn 8y ago
I am writing from a European perspective, but my impression is, that even in 2007 starting a startup or working for one was still not as common as it is today for a recent graduate in the US[1]. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com&#x2F
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by krn 8y ago
There are no questions about the history. What I am claiming, is that startups became much more widespread in the years since 2005, after the YC model was introduced.
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by krn 8y ago
No, they don't have an official list of RSS feeds for all categories, like Reuters[1] and others do. There's no way to follow bloomberg.com/markets via RSS, for instance. [1] https://www.reuters.com/tools&#x2F
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by krn 8y ago
Relatively, yes. Sure, startups have existed for decades, but their popularity now is at a completely different level. Y Combinator, for instance, had 43 startups funded in 2008, and 274 in 2018. I am not even talking about the growth of th
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by krn 8y ago
The thing smartphones is, that many people actually do want to replace them every few years for a better camera, a better screen, or for some trending feature-of-the-year, like a fingerprint reader or wireless charging. Aren't most Ame
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by krn 8y ago
> Our two junior team members were enthusiastic > The three "old guys" didn't get it I think that's the main reason why they passed on Airbnb. The VCs themselves were too far away from the initial target market, an
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by krn 8y ago
2008 Democratic National Convention was 10 years ago. At the time, startups, as we know them today, were a rarity. Funding yourself to start one, even more so. Hacker News itself was only 1 year-old.
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by krn 8y ago
> I'll believe point #2 when Apple stops making every succeeding generation of their products harder for end-users to repair. Shiftphones[1] can be completely dissembled and repaired by the end-users, and they don't look any di
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by krn 8y ago
> Keep in mind that a "VPS" is not really something you should use for business because it has shared resources and very small sizing. That's exactly what I meant. The problem is, that people expect OVH VPS to be a direct
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by krn 8y ago
Interestingly, Bloomberg doesn't have RSS feeds.
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by krn 8y ago
That's true. But OVH provides a free private network with all public cloud instances, just like AWS and GCP. If we are comparing apples to apples.
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by krn 8y ago
> they use second-hand / refurbished hardware at their data centers OVH manufactures its own servers in France[1]. That's as "first-hand", as it can be. [1] https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status&#
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by krn 8y ago
Right, because his claim is false. You can get up to 10 Gbps vRack for free, and it's included with Public Cloud.
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by krn 8y ago
The thing with OVH is, that it's a fully automated service with a very basic level of support. There is no hand-holding. They expect you to read the docs yourself.
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by krn 8y ago
You should have used OVH Public Cloud[1] (= AWS EC2), not OVH VPS (limited to 100 Mpbs). [1] https://www.ovh.com/world/public-cloud/instances/prices/
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by krn 8y ago
> I am aware of the following drawbacks of OVH: They are all false. OVH is a Public Cloud provider, just like AWS, GCP and Azure. > * No disk replication i.e unlike EBS or Google disk, if my disk fails, I am at the mercy of my backups
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How Satya Nadella tripled Microsoft's stock price in just over four years(cnbc.com)
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How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart (2005)(nytimes.com)
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How Flixbus conquered the European coach market(economist.com)
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by krn 8y ago
I was talking about international routes in Europe[1]. But at least in Germany and Poland (after acquiring Polskibus), Flixbus also controls above 90% market share for bus routes within the country. [1] https://global.flixbus.com
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by krn 8y ago
> Flixbus? They spread all over EU with no added value created That's not true. The added value to the passenger is that he can now travel across the entire Europe using a single ticketing system and a unified bus standard, saving a
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by krn 8y ago
European tech industry is B2B focused, because it has no single consumer market, like the US. By the time a startup becomes a success in Spain, its copies will be already launched by somebody in France and Germany. In consumer fintech, for
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by krn 8y ago
Umidigi[1] could also be added to the list, even though the phones are quite impressive on paper. [1] http://www.umidigi.com/
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by krn 8y ago
If a publisher implements the Open Graph protocol[1], it explicitly makes the meta data of the article available to others. [1] http://ogp.me/
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by krn 8y ago
Firefox Focus shipped with GeckoView[1] only yesterday. [1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/
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by krn 8y ago
> Heard some Chinese companies sell phones with ad injections in default apps. Cubot is a good example[1]: "However, it was discovered that Cubot had removed the malware from the System UI package and hidden it under a new package,
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by krn 8y ago
The percentage of people who unlock the bootloader themselves is so small, that Xiaomi couldn't be less worried about them. On the contrary, unlike many other manufacturers, Xiaomi releases the source code and welcomes enthusiasts. The
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by krn 8y ago
Xiaomi is primarily a software company, not hardware. It sells hardware almost at its costs, because it treats it as a user acquisition. If a re-seller replaces the official MIUI version with a modified one, Xiaomi loses a customer. Xiaomi
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by krn 8y ago
Xiaomi doesn't give a shit about the bootloader itself. What it cares about, is people receiving a modified version of MIUI which it has no control over: "The retailers would buy Xiaomi devices in bulk, unlock the bootloader, chan

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