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by levlandau 11y ago
"Musk is no different from the huge number of people involved in startups except that he is investing more money. Many of us are investing all of our valuable time and money in risky ventures instead of saving and taking the rational p
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by levlandau 12y ago
https://www.palantir.com/ | http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/?co=Palantir
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Vehicle Routing Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
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Orbit: Cloud based dev environments without web based editors(github.com)
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by levlandau 12y ago
Really cool. Question: Assuming that your algorithms will become known or can be replicated, how do you think about your defensibility? What is proprietary here that improves via network effects? How does the licensing model work and what a
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by levlandau 12y ago
I agree with the statement that startups are like biological organisms evolving in the broth of an economic environment. In @pmarca's words "the market needs to be fulfilled and the market will be fulfilled". Once we move on
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by levlandau 12y ago
How does this change the point that there are entrepreneurs who have instincts about the market AND timing that turn out to be right? The broader point is Peter Thiel's --> You are not a lottery ticket. The best example might be Jef
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Compilation video of entrepreneurial advice from Musk et al(youtube.com)
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by levlandau 12y ago
While he didn't know Microsoft would pioneer it, Bill Gates says he knew that there'd be a software industry. While he didn't know Facebook would pioneer it, Mark Zuckerberg says he knew that all software would be social. Whi
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by levlandau 12y ago
I'm pretty sure what people mean by "Blockchain not Bitcoin" is "Bitcoin 2.0" and not "Bitcoin 1.0" i.e. people think that the killer apps will be complex programs running on the blockchain that enable thi
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by levlandau 12y ago
"we power the nonprofit's frontend fundraising experience" This is it right here...as well as the custom domain So "Shopify for nonprofit fundraising", while limiting, would have been completely clear. But "Sho
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by levlandau 12y ago
This feels like its solving a real problem that the founders understand. Great work all around. Minor nitpick: I see why "Shopify" was chosen in the tagline but I think its more confusing than helpful at first glance. After readin
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by levlandau 12y ago
Interesting! Do you currently compete with banks or will you do so eventually? Are your products independent of the banks your APIs interface with?
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by levlandau 12y ago
Is Seed similar to Plaid ( http://www.plaid.com )?
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DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network for Image Generation by DeepMind(arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu)
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Marketplaces with more than two sides(medium.com)
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by levlandau 12y ago
This is a classic network effects problem. The two OS's are dominant because they are powerful two sided networks (developers + users) and so breaking the duopoly is that much harder. As is typical with these sorts of networks you real
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Things about the Internet that will remain true over the next ten years(medium.com)
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The creativity machine (2006) [pdf](disi.unal.edu.co)
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Bill Gates interview: How the world will change by 2030(theverge.com)
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by levlandau 12y ago
there's an awesome lady at Stanford Hair ( http://www.stanfordhair.com/ ) that simply blew my mind with her kindness. She took customer service to a whole new level. I've since moved from Palo Alto to SF and I'
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by levlandau 12y ago
This is a great point. These things are never black and white. I suppose you could argue that the pain of developing a new skill could be enjoyable to you and this is how you identify things that don't feel like work. I generally find
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by levlandau 12y ago
This makes a lot of sense. However, a machine learning model + data analogy feels more satisfactory (and accurate?) to me. We throw away the data but our model as well as its parameters are retained. The model as well as the parameters get
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by levlandau 12y ago
Hey guys! This is the first draft of the site :) Please apply to become gigsters if you haven't we absolutely value ability over prestige. Sorry if we communicated otherwise! We just needed a quick way to demonstrate the strength of th
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Show HN: Gigster- Hire a contract developer in 5 minutes(trygigster.com)
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Show HN: Runway – An Automated Financial Planner(runway.co)
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Jeff Dean, Hinton, Ray Kurzweill: The Science of Talking with Computers(youtube.com)
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Future of AI(youtube.com)
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by levlandau 12y ago
I think you'd need something slightly more complex than a "word2vec" since images already have a well defined "word vector" i.e. a pixel. What you want is a "parser" that can take in an image and spit out
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Instagram CEO and Co-Founder Kevin Systrom Joins Walmart’s Board of Directors(news.walmart.com)
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