lpolovets

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by lpolovets 1mo ago
I'm surprised the introductory 50% discount is good for 4 months. It seems like frontier models release new versions every 2-3 months, so raising prices in 4 months seems like a bad plan: you're effectively planning to charge user
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by lpolovets 1mo ago
Re: laser enrichment -- there's a company called Hexium that's commercializing AVLIS ( https://www.hexium.com/ ). My fund's an investor, and my partner wrote a post about them and laser separation last year: h
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by lpolovets 3mo ago
IANAL so maybe I'm not reading it correctly, but my understanding of the bill ( https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduce... ) is that you have to compensate for the full set of hours of avai
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by lpolovets 3mo ago
I think stuff like this is much better settled with compensation than legislation. For example when I was an engineer 15-20 years ago, my friends would deprioritize jobs with lots of on-call needs, but would still take the jobs if they were
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Humba Ventures 2026 Deep Tech Fellowships(blog.humbaventures.com)
3 points by lpolovets 3mo ago|0 comments
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by lpolovets 4mo ago
Related to this, I hate how aggressively Google pushes Gemini and all of the privacy implications involved with that. 1) Lots of features got moved around and there are now many "Write with AI", "Generate image with AI",
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by lpolovets 5mo ago
It's sobering to think that if every single person in Malta -- an entire country! -- signed up for ChatGPT and used it weekly, ChatGPT’s WAU would increase by only a few tenths of a percent.
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Deep Tech Office Hours(codingvc.com)
2 points by lpolovets 10mo ago|1 comments
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by lpolovets 1y ago
A cool approach to digitizing touch that I read about a few days ago: https://www.wired.com/story/this-clever-robotic-finger-feels... (I'm not disagreeing with the author, just sharing an article that is interesti
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by lpolovets 1y ago
This is secondhand and not firsthand knowledge, but one thing I've heard from a number of agtech founders (and sometimes farmers when we do diligence calls with them) is that hiring employees is very hard because of seasonality. E.g.
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Humba Ventures' Deep Tech Fellowship(codingvc.com)
1 points by lpolovets 1y ago|0 comments
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The Elements of Industry(blog.humbaventures.com)
2 points by lpolovets 1y ago|0 comments
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The Explore/Exploit Framework for Startups(codingvc.com)
2 points by lpolovets 1y ago|0 comments
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Pantheon's Odyssey(blog.humbaventures.com)
1 points by lpolovets 1y ago|0 comments
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by lpolovets 1y ago
This feels premature -- we've only had great AI capabilities for a little while, and jobs are not replaced overnight. This reminds me of some early stage startup pitches. During a pitch, I might ask: "what do you think about compe
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Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything(economist.com)
2 points by lpolovets 2y ago|2 comments
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by lpolovets 2y ago
Not quite the same, but this reminds me of bitcoin, where miners are on the hunt for SHA hashes that start with a bunch of zeroes in a row (which one could say is memorable/unusual)
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by lpolovets 2y ago
I think incentives are different on an individual level. Yes, if everyone built more housing then your property's value would not go up as much. But if a single individual builds housing that's very profitable, that'll way
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Meme coin helps fund tumor research(twitter.com)
2 points by lpolovets 2y ago|1 comments
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by lpolovets 2y ago
My understanding is this allergen over-labeling was inspired by the FDA in the first place. https://www.fastcompany.com/90830854/sesame-seed-allergen-fd... From the linked article (from Jan 2023): But sesame does d
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by lpolovets 2y ago
> "This large gap isn’t particularly surprising, given that San Francisco has the highest density of billionaires of any city in the world, with Silicon Valley known for its absurd CEO pay packages" Given that the methodology w
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The Golden Age of Deep Tech(codingvc.com)
2 points by lpolovets 2y ago|0 comments
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by lpolovets 3y ago
It's "mostly" equity. If a company doesn't exit for anything it's not on the hook for the VC $, there are no monthly interest payments, etc. OTOH if there's a great exit that clears the preference stack, then t
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by lpolovets 3y ago
I've thought about that kind of system before, and it's an interesting approach but it doesn't fully protect against bad actors. E.g. what if the founder raises $5m, puts it into a bank account, moves to Hawaii, and then sell
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by lpolovets 3y ago
I'll throw out a VC's perspective on liquidation prefs: 1) I think 1x is very fair and meant to protect investors from bad company behavior. If you didn't have 1x preference, this would be an easy way for an unscrupulous foun
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by lpolovets 3y ago
Three episodes that I really enjoyed (from an engineer-turned-investor's POV): https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/palmer-luckey-inventin... (Palmer Luckey) https://podcasts.apple.com/us&#x2
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by lpolovets 3y ago
It's not clear to me that the title of the post is the logical conclusion from the post's content. The post talks about fewer investors in VC rounds, but the definition of an investor is just anyone who made 2+ investments. I imag
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Betting on Deep Tech(codingvc.com)
2 points by lpolovets 3y ago|0 comments
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by lpolovets 3y ago
> If I'm price-comparing hotels, and I see one that's $100/night, and another that's $75/night, I know that the cost may be higher due to taxes, but it will be higher by the exact same percentage for both of the
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by lpolovets 3y ago
I hear you, but the press release explicitly said that the goal of the bill is to prevent companies from attracting customers with a misleadingly low price and then charging a higher price. How are government fees and taxes -- especially in

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