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by lquist 7y ago
Incorrect. That is an avenue of leverage. Currently driven more by corporate interests than citizen interests.
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by lquist 7y ago
An interesting idea but the reason investors + creditors can get these is because they have leverage and can negotiate for them. They are not always able to secure them. Consumers currently have no such leverage. The best avenue to this kin
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by lquist 7y ago
Anybody know how these stand up to earthquakes?
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by lquist 7y ago
Bad news. Tiny will be investing in growing Meteor and taking it out of (basically) maintenance mode.
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by lquist 7y ago
This is why I am on Hacker News. Technology can be such a terribly helpful thing. PS If this is a PR placement, this is masterful.
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by lquist 7y ago
Few comments: * As rightly pointed out below, YC's investment used to be $20k for 7%, meaning they had a 10000x return on AirBnb and Stripe (so far) * YC has funded increasing numbers of companies over time. Of the 2000+ companies that
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by lquist 7y ago
YC (and probably Ron Conway) are apples to oranges with a16z. Spray and pray works when you are looking at 10000x multiples on your best investments. It doesn't when you are deploying billions and don't come near that order of mag
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by lquist 7y ago
I've heard talk about this from VCs for years. Their reputation and results don't match.
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by lquist 7y ago
What length of course? I can't imagine that completion rates are the same for a 50 hour course vs a 200 hour course. Can't seem to find this data.
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by lquist 7y ago
Gmail? Google maps? Chrome?
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by lquist 7y ago
As an employer (100+ people), I prefer folks that code outside of work in the same way that I prefer marketing people that study/practice marketing outside of work. For the simple reason that it correlates highly with performance.
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by lquist 7y ago
Why shouldn't they be allowed to charge? Not sure I understand this provision.
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by lquist 7y ago
This is such an elegant solution! Previous discussions about how to solve this issue revolved around putting a camera in the center of the phone behind the screen!
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by lquist 7y ago
Yes! This is so awesome to see! And it has nothing to do with the researcher being 13. We are constantly bombarded with loud noises (don't get me started on motorcycles and construction noise) that do long-term damage to our ears. I ho
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by lquist 7y ago
Bingo! Stewart knows how to play the (VC) game and doesn't want to dilute a new idea more than he has to. As for Accel, they don't want to have to write down an investment until the last possible minute. Doing so would depress the
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by lquist 7y ago
Unfortunately the reality is that you will almost definitely not have a bulletproof idea from the get go. And even if you do achieve product market fit, you may (read: probably will) lose it after x months/years. Good enough is what yo
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by lquist 7y ago
Honest question: Why does Google's experimentation with products get termed "killing" products vs Amazon/etc.'s gets framed as "experimentation"
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by lquist 7y ago
I have a fair number of friends in this boat. Most find their way back to the startup game in some form (investor, startup studio, etc). They just can't stay away. I find below myself entering a similar phase (raising money at a late e
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by lquist 7y ago
Ah I see! Thanks for the explanation
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by lquist 7y ago
Thanks for the heads up I was wondering what was going on! In the future, linking to a company's status page (almost always located at status.companyurl) is even more helpful! https://status.slack.com in this case.
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by lquist 7y ago
Google has so much gas in the tank it’s ridiculous. YouTube, Maps, Waze, Gmail etc are hilariously undermonetized. See the recent move to monetize Maps a bit more. They can flip revenue switches all over the place.
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by lquist 7y ago
If you want SF to have a bright future long term, we need to build and not just housing but infrastructure as well.
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by lquist 7y ago
The heuristic for this is can you make the product 10x better (along a dimension that matters) for some subset of consumers? The subset can be equal to the set: Zoom makes video conferencing 10x better on reliability for the whole market. T
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by lquist 7y ago
This might be Minerva ( https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/ )
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by lquist 7y ago
+1 To NIMBYers: The "character" of your neighborhood is more important than cheaper housing for everyone--disproportionately helping lower income people?
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by lquist 7y ago
We aren’t planning on serious research in the space but it is becoming increasingly obvious that an expert system is the right approach for our business going forward fwiw
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by lquist 7y ago
Wait so you’re telling me that increasing real estate supply can help control rent inflation!? SF take note
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by lquist 8y ago
Many startups that raised in 2015 did so at very high valuations and either never were able to raise again or took some time to meet the lofty expectations set by 2015 prices
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by lquist 8y ago
Genuine question: Did customers ask you to make this? I ask because to me (and it appears others in this thread) Events is one of FB’s best features because they own the social graph and I have no interest in a competing product unless if y
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by lquist 8y ago
I was recently grabbing dinner with a group of CEOs and the unanimous sentiment was that they would never take money from a16z (3 founders had already and one other had a terrible experience with them during the pitch). It seemed to come do

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