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by lquist 8y ago
My usual response to launching a startup is congrats but this seems a really cynical value extraction tool that actually probably destroys more value than it creates as it charges a vig along the way. For shame YC
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by lquist 8y ago
I don’t think this really addresses his criticisms of your startup...
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by lquist 8y ago
This study does not seem very robust. How do we know that folks that enroll into PhD programs are not just more likely to have mental health issues? There is a positive correlation between IQ and mental health issues at least at the higher
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by lquist 8y ago
This. The only exception being if the round is measured in billions. Cf Uber, etc.
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by lquist 8y ago
On the one hand I applaud KPCB for giving up their interest in a founder friendly way, but this also leaves a bad taste in my mouth and seems a bit “Heads I win, Tails you lose” from Sahil’s pov. The VC investment let him build a fully fled
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by lquist 8y ago
Based on financials I've seen of consultancies, staff are ~33% of revenue. Given a 70% utilization, that gives a salary of $80k fwiw
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by lquist 8y ago
Blame the fact that people will pay for very few media sites. Realistically, Futurism’s choice is have ad supported content or don’t exist
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by lquist 8y ago
Is the YCA program available to non-YC companies?
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by lquist 8y ago
Ah yes the bastion of journalistic quality that is local news...wait...what? FB gets a lot of flak for fake news and then decides to invest in local news? Why not in institutions that set the standard for journalism and bring accountability
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by lquist 8y ago
Honest question: why? Why is low level computing the right thing to teach kids? Most people take the exact opposite approach to the extent they create very high level languages
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by lquist 8y ago
It's a risky structure but Softbank continues to hit it out of the park with bets at a size that nobody else can match. Also the positions can be liquidated it just takes time
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Scientists say mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft(nbcnews.com)
3 points by lquist 8y ago|2 comments
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by lquist 8y ago
Makes a lot of sense, and really smart to do it all-stock even if they're paying a premium to do so. This late into a bull market it offers Twilio significant downside protection on the deal.
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Steve Wozniak’s online institute Woz U slammed with student complaints(venturebeat.com)
4 points by lquist 8y ago|0 comments
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by lquist 8y ago
Link for this?
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by lquist 8y ago
Is severance normal at a startup or a game studio? I would think first priority would be contractual obligations (payroll, contractual severance, vendors, etc.) and then only then severance.
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by lquist 8y ago
But bootstrapping has a binary definition. You have either raised money or you haven't. And there is a huge difference between $500k and $0. And I don't say that in the theoretical sense. I currently run a bootstrapped company tha
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by lquist 8y ago
“Everyone loves a tale of a bootstrapped startup founder’s journey to an eight-figure exit.” How is raising $500,000 bootstrapping?
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by lquist 8y ago
Posted a Show HN about 6 years ago. On the front page for about half a day. We hold our cards close to our chest because ours is a competitive industry, so pardon the anonymity, but we are bootstrapped and did $10m+ in revenue last year wit
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by lquist 8y ago
This may not be representative of the average WeWork employee? A 3.5 Glassdoor rating ( https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/WeWork-Reviews-E661275.htm ) is pretty low
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by lquist 8y ago
Is this competitive to NVIDIA's chips? How worried should they be?
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by lquist 8y ago
I’ve been a long time user of Evernote and have a love/hate relationship with the product. It really doesn’t know how to handle merge conflicts. I’ve been too lazy to switch but I’m starting to feel enough pain that I may make the leap
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by lquist 8y ago
I'm not an expert here, so pardon my ignorance, but isn't SV helping in a pretty big way just by open sourcing a lot of the tech?
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by lquist 8y ago
Congrats on the HN launch. I remember you used to have more detailed nutritional information on your website. I recall this specifically because of noticing how much sodium is in the product. Am I misremembering? I guess a visit wayback mac
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by lquist 8y ago
Interesting use of VR! Anybody have a download link?
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by lquist 8y ago
Also just a note that the IPO is to sell a fraction of the company, not the whole thing. So this allows the investors to monetize part of their investment, while retaining some.
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by lquist 8y ago
It will be more than a few months, but my understanding is that the FDA is now one of the fastest agencies to give approval in the world. See: https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-repays-industry-by-ru...
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by lquist 8y ago
$10bn in revenue and growing at a healthy clip
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by lquist 8y ago
That’s fair but if I may use some heuristics here if they are able to get investors like Sequoia and Accel the round is almost definitely competitive enough that they can dictate terms and get clean term sheets
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by lquist 8y ago
Entrepreneur has the best idea ever! He needs funds to build the product. I believe it's best practice these days to use "they" as a neutral pronoun. It seems like a small thing, but these little things add up.

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