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by mck- 9y ago
It is indeed misleading to say that $80b in value was created, because Uber and Twilio were not Techstars companies. "The market cap on Techstars website is $7.5B, whereas YC’s portfolio was valued at $30B in 2014" [1] A more inte
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by mck- 9y ago
Alum here. TS Chicago 2015. Best experience of my life. Biggest difference between YC and TS (from what I hear) is that TS spends much more time hands-on mentoring. I had the honor to have ~60 1on1 meetings with very respectable entrepreneu
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by mck- 9y ago
Despite gaps between technology and the real-world, there is still tremendous value to be had by technology, if you combined it with the real-world, i.e. humans. Routing algorithms can come up with extremely efficient routes, which can serv
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by mck- 9y ago
Given the scale of the problems they are tackling, I'm quite surprised how little they are saving. $5m over $120m is only 4%. I would imagine municipalities' manual route planners wouldn't be that great. We have found with ma
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The Importance of Startup Culture(blog.routific.com)
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The Efficient Startup(blog.routific.com)
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Yama: becoming mindful(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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by mck- 9y ago
> Only 7% of the high-performing CEOs we studied had an undergraduate Ivy League education, and 8% of them didn’t graduate from college at all. If you confuse correlation with causation, you could say that it's better to be a drop o
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The Efficient Startup(blog.routific.com)
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by mck- 9y ago
Interviewer here. Apologies for the tone, totally not intended. The true intend was to help PhDs be more prepared, not to express smugness. Here are some details that were cut out of the post: - we have an extensive engineering interview pr
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by mck- 9y ago
Would love to see more of these articles on Hacker News; very educational, almost adventurous, Kevin Mitnick style (obviously not quite). I know that Paul Graham had a different definition of "hacking" in mind when he started HN,
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What every PhD should know before interviewing with a tech startup(blog.routific.com)
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by mck- 9y ago
Great primer on ICOs - thanks for enlightening me :)
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by mck- 9y ago
I'm surprised there is no mention of D-Wave systems - the quantum computer that Google bought a while ago [1] and how/why they decided to build it themselves from scratch. [1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Goo
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by mck- 9y ago
Agreed. These kinds of competitions or coding interviews may cause over-fitting.
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by mck- 10y ago
If you care about your company's culture, a person's humbleness, art of concise debating, etc - more important parameters than sheer GPA or coding skills imho - you can never do away with in-person interviews. Calling them "u
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How being a refugee prepared me for life as an entrepreneur(medium.com)
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Delivery startup raises €100m after 1.5 years(thenextweb.com)
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Vancouver startup ecosystem #1 in Canada(cknw.com)
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by mck- 10y ago
Weather here is amazing! Vancouver has such a bad rep when it comes to rain, but honestly it's not that bad. Here's what it's really like: Between May and October, basically half of the year, you'll have very comfortable
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by mck- 10y ago
In a scenario where more YC companies set up shop in Vancouver, and US investors follow to bet on the next Slack up here, then this will naturally change as a function of supply/demand.
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by mck- 10y ago
It would be awesome if they set up a remote office here in Vancouver :)
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Eval-when is harmful to your mental health (2009)(fare.livejournal.com)
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by mck- 10y ago
A lot of the things they had to build in-house for repo/build/test/deploy as described in chapter two, all of us are fortunate enough to get for (almost) free with all the tools these days. It's a good time to be a found
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by mck- 10y ago
But this is already common practice with Bloomberg terminals -- banks paying big bucks get 15min earlier information than the public
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Lily shuts down(venturebeat.com)
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How hard an Entrepreneur's life can be(economist.com)
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by mck- 10y ago
7 Wonders: Duel is a great game for 2 people. Simple, yet strategically complex, with varied gameplay.
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Driverless cars for all by 2021?(blog.routific.com)
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by mck- 10y ago
Am I reading the second chart correctly? $44m in MRR across the 22 companies, ie an average of $2m MRR after demo day? That sounds like Series B metrics? Why did they go through YC?

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