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by mlinsey 16y ago
FutureAdvisor (YC S10) is addressing several of these - particularly the ones that involve Wall Street taking money in fees from unsophisticated investors.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Some people believe that in every economic transaction, at least one party must be exploited, no matter how wildly beneficial the deal is to both sides. It's actually a natural implication of the idea that wealth is never created, only real
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Just last year we were talking incessantly about how angels and super-angels were disrupting VC's in the area of early stage investments in a big way. Were the super-angels a "threat to Silicon Valley" back then? Nobody thought so except ma
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by mlinsey 16y ago
$150K will not make your startup succeed on its own. There were already companies raising larger amounts before YC started and this did not seem to hurt the "spirit" of YC. I think the biggest effect this will have on the YC process is that
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by mlinsey 16y ago
This is precisely why the terms are so good. With no cap, there's no downside to taking the deal unless you are 100% sure that you will never read to raise money ever.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
The assumption has to be that Milner will participate in follow-on rounds for companies that look like they will be Heroku or bigger.
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Life After Facebook (Forbes cover story on Peter Thiel)(forbes.com)
5 points by mlinsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by mlinsey 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_states
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Since Google has always been hiring at least some people even through the recession, does a blog post like this mean we're back to the torrid expansion of 2005-2007?
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Are you sure? As I understand it, Amazon Fresh LLC is a separate legal entity, just like Lab 126 and A9, both of which are based in California.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
This is the same criticism that has been leveled at Quora since it first launched, and yet the site has been growing tremendously. It's too early to say that Quora will eventually become truly mainstream, but it seems even more premature t
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by mlinsey 16y ago
FWIW I was introduced to Groupon by two people far removed from of tech circles. When I first tried it, it didn't even really occur to me that I was looking at a hot startup. I think its mindshare is plenty good among non-tech people in u
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by mlinsey 16y ago
1. My understanding was the same as benreesman's: breach of an NDA only makes the person who agreed to it liable. IANAL but I did some searching around for the precedents you mentioned, and I found a few that back up what you say, but they
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I'm surprised you need this spelled out for you, but the professor is unaffiliated with and has no contractual relationship with Sony. Since he's just mirroring someone else's code, he probably hasn't even agreed to a TOS. Therefore any suc
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Is there a company that instills similar fear today? I suppose Facebook inspires a similar fear for any company doing something social, but the thing about MS and Google at their peak was they saw their domain as "software" and "the intern
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by mlinsey 16y ago
The WSJ has had a particularly good record on Apple announcements shortly before they happen (the iPad announcement, the case program in response to antennagate), so I think we can be pretty confident about this.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I use ebooks for >80% of the books I read. During a very long, weather-delayed layover in an airport last week, I remembered an interesting book I had heard of, downloaded it for my Kindle on the spot, and read it through on the rest o
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Several such systems are built around computer learning of the wikipedia corpus. Any ones in particular that you've found work well?
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Not to diminish what he has done, but what about Barney Frank?
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Confirmed: Motorola Mobility acquires cloud start-up Zecter (YC S07)(news.cnet.com)
25 points by mlinsey 16y ago|4 comments
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I think the biggest benefit for Twitter was that thanks to their API there were developers working on improving an innovating on top of the product even when Twitter was focused entirely on scaling.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I've been part of the Wakemate beta program. I was told to not post a detailed review but that I could give my general opinion. It's a great device, and I would pay $50 for it. I understand why those who pre-ordered long ago might feel burn
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Probably, but part of the reason I didn't want to register for a new account was just so I wouldn't have to go through inputing all my information again.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Your concern is legitimate, but you'd have to look at real data to see if the impact of that confusion is outweighed by the impact of forcing people to register for another payments service just to buy your product. I know that I don't wan
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Who knows what this decision will look like ten years from now - one can imagine Zuckerberg looking like a pretty plausible choice. However, I agree that the trend you're talking about definitely exists. The most egregious recent example is
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by mlinsey 16y ago
A 33% per-round dilution would be much more sensible (and more common). In the right fundraising environment this might even be 20% or 25%, but 33% is the right default assumption if you have no information. Another hidden variable is the p
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by mlinsey 16y ago
This, and also competent VC's (and Heroku's VCs are top-notch) don't want much more than a third of the company in a single round, as it makes it far too difficult for the company to raise capital that it may need in later rounds.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Just in the S10 batch: Brushes, Rapportive, Simplenote all were reasonably successful before YC began.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Can you point out an example of an offline app in the current store? All the apps I've tried so far seem to literally just be an icon + link to a website on my start page.
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Scobleizer Interview with Ricky Yean of Crowdbooster (YC S10)(youtube.com)
16 points by mlinsey 16y ago|0 comments

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