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Powhow: Former Googler Unveils An Online Marketplace For Live, Webcam Classes(techcrunch.com)
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by motti_s 15y ago
Facebook should open a new savings account and deposit $1.37 million every day. In two years it will have the $1 billion they'll pay to acquire Everyme.
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by motti_s 15y ago
"Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages." This is a brilliant way to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem, which i
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Everyme Offers a Mobile-First Version of Group Social Networking(allthingsd.com)
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Apple’s Market Cap Hits $600 Billion(allthingsd.com)
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Video Startup Animoto Adds Former Aol/Yahoo Exec Brad Garlinghouse To Board(techcrunch.com)
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An Open Discussion on the HN Karma System(blog.mottishaked.com)
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by motti_s 15y ago
So in you opinion, assuming that Sequoia had to distribute the "overnight" 2X to their LPs, was that a good investment for them?
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Why Instagram pursued a $50M round just before its Facebook acquisition(venturebeat.com)
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by motti_s 15y ago
I believe that most funds are structured in a way that the VCs have to pass the proceedings (minus their cut of course) to their LPs (investors).
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by motti_s 15y ago
I have a question: is this good or bad for the Series B investors? I'm not sure the answer is as obvious as it seems. 2X return overnight is great for angels, but is it good for VCs? From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong), once VC
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Vinod Khosla: Silicon Valley’s Talent Thief(pandodaily.com)
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Military wants better machine vision for smarter robot cameras(venturebeat.com)
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The Lumia 900 Becomes Amazon’s Best Selling Phone(techcrunch.com)
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by motti_s 15y ago
Yep I'm happy to discuss, email me: motti {at} wincode dot net
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Windows 3.1: Twenty Years Later(pcworld.com)
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by motti_s 15y ago
I wonder why Google Chrome offers to translate this page from Malay...
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by motti_s 15y ago
"Business Plans are Dead" Good riddance. It's so frustrating to waste countless hours working on a detailed plan that you and anyone who reads it know is wrong. Such a pointless exercise. It is important to have a plan, but not a formal b
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by motti_s 15y ago
Here in Vancouver it's not very easy to find talent these days, but I think that it's easier to retain talent. Compared to SV your burn rate could be lower because salaries are lower and you can get significant government funding (sometimes
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by motti_s 15y ago
I don't think you can compare what we see now to the bubble days. Let's look at some key differences: - In the 90s there were 50 million internet users, now there are over 2 billion. The internet economy is huge. - It's becoming easier to g
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by motti_s 15y ago
I agree - it seems true (albeit strange) that only a handful of VCs are making returns that justify the risk. But those top VCs are consistently ahead of the game. I don't think those index funds did very well during the tech bubble burst,
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by motti_s 15y ago
Good point. Though I think the top VCs hardly ever lose money on a fund, they just make lower profit margins. In fact Doug Leone of Sequoia once said that they never had a fund that lost money, although in 2002 they almost did [1]. But even
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by motti_s 15y ago
I don't think it's that easy for all companies to raise money. In fact, I just watched an interview with Pinterest's founder who said that they were turned down by virtually the entire investor community. I think the pendulum has made a ful
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by motti_s 15y ago
Stories like this make you wonder if some companies pivot too quickly.
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Pinterest’s Unlikely Journey To Top Of The Startup Mountain(techcrunch.com)
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by motti_s 15y ago
I once dealt with a sophisticated investor, though with no experience in tech investments. The idea of a convertible note was foreign to him and thus unacceptable. He wanted to own preferred shares right away, but I wanted to avoid lengthy
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by motti_s 15y ago
Thanks Patrick. I'm familiar with pg's essay about High Resolution Fundraising, but as stated in the essay, this can happen even without the use of convertible notes: "You may not need to use convertible notes to do it." Is it a fact that i
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by motti_s 15y ago
"In addition, the issuance of shares of common stock creates three potential problems. First, the founders risk substantial dilution because it is often difficult for the founders and the investors to agree on a valuation for the startup an
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by motti_s 15y ago
This post wasn't intended to be a PR stunt, though I see how the last paragraph could make it seem like it was. I was merely making an observation and have just rephrased the last bit to make it clearer. That's what happens when you write s
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Y Combinator, will you marry me?(mottis.posterous.com)
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