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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   Preface: Over the past 12+ years I have spent a fair amount of time learning about foods/diets, at first to try to get rid of my acne (which I was successful at), but then later to stay lean and stop any diet-related dips in my mood (w
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   Out of curiosity, if you're able to answer it: Does YC now collect, or has it ever collected, (anonymized?) data/survey-responses from founders (YC alums or not) on their original motivations for starting the company, and attempt(
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   It wasn't totally clear to me in the post: did Yale take you back after your stint at UPenn? If so, how did that work? If not, how did you become friends with Justin Kan (who IIRC was at Yale) if you were at UPenn?
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   Great post! I love reading pre-company autobiographical accounts from successful founders, as I find it to be a great way to get ideas for what pre-company experiences might best prepare me to be successful myself. Some additions I would ma
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   I don't know if I should feel sad about this, but I do feel sad about this. As others have mentioned, DBC was the first company in this industry, and their excellent execution seems to have been what led to so many other entrepreneur
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   My guess is that the profitability of different bootcamps varies with the policies / niche that those bootcamps have adopted. It seems likely that all bootcamps have high operating expenses / lower margins than a pure software bus
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   Interesting...thanks for sharing that information.
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   He's referring to the white labels/text that you can see on the map for a given city.
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   by nathan-wailes 9y ago

   I thought the same thing when I first used hoodmaps, but the ability to add labels does a lot to make this less of an issue. You can just label a neighborhood as "Rich people and tourists" or "Tourists and office workers&quot
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    by nathan-wailes 9y ago

    You can add a label that says "street food"
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    How to Start a Project Using PythonAnywhere, Bitbucket, SourceTree, and PyCharm(nathanwailes.com)

    2 points by nathan-wailes 10y ago|0 comments
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    How to Read Business Biographies(nathanwailes.com)

    1 points by nathan-wailes 12y ago|0 comments
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    by nathan-wailes 12y ago

    Not sure why this got downvoted, I didn't know about this book / site and just spent an hour watching a talk he gave at Stanford (he posted it on his site). I see some problems with his method but it looks like a step in the right
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    by nathan-wailes 12y ago

    I didn't know about WFH.io and appreciate you posting about it.
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    by nathan-wailes 13y ago

    Have you not encountered people with the opposite sentiment? I'm in your same situation (but I haven't gone to a bootcamp yet) so I'm wondering what I should do.
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    by nathan-wailes 13y ago

    I'm someone who has been using Anki for over a year now and I'd like to say that the value that I've gotten from Anki is equivalent to the value I'd normally need to pay $1000+ for with traditional modes of learning (boo
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    by nathan-wailes 13y ago

    thanks for the post, i've been trying to learn linear algebra for a long time but keep getting stuck / bored.