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by neworbit 16y ago
I have only anecdotal evidence of this but it sounds like valuations in Portland or Seattle are more like 70% off as compared to Bay Area deals. I'm astounded more VC money doesn't get deployed elsewhere.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I see that this article cites "fatty liver = insulin resistance" and correlates that directly to sugar ingestion. Well and good - I don't want to be foie gras. But this article also suggests that going off sugar quickly causes the fatty liv
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by neworbit 16y ago
But be careful with table scraps, Xylitol can kill Fido. http://www.healthypet.com/petcare/PetCareArticle.aspx?art_ke...
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by neworbit 16y ago
I hear good things about Techstars Boulder and not much enthusiasm for their other franchises
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by neworbit 16y ago
More money going to raises for your comrades generally means less available for you
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by neworbit 16y ago
It would have to be a significant step up from what I'm doing/making in the Bay Area (which is unlikely) to compensate for the opportunity cost (networking, chance at better jobs, etc). Can't categorically rule it out, but it doesn't seem l
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by neworbit 16y ago
At first glance I thought this was going to be a Libya domain name comment instead of a correct language usage comment.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Won't be too long until Android runs on a billion computers
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by neworbit 16y ago
It's totally reasonable to say "I only want $ from big firms" because they can actually do followon rounds. As much as USV seems to be regarded pretty well, their stated preference is to only put a few million in over the life of a company
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by neworbit 16y ago
This seems to be true nearly only in Silicon Valley. Do these sorts of deals get done elsewhere?
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by neworbit 16y ago
Yeah - this has convinced me to not use AirBNB until/unless this sort of thing gets straightened out
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by neworbit 16y ago
Let alone if you invested in MSFT
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by neworbit 16y ago
The other half is keeping up.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Fortunately it works the other way too, c.f. Battlefield Earth
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by neworbit 16y ago
In six months we won't think this particular number is all that outlandish
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by neworbit 16y ago
However, you will get enormously higher valuations - literally four to ten times or more - if you have the right connections in Silicon Valley. And you will get acquired more readily (very likely because of those same connections) in Silico
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by neworbit 16y ago
I'm afraid they will also say "pigs learned to fly", but I admire your optimism
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by neworbit 16y ago
They took an awful lot of investment rounds and dilution. (The alternative was closing the doors.) As tends to be the case several rounds down the line, the investors own nearly all of the firm.
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by neworbit 16y ago
That probably falls into the parental life choice category
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by neworbit 16y ago
This is why I like to read Calacanis and Ferris, it's a lot like reading the editorial section of the paper. (What's a newspaper?) You may love 'em or hate 'em but at least you know where you stand.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I initially misread this as VCs and was going to blather about how VCs follow the herd like everyone else. But YC is entirely a different kettle of fish. Anyone who can get in based on deal and team merits before there is any social proof o
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by neworbit 16y ago
They may be better at influencing running a company or they may not, but their value is in their network as much as their checkbook. Angellist is at least a fair bit its own network - and the "social proof" end of it is WHY it works.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Those guys ARE social proof! How can he disclaim the value of social proof and cite those guys in the same breath?
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by neworbit 16y ago
Well, for what it's worth, airlines do engage in quite a bit of commodity price collaring in order to ensure that fuel price fluctuations don't totally destroy their business model. This is in some respects de-leveraging at least as far as
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by neworbit 16y ago
Nah, I'm serious - lot of folks have no interest in game consoles, and for those who do, my understanding was that the Wii outsold them both put together.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Looks nice. I bet the attorneys think it looks even nicer.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Cripes, really? Windows I'll give you, but Xbox isn't THAT popular.
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by neworbit 16y ago
An awful lot of acquisitions end up this way, though. Consider the firms acquired by Amazon or Google or Microsoft. People remember IMDB and Alexa; Android and Youtube; Hotmail and Bungie... past that not so much.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Set short iterative milestones. Call them whatever you like to suit the dev style you want, whether it's user stories or feature milestones or anything else. But define what progress looks like as far as making the product better goes and t
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by neworbit 16y ago
I'm torn. At what point do we say "these people are not competent to make decisions for themselves, this is just suicide"?

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