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by nqureshi 12y ago
Great post & it's totally true that company culture mirrors that of founders. I think this works through 3 mechanisms: (1) Employees tend to ape founders, so whatever founders care about & value (in their actions) tends to filt
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by nqureshi 12y ago
I guess it comes down to how far you're willing to push. If you do move to the Valley (as YC partners frequently advise you to), then you probably could get a meeting with Peter Thiel if you really tried. I mean if someone figurative
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by nqureshi 12y ago
Yeah, that part of Paul's talk was amazing. He said most people thought Gmail was a mistake, so he explicitly set a goal to make 100 users really happy, and just went round asking them "What exactly can I make this product do to m
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by nqureshi 12y ago
Thanks Kristjan!
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by nqureshi 12y ago
Thanks jl! Everyone I spoke to loved the event, particularly because: 1. The talks were awesome 2. It was ridiculously well-organised (and the food was superb) 3. There was a really good crowd there I look forward to more YC events in Londo
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by nqureshi 12y ago
For those who (like me), don't like watching long videos, I made summary notes on all the talks here: http://theinflexion.com/blog/2014/07/26/notes-from-startup-s...
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Notes from YC Startup School Europe(theinflexion.com)
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Subtle -isms at Hacker School(hackerschool.com)
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Careful with that Koolaid(mistakesmademag.com)
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by nqureshi 12y ago
GoCardless (YCS11) - London, UK We are looking for a senior backend software engineer to join our team to help us build our next wave of products. Our product is primarily built in Ruby and JavaScript, using frameworks like Ruby on Rails an
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by nqureshi 13y ago
This is a fair objection. I should have been more rigorous, i.e. I've assumed a very high value-of-life, which still leaves me prone to Pascal's-mugging type objections ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/kd/pascals
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UK tax policy on Bitcoin(hmrc.gov.uk)
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by nqureshi 13y ago
"I'm honestly starting to believe that it isn't hard to hire" If this were true, then engineer salaries would not be rising so much. The demand for good engineers vastly outstrips supply. Also, any explanation that requi
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Preventing burnout: a cautionary tale(fourhourworkweek.com)
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Congresswoman interrupted during NSA interview for report on Justin Bieber(independent.co.uk)
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Banning child labour in India ended up increasing it instead(voxeu.org)
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Marc Andreesen & Glenn Greenwald debate about the NSA on Twitter(twitter.com)
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Snowden invited to testify in Europe(thehill.com)
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by nqureshi 13y ago
This is pull-based. Pingit allows A to pay B, but B does have to chase A for the payment. Whereas Payyr allows B to 'pull' payments from A after a DD is set up.
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Julian Assange on Bitcoin (2011)(wikileaks.org)
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by nqureshi 13y ago
As I understand it, your argument is: 1. Some friends I know use Snapchat for 'photos they don't want other people to see'. 2. Therefore, most people use Snapchat to send porn. 3. Therefore, Snapchat should be valued as an am
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by nqureshi 13y ago
"It makes infinity times more money than snapchat, but has a thirtieth of the valuation. What is going on?" A valuation isn't just based on how much money a company makes right now . It's based on how much money the com
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My Heart(blog.harjtaggar.com)
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New Snowden docs show more detail on how NSA broke into Google/Yahoo(washingtonpost.com)
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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide(washingtonpost.com)
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Propaganda: The Media's Coverage of the NSA Affair(nabeelqu.com)
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I was wrong - Snowden is no traitor(washingtonpost.com)
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You don't need millions of dollars(codinghorror.com)
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I'm Glenn Greenwald - Ask Me Anything(reddit.com)
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A Startup Is Driving The Hyperloop Idea Forward(forbes.com)
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