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by pg 13y ago
It's certainly not sufficient, but it's close to necessary for startups, because startups generally have to do something no one else is already doing.
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by pg 13y ago
a) Photos are a fundamental form of data, and better infrastructure for managing them helps everyone. b) We did fund a startup for managing medical images: Clariso, in the last batch. You don't hear as much about b2b startups as consumer o
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The Boss You Wish You Had(path.to)
5 points by pg 13y ago|0 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Surprisingly stupid move by someone who has till now had a deft touch with PR.
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by pg 13y ago
The fundamental error of this piece is that it assumes that if you vote Democratic, you're by definition not a one-percenter. What? Much of the article is devoted to making the opposite point: that the SV elite overwhelmingly support the
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Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age(medium.com)
194 points by pg 13y ago|139 comments
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by pg 13y ago
I'm not sure what he's proposing. If he means let site owners specify that people not be able to submit their sites to HN, I've actually daydreamed occasionally about doing that myself for paulgraham.com. But it might not work in practice
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by pg 13y ago
In the unlikely event you didn't already know this, YC's investment is not meant to be the only funding a company ever raises. It's just meant to get the company to the point where it can raise more from the next round of investors. Which
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by pg 13y ago
Will you both please stop?
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by pg 13y ago
We've never funded a company actually making chips, but we'd be open to it.
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, this is one of the problems I spend the most time thinking about how to solve. FWIW, my current theory is that the problem is not the comments themselves, but the upvotes. There are often moderately stupid comments far down the page i
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by pg 13y ago
That's the subtitle of the article, verbatim.
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by pg 13y ago
Surely twould be more efficient just to tell Yahoo rather than trying to bounce the message off us.
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by pg 13y ago
Stop this please.
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by pg 13y ago
His father would have a bias that I don't.
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by pg 13y ago
I've known Andrew for years, and I know he's a good guy. If you spent an hour talking to him, you'd be mortified to have said what you just said.
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by pg 13y ago
In our case yes.
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Airware Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz(techcrunch.com)
11 points by pg 13y ago|0 comments
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by pg 13y ago
I think this is going to be really big. But it might require actual customer service; that must have made them think twice.
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Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms(m.motherjones.com)
4 points by pg 13y ago|0 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Oddly enough I know for a fact that I'd identify him as a very promising founder. After 8 years of trying to pick founders, part of my brain has turned into a founder detector that I can no longer turn off, and the first few times I talked
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Why Songkick's new paternity policy is good for women(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by pg 13y ago|0 comments
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by pg 13y ago
You would not say that if you knew him. I can tell you as both someone who does know him at least moderately well, and someone who knows a lot of other startup founders, that very few people indeed have his combination of brains and tenaci
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by pg 13y ago
Me too. Will you guys please stop?
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by pg 13y ago
It's slightly inaccurate to describe deleting and resubmitting as a loophole, because we ban people who do this.
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by pg 13y ago
The actual answer is much less colorful than the other answers in this thread. Increasing the number of visas for skilled workers is not that controversial. The problem is that it's part of a more general immigration bill, which is contro
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by pg 13y ago
"His post has been deleted! Why the censorship?" We didn't delete it. It was deleted by whoever posted it.
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by pg 13y ago
Thanks so much for that! This is the world my mother grew up in, and I now feel I have a much more detailed mental picture of it.
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by pg 13y ago
All the posts involved set off the flamewar detector, except this one which I'm now going to kill manually.
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by pg 13y ago
I feel obliged to point out that these other journals are merely copying the real pioneer in this field: http://jir.com .

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