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The Mississippi River Basin Model(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by pitchups 9y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 10y ago
- Facebook's mission is "Make the world more open and transparent." That was not their original founding mission. It was "Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges [Har
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by pitchups 10y ago
Another example of a company that has grown quite large without using venture funding is Zoho.com - based out of Chennai, India. They are even larger than Mailchimp in terms of revenues - clocking over $1 Billion and with over 3000 employe
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by pitchups 10y ago
That is precisely the problem - the 6P was touted as the best top-of-the-line Android phone when it was launched - just a year ago. And now, it is "not representative of the consumer Daydream-ready devices that will be launching later
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by pitchups 10y ago
Really disappointed that it does not support the current line of Google phones - in particular the Nexus 6P. At least it is not listed as officially supported on the website - which only lists the Pixel: https://vr.google.com&#x2
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by pitchups 10y ago
A while back I came to the following conclusion : "We often attribute our success to our skills and talent and failure to luck - while quite often it is the other way around." :)
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by pitchups 10y ago
Yes, I do know that. However, the point is precisely that even getting from first dinner to demo day in 3 months, will be much harder for "hard tech" companies than your typical web startup. Which is not to say there won't be
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by pitchups 10y ago
> Hard tech companies go through the same 3-month batch format as all of the startups we fund. Is 3 months sufficient time for working on hard tech startup ideas. The original 3 month batch format was designed for software & web star
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by pitchups 10y ago
Wonderful! For a moment at the start though, I wondered how such a poorly designed page, could teach anything about web design. Then I clicked the first link... :)
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by pitchups 10y ago
The link is returning a 503 error: "all of our servers are busy right now. please try again in a minute" Looks like the Fusion Reactor story caused a meltdown of Reddit's servers :)
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by pitchups 10y ago
>In four months Barnaby wrote 137,000 lines of bullet-proof assembly language code. Rubenstein later checked with some friends from IBM who calculated Barnaby’s output as 42-man years.* That effectively makes Barnaby 42*3 or 126 times mo
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Why Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter(medium.com)
2 points by pitchups 10y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 11y ago
I read the entire article trying to figure out what exactly was "hellish" about the experience - but couldn't find anything other than what can only be called a really bad culture fit.
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by pitchups 11y ago
I think it also addresses a very crucial point often overlooked: the market will adopt & adapt the easiest tool to satisfy a need, rather than the best tool for the job. Databases are far better suited to maintaining - say a membership
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Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pitchups 11y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 11y ago
Clearly, $4 is far below the cost of the components listed. Assuming this is a legit offer - how are they doing it? One possible explanation - maybe it is supported by ads. They are counting on revenues generated by ads within the various
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List of graphical user interface builders and rapid application development tools(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pitchups 11y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 11y ago
Looks great - is it making you any money?
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by pitchups 11y ago
>Stoozing. Find a credit card with 0% interest on balance >transfers. Doesn't really work anymore : Most balance transfer credit cards charge a minimum fee of 1% to 3% on the transfer amount AFAIK. Savings account pay less than 1
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by pitchups 11y ago
Looks interesting. However, could not find any info on their past performance. Is that info available somewhere for review?
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by pitchups 11y ago
This looks like a great resource - thanks for putting it up. Is it possible to contribute to it?
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by pitchups 11y ago
Great essay. Besides setting the record straight on Jessica's key role in the founding and growth of YC, it also offers a rare glimpse into how and why YC became the juggernaut it is today. "The overall atmosphere was shockingly d
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by pitchups 11y ago
Amazing! This may have far greater impact than all of YC's billion dollar unicorns in terms of making the world better!
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by pitchups 11y ago
For a moment there I thought the "pain" suit was real- as it reminded me of this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_se... A more humane, non-painful version of the suit may be
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Sam Altman sees India breeding multiple $10B startups(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2 points by pitchups 11y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 11y ago
There is a nice long list of over 100 answers to the question of why software estimates are off at Quora: http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software...
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by pitchups 11y ago
Larry Page has been described as possibly the most ambitious CEO on the planet, and this announcement certainly bears that out. Alphabet represents an ambitious attempt at reinventing Google. Possibly fraught with risk - but again Larry s
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by pitchups 11y ago
Yes, every one of these folks - mostly friends and family - has a Facebook account and are active users of Facebook. It is not the simplicity of having a textbox and a submit button that matters in this case - they all know how to post a tw
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by pitchups 11y ago
The reason both Twitter and Google+ are struggling to grow their user base, IMO is because many folks I have talked to - find both products difficult to understand and use. Surprisingly most normal folks don't really get what "fol
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by pitchups 11y ago
It is interesting and a bit ironic that AirBnb accepted funding from YC - who did not believe in their idea [1], and rejected the only investor that not only believed in their crazy idea, but actively sought them out and tried to woo them.

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