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by rewind 14y ago
Thanks for the link. Love your story. Can't wait to hear about the next chapter.
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by rewind 14y ago
How is Stormpulse doing these days? I've seen posts about it on HN for ages. Fascinating product/market and story. I'd love an update.
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by rewind 14y ago
So anytime someone is excited about a product and says "I love it; you should try it!" they're a shill? If your customers used your product and told others to do the same, would you have the same opinion?
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It's not a show about science; it's a show about ratings. Popular science gets ratings, which are still less than non-popular-related shows, and which are far higher than any hard-science-related shows could ever get. You'll have to scratch
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And just knowing they exist would be incredibly exciting, even if there was zero chance that we could directly contact them in the span of our entire existence.
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by rewind 14y ago
You're bang-on. A lot of overweight people go for a walk or a light jog every day and genuinely try. But they only burn a few hundred calories, then turn around and eat a Quarter Pounder with fries and Coke and think they're coming out ahea
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YC never said they would fund no-idea founders. They said they would let them apply. It's an experiment. Maybe they'll fund them; maybe they won't. This is only the first step. When you consider how much experience and data YC has now, you
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by rewind 15y ago
I can't believe I've never seen that. Very, very cool.
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by rewind 15y ago
"Brand of ethics"? You either stick to your word after you give it, or you don't. I don't think it has anything to do with which party is telling the story.
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This is only bad if your real goal is pushing the specific car. If you're more concerned with brand awareness, or being remembered as innovative or creative or doing something unexpected, this type of commercial can be very effective. I'll
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"Yes, we should remain subservient to an abusive, quickly antiquating industry and it's politically subversive methods." You say that as if I said that and you're sarcastically agreeing. I don't know where you get that from my comment.
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by rewind 15y ago
Cognitive dissonance. Deep down, people know what they're doing is wrong, but don't want to admit it. The same reasoning that allows them to perceive that they're not doing anything wrong has to be applied to guys like Kim Dotcom; otherwise
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by rewind 15y ago
Did you even read the article? The "replacement" part is replacing the large internal network of connections at a company with the network of connections to YC alumni.
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by rewind 15y ago
On behalf of everyone who comes to HN for grammar lessons (and come on, that's all of us, right?): thank you.
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If you're comparing buying shares on the public market for companies that are already worth billions of dollars to investing millions of dollars in companies that are worth a few tens of millions of dollars, then you should probably elabora
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by rewind 15y ago
I hope you don't have any kids with slingshots in your neighborhood. You just invented the best game ever.
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by rewind 15y ago
I agree, but it would sure be nice if people worried more about what they do than what they're called. It's just a word that people get attached to. When I talk to my friends/family about what I do, I certainly don't call myself a "hacker",
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by rewind 15y ago
Once societal mainstream embraces -- and misuses -- a word that a subset of society previously held dearly, it's time for that subset to let the word go, regardless of how much they romanticized or embraced it.
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by rewind 15y ago
If selling phones is profitable, then the best scenario is to sell as many phones as possible, regardless of Microsoft's money. Once they sell more than enough phones to offset Microsoft's money, it means their profit per phone goes up, so
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by rewind 15y ago
I don't understand what's so complicated about my original question. She says she's not going to sell the company. It's reported that she took $2.5M. Let's say she gave up 50% of the company for that (which I'm sure she didn't). And let's a
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We're talking about early-stage investors and what they expect from an investment when they put their money into a startup.
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by rewind 15y ago
But doesn't that bring us back to the issue of who would buy those investments off the original investors if there is never going to be a liquidation event?
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by rewind 15y ago
Only if the dividends are going to return 10-100x over the lifetime of the investment.
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by rewind 15y ago
What do the investors get out of this if Sarah is never going to sell it?
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by rewind 15y ago
Those owners probably aren't great at training their staff and/or don't understand the intangibles that make for a good service experience. You might be able to sell the owners on your product. That doesn't mean the owners can sell their cu
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by rewind 15y ago
Most people don't notice good service; they notice bad service. For any restaurant that already has good servers and good training, this type of thing will destroy the flow of service and the interaction between guests and servers.
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by rewind 15y ago
I was LOOKING for the rudeness and condescension and I didn't sense even the smallest bit of it. So yeah, it's your prejudice. You should really keep that shit off HN.
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I think it was just a humorous comment. I don't see the harm in it. BTW, you just asserted the opposite of the opinion you disagree with without any additional information beyond what the author had ;-)
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A phone is a computer used to access Facebook. I don't see how the car/Coke comparison is the same. They have nothing to do with each other.
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My take on what you said in the article was that you were encouraging developers to implement software (that was not tied into other software, but that was still used by end users) in a language that they want to learn. From what you said h

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