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by rexreed 4y ago
This video probably sums it up best: https://piped.video/watch?v=N6Zz-Nkkaxc
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by rexreed 4y ago
"You're one of us until you aren't."
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by rexreed 4y ago
The update in that article said: "Update: CNET's Caroline McCarthy tweets at us: "Sounds like a good theory, except that a Color exec told me Sequoia's $$ was nearly triple Bain's." So we're back to: HOW D
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by rexreed 4y ago
What processing / server / backend are you using to run the whisper model?
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by rexreed 4y ago
Oh Sequoia. The company that put $41M in a single seed round into a company that did... nothing: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the--did-color-raise-a-c...
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by rexreed 4y ago
These are the words to the "technology debt" song
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by rexreed 4y ago
Acquisition due diligence is not the same as funding due diligence. There are definitely differences in the two and different reasons for doing it. For acquisition, due diligence is part of the legal and compliance requirements. For VC, due
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by rexreed 4y ago
Due diligence is for the founders and startups that the VCs aren't that excited about. When the VCs really want something, due diligence, especially the sort you mention, and any sort of business plan / model / etc goes out t
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by rexreed 4y ago
Even worse - dairy farms here had to dump milk due to overproduction because there wasn't enough capacity for milk processing to turn into cream and other products. Something is really broken in dairy supply chain and the production li
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by rexreed 4y ago
Meanwhile there's a cream shortage here on the east coast US! The price of cream has gone up substantially and was entirely unavailable during Thanksgiving weekend in my local area. No heavy or light cream whatsoever at any store. And
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by rexreed 4y ago
I completely agree with your sentiment. I'm a bootstrapper at heart. However, I've dearly learned in the past few years that as a bootstrapper, one of the biggest dangers is believing that markets seem real, when in fact, they are
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by rexreed 4y ago
Case in point: https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/autonomous-drivin... Shows all the factors at play here: * Company founded by kids who know / knew nothing about the space * Investors who smell money oppo
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by rexreed 4y ago
GPS devices, definitely
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by rexreed 4y ago
From the KeePassXC FAQ: "Additionally, you can use a key file filled with an arbitrary number of random bytes or a YubiKey to further enhance your master key" https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-keepassx
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by rexreed 4y ago
Do you not suggest using Dropbox to sync KeePassXC? Their FAQ on site seems to support (and encourage?) the use of Dropbox for syncing.
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by rexreed 4y ago
So is your revenue all ad revenue? How long did it take to earn? I'm curious because I'm also thinking of putting a lot of tech-oriented content on YouTube, and to make a bit on it (side hustle money), but I'm not sure what t
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by rexreed 4y ago
Curious on the shift to YouTube business. Is the ad revenue really that great these days for new YouTube creators? What's the real business on going YouTube semi-full time?
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by rexreed 4y ago
Investor funded/investor-driven businesses ("startups" in the Silicon Valley sense) are not businesses in the classical sense - they are financial products. The startup company is the product, sold to investors. The company
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by rexreed 4y ago
I responded to your comment in the thread above where you posted the same response.
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by rexreed 4y ago
In what way would customers destroy cash? Are you mixing operating expenses with income? All customers should have some cash contribution, associated cost of service, and LTV. To say that some would net generate more cash than others is an
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by rexreed 4y ago
May the farce be with you
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by rexreed 4y ago
Startup companies in many ways are like funded high-risk research projects. They live and die by the support of their benefactors. In this case, the benefactors are investors who are interested only in one thing -- the growth value of an as
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by rexreed 4y ago
> For the 20% of your customers generating 200% of your cash I don't get this math.
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by rexreed 4y ago
The term PM is never really defined here. Is it project manager or product manager? Are we talking PMs with PM certifications like PMP or is this something else?
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by rexreed 4y ago
If everyone was rich, no one would be rich. If everyone was above average, no one would be above average.
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by rexreed 4y ago
The voice assistant space is dying: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co... Some of the comments below are part of the explanation why. It doesn't work as well as people were hopi
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by rexreed 4y ago
The VCs are willingly fleeced - they aren't about companies generating revenue either. Hard to feel sorry for VCs when they're playing the same game Kite is - just hyping the market and flipping an asset, hoping the music doesn&#x
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by rexreed 4y ago
How did you go about that NSF fund raise? Was it a SBIR? Did you already know how to fundraise through SBIR or whatever vehicle you used? Were you funding just yourself or a team? What ended up happening to the thing you fundraised from NSF
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by rexreed 4y ago
I'd love to read a tutorial on how to do this for myself.
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by rexreed 4y ago
What is the maximum length of audio allowed? What are your costs in running this? Are the hardware requirements substantial?

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