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by robmay 9y ago
In parallel though, many entrepreneurs are staying on the sidelines because of fear of the regulatory bodies. I think the SEC should adopt something the like the proposed Arizona crypto laws.
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by robmay 9y ago
I like "Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger" https://tinyurl.com/y97dlzr8 and "Art of Decisions: Managing in an Uncertain World" by Chris Blake https://tinyurl.com/ya7lyglr
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by robmay 9y ago
Is there a use here for blockchains? Could you link block to block with a CA function or would that be weaker than the current approach that bitcoin uses?
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Ask HN: How Often Does Amazon Kill Projects or Products?
1 points by robmay 9y ago|1 comments
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Why Talla Hacked Our Own Onboarding JoyRide Framework to Be Less Precise(blog.talla.com)
4 points by robmay 9y ago|0 comments
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Is There a Genetic Basis to Career Choice?(google.com)
2 points by robmay 9y ago|0 comments
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by robmay 9y ago
Isn't it amazing that every day, Apple offers new options, diluting everyone else who owns stock? Crazy anyone would work there, or want any Apple stock given that fact.
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by robmay 9y ago
Most companies have a Right of First Refusal (ROFR) doc as part of the financing. If you can find someone in the secondary market to buy your shares, the company, if they want them, has to buy them at that price. Finding such a buyer is d
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by robmay 10y ago
We do this at Talla. A lot of our companies use us to onboard new employees in Slack, or MS Teams.
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Conversational Interfaces: People Don't Read What Your Bot Says(blog.talla.com)
3 points by robmay 10y ago|0 comments
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by robmay 10y ago
I run an AI company, and have a dozen or so AI angel investments, so I have a really interesting perspective on what is happening in the field. This newsletter is focused on AI and robotics from a perspective that is more lightweight tech,
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Show HN: Technically Sentient – A Business Focused A.I. Newsletter(inside.com)
2 points by robmay 10y ago|1 comments
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Lessons Learned Doing Real World NLP for a B2B Chatbot(medium.com)
4 points by robmay 10y ago|0 comments
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CV2Vec: a Neural Model for Candidate Similarity(medium.com)
3 points by robmay 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Talla: an Internal Workflow Bot for Companies(xconomy.com)
5 points by robmay 11y ago|0 comments
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How We Approached the Allen A.I. Challenge on Kaggle(blog.talla.com)
58 points by robmay 11y ago|1 comments
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by robmay 12y ago
Makes you wonder if all that praise for design is really why Apple was successful, or if it was more because he pushed the limits of the law and was successful the way the old robber barons were, like a Rockefeller or Carnegie.
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Why Engineers Need To Connect With Customers(blog.backupify.com)
1 points by robmay 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmay 14y ago
Backupify didn't take the post down for legal reasons. We took it down because I talked to the founder of World Backup Day and he explained it was all a misunderstanding. As a tech company CEO who has to deal a lot with lawyers, I'm not su
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by robmay 14y ago
If you want mbox you can try www.snapshottool.com, which runs in the cloud and provides a local download.
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by robmay 14y ago
There is a great book called "Management by Baseball." The author of the book points out that baseball managers are typically former players, and they usually believe that the most important position on the team is whatever position they u
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by robmay 14y ago
www.backupify.com lets you backup your gmail to another location
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by robmay 15y ago
Just to clarify the "don't read blogs" comment... what I meant was that tech blogs are disproportionately written by engineers. You don't see, for instance, many middle managers at Apple or Amazon blogging about their work. So if that's a
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by robmay 15y ago
I will add that Backupify started in Louisville, KY, and we were funded by First Round while we were still there. We didn't have to move to raise money, but we couldn't find the tech/startup talent we needed. So we looked at NYC, Boston,
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by robmay 15y ago
And protecting startups. There are disclosure issues here that are much more risky for startups. For a publicly traded company to disclose a lot about its business is one thing... but such disclosures could kill a startup.
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by robmay 15y ago
Well, but here's the problem... Backupify was my third attempt at raising VC. Before I did it, I would have jumped at the chance to raise money from anybody, even average Joes. But now that I know the difficulty in managing investors and
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by robmay 15y ago
That's probably a better overall idea. To let people by a mutual fund, in effect, that invests in a basket of startups.
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by robmay 15y ago
I have a lot of experience here because a) in 2005 I started something called "The Business Experiment" which was an attempt to have a purely crowd sourced business. ( http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/101/next-essay.html ) At the time,
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by robmay 15y ago
I think people should do what they want to do. If you are passionate about your work, and want to spend more time there than everyone else, I'm not sure that sends a bad message to kids. If you want to spend more time home with kids, that'
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by robmay 15y ago
I sat through a recent presentation about this at M.I.T. While it's a long way from practical implementation, it does seem like it is at least feasible that we will get there.

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