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by sova 7y ago
For $10K seed money for a typical YC funded company ($150k for 20%?) that amounts to 1.67% of equity. If you could convince people to sell 2% of their idea for 10k maybe it could work (!) How to validate ideas and teams and markets, though?
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The Structure of Every Japanese Sentence(learnjapanesebest.wordpress.com)
4 points by sova 7y ago|0 comments
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by sova 7y ago
Thanks, that's good advice.
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Learn to Think in Japanese with This Curriculum(learnjapanese.best)
4 points by sova 7y ago|2 comments
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by sova 7y ago
That's a great idea, like 50 hours of one-on-one tutoring available this month, and get private bids for that! Thanks! Let's keep brainstorming ^_^
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by sova 7y ago
Right on! I've added my e-mail to my HN profile. Please contact me and let's have a discussion! Mandarin is also a challenging language, and I'd love to hear about your vision for teaching it.
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by sova 7y ago
It's a language learning curriculum in our case, so individual progress is tied to the subscription, making it undesirable to share (but possible s'pose)
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by sova 7y ago
Very impressed my good man. Would it be possible to automate this process a bit and get some statistically sound measurements from doing it 100 times? Can we turn this into an online business? :D
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by sova 7y ago
Really fantastic write-up and, "why the hell not get a flushed out demand curve?" duh! Brilliant! We sell an online digital product that is subscription based. Do you think such a mechanism makes sense there, too?
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by sova 7y ago
Language, Axe, Wheel, Coffee, Beer, Printing Press, iPhone. Inventions or discoveries that change the world have the common thread of usefulness and suitability. Thinking historically is pretty, it's hard to weed out bad ideas this w
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by sova 7y ago
We are developing Japanese Complete, a rapid fluency acquisition platform. Not "change the world" as in put more stuff in it, but "change the world" by allowing more humans to interact meaningfully in/through/
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by sova 7y ago
Go EFF!
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by sova 7y ago
Yeah, you need a good way to screen the muck of the internet pond before doing expensive (time/data/cycles/money) queries. But you need more customers to tell you what they want -- you're trying to make the most delicio
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by sova 7y ago
Product/Market Fit is best described in this https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee204/ProductMarketFit.html . "In a great market -- a market with lots of real potential customers -- the market pulls product o
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by sova 7y ago
sonic the hedge fund
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by sova 7y ago
Why not try offering a free version for a while and seeing what people find most useful about it? You can give away a lot to build a customer base.
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by sova 7y ago
UI ideas: + Infinite trail of breadcrumbs (pages visited) that you could potentially share with others (show how you found the info based on path) + Tree-based navigation (go back a page and overwrite your cached future? no thanks) + some s
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by sova 7y ago
Create a product people want, push it to market, change it based on customer feedback. In a way it's really kinda silly, "you don't have product intuition yet" well that's why I'm here for a job, if I had produ
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by sova 7y ago
It's very easy to write yourself out of a job, but if you have specific domain knowledge (art and creativity for the field) then you have a huge advantage. I think ML/AI are incredibly useful tools that still need the guiding han
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by sova 7y ago
Wow. Thanks for mentioning so, I had no idea is was such a widespread problem. All due to cutting corners on implementation while still wanting it to look legit.
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by sova 7y ago
Wonderful! We are compiling a FAQ. In the meantime, you can e-mail hake@japanesecomplete.com who can provide you with more detailed info.
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Show HN: 3-5 Year Japanese Rapid Fluency Online Curriculum
6 points by sova 7y ago|2 comments
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by sova 7y ago
This is junk why did you post this
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by sova 7y ago
Square should definitely set this right ASAP she's not doing anything against. I wonder if she had named her stand Canada Beans, would this have happened? The nerve
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by sova 7y ago
Veritasium made an excellent youtube video explaining how this effect works (before the image was released!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo
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Three Year Rapid Fluency Program for Japanese(japanesecomplete.com)
8 points by sova 7y ago|0 comments
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by sova 7y ago
Reminds me of the timeless http://bash.org/?88575
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by sova 7y ago
I'm especially intrigued by the "Timelike, Spacelike, and Lightlike" diagram on Page 10 of the linked paper where "lightlike" phenomena share an endpoint. Fascinating.
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by sova 7y ago
STephen Plinker would disagree with this idea that language is the basal layer of thought. Intention and mind first, language as a filter later. It's kinda reductive to say that your thoughts are your words. Words are like structure
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by sova 7y ago
85% likely still using a keyboard to manipulate pixels on a screen

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