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by startupfounder 12y ago
“Once capturing carbon from the air is profitable, people acting in their own self-interest will make it happen,” says Chichilnisky. This is the key to the entire article. The conversation shouldn't be around the practicality of captur
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When prices dip below $0 the electricity generators have to pay to put power on the grid. Many choose to just put their generators on standby mode to avoid these costs or "maintain output by offering to pay wholesale buyers to take the
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by startupfounder 12y ago
It's at the bottom of the article we were discussing... http://stanfordlawyer.law.stanford.edu/2014/10/ebola-the-tol...
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I am a 13th generation Mainer with family in the lobster business, both in fishing and processing, and I have worked on the waters sailing on schooners on the Maine coast as a young lad. Maine is a state that lives off the land, fishing and
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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own wer
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"The component of entrepreneurship that really matters is domain expertise. The way to become Larry Page was to become an expert on search. And the way to become an expert on search was to be driven by genuine curiosity, not some ulter
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by startupfounder 12y ago
Lecture 2 Slide Deck PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1xgbo6c976di06/Lecture2.pdf?dl=0
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by startupfounder 12y ago
This begs the question: Would you take an investment from Vinod Khosla?
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"A traveller usually understands that itineraries are pretty useless, admits ignorance, and is open to whatever the road may bring." In 2007 I rode a motorcycle from Maine to the Panama Canal. I was seeking the authentic, the back
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It's not a standard NDA, it's a "CONSULTANT, NON-DISCLOSURE, AND INVENTION ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT", very different! This is a standard NDA from HBS: http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/pdf/Sample_
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by startupfounder 12y ago
Tiny? "Quirky, Wink’s parent company..." has received over $175MM[0] in funding, I wouldn't call that tiny. [0] http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quirky
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by startupfounder 12y ago
MVP, MLP, MUP or whatever you want to call it needs to create value for at least one person. Value + People The product needs to increase the number of people extracting value from it, increase the value your product creates or both. Facebo
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"...following its current trajectory..." "In the best-case model...would be “almost ended” by Jan. 20..." "The current official case count is 5,843, including 2,803 deaths, according to the World Health Organization
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by startupfounder 12y ago
If software can execute a million times faster to test a solution, couldn't you theoretically write code to copy error messages or run through a list of questions, search and paste solution and test? If the test passes move on, if it d
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by startupfounder 12y ago
Apple should buy Pono, Neil Young & Jon Hamm's music "high-resolution" 24-bit 192kHz audio company and have Neil play some real Rock & Roll at Apple events.
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sweet
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by startupfounder 12y ago
This is awesome and I can see so many use cases with logistics in cities like NYC by using addresses, and not capitals, as waypoints. I would love to see this applied to the NYC taxi data to see how to optimise taxi movements and see how mu
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Between Tesla and Uber the auto industry is quickly reorganising, becoming more efficient and cutting out the middle man, aka dealerships and taxi companies. It's only a matter of time before drivers are cut out of the equation as well
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by startupfounder 12y ago
This is an amazing recruiting tool for YC and is a page out of JOEL SPOLSKY's book: "So if the top 1 percent never apply for jobs (aka get startup funding), how can you recruit them? My theory is that the best way is to find them
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by startupfounder 12y ago
Energy generation, transmission, storage and consumption technologies are the opportunity of our lifetime and it is great to see Energy as #1 on this list (though there might not be a correlation between rank and YC weighted importance). Ge
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Nice job! You got a nice simple idea, created a quick gmail account, built a quick SquareSpace landing page with collection form and now you are on the front page of Hacker News collecting some good data. This my friends is quick and dirty
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by startupfounder 12y ago
Take a step back. With 1GW of solar capacity production in NY by 2017, 50GWh of battery production in the southwest by 2020, Tesla's and SpaceX's manufacturing facilities in CA, Elon's distributed clean generation, storage an
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by startupfounder 12y ago
The most important footnote: "Quirky also sells products through retailers, which I am confident are not included in this data." From the May 2013 Forbes article[0]: 'Sales this year will reach $50 million, he predicts, witho
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I am looking at this in the larger context of starting a startup. SurfOffice to me is an indicator that sometimes the most productive thing to do is to get away and focus on your startup. You don't have to be in SF or NYC. FiberHouse -
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by startupfounder 13y ago
This is bigger than any Apple deal.  THINK BIGGER. Apple might or might not invest in the Gigafactory to reduce the cost of their lithium battery component of their hardware by 30%, but tesla is thinking bigger. I first thought that Apple
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by startupfounder 13y ago
What is the first stop in the presidential primary? New Hampshire. Specifically Dixville Notch, NH[0] It has massive media coverage because it is the first stop for both parties[1] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixvi
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by startupfounder 13y ago
30%-70% of our government representative's time is spent calling the 0.05% (150k people) of US citizens to raise money to get re-elected. Our Republic is a Representative Democracy (not a true democracy) where there are 2 election cycl
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Tesla Gigafactory will cost $4-5B (of which Tesla will invest $2B) and exceed 2013 global battery production, enough for 500,000 cars, 30% less than current costs due to third generation technology. That is 12x growth in 72 months. The Giga
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This is a big win for hardware startups! Showing that being a cash cow and having sustainable growth is signaling the market that the startup hardware revolution is upon us.
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Fun Side Note: The $10M Ansari XPRIZE payed out to Burt Rutan & SpaceShipOne was "hole-in-one" indemnity insurance because the insurer took the bet that a team couldn't get to space twice within the allotted time period.

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