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by terravion 12y ago
In business law my professor said: "If I only teach you one thing let it be this: never ever, ever, do business as an unincorporated entity!" He went on for hours to elaborate all the problems of unlimited liability and de facto
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by terravion 12y ago
Indeed, great interview... thanks for sharing.
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by terravion 12y ago
I thought that YC's strong advocacy of Title II requirements and net neutrality--when other open internet tech luminaries have fallen down on the job--was in someway a tribute to his work for a free and open internet. A bit understate
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by terravion 12y ago
Actually the policy sounds quite sensible and doesn't sound like it will lead to a permanent ban--just a policy about how you can or cannot annoy your fellows in a commons. As the sky gets fuller, it will be less and less likely that u
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TerrAvion (YC W14)is a hiring a Backend/Image Processing Engineer(terravion.com)
1 points by terravion 12y ago
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by terravion 13y ago
No doubt this is a totally cool drone, but this is why the FAA and the states are tying themselves in knots trying to regulate the crap out of this. Regulation is coming, most likely with a heavy hand, and our community wonders why...
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by terravion 13y ago
If you'll let me further explain what <$30 per acre pricing per season means for farmers... We have client in Livermore, CA who is actually a lawyer but has a 5 acre vineyard at his house. For $150 he can't even afford to do t
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by terravion 13y ago
2014 is going to be crazy, we've launched in time to help California farmers manage through the drought.
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by terravion 13y ago
The biggest surprise for me in starting this business was how expensive drones are. I used them in the Army and I love them, but when we did the math about using them in the business they do not come close to an old Cessna with a pilot loo
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by terravion 13y ago
Despite popular perception that robotics companies require huge amounts of capital, public financial data shows that robotics companies are just like like software or biotech. That is, they are capital efficient and suitable for VC investm
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The Greatest Myth About the Robotics Industry(spectrum.ieee.org)
8 points by terravion 13y ago|1 comments
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by terravion 13y ago
One caveat to the launch date methodology is the failure of the Long March launch for the Brazilians last night. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/12/chinese-long-march-4b...
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Google Lunar X Prize Leader Board: Barcelona Moon Team Leading Astrobotic (robohub.org)
2 points by terravion 13y ago|2 comments
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by terravion 13y ago
Exactly! I'm only aware of two teams who have booked launch reservations: Astrobotic and Barcelona Moon Team. The exciting thing is that Astrobotic has been booked for October 2015 since may and Barcelona Moon Team just moved their da
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by terravion 13y ago
Two questions, what applications does this $90B market cover? And does the cost of a camera (or even all of the hardware) make a significant contribution to the cost of data collection? That's what matters for adoption. Sticks are fr
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by terravion 13y ago
To clarify some of the discussion, there are two separate regulatory regimes at play here. Navigable airspace is regulated by the FAA and the FAA has recently begun to enforce its rules for UAS or drones (see tensafefrogs's comment).