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by tonydiv 12y ago
We turned down TechStars for Alchemist. 3x better terms, better network, 6 month program, incredible mentor network, largely tied to Stanford. Since 2012 Alchemist Accelerator has advanced 64 companies according to CrunchBase. Of these, 29
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by tonydiv 12y ago
Wow, how disappointing with the $60k price tag. Berkeley should be ashamed.
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A handful of recent surveys indicate that even VCs aren't very good mentors. Would you disagree? Speaking for myself, I've found that most people are willing to offer their advice for free, whether or not I am in their incubator o
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How to Avoid Wasting Years of Your Life Due to a Startup Incubator (Part 1)(medium.com)
1 points by tonydiv 12y ago|3 comments
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Didn't this company used to sell some biometric payment system?
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by tonydiv 12y ago
This is hilarious. I can't believe someone actually chose that as a company/domain name.
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by tonydiv 12y ago
I would also be looking for the opposite. Software that eliminates the need for people, especially consultants, can be huge opportunities too. That's what we're doing with MindOps–an easy-to-use OCR API. Currently humans transcrib
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by tonydiv 12y ago
Unless your valuation is $10M+ and your notes' caps were $6M+, I don't see how investors won't own ~55%+ after Series A (before accounting for 20% option pool).
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by tonydiv 12y ago
"As little as 49%?" Yes, you're right, I didn't account for dilution, but I also didn't account for the 20 other convertible notes they've taken.
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by tonydiv 12y ago
The amount of dilution here is worth noting: YC: ~10% after conversion 500 Startups: ~10% after conversion Version One, Felicis, etc (Q1 14): $1M+ investment at $5-$7M valuation at most? Another 20% Flybridge, A16Z, Gramercy, etc (Q2 14): $
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by tonydiv 12y ago
Quora being valued at $900M? Heh, I'd believe it when there's some revenue, or at least some sign of revenue. I'd have more faith in Quora long term if they were asking for donations like Wikipedia.
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by tonydiv 13y ago
Wow. Napkin math can be powerful. This is the most insightful comment on the page.
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Googlewhack(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tonydiv 13y ago|0 comments
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by tonydiv 13y ago
What about Cloudera?
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by tonydiv 13y ago
As someone who just graduated from Penn last May, I feel inclined to comment. Penn can be a stressful environment, no doubt. Most of the students who attend Penn were at the top of their class in high school. Many dominated in athletics as
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by tonydiv 13y ago
How long did it take you to unfollow everyone on FB? Sounds like that would take a while for someone with 1800 friends.
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by tonydiv 13y ago
You're welcome! Let me know how it works for you in the Medium comments.
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by tonydiv 13y ago
I have completely hidden my news feed. Since I consider FB only to be valuable as a utility, i.e. a means of communication or a repository of information such as where someone lives, the newsfeed is a complete waste of time and useless. My
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by tonydiv 13y ago
GPU programmers who know CUDA
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by tonydiv 13y ago
What I wonder about is whether founders are paying rent. If you're making $60k in SF, but your rent is considered a company expense, you're in pretty good shape.
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Hadoop Jobs on GPU with ParallelX(infoq.com)
4 points by tonydiv 13y ago|0 comments
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by tonydiv 13y ago
This looks awesome. I will definitely take you up on that offer! How is the video actually recorded? Do you then compress it and send it to the web service?
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by tonydiv 13y ago
This seems like an edgy way to attract traffic. If there were some more specifics behind how these rankings were determined, I'd be more inclined to care.
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by tonydiv 13y ago
You're correct, regarding the 18,000x speedup. It's worth mentioning that Java isn't very fast either.
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by tonydiv 13y ago
You're right, it isn't a perfectly fair comparison. However, even if we had coded it in C++, the run time difference would still have been significant. We're just sharing our story at this point. Next, we'll be sharing o
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by tonydiv 13y ago
ParallelX has been an idea in the making for 2.5 years. Your skepticism is valid, and only as we continue developing, iterating, and working with customers will we convince you that we're serious. This is the first time we'll be w
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by tonydiv 13y ago
Who is this? Either way, thank you very much :D
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Not from what I've read, but I could be wrong: "The microprocessors that made the microcomputer possible had originally been developed to run traffic lights and vending machines. They had never been intended to power computers. T
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by tonydiv 13y ago
We used parallel Python to implement the first version of the clustering algorithm. Although the CPUs weren't particularly beefy, the implementation was by no means poor. It's worth mentioning that the laptop GPU wasn't power
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by tonydiv 13y ago
What do you mean 'typical?'

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