tyang

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   by tyang 13y ago

   Great for me as a Google shareholder. Bad as an Angeleno fighting SoCal traffic. No GPS/maps system seems to offer the option for FasTrak or carpool lane. No GPS/maps system offers a way to tell a driver in a carpool lane if they
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   by tyang 13y ago

   Most important part omitted is how to do #1. Customer discovery, learning key.
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   by tyang 13y ago

   Have him sign an IP transfer agreement. Then: Give him source code. Or get a co-founder you trust. Or go solo. Or close up and do something else. Btw, your company is worth zero right now anyway, most likely. Go ahead and try to sell your c
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   by tyang 13y ago

   Voluntary response data are worthless.
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   by tyang 13y ago

   A friend and fellow ex-Wall Streeter notes: "All hedge funds are smart. Period. End of story. Whenever you can gamble with other people's money and get paid on the wins and eat none of the losses, that's the real win. Anything after that is
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   by tyang 13y ago

   AngelList does 6 year vesting with its own employees. I convinced a startup I work with to do 6 year vesting, including my adviser shares (though I had some vest upfront for all the work I put in). More startups should do this, including wi
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   by tyang 13y ago

   VCs are quite smart. Where else can you charge 2 and 20 for long-term returns below the far less risky small cap index funds? http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/vc-enemy-is-us-report....
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   by tyang 13y ago

   Thanks, will try it.
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   by tyang 13y ago

   Is that better than freeconferencecall.com?
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Startup investor here. I do lots of video calls, practically all on Hangout. No founder has ever had an issue figuring it out. YMMV.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Kind of like startup investing on speed without the extra zeroes.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Why does he think people newly entering the workforce will listen to an album of motivational business music over going to Quora or Harvard Business Review to read about business?
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    by tyang 13y ago

    What's a good guess here as to the signal to noise ratio?
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Dear Google Maps Team, This is very helpful, thanks. And the rest of us aren't looking for places to eat in the Mission using public transit. (BTW, folks in the Mission skateboard, bike or walk.) Anyhoo, some of us live in L.A. We drive som
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Now might be a good time to activate two-step verification to login to Gmail.
16. 76.▲
    by tyang 13y ago

    Agree w/ mikeash
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    by tyang 13y ago

    I do a lot of video calls with startup founders and other startup investors in and out of the Valley. YMMV but my breakdown is probably 95% Hangout, 3% Skype and 2% Facetime/GoToMeeting/Other.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Just use google spam filter.
19. 79.▲
    by tyang 13y ago

    This is great.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    You can do a cheap prototype, mockup or wireframe. If you can code, just code something simple you can test with minimal features. Most failed sites and apps have way too many features that no one except technical founders and their 37 frie
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    by tyang 13y ago

    You test your idea on actual customers, you don't tell your idea to HackerNews. And even awesome companies like Facebook screw up when they test by running bad tests. Example: Home. Facebook tested Home on employees who usually use iPhones.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Replace all: "technical founder" to "founder". Otherwise perfect. A+.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Mean but juicy. Kudos on stirring the pot. Sheryl's book - and the important topics it addresses - were at risk of being a bit forgotten. Your review could help change that.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    This is why almost all good investors pass on startups with weak or no technical cofounders.
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    by tyang 13y ago

    Brilliant. Is this goodbye for BitCoins?
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    by tyang 14y ago

    Yes, because you can't hide behind the corporate veil of limited liability if you yourself are mixing business with pleasure and other things personal, so to speak. So creditors and other stakeholders are going to be able to pierce the corp
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    by tyang 14y ago

    This makes sense for most of us. But if you want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Elon Musk, do you work smart but not that hard or do you work smart and work hard like they did?
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    by tyang 14y ago

    Also painters.
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    by tyang 14y ago

    Good piece Danielle.
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    by tyang 14y ago

    Hilarious.