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by vecter 11y ago
$47M isn't their valuation, it's the amount they've raised. No company would raise $30M at a $47M valuation unless they were very desperate.
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by vecter 11y ago
No I think it's fine as is, thank you though :)
543.
by vecter 11y ago
I posted this as a "Tell HN". A moderator must have changed it to "Ask HN".
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by vecter 11y ago
Yes you're right actually. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by vecter 11y ago
Yes, I was surprised they weren't downvoted into oblivion either. edit: as bradfa pointed out, this comment is the exactly the kind of noise we want to avoid. shame on me. I'll leave it as an example of what not to do.
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Tell HN: Please don't add noise to the conversation
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by vecter 11y ago
From what I can tell, it had a hard time distinguishing matrices from vectors. What I wanted was: [ 1 1 ] [ 0 1 ] What I got was [ 11 ] [ 01 ]
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by vecter 11y ago
Are you targeting B2B or B2C companies? Of those two, B2B sounds like the obvious choice, but even then, I'm not sure there's enough value for companies to adopt this. What makes you think companies actually want this and are will
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by vecter 11y ago
Wow. Do any come to mind?
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by vecter 11y ago
Where did I mention vanity as a part of the raise? You missed all of the points I made and then attacked a strawman. When you raise on your terms, as these guys probably did, you get (1) a great valuation (i.e. cheap money) and (2) great
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by vecter 11y ago
It derisks the company at low cost because you're raising money on great terms. It's almost always a good idea to have extra cash in the bank, especially when that cash comes. I once heard a quote along the lines of "the comp
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by vecter 11y ago
Most of those cash buyers are wealthy Chinese people living in China. I doubt this will change that.
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by vecter 11y ago
Are you equating HFT with front-running? Because it's not true. That aside, HFT is such a tiny fraction of the economy that taxing it wouldn't make one sliver of a dent in the national debt. Your ignorance on this topic which you
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by vecter 11y ago
Profit isn't necessarily the most meaningful way to evaluate a company (n.b. Amazon). Usually for growth stage companies, YoY revenue growth is more important. I don't know what Atlassian's revenue numbers actually are, but I
555.
by vecter 11y ago
The founders of Intel went to prestigious graduate schools. Gordon Moore went to Berkeley for undergrad and Caltech for his PhD. Robert Noyce got his PhD from MIT. Andy Grove got his PhD from Berkeley.
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by vecter 11y ago
When you hear something about a field you know very little about, your default reaction should be skepticism. People say bullshit stuff all the time and pass it off as fact. I don't know much about cancer biology, but what you heard so
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Kamcord is looking for our first Marketing Manager to focus on growth(jobs.lever.co)
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Kamcord (YC S12) is looking for our first Marketing Manager to focus on growth(jobs.lever.co)
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by vecter 11y ago
Given that polystyrene is C8H8 [0], how can mealworms live without a source of nitrogen? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene
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Kamcord is looking for a Partnerships Associate who loves mobile gaming(jobs.lever.co)
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Kamcord Is Looking for a Junior Data Analyst(jobs.lever.co)
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Kamcord is looking for iOS Engineers who love gaming communities(jobs.lever.co)
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Kamcord (YC S12) is looking for ios engineers who love gaming communities(jobs.lever.co)
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by vecter 11y ago
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by vecter 11y ago
Thunderfoot did a video about this where, like you, he estimated the order of magnitude to be 1-2x greater than the most likely fake number reported by the Chinese government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hcwMwFbJKc .
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Kamcord is looking for iOS engineers who want to democratize mobile gaming(jobs.lever.co)
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Kamcord is looking for iOS engineers who want to democratize mobile gaming(jobs.lever.co)
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