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by vecter 13y ago
Relevant discussion on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/What-do-Pixar-...
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Kamcord (YC S12) - Networking and early traction(youtube.com)
5 points by vecter 13y ago|2 comments
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Kamcord (YC S12) - How to get traction(youtube.com)
4 points by vecter 13y ago|0 comments
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by vecter 13y ago
While the entire trial may have been televised, I doubt most of the commenters here watched the entire thing and then debated it for 16 hours with a group of 5 peers who had also sat through the entire trial.
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The Kamcord Story - Getting into Y Combinator [video](youtube.com)
12 points by vecter 13y ago|1 comments
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by vecter 13y ago
VCs raise funds from LPs that typically range from the hundreds of millions to single digit billions. They need to return money on those huge funds, which means they care more about absolute returns than a large percentage return. In other
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Kamcord (YC S12) shares its startup story: finding co-founders(youtube.com)
7 points by vecter 13y ago|0 comments
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by vecter 13y ago
Precisely this. It's really sad to see the sheer volume of conspiracy-theorizing going on around HN.
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by vecter 13y ago
For me, faculty connections were worthless. The real driving force behind my college education was the quality of my peers. They forced me to study extra hard and learn the material incredibly well to fight for an A. I suspect this will be
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by vecter 13y ago
Ford's market cap is 55B. TSLA's current market cap is ~9B at a stock price of ~$77. If TSLA's market cap were 55B (~6x greater), then, assuming no stock splits, its stock price would be $462/share.
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by vecter 14y ago
For those who didn't click through to the article, this video is crazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA The explosion happens at 0:29.
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Fertilizer plant explodes near Waco, Texas(theatlanticwire.com)
35 points by vecter 14y ago|24 comments
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by vecter 14y ago
I don't know where you're getting your data from, but I know of at least one high frequency algorithmic trading firm that make ~$1B a year using mathematical models. The models aren't simple, but they're entirely automated and they behave e
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by vecter 14y ago
The same reason that things sell for $1.95 instead of $2.00.
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by vecter 14y ago
Pretty cool. My only gripe is the entire Computer Science section should be renamed to Programming.
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by vecter 14y ago
6. I'm not sure where you're getting these numbers from. You talk in black in white and categorically (and quite unfairly) paint startups as slave labor camps where employees are treated like shit and exploited at every possible opportunity
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by vecter 14y ago
I don't know why you're saying that, disruption is right around the corner: http://greenthrottle.com/ - Play mobile games on your TV http://www.bluestacks.com/ - Play mobile games on your PC http://www.ouya.tv/ - Android gaming consol
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by vecter 14y ago
Trust your instincts. It turns out that when you think that someone's not good, you're almost always right. Pretty excellent advice. Ever since I've started my company, I've really learned to trust my gut. It's almost always
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by vecter 14y ago
And therefore ...
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by vecter 14y ago
Dave makes a very valid point, which is that the market is often illiquid. Pinterest and AirBnB have $1.5-2.5B valuations right now, but how quickly do you think they could find an acquirer at that price? Quora's last round priced them at $
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by vecter 14y ago
That's not taking into account other important factors: * Work on a new potentially game-changing product as part of the founding team * Join a small team where you'lll have more say in the production direction and company growth
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by vecter 14y ago
That's pretty interesting. I feel like I have a hard time understanding people in group settings. It's not uncommon that I have to ask people to repeat themselves, and I feel I do this much more than other people. I'm also not great at unde
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by vecter 14y ago
The real reason math is hard to read is that it's the distillation of a thousand winding ideas and failed attempts that took hundreds of hours of thinking and hundreds of pages of scribbling, all condensed into the most concise possible thr
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by vecter 14y ago
I'm so embarrassed I left her out.
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by vecter 14y ago
AFAIK, only PG, Harj, Jessica, Garry, PB, Geoff, Sam, and maybe RTM and/or Trevor?
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by vecter 14y ago
It seems to me you can download and try without paying for anything: http://www.diffplug.com/versions/0.5.0 I'm not sure what paying actually gets you beyond the version you can just download and use.
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by vecter 14y ago
Quora has a great discussion on this: http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-the-probability-of-...
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by vecter 14y ago
That's a false premise. The "purpose" of capital markets isn't to "serve society" any more so than the "purpose" of restaurants is to "serve food". Restaurants (and any other businesses for that matter) exist to generate profits. They merel
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by vecter 14y ago
That's not a very convincing argument. I'd like to participate in F1 racing, but the research and engineering costs are too high for me as an individual to partake in. If they limited racing to only 4-cylinder non-modded Hondas, it would al
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by vecter 14y ago
Thanks. I think this part describes why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause The heliopause is the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium; where the solar wind'

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