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by vm 12y ago
Founder Lew Cirne still owns 27.3% of the company (wow!). More than any investor or other shareholder. He raised $200M+ and took little dilution. Awesome to see a repeat entrepreneur who knows what he's doing when fundraising.
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by vm 12y ago
Having met Schwartz and his team, I think you'd be surprised by how he describes his role: it's simple. That's why he can do the job at a young age. Burger King sells a well-known product in a predictable market. They don&#x2
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by vm 12y ago
Website: http://gracemink.com/
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Sequoia's internal investment memo on Youtube [pdf](docs.justia.com)
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by vm 13y ago
I wish I was in NY just to play with the UX! If I have a RUSH order in progress, can I still order a traditional Uber ride? RUSH is a business use case, which makes me think they'll soon support multiple concurrent rides since that&#x2
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Facebook Buys Nintendo For $16 Billion(socialnewsdaily.com)
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by vm 13y ago
"it feels really productive to take my kids to school and get paid to drive home" Drivers using Uber to fill free time or excess capacity is a radical shift away from how Uber started, with professional drivers using it to make a
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by vm 13y ago
Instagram began as a photosharing app when Facebook already dominated photosharing.
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Education and the French mindset: Bangalore-sur-Seine?(economist.com)
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by vm 13y ago
I would order lots of beer in a heartbeat if there was a way to buy from your site!
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by vm 13y ago
It's in the opinion section so it's fair game. (FWIW I'm against drilling too)
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by vm 13y ago
I've been dying to hear the use cases ("killer apps") where Google Glass kicks ass. Scoble talked about how it speeds up photo so much, that I could it change the way we document our lives & experiences. That's big. What else??? Any HNe
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Humans Need an Operating System Too(handle-inc.tumblr.com)
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by vm 14y ago
Thomas, I enjoy your HN writings, but I'm afraid you comments here may mislead readers. Associates play a key role at VCs, sourcing MANY investments, and serving as gatekeepers. When I was a VC Associate, I sourced 6 investments, totaling o
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by vm 14y ago
I find getting into hot deals to be one of the tougher parts of VC/angel investing. There always seems to be a lot of money chasing the best deals. That being said, I don't have to deal with salary caps and a bazillion other complications w
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by vm 14y ago
Not true. Tesla sued BBC's Top Gear for libel after a review [1]. That didn't stop Tesla from getting this NY Times piece [2] and other award-winning press, such as Motor Trend Car of the Year 2013. [1] Tesla vs Top Gear, well documented by
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by vm 14y ago
The underlying question of your comment is whether this is a stable business model. You already indicate that Twitter has the ability to disrupt/shutdown your service, which puts you in a difficult situation to build something of value. I
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by vm 14y ago
Apple is an interesting example because Jobs famously stole ideas from so many others. Having gotten away with it, that's probably why he made new product development so secretive.
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by vm 14y ago
More meaningful advice is to hide the magnitude of your success if the barriers to entry are low. You will get lots of competition once others know they can fast-follow and make money. Instead, keep it a secret and race to lock up the marke
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by vm 14y ago
Naval has been a prolific angel investor over the past few years. It would be interesting if some of this capital is used for direct investments out of AngelList. Years ago Sequoia did something like that by investing in YCombinator, and mu
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An inside look at the app that powers Sesame(plusbryan.com)
1 points by vm 14y ago|1 comments
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Skeuomorphism is the easy way out(blog.wells.ee)
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Advice is to be processed, not to be followed(ekoester.com)
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Faster Rails partial rendering and caching. 78% improvement of test application(ninjasandrobots.com)
76 points by vm 14y ago|34 comments
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Products as Performances(dcurt.is)
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by vm 14y ago
Paul Graham wrote an essay on this. The most charismatic candidate is elected, every time: http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html
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by vm 14y ago
I have never seen this blog format - html uploaded and shared on Dropbox. What are the benefits? Anonymity? It seems that many blog for publicity or driving traffic (both valid reasons), which leads to using simple publishing tools (tumblr,
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by vm 14y ago
Uber has strong support from NYC consumers. They positioned this battle - rightly or wrongly - as "Uber vs. unjust cronyism" and all my friends in NYC avidly support that image of Uber in the not-totally-accurate fight. Admittedly a limited
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by vm 14y ago
We need to define risk here. Startups are risky and most fail. That doesn't change, even if we gave people free health insurance and other benefits. Jon Stewart is arguing to increase the safety net so that downside of failure is less harsh
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by vm 14y ago
With Uber, you pay for a higher-quality of service. The ratings and screening should give you better drivers and maybe even better maintained cars and shorter wait time. None of those benefits are guaranteed, obviously, but it's easy to ima

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