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by w1ntermute 10y ago
It's good to know that their Incredible Journey will continue within the halls of Hooli…oops, Google!
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Bloomberg profiled Brin's family office last year[0]: > Running Sergey Brin’s family affairs is a full-time job—and it takes dozens of people. The Google co-founder, who’s worth about $30 billion, has ex-bankers and philanthropy exp
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> why does this article have this tinged negativity toward SV? Why not just highlight MailChimp's success without the jab on VCs? VCs are easy to hate: they're rich, successful, powerful, and mostly straight, white men who had
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
I hope Twitter doesn't get acquired by Salesforce - that would destroy it.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
I don't have the source, but I read that having VC cash to burn was partly responsible for YouTube's success. They did things like iPod giveaways and hired tons of designers to quickly iterate on the site. They had many competitor
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> But it sounds like the core apps on iOS work the way they want them to, whereas the alternatives on Android are all lacking. It doesn't make sense to compare the core apps on iOS to the alternatives on Android. The core apps on An
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Have you tried using third party apps on the iPhone? You can't change the default browser, mail client, maps app, etc. on iOS. At least it's possible to switch the defaults to 3rd party apps on Android.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Building trust is one component, but it's equally important to explore whether you're compatible with your cofounder (or SO) across a wide range of emotions and circumstances. There are people I personally know pretty well who I t
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Joe Gebbia (cofounder of Airbnb) studied graphic design prior to founding Airbnb.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Do you think it's usually possible for two potential cofounders who don't already know one another to sufficiently evaluate one another quickly enough to start a company together in the short term (say, less than 3 months)? There
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
The difference is that the executives buying Palantir's products don't know or care what any of those acronyms are, and they're willing to pay a lot of money so they don't have to find out.
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Theranos lab still open despite violations posing 'immediate jeopardy'(azcentral.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> Misconception: I need to raise a seed round before I apply to YC. > S16: False. 14.2% of accepted companies weren’t even incorporated when they applied. This didn't actually address the misconception - it sidestepped it. I woul
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Getting paid for a pulse!
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
For those curious, the startup the author[0] was referring to was Mobcrush[1], where she was Head of Business Development. 0: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kohkim 1: https://www.crunchbase.com/organizatio
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Arizona Fell Hard for Theranos' Bluff(tucson.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
That's a terrible comparison. The impact of $1 million dollars on a family and the impact of $1 million dollars on a seed-stage startup are totally different. Did you really work in the tech industry? It doesn't sound like you kno
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
If you don't have the pedigree, go get it. Become that Stanford masters student, or go work at Google or Facebook for a few years. Then when dingbat investors like Suster ask for pedigree, just namedrop Google. Of course, keep in mind
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Population density isn't "a nice way to put it", it's data from before colonization began. Regardless of what happened afterwards, the starting conditions were very different in what is now the US and Mexico.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
I didn't say they did. I said that if there's something wrong with this article, it's not because of a misguided attempt by the New Yorker to branch out into tech.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
The author, Om Malik[0], is a well-known technology blogger, not a social critic. He just happened to publish this piece in the New Yorker. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_Malik
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Because the population density was much lower in pre-Columbian America than in pre-Columbian Mexico[0]. Note how Argentina has a similarly low population density - their current population also has a low level of indigenous ancestry. There
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Peter Thiel: Trump has taught us this year’s most important political lesson(washingtonpost.com)
37 points by w1ntermute 10y ago|14 comments
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> when did Bloomberg Businessweek decide to start aping Vice? Probably shortly after they realized it brings in eyeballs.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> Bérénice Magistretti is a Swiss freelance writer based in San Francisco. That explains the (misguided) focus on just the Bay Area and Switzerland.
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Startup Values and Financial Marxism(bloomberg.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> a company news release[0] said Theranos had collected finger-stick blood samples from patients, including in the Dominican Republic, and run the tests on the new miniLab device, which showed that the Zika test worked. From the news rel
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
It's probably a low-stress way to burnish your resume with a couple year Google stint. If you didn't go to a top CS program, working as an engineer at Google (or similar companies) can get you a lot more professional respect. For
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You get the YC stamp of approval, which makes selling, recruiting, fundraising (everything, really) much easier. It's like asking why a genius would go to Harvard, when he can just teach himself everything.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
A great example of this from the music business is Macklemore's Jimmy Iovine [0]. 0: http://genius.com/Macklemore-and-ryan-lewis-jimmy-iovine-lyr...

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