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by wellboy 12y ago
Wow, if this is true, what a horrible person. All the efforts to get more women interested in tech, trampled. Hopefully, people will learn from this how to not do it and that still in 2014 misogynism is completely present and will get swept
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by wellboy 12y ago
Take a break for half a year or something anyway, and then have a look at the Oxfam thing, it sounds cool. You can also do that part-time, no need to force it. Good luck nikki!
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by wellboy 12y ago
Most important startup rule: If you ask for money, you get advice. If you ask for advice, you get money twice. - Pitbull
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by wellboy 12y ago
Uber might become the first $1T company in the world and it's not about processing taxi fees at all. It's about that self-driving cars are already safer than humans. In 5 years potentially, nobody would drive their cars by themsel
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by wellboy 12y ago
The first thing I would to is to become interested in your co-workers. Ask them about their lives, how they got to your company, why they came to your company, what they did before. Ask them about their views on current events. This is how
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by wellboy 12y ago
Yes, true. One can certainly learn from what they have done, but I think what I mean with invalidated is that they immediately lose all of their credibility with a statement like this. Because of this, people won't be inspired by them
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by wellboy 12y ago
Where did he say that
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by wellboy 12y ago
No, there are simply sentences that fall into this category such as not supporting gay marriage, proclaiming Snowden as a traitor, being anti-abortion, which invalidate everything that the person has ever said or done, because they reveal u
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by wellboy 12y ago
The thing is, anything, everything he has ever said or done is invalidated by this one statement.
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by wellboy 12y ago
For me, a16z was just the best VC ever, I thought wow finally somebody different to everyone else, finally a real investor. But that statement just shattered all my high opinions of them, they're just another VC firm/shark/he
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by wellboy 12y ago
You might also checkout http://www.startupsanonymo.us/ . Two great guys, also founders who have been there and who just listen, for free and offer some feedback. Great project, way too little exposure for them though.
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by wellboy 12y ago
I don't think they actually make a lot of money as they have to pay a lot for infrastructure, though they have a LOT of traffic and imho that's not a bad thing. Products with a lot of traffic like Snapchat or Secret are amazing. T
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by wellboy 12y ago
< The fallout from the Snowden leaks have hurt U.S. technology firms' ability to sell their products overseas, he added. Yes and the costs are estimated to be as high as $180B ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03&#x2
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by wellboy 12y ago
Berlin startup exit, it is dearly needed! We almost have no first generation entrepreneurs here, all we got is basically Samwer brothers.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Google is doing that, have you tried to look there for AI jobs?
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by wellboy 12y ago
Australia dude, best country ever. Salary as high as in California. It has all the good things that the U.S. has, without the bad things.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Again, after Poke? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457866,00.asp
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by wellboy 12y ago
There are actually some good statistics. If you look at 100 richest people on earth, 37% of them grew up middle-class households, 36% of them grew up poor households ( http://fundersandfounders.com/how-much-sweat-it-takes-fro
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by wellboy 12y ago
The whole point of entrepreneurship is persistence, you don't need anything else. If you have persistence, then IQ, upbringing, social environment, education dwarf in importance. If you simply never stop, try things that no one else ha
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by wellboy 12y ago
Taking from the comments, it could be "useless", but the technology could be very interesting and the start of something bigger. I can imagine that Apple would be interesting in acquiring this technology and developing it further.
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by wellboy 12y ago
I think the body can survive the lack of oxygen for several minutes, because there is always oxygen left in the body that the brain can use. However, if the brain cells consume any oxygen at all, because there is nothing there, they can die
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by wellboy 12y ago
True but for each enterprise customer paying $4k/month, there are 25 bronze customers paying $14 month.
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by wellboy 12y ago
A sorry for the miscalculation, did that on the way out the door. Just thinking how big the market is. According to https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites/US?jump-to=110000 there are 110,000 sites with >10k monthly vis
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by wellboy 12y ago
Wow huge round for 7,000 users, but I think I missed something. The plans range from $14 to $293/month and then there is an enterpise plan. If we say the average revenue/user is $100/month that would be $700,000 in revenue&#x
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by wellboy 12y ago
Yes, OP meant all of them I think.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Ok, added.
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by wellboy 12y ago
I no longer trust Facebook, but continue to use it as much as before regardless.
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by wellboy 12y ago
It was not 100% impossible for Google to not turn over the data, there would have been ways. It's not about if Google is evil or not it's about how evil it is.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Ok then the "evilness" per pupil is higher, however what's more evil? Kidnapping 230 puplis or spying on 23,000 pupils, or 230,000 or 23M?
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by wellboy 12y ago
I trust Facebook with my personal data and I am still using it as much as before.

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