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by zmitri 10y ago
As someone who has gone through YC, I think a lot of the kind of absolute talk you are pointing out has to do with consistent messaging and providing general advice to an entire group of people who might not have the experience to understan
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by zmitri 10y ago
This isn't just great for international founders, it's great for anyone in YC! As an international founder, the two things I took away in my batch were: 1) How to deal with visa issues - which can be gruelling + take time and mone
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by zmitri 10y ago
Speed is halved using fast.com (140 down) vs speedtest (287 down) and I'm currently on Paxio in Oakland http://www.paxio.com
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Chasing dreams and dollars: India and the H-1B visa(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by zmitri 10y ago|0 comments
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by zmitri 10y ago
Another corollary of this is that if you take a good image of someone else, you can build a model of it (sometimes automatically), and you can map it on to your face and appear as them digitally. I've built tools like this that even le
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by zmitri 11y ago
Maybe, but the cap is so oversubscribed now that even if they were banned, and even if the 1/3 of the H1B visas those kinds of consultancies take went to someone else, there's still no more guarantee you'd make the lottery&#x
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by zmitri 11y ago
Increasing H1B caps does help immigrant founders who aren't already millionaires. I've been on an H1B visa and I've started my own startup. You can be on an H1B for your own company so long as it's clear there is a board
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by zmitri 11y ago
Enjoyed this a lot. Great starting point for anyone interested.
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by zmitri 11y ago
Believe this one works https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.550287341792003.10...
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by zmitri 11y ago
I recently had a solo art show consisting entirely of ASCII Art works based on Taylor Swift, and it was quite successful. Probably 300 people came and I'm a veritable nobody. A bunch of young Swift fans came with their parents and it w
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by zmitri 11y ago
What an excellent post. Respect.
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Lead Product Design at Beacon(beaconreader.com)
1 points by zmitri 11y ago
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by zmitri 11y ago
Maybe, but maybe lots of solutions like this already exist! Tweets, genius for annotations, facebook, youtube... I agree certain backers might care more about having an article published in x ways, but I think they are overestimating their
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by zmitri 11y ago
RapGenius has that, it's called genius.com/beta and it's cool.
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by zmitri 11y ago
I remember seeing your Citevault tool. It was dope! We talked about it a lot at my work.
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by zmitri 11y ago
I started Beacon which funds journalism online ( http://beaconreader.com ) — definitely don't fit into the old business model, but that's the game they are playing.
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by zmitri 11y ago
I guess I should have said "well enough." Would you personally pay for it?
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by zmitri 11y ago
I agree that the NYT is in a better position than most papers, but the reality is advertisers would rather put their spend into Facebook or something like Buzzfeed which get have a much larger audience and way more page views than the New Y
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by zmitri 11y ago
Paying for an "experience" vs "content" are very different things. I definitely don't think people will pay for content, and was not trying to saying they would above. Perhaps my understanding of business models is
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by zmitri 11y ago
The future of news is not an article, nor video, nor particles, nor arbitraging the cost of a page view from advertisers vs the cost of paid distribution on Facebook (yes NYT does this) — it is finding a business model that actually works a
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by zmitri 11y ago
Because of how fragmented the hair industry is. In this case, Mayvenn is not into piece meal distribution—they are the "Atlantic Records" of hair and are concerned with distribution. And then, because the hair comes from India, th
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by zmitri 11y ago
Hmm this seems like a waste of time. Very nebulous. You should focus on building your product and users instead. If you do that and succeed at it you'll be able to get a meeting with whoever you want. Most investments come from warm re
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by zmitri 12y ago
"More" doesn't necessarily mean "more successful". It's not unreasonable that government intervention creates more entrepreneurs - as a Canadian I know I can go and get tens of thousands to start my own company
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by zmitri 12y ago
Personally I believe anything you decide to call art is art. I appreciate what you are saying with regards to brilliance, but experiences and emotional responses to software, code, products and anything else really don't necessitate ar
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by zmitri 12y ago
Exactly correct. Side note for companies like Indiegogo, success at attracting device makers to use their platform is key to their growth. At CES alone they have something like 14 booths.
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by zmitri 12y ago
No details whatsoever but I can across this because customers at certain banks asked why their one time charges were showing up as recurring in their bank statements. I emailed in to stripe asking what was up and they let me know it was sta
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by zmitri 12y ago
I saw it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/handbook/rewards I read too quickly though, $25 is most popular reward level, $75 is average. Either way, it shouldn't be a big deal since it's much higher
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by zmitri 12y ago
Took 'em long enough. Only downside is that Amazon has smaller fees for micropayments than other payment providers at 2% + $0.05 for debit cards and 5% + $0.05 for credit. For comparison, Stripe has a rate of 2.9% + 30¢ -- but I'm
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by zmitri 12y ago
You don't use auth and capture -- you create a customer (with the card/token) in stripe and then create a charge against the customer. Having a customer allows you to charge the user without entering in their info each time. EDIT:
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by zmitri 12y ago
Yeah I've actually emailed support about the same question and got a quick response back.

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