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by zmitri 12y ago
FWIW I generally have had excellent customer service experiences with Stripe. Often receiving responses within an hour after sending them at 2 am. In fact, once an employee out of the blue sent me a mockup showing me how I might use a whole
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The race to become the WeChat of the West(medium.com)
33 points by zmitri 12y ago|1 comments
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by zmitri 12y ago
Mixtape Weezy is my jam
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by zmitri 12y ago
I tried it out. Barely functional is pretty accurate unfortunately :( I was using it on screens though as opposed to paper.
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Fast-moving team using technology to re-invent the economic model for journalism(beaconreader.com)
1 points by zmitri 12y ago
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Beacon (YC W14) Is Crowdfunding Journalism In Ferguson, Missouri(techcrunch.com)
2 points by zmitri 12y ago|0 comments
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Fracking and the (supposed) death of peak oil(beaconreader.com)
7 points by zmitri 12y ago|0 comments
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Help take Beacon (YC W14) from a few hundred journalists to a few thousand(beaconreader.com)
1 points by zmitri 12y ago
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by zmitri 12y ago
What's an approximate range of $ raised/valuation that makes for a Black Swan seed round in your opinion? It's hard for me to understand what the implications are of this besides "don't believe the hype" witho
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by zmitri 12y ago
I just realized the Mixpanel issue might just be because I use AdBlock...
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by zmitri 12y ago
Yeah I agree. The FAQ page is a huge win. All of the content is super useful and I only ever found it before from pecking around.
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by zmitri 12y ago
Do I get to be as brutal as Kevin giving design feedback on the new site? :) The JS affix doesn't trigger off at the bottom so the sticky nav stays fixed http://i.imgur.com/YAqGVoL.png Mixpanel's logo is forced di
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by zmitri 12y ago
In Waterloo I think it's possible with a seed fund that puts in 100-150k at 2 to 3M valuations before the good ones get picked up by YC. A lot of Canadians move down to the states anyway because developer salaries are like 2-3x higher.
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by zmitri 12y ago
They very well could be. But more likely, the people that would meet there could go on to do great things together and perhaps YC would be a part of that. I met my cofounder at the TC Disrupt Hackathon in 2011, were selected as one of the w
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by zmitri 12y ago
Not only that, it costs them money and lawyer fees each time.
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Beacon (YC W14) is looking for writers
1 points by zmitri 12y ago
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by zmitri 12y ago
I once met LeVar at a bar at a restaurant. As a fan of Star Trek, I wanted to go up to him, but figured he must get bothered by a lot of intense trekkies so I broke the ice with a conversation about Reading Rainbow. He talked about Reading
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by zmitri 12y ago
A lot of data analysis, generating and printing out statements, research, using excel to analyze portfolio positions and build models etc. There are various markets around the world that people trade in, and you are bound by the hours they
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‘Birthplace’ of AIDS, Three Decades On, Still Under Clouds(beaconreader.com)
2 points by zmitri 12y ago|0 comments
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by zmitri 12y ago
If YC becomes Stanford 2.0, Quora seems like an interesting software collaboration system for all of it's "students." I see the potential especially since Facebook started out just with "students" too.
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by zmitri 12y ago
An order of magnitude difference the top 5 exists in 5 years vs the top exit of this year isn't a pissing match -- it's complete domination.
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by zmitri 12y ago
I wasn't trying to compare WhatsApp to Tumblr, I was trying to compare one exit this year vs the top exists from an entire ecosystem over the past 5 years. I think New York is great, and I think Tumblr is great, but I think if Tumblr w
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by zmitri 12y ago
By nailed down, I meant "done right" and functioning smoothly -- not nailed down as in impossible to duplicate else where. For example there is nothing very early stage in New York that wields the respect and track record of YComb
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by zmitri 12y ago
I don't think anyone questioned if it was becoming more viable, but if you are concerned with macro figures I think this one is much more telling: SV: Largest exit so far 2014: WhatsApp: 19B NY: Top 5 exits since 2009: Tumblr: 1.1B Ind
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by zmitri 12y ago
Yes, a partner said that. They also specifically noted that NYC might be an exception to the rule, but they still believe SV is an order of magnitude better for "all things" startups. Also, pg has mentioned something similar in an
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by zmitri 12y ago
We've talked about this, and we decided it makes more sense for us to be removed from traditional media companies. My co-founder Adrian asked the AirBnB founders that question believe it or not! They said they always planned on staying
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Elon Musk questions the use of Russian engines in Air Force rockets(youtube.com)
2 points by zmitri 12y ago|0 comments
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by zmitri 12y ago
In my experience that makes it a better place to live -- but not necessarily a better place to try to build a (very large) technology company. The difference between NYC and the Valley was unclear to me when I lived in New York, but after s
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by zmitri 12y ago
Depends on what you're trying to achieve I think. I worked on my own stuff for 3 years before doing YC and it was well worth it. My thoughts after going through the program: If you have no product and no track record, it's definit
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by zmitri 12y ago
17K for 7% isn't as raw a deal as you think when you realize that at an "acceptance" into YC essentially doubles your valuation to most seed investors.

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