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by zmitri 12y ago
Second point is spot on. Before it was kind of explicit that you should take the SAFE, but if you weren't familiar with financial instruments or how exactly MFN clauses worked, you could run into issues you weren't completely awar
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by zmitri 12y ago
If somehow he can get you those 100 work visas please let me know!
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by zmitri 12y ago
Great response. Unfortunately as I get older, I see more and more people falling into the way of thinking he's outlined which is brutal.
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by zmitri 12y ago
As someone who started a company articles like this make no sense to me. There's money-driven people everywhere, but if you want to get rich, your best bet isn't to start a company. Work at a hedge fund and work your way up. Peopl
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by zmitri 13y ago
Also, don't listen to the negativity in this thread. The majority of commenters have probably have never done a crowdfunding campaign, and are not likely going to back this because they don't know you. It's important to have
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by zmitri 13y ago
I've worked with many crowd funding campaigns (around 90) and the most successful way to make sure it happens is to send out personal emails (anywhere from 10 to 25% conversion), followed by blast emails (around 10% conversion), follow
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by zmitri 13y ago
There's a difference between sole investor in a specific financing round, and sole investor period. It's extremely rare that a16z is the only investor since they often don't participate in seed rounds and then try to do as mu
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by zmitri 13y ago
Public speaking is a learned skill and to do it well, you need to do a few things that you wouldn't necessarily do in face to face conversation. I don't think it's the greatest way to judge what someone is like because a lot
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Airbnb to collect hotel taxes for San Francisco rentals(sfgate.com)
4 points by zmitri 13y ago|1 comments
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Marc Andreessen's Twitter Takeover(beaconreader.com)
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by zmitri 13y ago
I use Algolia on my site, and I believe it has to do with speed. Algolia is significantly faster than ElasticSearch.
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by zmitri 13y ago
I remember seeing that video and balking - even reading Machiavelli's the Prince can get you thrown in solitary under the pretense you are gang affiliated. If you're interested in the prison industrial complex, the very same Shane
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by zmitri 13y ago
So I've learned that in some cases a lot of these things are done up so formally so as to be able to work with immigrants. In order to hire an immigrant, there's a lot of things you need to be able to prove, and being able to show
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by zmitri 13y ago
You should ask Ben then! He's a really smart and accomplished guy and I'm sure would be very happy to share that with you.
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by zmitri 13y ago
Hey - I'm so sorry I didn't link the video for you! Here's it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQnDDKDiSy8 It's 6 minutes in: "If you educated a girl in the developing world, you educate 5 people
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by zmitri 13y ago
Honestly it was probably the best conference I've ever seen (I'm a male and I watched online). What was really special is that people there were actually giving useful, practical advice instead of just telling the story of their c
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by zmitri 13y ago
beaconreader.com
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by zmitri 13y ago
We strongly considered doing this - especially since most of our writers are in foreign countries - but so far not a single writer has expressed interest and no one from the bitcoin community we reached out to showed much interest. If you k
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by zmitri 13y ago
I agree. But it also takes people willing to put their money where their mouth is to do that. The notion of "free" has spoiled a lot of folks online and made it a tough sell. I run a site that is entirely reader supported, but sta
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by zmitri 13y ago
Good Karma was evolving from idea to actual product with people involved. We still had full time jobs while working on this and never got an interview. Backspaces went from 1,000 users (first application) to 60,000 users in the 6 months sin
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by zmitri 13y ago
Pathetic is the perfect way to describe me. Especially when you factor in that as an immigrant I had to leave America 3 times, once because I was diagnosed with cancer, and haven't legally been able to take salary from my own company i
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by zmitri 13y ago
Our 14% acceptance rate makes the most appropriate title "How not to get into Y Combinator." But yeah, if you get an interview (you're already doing pretty well!), the 42Floors founders practice interview is the best training
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by zmitri 13y ago
I saw Jessica speak at Startup School in 2012 alongside some of the biggest names in tech, and her talk was by far the most useful/practical for me as a 23 year old entrepreneur. She is really really good. I suggest watching it.
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Beacon (YC W14) Offers A New Approach To Crowdfunding Journalism(techcrunch.com)
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by zmitri 13y ago
Interesting. We'll have to see how it plays out. I know you are deeply interested in social apps, and have invaluable insight into their workings from early days at Facebook and personal in-depth research. I'm pretty sure you were
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by zmitri 13y ago
Hey Numair, I agree with you on the negativity. It's not good for anyone. Path is exquisitely designed and the product team are top notch. That being said, websites like App Annie provide reasonably detailed metrics on downloads and po
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by zmitri 13y ago
I've found that cliched advice is often the best advice for this same reason. It's cliché for a reason - a lot of people have found it to be useful. Many people try to give insightful or unique advice, but often the simplest advic
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by zmitri 13y ago
They've done some cool open source stuff with Tornado too, very awesome. This project looks pretty smart as well: https://github.com/dailymuse/catnap
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The Meme Merchants(beaconreader.com)
1 points by zmitri 13y ago|0 comments
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by zmitri 13y ago
Perhaps Dawkins' "meme" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme ) is a simpler - and not negatively associated like spaghetti code - way to describe it's evolution?

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