CarlosT

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by CarlosT 13y ago
Don't know. However, $40M valuation implies 7% of YC companies have revenue run rates greater than ~$2.7M per year (i.e. assuming a price of ~15x revenue) In other words, 93% of YC companies have not made it to ~$2.7M per year in revenue.
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by CarlosT 13y ago
oops.I forgot a step. Step 3: Click "Invite people". Step 4: "add a phone number".
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by CarlosT 13y ago
Hack: You can still make outgoing calls using Google Voice/Hangouts 1. In Gmail type in your name into the "start a hangout" box 2. In Hangout window click on "add telephone". 3. type in phone number you want to call. 4. Call.
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by CarlosT 13y ago
People don't want "jobs", they want "income". It is individuals that will need to own these future assets, like 3D printers to insure they have income. In response to: "Otherwise we would do well to imagine and plan for a near-term future
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by CarlosT 13y ago
Everybody hates a witch hunt until they see a witch. "Witch!"
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by CarlosT 13y ago
I pay $40 for 3 mbps. Palm Springs, CA, Time Warner. Fios is not here yet. Only cable.
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by CarlosT 13y ago
Source: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-5...
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by CarlosT 13y ago
Hat tip to the designer who put the facebook and youtube icons next to each other. f You?
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by CarlosT 13y ago
Sounds like a good startup idea: A crowdsourced CPI. Google maps inside grocery stores: Use video in phones to capture UPC and price per unit in grocery store aisles. This way true inflation can be measured, instead of only tracking certai
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by CarlosT 13y ago
Exactly. Since 50% of high growth companies are funded with less than $50,000, $1 trillion would fund the start of 20M young high growth companies. Fairly certain at least one of those, 20M, would have solved the financial crisis. In other
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by CarlosT 13y ago
Instead of lobbying, or fighting policy (the old way) hack together a crowdsourced version of a future San Francisco,and let the people chose how they want the city to look 400 years from now. Something similar to the Manhattan Project, in
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by CarlosT 13y ago
A collective action startup could help solve the problem for neighborhoods wanting FTTH. In a Groupon/Kickstarter model, each house commits ~$3,000 toward a goal. When 250 households in a neighborhood commit and collectively commit ~$750,00