MagnitudeFC

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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Hard agree. It's why i'm trying to land the ship despite some of my own investors just telling me to pack it up and move on to the next thing.
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Wow. The investors did so much to protect a $3M seed investment? Those are really good investors and a stand up founder. Think these days most investors just write off a $3M investment and move on.
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
I'm taking that into account in my runway estimate
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Really helpful to hear this from your perspective - thank you! Couple of follow ups 1) What stage was your company at / how much had the startup raised when you got acquihired? Just curious about how this compares to where we are. 2) W
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Yes I've been very transparent with the team - everyone knows our cash zero day and knows that I am looking for a soft landing.
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Yep
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Appreciate the frank perspective. Understand that time is not our friend here. I guess I'm just wondering / hoping if it is possible that the BigCo just hires our team? I understand that there isn't going to be a big (if any)
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
excellent advice, thank you!
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
What we are working on is very relevant / core to what this BigCo does so there are legit reasons why they are interested. One of our investors made the intro to a very senior VP there who told Corp Dev to speak with me.
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience!
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
sound advice, thanks!
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by MagnitudeFC 2y ago
Thanks, that is really helpful to know going into this. Any insight into what an interview process might look like? I am non-technical (founder/CEO, mainly focused on sales/biz dev) while the rest of my team (co-founder/CTO a
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Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process
19 points by MagnitudeFC 2y ago|30 comments
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by MagnitudeFC 3y ago
Hi everyone I'm working on Zolt, a business intelligence tool that lets you analyze your content with AI. The platform allows you to upload multiple content formats (PDFs, audio files, videos, docs etc) and search across them. As an ex
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Talk to the Republican Primary Debate Candidates Using AI(app.zolt.so)
1 points by MagnitudeFC 3y ago|1 comments
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by MagnitudeFC 4y ago
for real
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The “What did you get done this week?” Accountability tool we all need(framework.so)
2 points by MagnitudeFC 4y ago|3 comments
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by MagnitudeFC 4y ago
Papa Elon inspired me
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by MagnitudeFC 6y ago
What are the odds of this being reversed mid-batch if covid isn't as big of a deal in say July?
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
busted!
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
... and th biggest bubble of them all might be in early stage startups..
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
wow. she has so much poise for her age. I'm sure she will go far.
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
if you're a native Saudi citizen you pretty much are guaranteed a very cushy govt job plus tons of perks (free education, interest free loans for building a home etc). Many parts of the middle east work like this (relying on expats to
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
presumably because you'd need to give up a lot of equity to this woman of color you hire to be the front... i don't have high hopes for VC funds like this.. seems more like a charitable grant than venture funding..1
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
yeah, i don't think you understand how free speech works or why reddit is so popular
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
why isn't there more excitement around this? This could be huge for SNAP
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
"India can take a big lead in AI and other things if it managed to reform its higher education and get rid of government controls in that space. If India opens up higher education sector much higher quality talent can be bred there.&qu
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by MagnitudeFC 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on SHOP as an investment? Do you think Square (now that they've acquired Weebly will be able to slow down their growth)? Also, SHOP is sitting on >1.3B of cash and their new CFO hinted at an
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by MagnitudeFC 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback and glad you liked it so far! The donate a book campaign is our way of encouraging users to share our app. Instead of spending $ on facebook ads, we figured we'd donate a book every time 2 of your friends downlo
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Show HN: Made an app that summarizes the news. Thoughts?(zoltapp.com)
8 points by MagnitudeFC 10y ago|6 comments

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