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by abiekatz 10y ago
Great post! I think if a founder speaks to a small handful of VCs and/or other knowledgable startup people: they can get a good sense of how easy or difficult fundraising will be...and that will be more useful than any one guideline th
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by abiekatz 11y ago
I like Sam's line: "I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That’s such a difficult constraint we can’t have any other constraints."
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by abiekatz 12y ago
Build something that people want and make it grow and things have a way of working out. Many VC firms actively monitor the top of app stores, angellist and ask what software their friends and portfolio companies are using. Build something a
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by abiekatz 12y ago
What are the key differences between Stellar and Ripple?
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by abiekatz 13y ago
Interesting look into your fundraising process Jarrett. It's impossible to distinguish the impact that YC had on your second go around at fundraising versus the impressive progress that EasyPost had made as a company. YC definitely hel
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by abiekatz 13y ago
What work is for an investor and an entrepreneur are quite different. As PG says entrepreneurs should "Live in the future, then build what’s missing." Investors allocate capital to what will be more valuable in the future: whether
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by abiekatz 13y ago
Satoshi Nakamoto in February 2009: "In this sense, [Bitcoin]'s more typical of a precious metal. Instead of the supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermined and the value changes. As the number of users
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by abiekatz 13y ago
Check out http://speakertext.com/
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Ask HN: What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet?
23 points by abiekatz 13y ago|23 comments
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by abiekatz 13y ago
Why not offer both options? Either take it at a predefined pace in line with academic semesters or at your own pace. Seems like it would be the best of both worlds.
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It's not that hard(wp.david.ulevitch.com)
5 points by abiekatz 14y ago|0 comments
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by abiekatz 14y ago
Does anybody know when it will be possible to buy a self driving car and how much of a premium the cost will be?
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by abiekatz 14y ago
This is part of why temp agencies and "talent resource" companies can exist. Trying to filter the ton of resumes and hire the right candidate off of craigslist.com can be quite the pain. I do wonder though what jobs bright people without ha
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by abiekatz 14y ago
I find this post on the topic to be interesting: http://www.julesmaltz.com/post/3376586698/if-you-like-saas-t... I think if you don't have the sales rolodex to sell traditional enterprise software going freemium or low cost SaaS is the wa
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by abiekatz 14y ago
Thanks I appreciate it. How does Game Closure do these things better than the many other HTML 5 based game development SDKs?
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by abiekatz 14y ago
I have heard great things about Game Closure including that it speeds up development time, enhances game quality, and makes games run faster. Does anybody know what exactly makes their SDK so much better than competitors? A layman's explana
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by abiekatz 14y ago
The textbook method to disrupt a market is through disruptive innovation. This is serving the very low end of a market with a solution that is just good enough and then moving up market. Sustaining innovation is when a company keeps improvi
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by abiekatz 14y ago
I wonder if the "Thiel fellowship" model is a scalable form of education? Would some portion of bright young people benefit from pursuing their most ambitious idea for two years? It could be kind of like a gap year but applied to pursuing s
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by abiekatz 14y ago
I feel like "ask hn" questions are very similar to a large portion of the initial content on quora and the initial communities were somewhat similar. I wonder if there is anything that YC could do to make hacker news better preserve the eve
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by abiekatz 14y ago
thanks
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On Becoming a Thing(abiekatz.com)
1 points by abiekatz 14y ago|2 comments
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by abiekatz 14y ago
I think another part of why people support (product-driven) projects last minute is that people are debating whether they want one. There is no consequence to wait for the last minute and I bet many people, myself included, are debating whe
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by abiekatz 14y ago
Here's the text of Munger's speech: http://www.loschmanagement.com/Market%20Comment/Client%20Let... It is well worth a read.
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by abiekatz 14y ago
It is interesting that one of the cast members is Dwight Crow, a founder of the YC company carsabi. I imagine being on a show like this could lead to quite a bit of publicity but I wonder if it is worth the distraction and likely unrealisti
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by abiekatz 14y ago
Bloomberg did a decent miniseries based on TechStars New York http://www.bloomberg.com/video/75400336/ It was a lot more serious than this Bravos show will be but they still probably manufactured some conflict to keep things engaging.
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What if each student performed two standard deviations better?(abiekatz.com)
3 points by abiekatz 15y ago|0 comments
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by abiekatz 15y ago
There are many different groups in Silicon Valley with varying levels of overlaps.
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by abiekatz 15y ago
It is still there... http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/startups/office-space
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by abiekatz 15y ago
pg, I think you are a good speaker. Not in the classic motivational speaker sense but you do speak with conviction and have a unique voice...both literally and in what you say. You are one of the few authors that I literally have your voice
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by abiekatz 15y ago
I really like the list of VC blogs here: http://larrycheng.com/2011/01/19/venture-capital-vc-blog-dir... They are ranked by the number of page views which is a decent proxy for quality.

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