crunkykd

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by crunkykd 2y ago
IronSource & WETA acquisitions may have been expensive mistakes
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by crunkykd 2y ago
hack: do a startup only after you already have living money assured (savings from earlier corporate jobs, now invested & producing). you have time & energy, and no obligations.
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by crunkykd 3y ago
now do Ironsource ($4.4B)
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by crunkykd 3y ago
pure speculation: ChatGPT training dataset contains massive amounts of copyrighted material, and he told the board it didn't. now there's a big looming liability.
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by crunkykd 3y ago
spending $4B for ironsource ads and $1B for weta authoring stuff was expensive and took lots of their more indie-friendly choices off the table. maybe the ipo path they took made these things inevitable. anyways, their choices are behind th
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by crunkykd 3y ago
I still use Palm Desktop (c1996)
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by crunkykd 3y ago
I remember getting a Lafayette 3-pickup electric guitar and building a Heathkit guitar amplifier. That thing had a dual-spring reverb too. I got a 4x12" speaker cabinet with Celstion speakers from the newspaper classifieds for $75. Tha
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by crunkykd 5y ago
used their soaps for years. dilute it with water and use in foaming pump dispensers for hand soap - super economical. use it to wash dishes versus using name-brand detergents (soap is soap). love their camp at burningman. their heart's
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by crunkykd 5y ago
There's putting in tons of hours of effort to uncover an answer. There's knowing all the ways that didn't work before and why, and then knowing where to look for an answer. Certainly depends on the field, but choose which way
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by crunkykd 6y ago
Still waiting for the Octave equivalent for Matlab's Simulink. I'd drop Matlab for good if that appeared.
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by crunkykd 7y ago
Ive is a great soldier, but Jobs knew which battles to fight. Apple has lost its way and doesn't know what directions to go in, where technology needs to move to serve its users. And Apple's huge money chest and insularity are of
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by crunkykd 8y ago
Consumer DNA sequencing to get personalized nutritional, exercise, pharmaceuticals, and medical preventative monitoring advice will become commonplace.
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by crunkykd 8y ago
At the risk of offending some folks, let me offer some conclusions based on living near the Waymo facilities for 4+ years. Their autonomous cars are already driving better than about 30% of the licensed people on the road in my town.
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by crunkykd 8y ago
Man, she sounds like she hates her life. That truly sucks. My advice is to get to Burning Man. She needs to see another way of defining value in herself and others.
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by crunkykd 8y ago
Never a big believer in energy over ultrasound. Maybe for low amounts of power it could work. But so could power beamed over IR lasers into photovoltaic patches. And lasers would work better.
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by crunkykd 8y ago
A great approach to find a good opportunity is to look at the failed business ideas of 10 years ago. The reasons they failed back then may not be valid today because of 10 years of tech progress.
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Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey Hospitalized(journal.burningman.org)
2 points by crunkykd 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunkykd 9y ago
--- putting the "dead" back into "deadlock"
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by crunkykd 9y ago
Eye see what you're looking at, their vision has blurred, and putting on blinders or rose-colored glasses won't alter that view.
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by crunkykd 9y ago
VR would be nice for shut-ins (infirm, imprisoned, remote, etc) to vector somewhere else.
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by crunkykd 9y ago
Strip & Flip Bain loads their acquisitions up with debt to pay themselves off, and then runs for the hills. Like with Toys-R-Us now going bankrupt. Recall Mitt Romney was CEO of Bain. This is the GOP business modus operandi.
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by crunkykd 9y ago
Creativity comes in various flavors - exploiting the latest technical advances into something new. Favors recent academic grads ==> youth - ideas that require lots of hours of work to create ==> youth with more energy and productive w
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by crunkykd 9y ago
Two aspects: performance and content. For performance I concur with the other folks advice here to practice a lot. For content I recommend reading Story - by Robert McKee. There's lots of knowledge on how to hold an audience's att
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by crunkykd 9y ago
Depending on the industry, there is a tendency to hire founders of a certain age group. Certain industries like mfg and international trade favor older founders who have acquired knowledge and widespread contacts over decades. Other industr
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by crunkykd 11y ago
I think IMAX achieved a counter-effect of people actually realizing that a VR headset would have a widescreen field of view larger than IMAX could ever have. It's only a matter of time until the big screen, highly immersive theater exp
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by crunkykd 12y ago
Shameless self-promotion of a high-tech solar charger I've been working on for a year. Just went live today. It's got all the best ideas around solar gathered into a single box.
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Togo Solar Connected Solar Charger(kickstarter.com)
2 points by crunkykd 12y ago|1 comments
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by crunkykd 13y ago
Wow, he's the real deal looking out for the entrepreneurs. Kinda reflects badly on the other sharks that they weren't agitating to end the Finnmax abusive equity grab too. I concur that a better class of startups can now show up,
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by crunkykd 13y ago
It's like the Twitter version of Angellist. You can do text filtering on whatever keywords you are looking for. Unlike Angellist, you don't have to wade through lots of links and documents.