freax

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by freax 18y ago
> but being an entrepreneur Means you need people who can actually do shit. If you need people with business experience then a program that connects you with investors makes perfect sense. Investors need people like her. Thus the
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by freax 18y ago
> but understand that many of the terms we use here that you might not be overly familiar with I was making fun of you. Why do you insist on being enduringly stupid? > I didn't actually say that "especially with women as soon a
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by freax 18y ago
> Are you thinking of this person Yes, apologies. I hardly got any sleep. Change "your" to "the" as in "the actual idiotic suggestion which I refuted" and the rest applies. But you actually thought I was talking about ducks. So we'
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by freax 18y ago
> Because having a family - nesting (it's a very common term, google it) Female college graduates are pushing back the age when they start families to historical highs, which puts lie to your claim that they start nesting right out of
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by freax 18y ago
That explains a lot more. They just raised most of it. But after $4.6 mil they don't even have a checkout system?!? Or search? Or customer service? Or even competitive wages?!?
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by freax 18y ago
I'm in the same boat! If I were an investor I certainly would invest in people of that caliber.
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by freax 18y ago
> Are you unfamiliar with it? Yeah, I totally thought you were talking about ducks! > Is it really idiotic to suggest that women are more likely to do handmade crafts than men? Now you're trying to change the subject. Your actua
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by freax 18y ago
Ruby was really slow prior to the latest version. It made Python look fast. It wasn't just Rails.
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by freax 18y ago
> doesn't necessarily make her a good bet as an entrepreneur, however amazingly talented she might be. Yes, yes it does make her a good bet . If you are betting , bet on people with immense talent and drive. Who else are you going
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by freax 18y ago
First off, I wouldn't recommend a high-protein, low carb diet. It's very hard on your internal organs. Kidney problems abound from all the protein waste processing. There are are some extremely effective substances you can use but they ar
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by freax 18y ago
> especially with women as soon as they graduate college and start nesting Nesting? What are they, ducks? As a feminist I'd like to say that's some pretty idiotic stereotyping. Female college graduates overwhelmingly enter the wor
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by freax 18y ago
> and the company makes money. The company loses money. Read it again. I'm not disparaging the business, I'm disparaging the business combined with the amount of funding. That's just ridiculous.
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by freax 18y ago
> and if people know the situation going in to the interview (which they clearly do) You do the interview. Then you get a phone call with a percentage mentioned and no negotiation allowed. You say yes or they claim you "failed an IQ
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by freax 18y ago
You have to judge the idea, not appeal to authority. Investors make mistakes most of the time ! > But what you probably have to consider is the size of the handmade craft market in the US. Then consider the entire world-wide market.
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by freax 18y ago
As a side note, this article made me check out the resume of the author of that essay it references. Started college at 12? Graduated at 17 with a double BS in CoSci and Physics? University Medal in CoSci? All sorts of scholarships and a
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by freax 18y ago
Don't count yourself out. It sounds so trite, but do you realize how often you already do it? Not just in start-ups, but everything: Do you not talk to that girl/boy because you don't want to bother them, or think they'll say no? If
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by freax 18y ago
F Me. $15 mil for adding tinsel to your MySpace? And "RockYou is lining up a new round of funding to stay sharp." . Etsy: $31.6 mil for a swapmeet just for handmade crafts . When people take that much buck for so little bang it doesn't
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by freax 18y ago
> But since we currently decide last, we're not pressuring anyone. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible, eh? And then there's the "accept immediately or you failed an IQ test" attitude. If you have a common date with t
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by freax 18y ago
Except these things can be empirically shown to be harmful. The "value" of playing EverCrack or WoW all day every day can destroy many other valuable things in your life. This is why addiction is considered a problem , not a value -- exc
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by freax 18y ago
> Last year when they made offers to groups that had also been invited to interviews with us, they tried to pressure them into accepting before they'd heard from us. I assume they'll do that again. That makes me mad, I admit. It seems
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by freax 18y ago
> what part of 'make something people want' contradicts creating value? Crack? Junk food? Time-wasting websites? People rarely act even in their own best interests.
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by freax 18y ago
Virgin ISP? Not with all the porn I've downloaded it isn't. Err now as for myself...
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by freax 18y ago
Well you got the century right.
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by freax 18y ago
> Apple had one of the most spectacular exits in history. Their IPO in 1976 was the biggest since Ford's. Amazing they managed to IPO before they even shipped the Apple II. ;) Haha, yesterday I was off by a year but today you're off b
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by freax 18y ago
I pray to pagan gods. I have this wall chart of all sorts of religions, and I move a game piece around it like a boardgame. Then whoever I'm on that day, I pray, like, "O great Yegbabo, deliver unto me a vision of a start-up idea." Then I
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by freax 18y ago
You need an exit strategy during sex too or there's going to be a merger and then an acquisition of your paycheck. You don't wanna be left holding the (diaper) bag. That's some life advice, boys, since some of y'all are going to be milliona
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by freax 18y ago
Gone? That presupposes they used to be there, but left. No, it's always been like this, modulo the foolhardy dot-com bubble. The thing is, there are two types of potentially successful start-ups. The first kind is start-ups that have the
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by freax 18y ago
I second its greatness but the name is all wrong! It's not only not hands-free, you also now have to use your arms, legs, jump in place, lean, twist... I didn't watch the whole thing because I don't want to know how they handle sex... sh
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by freax 18y ago
The MIT computer lab used to forgo passwords. If you wanted to dick with the system you could, so it removed the thrill of "breaking in". You could mess with other people's accounts but they could mess with yours, too. Kind of like how e
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by freax 18y ago
You need to take more risks, pg. You need to become... pg-13

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