kansando

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by kansando 15y ago
You seem to be implying that breaking up the VC cartel in Silicon valley with money that was potentially stolen from russian peasants maybe OK. I understand that Ycombinator companies need their $150K, but this seems contrary to Valley valu
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by kansando 16y ago
I came to the US 20 years ago too and in my experience, the wait-times are nothing like what my employees from Indian and China face. I got a PhD in 6 years, then applied for a GC 2 years into my job and got my GC within 1 year. The total t
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by kansando 16y ago
As a lapsed superconductivity physicist, I hate to burst the bubble. In the community there has been a long-standing joke about USOs, Unidentified Superconducting Objects, and it is well known that just because you see "Signs of Superconduc
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by kansando 17y ago
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Peter Thiel (Paypal), Mark Pincus (Zynga) I mean is this even a serious question?
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by kansando 17y ago
Right. And allow the economy to go into a long-term depression with 25%+ unemployment. A government "for the people" does not have a choice in this matter. The real problem is that bankers/speculators have so much power on the outcome for p
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by kansando 17y ago
Run like hell, Say no firmly and forever.
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by kansando 17y ago
It seems to me that the core dilemma in the AI community has always been - is intelligence a "systems" problem or is it a "general" problem. It seems people first tried a series of general approaches and did not make much progress. Now that
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by kansando 17y ago
Thank god for physicists.
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by kansando 17y ago
VCs are clearly exaggerating their contribution but it is easy to forget that they are the only long-term investors in the current financial system. Who else will commit to eight years of involvement with an unknown entity? Do they need to
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by kansando 17y ago
Yes, but some previously lousily governed countries like China and India have become much better options than they were even ten years ago. The goal is not to have "some kinds of immigrants", it is to have the best.
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by kansando 17y ago
On the 28th day - we crash.
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by kansando 17y ago
This article and all others on the topic seem to confuse two different trends: 1> That there is a real incentive for the very best to return to India and China because they are self-confident and know that they can thrive anywhere, and
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by kansando 17y ago
Autism is more complex than that. See for example http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=vitamin-d-a... . One of the big mysteries is that Somali immigrants to the US and Sweden have a much higher rate of autism than their native
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by kansando 18y ago
College is a place where you learn to learn, or should be...
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by kansando 18y ago
Yet another blah article generalizing about entire countries based on experiments done on 30 people at a time under lab conditions.Go NY Times.
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by kansando 18y ago
It goes back to the specialist vs. generalist question. An MBA experience will help you become more of a generalist, you will interact with people who are different from you and solve problems differently. It will also open up career option
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by kansando 18y ago
If you help them save money in a direct demonstrable way in a short period of time, you could have a shot. A good example is ITA software that powers the online pricing engines for a number of airlines as well as travel sites. They have gro
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by kansando 18y ago
Unfortunately all these discussions are too filled with obnoxious generalizations to be useful. In my experience good business people are rare and when you find them you should keep them. I am a science PhD with my own company and my first
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by kansando 19y ago
On 2, we are a company founded by a combination of CS/Physics people. We have found that pairing a physics person with a CS person leads to the best outcomes. I think you should emphasize the things you are good at (probably modeling and da
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by kansando 19y ago
You are right to ask for a precise definition. I mean the Fortune 5000. What you are describing (usually called the mid-market) definitely will be a play for Web X.0.
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by kansando 19y ago
Dump and run.
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by kansando 19y ago
When I was in grad school, I went through exactly what you are experiencing. My advisor sat down with me and said: "Take a month off. Go hang out with family and friends. Don't think about work. Eat well & exercise. Then we will talk."
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by kansando 19y ago
"Real innovation is one thing that that the current crop of enterprise software is largely missing." Based on what? You don't think virtualization is real innovation? Spend some time learning about Netezza, Endeca, ITA, BladeLogic, Scalent,
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by kansando 19y ago
And you think the people who started VMWare, ITA software, Akamai & Ab Initio were dumb, stupid, second-rate hackers? Obviously by your definition these were never a startup because people would have bought stuff from IBM anyway. Like a
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by kansando 19y ago
All Enterprise companies need sales forces. In a post SOX environment, you can't just get adoption by setting up a viral chain. Then there is the large subset of enterprise world which is infrastructure and that will never look like Web 2.0
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by kansando 19y ago
Do you have examples to back your assertion?
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by kansando 19y ago
I think PG and this group are too focused on Web 2.0 companies. So all his talk of superiority of the valley ecosystem is probably right in the consumer-web space. Boston stills kicks ass for enterprise software and biotech.Unfortunately yo
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by kansando 19y ago
Unfortunately his analysis is not right. He is confusing revenues with earnings. P/E of 60 is not the same as Price/Revenue of 60. If you are only doing $1M/month and your margins are say ~10%, you will end up with a value of $60M not $600M
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by kansando 19y ago
You know the Boston area VCs insist on replacing the founding CEOs. Are they nuts?