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by nabeel 10y ago
Except it was not leaked by Postmates. Full stop. On the broader subject, even if numbers are quite good, there are many reasons why private companies do not want this data to be out in public. Any investor who needs to see the data on Post
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by nabeel 11y ago
It is entirely fabricated. The team have never conducted themselves that way. Sad this was posted.
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by nabeel 11y ago
This is generally true, most VCs are afraid of things that have strong technical risk. But the point of the post is that starting a few years ago some VCs are finally catching up to founders on this. YC, Lux Capital, AH, Khosla, and of cour
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by nabeel 11y ago
Except that article is dead wrong. The court decisions were a convenient scapegoat that had nothing to do with the shutdown whatsoever.
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by nabeel 13y ago
i've spent well over an hour in the latest prototype with no sickness, and in the dev units I can last 5 minutes tops.
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by nabeel 13y ago
Palmer choose Brendan as his partner to help transform Oculus from a project into co-founding a company because they wanted to work together. To characterize him as an "investor" seems strange since he is an entrepreneur. And suff
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Where "Moneyball VC" won't work(nabeelhyatt.com)
6 points by nabeel 13y ago|0 comments
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The Effect of a Down Round on Your Team(nabeelhyatt.com)
1 points by nabeel 13y ago|0 comments
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by nabeel 13y ago
That is of course exactly what Startups do today. And it feels unfortunate. "Wait, you have me cash just to spend it on your legal bill?"
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by nabeel 13y ago
Well put pg. It isn't that the money was that material, it just felt wrong and petty that it was being done in the first place so we wanted to fix it. Just feels silly we didn't do it a lot sooner.
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Why Jason Jacobs started Runkeeper (Bijan Sabet)(bijansabet.com)
1 points by nabeel 14y ago|0 comments
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Watching your competitors release "your" features(nabeelhyatt.com)
2 points by nabeel 14y ago|0 comments
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by nabeel 14y ago
no, they are definitely not going to all be big businesses. for every Zynga there are plenty of RockYou's (or Free Gifts) that grow but never turn into sustainable businesses. but the point is that the conditions that allow companies to gro
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What’s With All the Hyper-Growth Startups?(pandodaily.com)
3 points by nabeel 14y ago|2 comments
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by nabeel 14y ago
I like your core point. If you aren’t building something of value, then the press doesn’t matter you won’t last anyway. But the “90% of Techcrunch companies are gone in 6 months” stat is just wrong. I don’t know who this Dreamit guy is, but
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PHP Resources(nsslive.net)
1 points by nabeel 17y ago|0 comments
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by nabeel 17y ago
37signals seems to like this topic.. The last time they sounded off on why half-assing it is a good idea, I reacted just as viscerally as this post. Since they did a redux, I will too: http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/130164127/instead-of-watch
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by nabeel 17y ago
Yeah, the data was just software companies. So no Apple, Nokia. They also didn't have Google or Yahoo, which was unfortunate. Still, in terms of top 100 software companies, it's a valuable sample.
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by nabeel 17y ago
This was starting with the premise of "success" -- let's assume it's a world class idea and hits $50m in revenue, goes public, and becomes one of the top 100 software companies in the world (in terms of capitalization). How long does that k
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by nabeel 17y ago
Hi. Nabeel here. To be clear this should not be thought of as conclusive academic analysis. These were just interesting indicators that I found. I was using the data that was available from the article linked, which means it's the largest 1
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by nabeel 17y ago
"The pressure for a startup to go towards conventional wisdom is intense" is probably what I should have headlined this article as.
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by nabeel 18y ago
As someone else mentioned, both David Cohen and Brad Feld have a history in Boston, it's where they got their start (as it has been for many others thanks to MIT and Harvard). There was also a strong push for quite a while from the Boston a
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by nabeel 18y ago
I'm in Huron village, and it's about as suburbia as I can stand. But, hey, to each his own. Not to worry about Boston, there's actually an interesting announcement that will help fill the YC gap that is coming in the next 60 days.
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by nabeel 18y ago
good to hear you guys are sticking around for a little bit.
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by nabeel 18y ago
good article. but i may be biased. :)
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by nabeel 18y ago
The only place I've had that feeling that "education" was more important than knowledge in Cambridge was actually directly on the Harvard campus. But I completely agree. There are two strains of culture in Cambridge, "you should be smarter"
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by nabeel 18y ago
FYI, we are actually doing an event next Wed at the OpenCoffee Cambridge for co-founders. It's from 9-12pm at Andala's Coffee.
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Looking for a cofounder? Come to the new OpenCoffee Cambridge June 4th.(nabeel.typepad.com)
4 points by nabeel 18y ago|1 comments
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by nabeel 18y ago
It is the case that there is between 20-30% valuation that they typically need to invest. And yes, that does effect valuation math. However, there are of course plenty of other cases outside the "norm" a) A super hot company people will al
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Excitement versus Confidence(nabeel.typepad.com)
3 points by nabeel 19y ago|0 comments

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