philipDS

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Republic of Zaqistan (2012)(zaqart.com)
16 points by philipDS 7y ago|6 comments
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by philipDS 9y ago
Very impressive! Annual Run Rate is different from ARR though. Annual Run Rate is probably just taking one (or a few) months, and extrapolate that to a year. Still great progress for having raised to little though.
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Silicon Valley is Dead(medium.com)
9 points by philipDS 9y ago|0 comments
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by philipDS 9y ago
IMHO if your product and company works, you're in it for a long time. That means your co-founder should keep their motivation long-term as well. If your first sale happens within the next few months, I would keep a 50/50 split jus
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by philipDS 10y ago
Github has been down (or very slow) a lot the last few months. They used to have a good engineering reputation (at least with me), but it's been tough times over there.
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by philipDS 10y ago
We use our own tool internally ( https://www.intuo.io/ ). It works pretty well I'd say. What we do is basically: * Continuously give each other 360 feedback * Each manager does a monthly one-on-one with all of their team
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by philipDS 10y ago
I have been at meetups all around the world (Belgium, Madrid, SF, Barcelona, London)... and HN London is easily one of the highest quality ones I've been to. If you're in/around London and wanna meet some interesting people (
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Setting Up Cucumber.js and WebDriverIO to Test Your Single-Page Applications(nerds.intuo.io)
2 points by philipDS 10y ago|0 comments
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by philipDS 10y ago
I've been living in Barcelona on/off since 2013. I don't have a problem with the tourists. I do have a problem with drunk tourists who pee and shout in the streets at night. Very disrespectful. I completely understand the pro
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Republic of Zaqistan (2012)(zaqart.com)
2 points by philipDS 11y ago|0 comments
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by philipDS 11y ago
Why is Travis so bad? Ever tried CircleCI?
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by philipDS 11y ago
And a horrible climate in winter. If you're used to California weather, I wouldn't move to Sweden. It's like -20 in winter (celcius), plus it gets dark around 4 if you're lucky. Move to Spain. Probably the best place on
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by philipDS 11y ago
"And of course, there’s also the question of how Yik Yak will make money — as Crook joked, “don’t worry about the money” is something they say in Silicon Valley, but in New York they say “worry about the money” — a nod to the conferenc
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by philipDS 12y ago
Cool! If you're willing to share, what is the most popular site people download videos for? I was thinking NSFW sites as well, but you said they only account for 0.65%.
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by philipDS 12y ago
What do you mean income from some casinos? Are casinos downloading videos, or what does that traffic source look like?
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by philipDS 12y ago
Another alternative to Leanpub is Softcover ( https://www.softcover.io/ )
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by philipDS 12y ago
the total valuation of the YC portfolio is way higher. Dropbox alone raised money at at $10 billion valuation back in January of this year. Then you have some others like AirBnB, Stripe, Teespring etc.. They might be close to $20 billion no
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by philipDS 12y ago
Great story! I was in Madrid in 2011/2012 and met the founders at one of the Betabeers events. Very driven and resourceful guys.. one of the very few founders I personally was impressed with in Madrid. Congrats!
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by philipDS 12y ago
No, this can only be used on the YC app.
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by philipDS 12y ago
I don't know. I just keep them for my own and thought I'd share them cause they might be helpful to other people. Maybe you can add some Markdown to them and keep them in that format.
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by philipDS 12y ago
Some notes I made. Might include minor errors or misinterpretation on my side. -> how do you identify markets that are growing quickly? trust your instincts students: watch what you're doing or your friends are doing ->
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by philipDS 12y ago
I've felt the same way for a long time... and the only way to get over it is to practice. Buy a whiteboard and practice at home. Buy some books (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Edition-Thomas... and&
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by philipDS 12y ago
Yup, I think you're right. Thanks.
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by philipDS 12y ago
Feel free to share this! Also feel free to mention my handle/name/website :)
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by philipDS 12y ago
I made some notes while watching/listening. Might include minor errors or misinterpretation on my side 4 critical parts: Idea, Team, Product, Execution 1. Idea -> Good startups take about 10 years -> Startup should feel like an i
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by philipDS 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or on-site (full-time or part-time), based in SF and Belgium. I'm available for full-stack software development projects in Rails, ElasticSearch, iOS and JavaScript (Angular, jQuery). Experience with Linux devops,
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by philipDS 12y ago
Thanks! Gonna have a look at it now - seems like an interesting authentication scheme :)
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by philipDS 12y ago
Very interesting. I always thought of Ripple as semi-scam, but I can see Stellar become a thing (be huge, actually), backed by Stripe and hopefully others soon enough. Question.. how is the password used to decrypt the secret key? Which en
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by philipDS 12y ago
I would rather pay for this if you give me some more context on the journalist and the niches/types of startups they usually write about. $9 for just an email is pretty weak if I already have their name and company. :)
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MtGox Bitcoin update(mtgox.com)
8 points by philipDS 13y ago|0 comments

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