quique

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by quique 13y ago
First off as a rule of thumb, I generally avoid talking about people. In the rare case I do, it's only if I've had significant experience with them. As an operating partner with Khosla Ventures for the past two years, below are a
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by quique 15y ago
Wrote a brief response here: http://enriqueallen.tumblr.com/post/14480645124/design-both-... Here's a couple excerpts: “Focus on value creation. Design enhances value, it does not create it.” This statement represents the core contradicti
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by quique 15y ago
Wrote a brief response here: http://enriqueallen.tumblr.com/post/14480645124/design-both-... Here's a couple excerpts: “Focus on value creation. Design enhances value, it does not create it.” This statement represents the core contradict
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by quique 15y ago
I used the word "with" and didn't say they created it by themselves, obviously it takes a lot of people... Part of the gist is encouraging designers to believe they can and therefore try, hopefully in collaboration, especially since talent
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by quique 15y ago
We've been repeatedly explicit about NOT being divisive... you see Larry or Mark or other folks getting celebrated and you don't see the design community getting mad...how many design students even know about Mitch or Chad let alone the gen
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by quique 15y ago
Yes I agree with your first sentence, that's the point we need more to designers to step up to the challenge...We didn't say what you quoted, we specifically say in order "billions worth of value created by tech startups with designer co-fo
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by quique 15y ago
Having a technical co-founder is nearly prerequisite at YC, AngelPad and with most later stage funds...so there's already been enough funds championing engineering and there's been countless essays written celebrating hackers and specific g
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by quique 15y ago
Agree see previous comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359246 Goes back to our goal to raise awareness about the existence of designer founders and their diverse backgrounds with data in a fun way that has never been done before
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by quique 15y ago
He's also Stanford HCI and when I talked to him last at WarmGun seems to be doing a lot of front end work too
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by quique 15y ago
https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-designer-fund/designer-fo... Will add a meatier FAQ
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by quique 15y ago
Went to go play soccer with engineers, designers and business folks as a team and come back to this...alas I guess you put out positive energy into the universe and it's natural to get negative too...why would you even say 'design is horses
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by quique 15y ago
we haven't been able to get a hold of Chris yet...google designer wrote him handwritten note though
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by quique 15y ago
Re: I dont think the value of start-ups with a design co-founder gives us much more value than saying, designers are very beneficial for a product-oriented startup. That's the simple point, you got it, we're saying yes they can be very bene
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by quique 15y ago
We were also pretty intentional about not really using the word 'success' too
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by quique 15y ago
"Anyone who makes a decision about how the product should be is a designer. Designer is a role, not a person. Almost every developer on a team makes some decision about how the product will be, just through the act of creating the product.
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by quique 15y ago
generally not users fault, so our bad in type still
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by quique 15y ago
I hear you...this is only our first visualization (will probably do next one on a timeline etc, so you're point about league isn't really an issue)...this first piece is more about highlighting case studies we're examining (mega success and
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by quique 15y ago
Of course they're on there! think you prob missed them...
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by quique 15y ago
doh! our bad will fix
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by quique 15y ago
Re #1 got it, agree all founders should but great designers should be amazing at understanding human needs that's what they should be trained in and one of their primary jobs to focus on, hear a lot about empathy, so hopefully a designer co
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by quique 15y ago
Great point, that's a whole other discussion about what makes a 'great product person', that's almost more of a opaque term...
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by quique 15y ago
You can go to school or be self taught... definitely, 'designer' is more like a mindset and skillset that you have to have the confidence/respect to own(you can be a developer, designer, business person all in one but very rare you can be g
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by quique 15y ago
1) We acknowledge the outliers like Lotus and YouTube, at least others have been life changing even if it wasn't billion dollar exits 2) Did you read previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358703 Public data that was avail
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by quique 15y ago
Yeah sorry the article layout is actually sloppy, bad design, poor readability...will work on making more persuasive, data full examples in future and appreciate your candid feedback...but here were a couple assertions: -First, as the the c
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by quique 15y ago
Of course, stats 101...We put caveats below the infographic: -we're not making the claim that tech startups with designer founders are statistically better in some way, instead we are highlighting interesting case studies to explore further
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by quique 15y ago
We posed a "?"...our goal is to increasingly focus on impact: would love to show profit and positive social externalities... I hear you that it's frothy and too many me-too things going on that are targeting the tip of Maslow's hiearchy for
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by quique 15y ago
Public data that was available to use as 'proxies'/indicators of value: User base, company size, funding, and acquisition amount...of course we'd like to show profit...a couple companies like Blurb submitted profit eg revenue 58M in 2010
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by quique 15y ago
For sure, it's about a critical mass of engineering, design and business skill...it's a constant re-balancing act as you iterate
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by quique 15y ago
Did you read below the infographic? We laid out some reasoning...long story short it's about collaboration and multi-disciplinary skills necessary to ship, titles are actually not that important... Have you read the software design manifest
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by quique 15y ago
Yeah lot of data private but working on surfacing as much as possible...wish we could do profit filter of course... main point is to showcase case studies for further exploration

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