ryan

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by ryan 4y ago
My protocol is: 1) clear your mind 2) prime your mind 3) flow your truth 1. Clear your mind Spend 30 minutes meditating, preferably first thing when you wake up. Pick something that works for you. A simple practice: • Allow whatever happens
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A Google Glass App That Would Be Hard for Even the Haters to Hate(recode.net)
4 points by ryan 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryan 13y ago
And then you realize the dust is made of stars...
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by ryan 13y ago
I like the simple/clean UI
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by ryan 14y ago
If you have a green card you can avoid this by signing up for Global Entry[1]. Then you can avoid customs lines and just swipe your card at the kiosk - enter the country without ever talking to anyone. As an extra benefit the kiosk is alw
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by ryan 14y ago
I love the concept of living in the future. I recently read the biography of Dan Raymer, a well-known aerospace designer, which was appropriately titled 'Living in the Future'[1]. This is because for most of his career he had been working
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by ryan 14y ago
You seem to have the premise that materialism is incontrovertibly bad?
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by ryan 14y ago
In this video Elon states he came up with his idea for an electric plane at Burning Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s_3b5fRd8#t=20m19s
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by ryan 14y ago
They are probably 'smoke testing' whether it's worthwhile to spend the effort making a video, based on the percentage of people that try to play it.
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Kaleidoscope (YC W11) launches on iPhone(mashable.com)
7 points by ryan 14y ago|0 comments
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Can we hack fashion? Inporia (YC W11) thinks so
1 points by ryan 15y ago
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by ryan 15y ago
Like any sector that hasn't been totally disrupted yet, it's inevitable that technology will change the game. But subject matter expertise and relationships do matter a lot (especially in fashion) so we brought on a director of biz dev who'
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by ryan 15y ago
Thanks pg & jessica for getting me out to NY for YCNYC. It's been onwards and upwards since then :)
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by ryan 15y ago
Garry and Aaron are both awesome, excellent move. Congrats guys.
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by ryan 16y ago
I think you're generally right. If you can dominate a market in Australia you may end up being just as good a business as if you are one of ten players in the US market. Spreets was first to market in Australia, but unfortunately many othe
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by ryan 16y ago
It's a pretty good model if your strength is in execution (i.e. you have a good team and can launch and grow something quickly). If you are more passionate about innovation and coming up with new things, you might not find this model fulfi
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by ryan 16y ago
The product was already live in Sydney before they raised money. They quickly expanded to other cities after raising.
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by ryan 16y ago
Generally not in either party's interest to leak (unless it's a negotiation tactic). But unfortunately when you are closing a sale there are a bunch of people you have to talk to (investors, lawyers, accountants etc) and it only takes one
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Acquisitions: Pulling Back the Covers(blog.500startups.com)
4 points by ryan 16y ago|0 comments
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by ryan 16y ago
Maybe if she was pointing out facts, but this strikes me as an opinion piece and I have a hard time reading this particular opinion unless the author is actually practicing what she preaches. FWIW I tend to agree with the opinion. I don't k
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by ryan 16y ago
I find it really difficult to read such an argument (whether I agree with it or not), if it doesn't come from someone who is actually out there trying to solve these problems himself or herself. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man
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Acquisitions: Pulling Back the Covers(blog.500startups.com)
4 points by ryan 16y ago|1 comments
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by ryan 16y ago
Good point, I'll add hackers and founders to the list. Feel free to copy/paste my post into a wiki somewhere
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by ryan 16y ago
After watching this, I spent an hour browsing around google maps in the area I grew up. Brings back lots of memories :) It's amazing how far technology has come in 20 years. Gives a very different perspective seeing an area from up above.
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by ryan 16y ago
no it was all downhill after teaching first year cs really :)
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by ryan 16y ago
I've been through it with YouTube, drop me an email if you have specific questions. I'd love to be able to share our story with everyone, but we are bound by confidentiality agreements. I couldn't even tell my friends what was going on unt
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by ryan 16y ago
There is a movement towards reproducibility and open code/data in academic publications. A friend of mine, Victoria Stodden, has dedicated her career to this. See http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Talks.html for her talks on the subject and h
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by ryan 17y ago
Yes I attended the previous event and met some interesting entrepreneurs
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280 North (YC Winter 08) speaks at FOWA(cappuccino.org)
23 points by ryan 18y ago|9 comments
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Popcuts (YC summer 08) on CNN.com(cnn.com)
29 points by ryan 18y ago|4 comments

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