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I Took Money from a VC (sing to Mike Posner's 'I Took a Pill in Ibiza')
2 points by shopinterest 11y ago|0 comments
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by shopinterest 11y ago
It all depends, tech/developer vs BD/Marketing - Have experienced the up/down too of the Bay Area, and sometimes it takes months to get back in the saddle. Everyone wants the perfect employee, ready to go, nothing to train, K
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by shopinterest 11y ago
When was the last time free market economics 'sorted out' anything? I'd like to know. Interesting to me that despite our comments that you've read, your initial blog remains unchanged or has any mentions of this feedbac
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by shopinterest 11y ago
The larger issue is this, the AdBlockers block 'independent ads, served via third party services via web' Ad blockers won't block Google Ads via Android or iOS ads in their new "news" apps. Nor it will block Faceboo
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Weird. We are in the same wavelength right now: Just came from seeing the 'Everest' movie based on this incident I did read both the original article you are looking for, (not online) and the book. I also watched the 2 seasons of
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Startups failing =! Cautious VCs but whatever is good for the clicks...
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Uhhhh, the usual, restless sleep, wake up at 7am, check email, check bank account balance, silent panic, cold sweats, yesterday's coffee, 2 days ago Pizza, a few dozen rejection emails from assorted VCs and angels, listen to cofounder
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by shopinterest 11y ago
True Story - Missing are the rent prices that eat 70% of your paycheck plus having 4 roommates on a 1 bedroom apt and the fact that every and any food you can think of is already served as a $14 burrito here.
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by shopinterest 11y ago
OK, one of my titles was Global Head of Freemium Channel, so here is my take: 1)I've never seen a freemium business reach above 15% paid users from total active base - if your economics cannot support this for a long time, get out righ
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by shopinterest 11y ago
500Startups' fund "500Luchadores" would be the closest one in Mexico, their fund for new ventures was recently 'completed' (read: depleted) so this is a good time if you want to invest on seed stage. Series A and be
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Excellent analysis. This thing is basically a deal with the devil. Get the VPN and content you want and 'sell your device' soul to Hola and whatever they want to do with it. Maybe just get Popcorn Time instead.
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Jeebus dude, why exactly you need 3-6 months to get your photos from a service you didn't use often enough? AWS cost real money. How long of a warning do you need to exit a service? A year?
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by shopinterest 11y ago
As you said there has been a few tries but usually tied to the lender. Lenders like 'Prosper' and others use other criteria to make the credit decision (social contacts, other bill payments, etc...) There are several FICO scores f
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by shopinterest 11y ago
But how do we save that web? I want to - can't think of how but want to help.
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Based on this, then everyone is an expert now, all you need is an opinion and an URL. So a random 19 year old's opinion is as valuable as an expert? Practically, of course not, but your arguments is that online, it doesn't matter.
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by shopinterest 11y ago
I love the Awl, Splitsider, Billfold et al... But the Media Apocalypse is no Joke - The Dissolve is gone - and ViralNova is acquired for $100MM - WTF? It seems content for brainy, niche audiences will not survive due to low scale. Unfortuna
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by shopinterest 11y ago
No, some of us are dumb as shit. Bell curves don't lie son!
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by shopinterest 11y ago
The older the company, the less they like it. Loyalty in some places will replace skill... Even when a VP asked me about my 6 jobs in 10 years, I replied: 'same as you, been working at a lot of startups'...although I dont think th
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by shopinterest 11y ago
The other mental block is that people somehow trust/prefer 'randomness' vs. determined outcomes from a machine. But it shouldn't be so. E.g. with people-driven cars, when an accident happens (lets say 1 passenger, 1 driv
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Bin Ladin's been coding! No bitcoin books? No RoR? Dreamweaver is old school.
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by shopinterest 11y ago
I name all my Hard Drives after Battlestar Galactica Ships - I have: 1TB 27" iMac - Galactica/ 4TB NAS - Pegasus/ 500GB MacBook - Colonial One/ 500GB External - Majahual/ 250GB External - Cloud 9/ 16GB USB - De
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by shopinterest 11y ago
I thought the Knight Foundation was working on highly intelligent Drone Auto Vehicles with AI - Project KITT and a mysterious guy called Michael Knight, no?
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Agreed & True - and when you lose the faith on the system, its very tough. Its like being an Atheist living and working at the Vatican...
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Another sub-species is the organization that does nothing but get inactive VCs/Angels to small events and charge founders $20-$50 to attend and $100-$500 for 'a table' for the company Names like Lifograph (aka Cofounder Club)
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by shopinterest 11y ago
Loved the article - VCs and investing is indeed an approach where you want the future to be 'X', so for that, in the present you want to do 'Y' at 'Z' costs. In essence, we are doing exactly what this describes
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by shopinterest 12y ago
Dunno for YCombinator, but 500startups (USA-Mountain View) has had already 4-6 startups founded by Mexicans (and a Mexican-cum-american, wait, that's me) You don't need to come to Silicon Valley for an accelerator, 500startups Mex
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by shopinterest 12y ago
Basic info is basic. (I've done this for 10 years at least) And yes, it works - Not everybody uses email the same way, nor everyone thinks is offensive to get messages. Yes, people unsubscribe at every email sent, and still, the majori
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by shopinterest 12y ago
"Jonathan Benassaya, the exuberant French founder of StreamNation, bristled at any suggestion that the 250 million photos stored on Picturelife are at risk. "I’m leading this company with my heart," he says. "And I take
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by shopinterest 12y ago
Slow news day for sure - VW didn't even have a Phaeton at NAIAS.
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by shopinterest 12y ago
Brilliant! I met them all. You forgot a few new ones: - Incubator partner/recruiter -> Like a vampire, only the blood of virgin startups attracts these folks. - Tech event organizer -> Recruits the same 5-6 VC and angels for 3-4

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