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by tyang 11y ago
Great points, thank you.
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by tyang 11y ago
Sometimes I wonder if "Make something people want" could be even better if it were "Make something you and other people want".
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by tyang 11y ago
Exactly. $1.7M premoney valuation and a chance to get advice from PG and others who have helped 6 unicorns come about and, per @sama, 22 others who can get there is pretty darn good, IMO.
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by tyang 11y ago
A third possibility is investors are lemmings and are too stupid to understand the unique insight you have into a big market. As an investor who thought Instacart, Uber and BufferBox were really stupid ideas and missed a chance to invest i
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by tyang 11y ago
Good post Brandon. imjk - Not sure Brandon chose the title. Usually the editors do that.
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by tyang 12y ago
This is basically what Warren Buffett does w/r/t Berkshire's portfolio cos. Though he invests less in frothy times and more in times of pessimism. But he's bottoms up too.
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by tyang 12y ago
Great and the back of this hoodie should have the back of the unicorn, with a rainbow coming out of the derriere.
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by tyang 12y ago
Great headlines for TMZ crowd.
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by tyang 12y ago
Not for everyone. Look at Yelp and Wikipedia.
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by tyang 12y ago
That's a good idea. Hope Larry considers it.
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by tyang 12y ago
None of which are being used to deliver quality news much note concisely at low cost.
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by tyang 12y ago
Quora and Yelp are for profit.
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by tyang 12y ago
Cool idea worth testing.
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by tyang 12y ago
Yeah, crazy right? Folks already contributing hundreds of hours for free for some time. I can't imagine someone doing free work and writing, ranking restaurant reviews, editing, citing, writing pieces of encyclopedia entrees or electi
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by tyang 12y ago
Exactly.
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by tyang 12y ago
Cool stuff. Best of luck to you.
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by tyang 12y ago
Sounds like you haven't read the quick summary on Infobitt just yet. http://infobitt.com/category/about-infobitt/b/5762
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by tyang 12y ago
Yes. Also, techmeme.
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by tyang 12y ago
Google News' strength is ranking, not summarizing facts from different sources so you can avoid reading all the top 5 or 20 articles about a story. And, philosophically, do you HN folks really want to rely on the MSM to tell you what&#
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by tyang 12y ago
Yes. The design is far from perfect. This is just a beta version. For me, it's already a pretty good way to catch up on the main news fast. I can pick one bitt and learn some key facts and move on. Fast, easy, good enough. Much faster
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by tyang 12y ago
Google News rankings are good and getting better. Issue is these other news aggregators just link you to articles that may be the best individual source. And you have to waste time reading an article instead of just getting the key news fac
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by tyang 12y ago
Some readers of The Information, The Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg terminal owners, The New York Times. And you can have conferences like TechCrunch.
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by tyang 12y ago
Are you at 1000 articles? How's your burn rate?
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by tyang 12y ago
The beatings will continue until Wikinews makes something people want
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by tyang 12y ago
Exactly.
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by tyang 12y ago
Did you even read this? http://infobitt.com/category/about-infobitt/b/5762
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by tyang 12y ago
Yes, it's very harmful to divert all the effort everyone's apparently (not) giving to WikiNews to a different project that actually might succeed in dealing with information overload, starting with front page news.
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by tyang 12y ago
Maybe edit the Wikipedia entry?
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by tyang 12y ago
Larry came up with the idea for Wikipedia and was the community manager in Wikipedia's vulnerable early days. Let's help him create a 2nd top ten website instead of being another HN troll criticizing bravely on the Internet.
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by tyang 12y ago
Maybe the key use case initially is to keep charged things like remote controls, sensors, other Internet of Things.

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