tylerhwillis

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by tylerhwillis 11y ago
Check out http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/baxter/
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by tylerhwillis 11y ago
May not be a helpful comment, but investing in the US as a non-citizen is surprisingly easy. I have several investors from outside the US and they mock my US based investors who have more hoops to jump through. The USG doesn't feel lik
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by tylerhwillis 13y ago
I share a lot of the sentiment here, but I also think our generation is conditioned from a decade of hearing about all the newsworthy corner cases. As an example: cops don't always make it worse, 95+% of the time they are helpful and c
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by tylerhwillis 13y ago
Upvoted because this sounded interesting: "Our idea is simple - that anyone on your team should be able to use any iteration of your app or website with zero configuration. Awesomebox lets you create and collaborate like you would in t
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by tylerhwillis 13y ago
Has anyone ever tried something like this? Seems like an interesting way to get a good domain for an early stage venture (pay a high but not crazy monthly with an option to buy in a year). However, this seems to have few "brand" d
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Buy or Rent domain names(mark.com)
1 points by tylerhwillis 13y ago|1 comments
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by tylerhwillis 13y ago
It seems hard to use emotional arguments against logical decisions, and vice versa. Given that their initial decision was emotional ("I want to build something my mom will use!") it seems likely that an emotional counter-argument
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by tylerhwillis 13y ago
Applaud the effort, despite the data problems. In its current state I consider it more interesting than useful, but future versions could clearly be massively useful. One thought: since many reg d filings are purposefully delayed by 1-2 mon
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by tylerhwillis 13y ago
PG has always been in favor of "ramen profitability." I've never heard him disparage revenue or think having it is indicative of being a small company.
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by tylerhwillis 14y ago
>do women get raped more than men (not in USA) This is very wrong. The link you provide in the original comment is for violent crimes (including rape), not for rape alone. There is little doubt that women are more likely to be raped in
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by tylerhwillis 14y ago
+1, an incredibly important point. Feeling detached/disconnected from the world is one cause of depression. Feeling disconnected is a logical outcome of changing everything about your life all at once. Changing habits/attitudes/etc. is impo
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by tylerhwillis 14y ago
Good to see some of these firms get some good PR, but the metric they are judging by is number of companies in their portfolio that were acquired (IPOs aren't included). That's going to heavily favor funds that do lots of deals, and doesn
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by tylerhwillis 14y ago
I really like this thank you page. Welcome to the team guys!
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Time Is Running Out, Will App.Net Get Funded?(bigthink.com)
13 points by tylerhwillis 14y ago|5 comments
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by tylerhwillis 15y ago
Did you do anything to drive people to your profile, even initially? Even on the web, where search is more relevant than on discovery driven social networks, it's very hard to capture even small amounts of interest just by creating a site.
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by tylerhwillis 15y ago
he said "Nowadays" - your link is 1+ year old.
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User Acquisition(bigthink.com)
3 points by tylerhwillis 15y ago|0 comments
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Developers Guide to Whitespace - Apple Targets Popular iOS Apps(bigthink.com)
1 points by tylerhwillis 15y ago|0 comments
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Techstars is awesome Y Combinator is Great(waffleopolis.tumblr.com)
7 points by tylerhwillis 15y ago|0 comments
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by tylerhwillis 15y ago
Elon Musk is not Kennedy. His default style of speech is less political and usually not aimed at inspiration. You can draw no inferences about his confidence from this comparison. What you could take from this comparison, if you were so in
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by tylerhwillis 15y ago
From the linked article above: "Flips now represent an astonishing 35 percent of the camcorder market. They’re the No. 1 bestselling camcorder on Amazon. They’re still selling fast."
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by tylerhwillis 15y ago
Both technical folks and business folks both have value that exist on a slider, and their value increases with experience. Judge anyone you want to work with on what you think they can do now, how much / how fast they can grow, and how in s
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by tylerhwillis 15y ago
I couldn't agree more, it's not like that all the time, but far too often, the business co-founder isn't really bringing much to the table. Love the summary of your experience and conclusion :) That said, I think we should be quick to reali
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A note about "Business Guy seeking Technical Co-Founder(bigthink.com)
11 points by tylerhwillis 15y ago|7 comments
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by tylerhwillis 15y ago
I'd rephrase this: "For an audience interested in technology, signal is highly concentrated in the early adopters of any publishing technology" Or, more generalized: "For any consumer, signal is highly concentrated in the publishers who sha
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by tylerhwillis 16y ago
This (i think) would increase implementation difficulty. While the walkthrough on "how to use it" at the front end would be an easier on-boarding process, but the complexity of figuring out what unit "more dropbox" was in most sales wouldn'
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by tylerhwillis 16y ago
I've just started playing with it -- so far pretty nifty alternative. - integration with Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter/Gmail - sends you a daily email reminder of birthdays, info on your meetings that day, contacts you should hit up, people who
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Connected is a Personal CRM, similar to eTacts (from the Anywhere.FM founder)(connectedhq.com)
7 points by tylerhwillis 16y ago|2 comments
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by tylerhwillis 16y ago
He brings up a fantastic point on the willingness of customers to spend money. It seems iPhone users spend much more on apps than android users (anyone have data to confirm?). That said, it seems to me like this isn't just app discoverabili
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by tylerhwillis 16y ago
That seems like a bad precedent that could harm some apps that create a lot of value. It also seems like if they are applying that rule it might be subjective -- I can think of three off the top of my head that are still in the app store: -

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