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if there were a list of people in the world ranked by who gets the weirdest emails, I bet I'd be in the top 0.01%
"Y Combinator is freaking huge like a dinasaur, infact very much resembles the grass eating Sauropods": http://www.appsbi.com/y-combinator-companies-has-more-funding-than-the-sum-total-of-all-remaining-accelerators …
"buy stock in public companies whose products you love and sell them if that changes" has been a great strategy for me
.@NickSchulze not if it were just making money, and if you really love an idea you should do it. but high impact work generally v fulfilling
.@sebinsua and very likely will make more money too--most of the time you get paid in rough proportion to the value you create
.@sebinsua the first 100 employees of Facebook or spacex very likely had more impact in the world than if they started a company
.@JonathanAbrams true, but many are aware that they're passing on the oppty to join a rocketship and that the odds are against starting one
(though @moskov covered this with some example numbers and i think it really got people thinking)
one thing i wish all potential founders understood: it's better for you to work at a great startup than start a mediocre one
engineering the gene pool of a startup by @vkhosla: http://www.khoslaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/Gene_Pool_Engineering.pdf …
incredibly grateful for how much time YC alumni spend reviewing applications. we couldn't get through them all without their help.
twice in the last month have heard a good VC pass because "it will probably make a lot of money but take a very long time"
i think if LPs focused on cash on cash return instead of IRR, they'd get GPs that think longer-term and make more money eventually
2) while ebola is very unlikely to be anything like the bubonic plague, viruses mutate, and these things are exponential when they happen
1) the bubonic plague killed 30-60% of the population in Europe: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death ….
How To Start a Startup, Lecture 8: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec08/ @justinkan @walkerteespring and @stanleytang
anyone have a current estimate for how much btc miners are spending per day?
just tried a product to sign a document via a private key and a blockchain. felt like the future, especially when i went back to paper sigs.
i've been to 3 coworking spaces in the past week, and they were all pretty much totally empty by 6 pm. is that standard?
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