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Great post! I think if a founder speaks to a small handful of VCs and/or other knowledgable startup people: they can get a good sense of how easy or difficult fundraising will be..…

I like Sam's line: "I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That’s such a difficult constraint we can’t ha…

Build something that people want and make it grow and things have a way of working out. Many VC firms actively monitor the top of app stores, angellist and ask what software their …

What are the key differences between Stellar and Ripple?

Interesting look into your fundraising process Jarrett. It's impossible to distinguish the impact that YC had on your second go around at fundraising versus the impressive progress…

What work is for an investor and an entrepreneur are quite different. As PG says entrepreneurs should "Live in the future, then build what’s missing." Investors allocate capital to…

Satoshi Nakamoto in February 2009: "In this sense, [Bitcoin]'s more typical of a precious metal. Instead of the supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermi…

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List any top ideas that you have. It is an interesting exercise to come up with startup ideas. Back in 2005 Fred Wilson said "Last year, when Brad and I were on the road raising ou…

Why not offer both options? Either take it at a predefined pace in line with academic semesters or at your own pace. Seems like it would be the best of both worlds.

Does anybody know when it will be possible to buy a self driving car and how much of a premium the cost will be?

This is part of why temp agencies and "talent resource" companies can exist. Trying to filter the ton of resumes and hire the right candidate off of craigslist.com can be quite the…

I find this post on the topic to be interesting: http://www.julesmaltz.com/post/3376586698/if-you-like-saas-t... I think if you don't have the sales rolodex to sell traditional ent…

Thanks I appreciate it. How does Game Closure do these things better than the many other HTML 5 based game development SDKs?

I have heard great things about Game Closure including that it speeds up development time, enhances game quality, and makes games run faster. Does anybody know what exactly makes t…

The textbook method to disrupt a market is through disruptive innovation. This is serving the very low end of a market with a solution that is just good enough and then moving up m…

I wonder if the "Thiel fellowship" model is a scalable form of education? Would some portion of bright young people benefit from pursuing their most ambitious idea for two years? I…

I feel like "ask hn" questions are very similar to a large portion of the initial content on quora and the initial communities were somewhat similar. I wonder if there is anything …

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I think another part of why people support (product-driven) projects last minute is that people are debating whether they want one. There is no consequence to wait for the last min…

Here's the text of Munger's speech: http://www.loschmanagement.com/Market%20Comment/Client%20Let... It is well worth a read.