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The supplementary exercises to Baby Rudin I personally used to really understand real analysis. The other materials look great but unfortunately I haven't had time to work study an…

I didn't really understand, why didn't AirCover just kick in already?

Great article. One of the better ones on the demise of Moxion Power. The other articles fail to really address what caused the company to fail. I will add some details from my pers…

Update: shutting down https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/moxion-power-shutdown-la...

Another pitfall was not staying scrappy. The company was incredibly hierarchical and a bit top heavy, with dozens of directors and VPs. A lot of people hired based on mere "backgro…

Thanks for bringing up some counterexamples. I want to point out that while Uber and Facebook raised massive amounts, they used the original capital effectively enough to produce b…

Not my first startup experience. But definitely my first "typical blowup". The last startup I worked at the founders were probably too conservative, we never got past 5 employees a…

Founded by Alex Meek, Alex Smith, Jed Mickle, Paul Huelskamp, Moxion Power manufactures portable battery energy storage systems, meant to replace diesel powered generators in a wid…