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Article explains the what but not a why…

Hmmm

Tangentially related, but this made me think of Aristotle's teachings on technology effectively as a "prosthesis" or non-biological way to evolve. Even back then, being able to rec…

+1, the issue here is not that errors can occur but instead how a company responds. It’s tough to be sympathetic to leaders in a company that were aware of the errors and then took…

I agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)

Is it Anglicized, or is it just using that Latin alphabet that some parts of former Yugoslavia employ (including Serbia and Croatia)?

Can you explain why you think they are not going to be forced to remain in “wartime?”

Which market cap? The one that was set by investors during the last round and has already been more than halved?

Great analogy.

But stackoverflow asked users to provide an email address for the gift card as part of the survey. Speaking from my past experience when running surveys like this at a startup, you…

I genuinely say this because I want to be helpful and not because I am trying to be snarky: Search past HN posts and even Google the topic. People have written a lot about this, an…

With IPO rumors existing for at least 4 years and a price under $2B, is this a good exit for the company’s leadership and employees? (Understanding that an exit is better than noth…

This is the standard HN effect. I also love when I think some startups are killing it based on what I read here; but then they end up shutting down soon after due to a lack of any …

While it is easy to say that it is hard to spot “genius,” it is also important to note that people grow and change over time. Maybe being called flaky influenced his growth down th…

Maybe we can think of it as everyone having a lottery ticket, but certain things can increase your odds. When it comes to startups, for example, VCs are often arguing that just bei…

When talking about wealth in our society (especially when it is tied up in real estate and other non-cash assets), things get a lot more complicated, especially when wealth can hel…

That's a fair point for some games, but even in games where the gambler has a positive expected value would have him/her go bust eventually when playing against someone with much, …

Not from the article, but this makes me think of something that we learned back in my college probability course: "wealth gravitates towards the wealthy." Even in fair games and si…

Would the package include both equity and pay? Do you have a link to your deck?

Agreed. The dominant strategy seems to be to undercut competitors until they are driven out of business, and then you can raise prices. However, raising prices then gives opportuni…

Nikola* Sorry for being picky about it, but I always think that we should respect people enough to spell their names correctly!

Great to see this pivot and new feature set -- it is definitely a tool that will be useful to a lot of early stage startups! Do you plan on adding any Excel support down the road?