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    Comment #44898775

    For stars you can pull both the locations and times using the github api.

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    Comment #43410981

    This is incorrect. It's trivial to reverse engineer and use the imessage API and there's third party services which will give you access to it.

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    Comment #40454782

    Crunchbase is $100/month, it's probably the cheapest of all the products of the market. Should be easily affordable by the average startup founder

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    Comment #40452709

    The tweet + approach is probably sufficient to bring a lawsuit and get into discovery and then it'll come down to if there's a smoking gun documents (e.g. internal emails comparing…

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    Comment #40442927

    You can time the election for when you think it would be optimal for you. (e.g. a summer month will mean students will be at their parents which swings university cities more conse…

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    Comment #40365646

    Following IBM's acquisition of Hashicorp the moves seems unsurprising, they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor. We'll inevitably see others large companies follow suite -…

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    Comment #39758617

    If you're looking for something more enterprise focused then https://www.pigment.com/ might be a good fit

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    Comment #39222450

    Blossom Capital | London Software engineer who wants to work in VC? - come help us build our data science platform and learn how to invest. Drop me a note at imran@blossomcap.com i…

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    Comment #39141117

    I think https://vespa.ai/ has the right approach in this space by focusing on being hybrid - vectors alone aren't great for production use cases, it's the combining of vectors+text…

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    Comment #37136785

    The messiness of the real-world unfortunately doesn't play well with ambiguity in licences :) It'll be a headache for every large company which now has to send the licence to their…

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    Comment #37136316

    Is the financial institution made up of separate legal entities which bill each other for services, and does one of those entities provide tech infra for the other legal entities?

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    Comment #36875483

    I built my own a few years back for similar reasons: https://github.com/imranghory/treemap-squared The code is pretty straight-forward if you want to customize

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    Comment #36393269

    Which ecommerce platform are you using? - almost every platform allows a straightforward switch of payment processor.

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    Comment #33744825

    Ask your VCs/angels for help, this is the kind of thing they can definitely help with. (Speaking from experience - one of our portfolio companies had a similar challenge and we use…

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    Comment #32239890

    Do you think the markets for art prints or sports cards are also scams? Collectable markets behave fundamentally differently from utility good markets so it's often hard to reason …

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    Comment #30196248

    Crunchbase is a (relatively) cheap product for this kind of research. I'd suggest talking to other vc-funded fintech founders who've raised at your stage in the last couple of year…

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    Comment #27739198

    If they're in a financial position to do so, have them angel invest in the startup. In general my experience has been expert angels add a lot more value than advisors.

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    Comment #27700856

    Blossom Capital | Software Engineer | Full-Time | London | https://blossomcap.com Blossom is one of Europe's leading Series A VC firms, and technology is a core part of how we oper…

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    Comment #26451492

    There’s a few factors at play; 1) There’s customers who will pay 15k for the exact same users/features as you’re willing to pay 2) Sub enterprise customers are a pain, they’re ofte…

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    Comment #26267603

    The challenge is that there aren't really any good alternatives. The alternatives suggested (Plausible, Fathom, etc.) are fine for hobby projects, blogs, etc. but they don't suppor…

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    Comment #26012666

    They wouldn't have been insolvent, they just wouldn't be able to process additional transactions until previous transactions had settled. The trade-off was suspending trading on so…

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    Comment #25219083

    I'd suggest prefixing/suffixing, e.g "get .com" or " app.com"

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    Comment #24954592

    I speak to a lot of enterprise buyers ands startups and it's definitely a major issue when it comes to buying products, especially from a startup. There's a big difference between …

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    Comment #24399970

    If you want to use it for family tree research you basically have to go to the companies that have the largest databases, because that's where you'll find familial matches (e.g. 23…