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In practice, for YC or similar Bay area US startups, they are the same. All authorized shares are issued, and then the charter is amended through board action and more shares are a…

Ya, I'd appreciate pointers if there are errors :)

This is US centric, it's mentioned on the first page, along with the notes and links. Reinvesting is a minority, edge case. I can't think of a single VC company in the Bay area tha…

Ya for sure, and even paid account is very cheap, few dollars a month

Thanks! :)

Depends on the outcome. If it's a positive outcome, then preference has no role. This game models good outcomes, with warnings for things like down rounds

Hey thanks! There are a ton of edge cases, but the goal was to serve as an intro, and to get a grasp of the basics. Links in the intro to a more serious look at things.

I put this together (with Claude) as a semi-gamified way for folks to learn about startup equity. Take a look, and share your scorecard :)

Quick honest question: What benefit did Viam bring that isn't brought by ROS for this project?

Hey all, this is from a team member of mine at Polymath Robotics. Ask/comment away!

Absolutely part of the plan, there will always be strange situations that the vehicle can't adapt to. So it has to stop and phone home. Our current test vehicle uses remote operati…

On a technical level, I'm not sure what sheep shearing robots in the 1980s has to do with automating vehicles... but I'd love to see a video/article if you've got one! :D As with a…

To answer 2. in some more detail: We generally like to have GPS, cameras and lidar. Optionally, we add in IMU, radar and close in sensors (ie ultrasound). We are approaching the ML…

"Shoving sensors on random devices doesn't work that easy, you know that - I dont need a PHD to tell you that. " Definitely, a lot of our work goes into ensuring our Hardware Abstr…

There's always room for one more simultaneous startup ;)

Thanks, we sure hope so!

This is exactly correct, Caladan from Polymath Robotics is just a cheap and easy way to get a bunch of developers to try out our (fairly basic so far) API, and to start thinking ab…

That's a great way to think about it, you are describing it exactly correctly.

Ah ya, debugging in real environments is a very difficult question, particularly in robotics where the system is complex, and not always with the best internet connectivity. The ap…

Hello, Great question, I haven't seen enough technical details on their system to be able to answer definitely. However, from what I've read of their approach, it's fairly similar …

Hey all, Ilia here. I just did a quick follow up with a demo of our API driving our real tractor, and simulated tractor, simultaneously. The API used is the same, and we are sendin…

Hey, No, we haven't looked into formal tools like that, good suggestion! TBD on if these approaches bode well for real world robotics, (due to model complexity and model/real world…