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I’d be down for this/have wanted something like this for remote friend groups like founders, but how does it work exactly? How is it different than most online poker events?

What are your favorite use cases?

This is inaccurate. In no way did people have to turn to their personal finances to help companies that their company invested in. That is like your banker, seeing your dire situat…

We made those same moves 100 years earlier, with liberty intact. If North Korea made this relative progress over the next 30 years (and 70 years after South Korea), this same argum…

The comments in this thread so far, imo, resemble comments at the beginning of dismissing BTC (just an observation, and I was one of those making similar observations in 2011/2012)…

This topic (on a tool like Carta) would be worthy of discussion in a startup forum no matter the author, correct? I see part of your sentiment regarding context, but this can turn …

+1 for mercury, great option for this use case

Reddit is great for subject matter. Not perfect but actually gets better and better every year.

How so? Do you mean that people "would" help if they weren't racist? San Francisco, which has one of the largest homeless populations per capita, has a homeless population that is …

Rethinking this relationship is a major point of the original thread/article.

Congrats, Eric! Big win for every hardware company going through YC that will undoubtedly learn an immense amount from your experience.

My background is in development economics, and it's amazing how the majority of the developed world thinks a trend is going one way (increasing abject poverty) when the data actual…

I actually don't know the answer to this - but is the situation as straightforward as: "they left money on the table today, but it's in the effort to improve perception and health …

So is there an application that Google uses internally for this that others could check out? Wasn't sure if it was through Google+ or if it was a 20% project built independently/ou…

Co-founder here! Tilt differentiates from just about every other crowdfunding platform by focusing on smaller, bite-size objectives - typically among groups and communities that kn…

We dig it! I think it's a fun thing that many people's introduction to our product via google will be unexpected/quirky.