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This is common -- and even founders who exit their company encounter this feeling of being lost after leaving their last startup. One thing that's been useful for me is to get off …

This! Obviously good investments are almost always oversubscribed, and additionally not all startups are raising angel money all the time. You need to find the overlap of: * Compan…

There have been several p2p low-latency streaming companies in the past with swarming, some of which where acqui-killed by CDN companies like Akamai. But since I haven't read the a…

I have kids, and I disagree that things are going to play out as black-and-white as the author suggests. My daughter (2) does stick to the curated appstore/app world on her tablet,…

But why do this for San Francisco, specifically, instead of just developing another area of the bay that has more space and fewer political issues? The city has a host of infrastru…

I wouldn't take on a cofounder/exec hire/major investor without spending a little time with them and their partner. Not because I think I'll detect some red flag, but because my wi…

Agreed. And I'm also not sure why building a VC-fundable business is used interchangeably with building a business that rewards the founder(s). I've seen a lot of exits of VC-funde…

The amazing Italian legal system strikes again...

I suspect that the investors thought the worst case scenario was an aqui-hire of a highly-credentialed team, at a value close to the cash invested. And likely with enough preferenc…

Responding to your first comment about teachers not being psychiatrists, I agree with that observation but disagree that this means teachers should not be trained to recognize the …

It doesn't appear that they controlled for the size of the company. So it could be that larger companies in the survey (but still "startups") have more females, since they hired an…

It must be extremely frustrating to have been an old-time HP engineer or product designer. To watch the company transition from an innovative technology company to a gigantic servi…

YC is by no means the first incubator. There were hundreds in the late 90's in silicon valley. Lots of junk, and few that turned out big businesses. Some of those big businesses fa…

There isn't an issue in creating a process to bring business models into new markets that are working. It's innovative in a way and that's cool. But it's not cool how they at least…

This is neat. Just keep in mind that there's a difference between transformative innovation and a successful business.

What this tells me is that someone in the Google PR department had an idea, and a bunch of really smart people actually were resourced to work on it. While at the same time, my sea…

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This seems like bad advice from someone who is not especially experienced at building startups. As he suggests, there are kernels of knowledge but the recommendations are unbalance…

An actual, disruptive solution to the US healthcare crisis. There's a ton of economic value to be created, but the current ecosystem is shockingly resistant to non-incremental inno…