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Mashgin (YC W15) | ML/CV, Full-Stack, Frontend | Mountain View | ONSITE, VISA | Full-time Mashgin makes self-checkout kiosks that use Computer Vision, 3D Reconstruction and Deep Le…

The market isn't vegetarians/vegans. Their ultimate goal is reduction of environmental damage and greenhouse gases. Why try to sell to someone who already doesn't eat meat? The com…

Poor Charlie's Almanac -- can't beat Charlie Munger when it comes to explaining how the world works. Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile -- Nassim Taleb reviles lots of n…

Mashgin Inc. (YC W15) | Computer vision engineer | Palo Alto, CA | Full-time onsite At Mashgin, we apply advanced computer vision to real world problems, starting with retail check…

Mashgin Inc. (YC W15) | Computer vision engineer | Palo Alto, CA | Full-time At Mashgin, we apply advanced computer vision to real world problems, starting with retail checkout. Ou…

I've found a good rule of thumb in business is that you can only be successful in the long run if your value proposition is a win-win-win for you, your suppliers, and your customer…

Unrealized losses over a short time period have nothing to do with being "right" or "wrong" about a stock investment. Fluctuations of investor expectations (i.e. stock price moveme…

Any recommendations for overcoming this issue? I'm working on a project with the eventual goal of creating a crowdsourced, interactive version of a map just like this.[1] We haven'…

Atlastory - Palo Alto, CA Atlastory is a bootstrapped startup working on a project similar to OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia, with the goal of mapping the world throughout history (and…

Palo Alto, CA Seeking fellow developer to help build the Google Maps of history I’m working on a project, similar to OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia, with the goal of mapping the world …

How about a PDF? :) http://stuff.maxolson.com/On-Startups.pdf There are other startup-related essays thrown in there too. PG, if you're reading this and want it taken down, please …

You "felt like a sucker" and from another comment "feel like I've been lied to"? Do other people's comments and criticisms make you change your mind about something that easily? If…

Also coming from Salt Lake City -- flying into SJ on Friday, and back Monday morning. Probably planning on renting a car, if anyone is interested in sharing.

I have thought of this but haven't really pursued anything yet. I also have permission from Buffett to publish his early partnership/hedge fund letters from the '60s, so will proba…

Most of the letters are freely available on Berkshire's website. The "extra material" includes a few early letters not on the web (got these from Buffett so the collection would be…

~$1000 a month. Designed, edited and published a book of Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders (see http://amzn.com/1595910778 ). An opportunity I stumbled into. But I suppose "…

Self-published a book in April, which is now selling in Paperback and Kindle versions ( http://www.amazon.com/Berkshire-Hathaway-Letters-Shareholder... ). It's been doing pretty we…