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What’s the process for when a user gets a new phone? I dread getting one because my keys depending on the phone completely disappear and have no transfer mechanism.

Try contacting Tiny / Andrew Wilkinson; you may be able to sell it.

Would it work out of the box with a react native app?

Interesting. Anecdotally, I have seen the opposite, where a company will raise multiple layers of SAFEs since pre-money SAFEs get diluted as you add more SAFEs, and you don't need …

My understanding is that additional post-money SAFEs dilute solely common, whereas additional pre-money SAFEs dilute common and other pre-money SAFEs. So if you want to do a new ro…

Overall, simplifying how to understand one's cap table is great. It gets in the way of many founders understanding their business in really pernicious ways. I do believe this will …

How do you use them? And what prices do you typically pay for the services you use?

Wolfram Research (Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha) - 700 employees, no outside capital.

Could someone turn this into a business? Then it would hopefully survive on its own.

His linkedin claims he took 1 Stanford class, and the notes he claims he wrote were clearly written by someone else (it's on Sukru Burc Eryilmaz's personal page). He went to Florid…

My anecdotal evidence is that VC is more a "operator turned VC" now than ever before. VC used to be all MBAs / finance types (e.g., head of tech research at an investment bank). Bu…

I disagree and believe this should be better for founders. Demo Day works so well because it's a forcing function for getting a lot of investors to see you at once and make a decis…

MTailor is a Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures backed startup. We sell men's custom shirts by measuring you with your phone's camera. We are 20% more accurate than a professional ta…