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yosho
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About yosho
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Comment #39306791
I'm not sure why this is news. Planes have had first, business and economy classes since as long as I can remember, and everyone knows the feeling of walking through business class…
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Comment #37679450
I'm a $5m+ Amazon seller here, so many wrong assumptions in the comments, hard to know where to begin... - Firstly, not every Amazon seller is a drop shipper, or private label prod…
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Comment #33643972
36 year old here, I've gotten Diamond in both Overwatch and Apex Legends and was an LEM CSGO player. - I don't think reaction times matter as much as people think it does, position…
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Comment #25084657
Are you always this cynical? There are plenty of good tech companies that have IPO'd recently: Snowflake, Unity, Corsair to name a few. I'm sure all three of those will do well in …
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Comment #25030566
Is a fetus considered a human baby? This is one of those 2 sided debates that regularly occurs and the problem is that no amount of science will be able to give a definitive answer…
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Comment #24643711
Options aren't gambling, they're typically used to hedge your position, hence the 100:1 leverage. You can easily hedge out entire positions with just a few contracts.
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Comment #23891472
It's not really a question of values because depending on what the actual death rate actually is, you can make informed objectionable decisions based off of it that two rational pe…
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Comment #20972437
Look up FatFIRE, I think people on HN would be more aligned with that philosophy rather than regular FIRE.
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Comment #19649545
As a founder that has built a VC backed business to $XXXM in revenue and now as a founder that has built a bootstrapped business to $XM in revenue I guess I'm in a unique position …
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Comment #19303275
Try fishing, one of my favorite hobbies for relaxing.
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Comment #18980187
The title of that article is some serious sensationalism. I wonder if journalists during the race to the moon wrote articles like that back then, telling NASA that working so hard …
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Comment #18923712
I think the deck pretty much just shows that the best way to raise $66M is to build a successful and growing company.
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Comment #18658186
Getting a 404, anyone else?
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Comment #18260611
Your profit should always cover your customer acquisition cost. If it does, congratulations keep spending and grow the customer base and start scaling. If it doesn't, refine your b…
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Comment #16869634
We applied I think in 2010, got rejected. This was when YC was still fairly young. so arguably competition was even less than it is today. Our company now does over $100M ARR and s…
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Comment #16539112
The James Damore Google manifesto and the Youtube creator demonetization censorship comes to mind right now. Granted that's only one company, Google, but I think there's a general …
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Comment #16538958
I, for one, applaud FB's decision to keep him on the board. A lot has been said about this already, but it's true that Silicon Valley is an echo chamber that tends to push out diss…
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Comment #15910031
One of the better fundraising guides out there for sure.
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Comment #15597380
Yeah there's definitely some things that are taboo to talk about because it's too political. I for one, am a liberal gun owner, which gives me a unique perspective in that I unders…
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Comment #11919187
My team and I were rejected back in the day for our first startup idea, which ultimately didn't work but we eventually pivoted to a company now doing $100M+ in annual revenues. I d…
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Comment #9305909
Touch of Modern - Frontend, Backend, or Mobile Engineers - San Francisco, CA - full-time We're the fastest growing men's ecommerce 2.0 website. We're focused around modern lifestyl…
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Comment #8524532
My team and I got rejected in 2010. We're still working together and we're generating mid 8 figure revenues now. So it's definitely not the end of the world and the silicon valley …
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Comment #6350756
Anyone know the details of what happened? Can someone elaborate on this?