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zhyan7109

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    Comment #46942746

    pdf link added at the bottom of the page

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    Comment #46942730

    raw manuscript text here: https://derekyan.com/manuscript/Obsolete%20-%20The%20Secrets...

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    Comment #46940446

    Good call out! This book was definitely useful in terms of thinking about specialization before testing the market. There was even a sequel to it I believe. However, the general au…

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    Comment #46940394

    Here are all the materials/books that were useful while I was in the thick of it: Bilal who sold his startup to Amplitude: https://bilalmahmood.medium.com/how-to-sell-your-startup-…

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    Comment #46940363

    Congrats on your exit! Your note reminded me something Ezra Roizen wrote in Magic Box Paradigm. Paraphrasing here, he said that M&A outcomes often feel miraculous, but then again, …

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    Comment #46940326

    thanks for support!

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    Comment #46940305

    thanks jason, really appreciate the perspective, will checkout your book!

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    Comment #46937772

    Glad some chapters are helpful, thanks!

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    Comment #46937748

    Good feedback, I’ll add one later tonight

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    Comment #46937743

    haha sorry this info is under NDA

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    Comment #46937737

    Depends on who you talk to, 3-5% of total deal size plus a retainer is the norm

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    Comment #46937729

    Good feedback, thanks! Will include a version of the original stream of conscience and raw note in a day or two

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    Comment #46937694

    OP here, thanks for this feedback, my workflow was to first have a draft and then feed it into a LLM to fix grammar and improve conciseness. Wished there was a tool (I think folks …

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    Comment #46937649

    OP here, 83b didn’t apply in my case as I had only stick options, referenced in chapter 11

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    Comment #46931697

    Thanks for that perspective, Einar. I agree that good bankers are hard to come by and unfortunately most simply forward decks to a broad list, and they won’t get founders the outco…

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    Comment #35377184

    Hey guys, cofounder of Polarr here. Now we have a AI copilot for photo editing, and hopefully this is a lot simpler to use than the cockpit panel that editors deal with everyday. L…

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    Comment #19392957

    If you search CoreML, TFlite or Caffe2 on GitHub, there are already a score of offline AI models on the vertical of image recognition and vision. While these guys might have gotten…

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    Comment #16633692

    Perhaps I'm not understanding the intent of this collaboration between Apple and IBM but I would like to think that anyone who can write/publish iOS apps should have the aptitude t…