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Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by JangoSteve »

At Genomenon, we're building tools that help discover, diagnose, and treat cancer and other inheritable disease. To do this, we've built the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine [1], powered by the world's most comprehensive source of genomic evidence.

You've probably seen a lot in the media lately about the possibilities of precision medicine powered by personal genomic sequencing. With the advent of the $1000 whole genome sequencing [2], we now have an immense amount of data at our fingertips. The problem we have now is known as the "bioinformatics bottleneck" [3], in which our sequence data reveals thousands of variants in our DNA, and we need to figure out which ones are clinically relevant, by figuring out which ones have been observed and studied. We seek to make that task easy; to minimize the time it takes to perform an exhaustive search, and reduce the chance of missing important information in a patient's sequenced genome [4].

Most people have been or know someone who has been affected by cancer or inheritable disease. As far as missions go, this was an easy one to get behind when I met my co-founder almost five years ago. When my startup at the time got acquired shortly after meeting him, I knew immediately what I wanted to do next.

[1] https://www.genomenon.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1,000_genome

[3] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6184/653.3

[4] https://scipol.duke.edu/content/questathena-wrongful-death-s...

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by nakodari »

I am the founder of Jumpshare (https://jumpshare.com).

Our mission is to make everyone more productive. When running a previous startup with 20 people, I found that communicating effectively with them was a challenge. To share work with them and with outside clients and collecting feedback and ensuring everyone was on the same page took many back and forth steps. I also noticed that everyone was facing the struggle to communicate effectively both inside and outside the team. Thus, losing a lot of time and overall productivity.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by 33degrees »

franze wrote: post #16

"To make all SEO agencies - including our own - redundant!" Why? Because SEO is the ultimate digital snake oil industry of our era. Sucking away ressources and f###ing up websites, wasting (life)time of users and developers alike. http://www.f19n.com

The book looks interesting, but I'd much rather an electronic copy rather than a paper book. Is there no digital version?

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by omosubi »

dougmwne wrote: post #8

"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."

I don't have crazy debt or people to support, so it's very easy for me to say this, but it's sad to see the smartest people in my generation putting so much effort into getting people to click on stuff :/

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by dagoat »

naeemtee wrote: post #35

I run ContentFly ( http://contentfly.co ). Our ultimate mission is to democratize marketing so any and every small business on Earth can use it.

Just an observation, but I hear and read “democratize X” and “Uber for X” quite frequently these days. Your platform uses both

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by gHosts »

kamyarg wrote: post #39

I am an Engineer at Celo https://celo.org/ - Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. We aim to give financial tools that will help people to self-actualize. Many people in the world do not have the basic financial tools for lifting themselves out of poverty -- a sound currency and property rights -- and we aim to provide those. Second, we aim to create a system tha…

> Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.

Your web site basically says "Apple Pay", but without Apple.

So how do you get from that to, "a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all"?

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by pmiller2 »

outericky wrote: post #21
pmiller2 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in the US, specifically the Bay Area. Based on past experience, it’s unlikely Mixnode could pay me a salary anywhere close to what I could earn here, even after factoring in cost of living. Emigrating is also not practical, even if getting a visa wasn’t a problem. I live in the East Bay. Here is a cost comparison between Oakland, CA and vancouy, BC: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou.…

If you are remote, you don't need to be in the bay area. While a harsh reality, the bay area is a crazy expensive place to live, and I would say do so if you have to, not because you want to. And if you do want to, work where it makes sense.

Actually, I do need to be in the Bay Area for personal, professional, and health reasons. But, yes, I take your point. I could certainly live on 3/4 or 2/3 of a Bay Area salary in the middle of nowhere, if I wanted to.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by acct1771 »

pmiller2 wrote: post #57
outericky wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are remote, you don't need to be in the bay area. While a harsh reality, the bay area is a crazy expensive place to live, and I would say do so if you have to, not because you want to. And if you do want to, work where it makes sense.

Actually, I do need to be in the Bay Area for personal, professional, and health reasons. But, yes, I take your point. I could certainly live on 3/4 or 2/3 of a Bay Area salary in the middle of nowhere, if I wanted to.

You could live on 1/4 of a Bay area salary.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by pmiller2 »

acct1771 wrote: post #58
pmiller2 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, I do need to be in the Bay Area for personal, professional, and health reasons. But, yes, I take your point. I could certainly live on 3/4 or 2/3 of a Bay Area salary in the middle of nowhere, if I wanted to.

You could live on 1/4 of a Bay area salary.

Not with my student loans.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by gHosts »

kamyarg wrote: post #39

I am an Engineer at Celo https://celo.org/ - Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. We aim to give financial tools that will help people to self-actualize. Many people in the world do not have the basic financial tools for lifting themselves out of poverty -- a sound currency and property rights -- and we aim to provide those. Second, we aim to create a system tha…

> opening a bank account but for claiming various other essential services, such as healthcare and education.

Where such services are provided by a functioning state maybe, but if they are, they also have a functioning currency and banking sector.

Where their isn't.... I had a Ukrainian friend who said in the worst days of state dysfunction (now decades ago), the de facto currency was bottles of vodka.

At least with a bottle of vodka, you can drown your sorrows if your currency crashes.... So your zeroth challenge is "How is Celo better and cheaper and more trustworthy than a bottle of vodka?

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