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Education-wise, are you able to describe the percentages of applicants with backgrounds coming from top schools versus lower-tier schools? Being in the Bay Area, I know that Stanford and UC Berkeley tend to have a decent amount of relatively successful launches/founders, but on the other hand I can't say I hear nearly as much about people who went to San Francisco State or San Jose State (or any other lower-tier scho…
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Care to share any specific ones?
I'm specifically thinking of an incident where he yelled at a dev until she cried in the middle of the open office at Mahalo.
Does this statement risk a tortious interference with business relationship suit? You have published a statement that could reasonably interpreted as Jason Calacanis mistreats founders by bullying them, changing offers, sharing their confidential info and other things. That intentionally obstructs Mr. Calcanis from entering into valuable business relationships with startup company founders. It seems very risky unless…
No, sama is not obligated to censor his honest opinions about random people he doesn't like. The First Amendment (and in some states, SLAPP statutes) protect him from legal threats of censorship. Interference with business relationships is only a thing if (among other conditions) the two parties already have some type of agreement. It does not apply to investors approaching founders they don't even know yet. Slander/…
I've applied like 3 times already. The second time we had a follow up question but nothing else, should I give up applying with this company?
1. Are your users happy? 2. Are your users happy enough to refer other people to join?
If you nail those, then what does anything else matter?
VR, AI, etc are really cool. But how about normal markets and solving usual problems?
We're working on a service on top of any possible static website generator (from jekyll to hugo) (i.e. yet another website builder) that brings total freedom for artists, musicians, photographers with complete syncronization with dribble, soundcloud, dropbox and so on giving universal content editor and marketplace.
Much cheaper, simpler and easier than other (will not count names), schema.org out of the box, blah, blah, blah — really a lot of features.
Sounds easy, but internally it's a bunch of cool technical solutions.
Any chance to be a part of YC Core/Fellowship family? If yes, we'll definitely try to set-up a demo asap and apply.
Cheers, Art
I'm from a team of first time startup doing a hardware medical device company. We have computer science, mechanical and electrical engineering background but very little experience with medical devices. Is this a big red flag for you guys?
Hope @sama answer this question. IMHO hurry up to get a prototype in the client's hands. there you will know how good your team is and if you stand a chance in the industry (afaik your team looks very good)
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Jason is a bully. I've heard plenty of horror stories of people who have worked for him. I'm not surprised in the least and I'm extremely glad to see people standing up to him.
Just for what it's worth, as I know it isn't the same as working for someone - I interviewed for a position working directly for Jason and he was all class. I'm a designer and part of the interview process, as is often the case, was to complete a small design project. He flat out insisted on paying me for my time (nobody else in my career has ever even offered) and wouldn't take no for an answer, and was professional…
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Care to share any specific ones?
In fact such statements deserve specific details or shutting up. Either way it's potentially slanderous.