How do you know if you're technical enough to build great products?
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#14What's your advise For a grad student at a top-level university who is working on a cool scientific project in a great lab while having a few great startup idea falling under your call for startup and he has a constant battle between either continuing his research or putting a stop on it and submit application for your next batch?
It might be helpful to know that I will submit application wither now or at the end of my phd but that would be three years from now. On one side if I wait I will have support of my supervisor and my committee members as advisors who are big in their fields and probably catch your eyes, on the other side a few years from now might be too late!
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#15Hello Sam, you mentionned in one of your blog that non tech founders should learn technical skills. As a founder of a mobile app using cutting edge technology (mostly AI) and working with PHDs in Com.Science , how much time should I really invest in learning basic coding? In other words, what is the best resource you can point to to help me learn the necessary basics?
Thanks!
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#16Is consciousness research on your radar?
What would make you say, "Wow, that's some consciousness research I want to fund!"?
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#17Given the rapid evolution of human-computer interaction in the past decades, what factors in the shifting tech landscape do you think will be decisive in accelerating the process of current tech titans losing their market dominance to new entrants?
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#18Sam, if you were an important (but non founder) employee at a startup and you were to be acquired, how would you approach the process of integrating and insuring success between the companies? and how would you evaluate the acquiring company and decide if its worth staying at for the long-haul, just until some stay-period is over, or even staying at all?
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#19Hi Sam, How did you initially get your first batch of customers at Loopt and what did you do to increase retention?
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#20Why do you think crowdfunding for startups hasn't kicked off as well as hoped? What sort pitfalls have startups in the space encountered that you know about?
Thanks!