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Re: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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Post by einarvollset »

anilgulecha wrote: post #54
einarvollset wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By this logic, torrents are destroying the internet commons: this is basically running torrents in the users browser, but for content that they are legally allowed to consume. I think you need to step of your hobby horse here.

Torrent users opt-in, by adding the magnetlink/torrent into the app.

Presumably, so would Peer5 users by doing things like picking the cheaper streaming host with the superior quality. And by the way - what's so precious in your mind about uplink bandwidth? How does the direction of the bits from my computer make this a moral case for you?

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Post by nandemo »

frik wrote: post #67
frik wrote: post #61

* Regarding "Pied Piper", funny that some refer to it * "massively democratizes" is the new "disrupt"

Who coined the "democratize" and "disrupt" words? (the usage/meaning of the words in the startup scene) (maybe the first usage is well know, like "Web 2.0")

The term "disruptive innovation" was coined by Christensen in his book "The Innovator's Dilemma". Then it was shortened to "disruption" and its meaning was quickly diluted by indiscriminate usage by the press and blogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

Re: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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Post by anilgulecha »

einarvollset wrote: post #71
anilgulecha wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Torrent users opt-in, by adding the magnetlink/torrent into the app.

Presumably, so would Peer5 users by doing things like picking the cheaper streaming host with the superior quality. And by the way - what's so precious in your mind about uplink bandwidth? How does the direction of the bits from my computer make this a moral case for you?

Assuming you're asking in good-faith: it's not the direction of bits that's the concern, it's the number of bits. End users should have the option of opting-in their metered bits towards Peer5's CDN revenue.

Re: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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Post by jgoldsmith »

Rainymood wrote: post #70

First off, I absolutely LOVE these write-ups. That being said I chuckled at this one: >Tetra – Automatic notes for business meetings >A lot of meeting notes are taken in Evernote but Tetra takes call notes for you by automatically dialing you to merge into the call and then sending you a fully searchable record of the entire conversation. It comes in auto speech only or human edited using a fast transcription feature…

thanks! try us out https://asktetra.com and maybe we'll get to 3 :)

Re: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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Post by prawn »

vuyani wrote: post #64
adamnemecek wrote: post #46

> with the worldwide black hair care market estimated at $500 billion a year Did they mean million? No way it's billion?

And whats so unbelievable about this stat?

Seems high to me too. Even accounting for it being an expensive and complicated service, what would hairdressers in Africa really be charging that wouldn't cause the global average spend to drop? It's saying that half a billion people are spending $1000/year each. I wonder if they've extrapolated from an optimistic figure?

Re: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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Post by einarvollset »

anilgulecha wrote: post #74
einarvollset wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably, so would Peer5 users by doing things like picking the cheaper streaming host with the superior quality. And by the way - what's so precious in your mind about uplink bandwidth? How does the direction of the bits from my computer make this a moral case for you?

Assuming you're asking in good-faith: it's not the direction of bits that's the concern, it's the number of bits. End users should have the option of opting-in their metered bits towards Peer5's CDN revenue.

I am, and that's like saying you should be able to opt in to google's adwords revenue when using google.

Re: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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Post by nandemo »

vuyani wrote: post #64
adamnemecek wrote: post #46

> with the worldwide black hair care market estimated at $500 billion a year Did they mean million? No way it's billion?

And whats so unbelievable about this stat?

According to this [0] the sum of black population, plus australoid (for the sake of the argument, let's say they will be part of the target audience regardless of how they self-identify ethnically) and mixed caucasian+black, caucasian+australoid etc is about 27% of world population. Let's round that up to 30%. Also, let's round up the world population estimate to 7 billion, and assume men are part of the target audience too. So total target audience is about 2.1 billion. Which is probably a huge overestimate but it doesn't matter...

A U$500 billion market then means the average person spends about U$240 per year on hair care. Which is ridiculously high.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Can-anyone-break-down-the-racial-demog...

Re: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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Post by nandemo »

_m8fo wrote: post #20

I wish you could bet on the odds of some of these succeeding in 3 years or so. Someone should start a startup that does this and get into Y Combinator to be super meta. random commentary below: * FloydHub – Heroku for deep learning * It's unlikely in my eyes that a company with enough data worth doing deep learning for is going to outsource the actual model building. I'd be interested to hear counter examples. * Tetr…

> Someone should start a startup that does this and get into Y Combinator to be super meta.

Not worth a startup, but a fantasy-sport-like site that allowed some "gambling" -- perhaps "paid" for with karma points -- on YC startups would be fun.

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Post by TuringNYC »

>> Paragon One – Career coaching from real professionals >> Families spend a fortune on sending their kids to college......Families pay $7500 up front, and the kids get coaching over video chat. Paragon One says 100% of students who completed the program got job or internship offers.

Wow, so the for-pay college application coaching is now becoming for-pay jobs&internships "coaching?" I suspect this will be limited coaching and more so selling access. Wouldn't this essentially incentivize insiders to "sell" internship opportunities at prestigious firms? Certainly families paying $7500 up front are going to want results, even if it is a for-show internship at Google reviewing release notes that gets morphed into entry level resume gold. I'll be surprised if companies dont ban this outright (but then, TeamBlind seems to be successful...)

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