Why doesn't PICPC-VC have a Dropbox or Airbnb in their alumni yet?
The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
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Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#102Great idea :) From Webpop we'll offer a free project and a startup template ( http://app.webpop.com/themes/startup ) for anybody accepted into the program. For some people this might be enough to completely skip the Linode and buy one more beer.
I actually quite like this but what scares me is I see no mention of an export. A startup could never use this if there is no simple way to leave at some point in the future.
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#103Perhaps you could all use the money/freebies to fund this.
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#104Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity... Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.
Noticed this as well... "Co-Prosperity _____" should sound hauntingly familiar to anyone with any amount of knowledge about WWII.
It seems like the "Co-Prosperity Cloud" is a joke, but even if it is, it's a joke in poor taste considering the atrocities committed by Japan, and not even an especially clever one (annexation and abuse for profit is not really the same idea - I hope - that Pinboard is expressing).
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#105I am building a bookmarking site. Can I apply?
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
When hosting on Heroku, first dyno per app is free!
Unless Heroku has changed, you absolutely should not host a production site using a free account. If your site doesn't get any traffic for a certain period of time, they spin down your instance. This means that the next subsequent view will have an abnormally long load time as they wait for your EC2 instance to spin back up. The $20/mo at Rackspace (or any other provider) is well worth it.
The second dyno brings your total to ~30/ month. Still quite cheap. Youd only need more if you have users, and at that point its a worthwhile expense.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that mean that recipients can legitimately tell the press and other investors that a16z is one of their investors? Assuming that the recipient can keep a straight face? EDIT: Perhaps having a16z as the only VC in your seed is a very bad idea. Chris Dixon (now a partner at a16z) cautions enterpreneurs against the risks of having a sole VC in your seed round: http://cdixon.org/2012/04/02/revisited-big-vcs-investin…
If our $50 participation hampers your A round, we will bridge you with another $15.
Then I'll kick in another $5 for a pier.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#108Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity... Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.
Noticed this as well... "Co-Prosperity _____" should sound hauntingly familiar to anyone with any amount of knowledge about WWII. It seems like the "Co-Prosperity Cloud" is a joke, but even if it is, it's a joke in poor taste considering the atrocities committed by Japan, and not even an especially clever one (annexation and abuse for profit is not really the same idea - I hope - that Pinboard is expressing).
Considering that > 90% of the people who witnessed said atrocities are no longer with us (and 100% don't read HN), the time for jokes has come at last. Actually there have been numerous humorous takes on WWII for decades now.
In "jokes", people often state propositions that seem opposed to what we would hope they believe.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#109Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity... Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.
I'm fairly confident Pinboard won't be raping hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people, engaging in wars of aggression on its neighbors, or conducting worse chemical warfare and other medical experiments than the Nazis. I can see how one might get confused though.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that mean that recipients can legitimately tell the press and other investors that a16z is one of their investors? Assuming that the recipient can keep a straight face? EDIT: Perhaps having a16z as the only VC in your seed is a very bad idea. Chris Dixon (now a partner at a16z) cautions enterpreneurs against the risks of having a sole VC in your seed round: http://cdixon.org/2012/04/02/revisited-big-vcs-investin…
If our $50 participation hampers your A round, we will bridge you with another $15.
I would love that offer - care to make it official?
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