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Nice to see a new startup is trying and succeeding to make a positive difference for some pretty critical customers :)
Going to keep an eye on this group for sure. Something tells me they'll be around for a while.
I wish there were a bit more meat as to HOW they did this. Or a link to a meatier write-up of the path they took from idea to present.
> And importantly, they started out doing something that any two programmers could have done. Which is funny because many VCs in SV ask the question (explicitly or implicitly) "is this something two Stanford CS students can do?" If the answer is yes, they move along. I want more FarmLogs stories to exist.
This is a silly question to ask, and I don't think most people ask it (or at least, not in this way). For almost anything any team can do, you have to assume there will be five other teams, just as good or better, doing the same exact thing. So the right question to ask is "what is the distribution edge of this particular team?" For example, if you're first to market and have incredibly high growth, there is a good c…
When working in VC, it was refreshing to talk with someone not doing social/mobile/local/consumer. Once you branch out to industries like Mining, Oil&Gas, Agriculture, Automotive, Manufacturing, Logistics, Insurance, etc. just having 2 bright software engineers working on a problem at all was often enough to provide an edge.
Insurance is a good example. That industry move $2T every year in the US, which makes the US ad industry look tiny. However, it only sees maybe 1/20th the number of SV teams.
> And importantly, they started out doing something that any two programmers could have done. Which is funny because many VCs in SV ask the question (explicitly or implicitly) "is this something two Stanford CS students can do?" If the answer is yes, they move along. I want more FarmLogs stories to exist.
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I'd say just as many tree's here as any college town really. PS hi chris.
I never heard it called tree town. The wayback machine page for the Wikipedia citation only says "Tree City USA", which is a thing the Arbor Foundation does for lots of towns. So either the citation is out of step with the original page or a goofball put that in Wikipedia.