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Fortunately opportunity costs can be paid in equity. Rent, car insurance, and groceries can't.
You just need a more risk-seeking landlord and grocer.
I call them Mum & Dad.
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#112How I hacked the Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud
What I Learned From Being Upvoted on Hacker News After Hacking the Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud
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#114Earlier 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.
pmarca: I think you're onto something here.
A large micro-investment portfolio.
Anything in this portfolio is sort of a tip of the hat from a16z, a micro-endorsement that messages: "we've got our eyes on this company."
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#115Just 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).
I have been looking for a good taste life coach and a cleverness tutor as well. Are you available?
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See http://www.thirty-seven.org/
most important bit from that link: "37 gets used a lot because it somehow feels random"
There's a bit in James P Hogan's novel Code Of The Lifemaker about a charlatan mentalist, asking a crowd to pick a number under certain circumstances. Because of the way he structured it most people picked 37. See here for excerpt- http://jm.home.xs4all.nl/37/cotl.html
I got excited when I read that book the first time since I'd decided at about age 15 or so that 37 was "the most random number" and used it everywhere I could as some sort of odd prank.
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#119Applied! :)
Wrote a poem about it on the Collaborative Poetry app that I just launched. http://poe3.com/38
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#120This is wrong for a variety of reasons.
First, you should never accept angel investment from non-accredited investors (i.e., individuals with a net worth of at least one million cents).
Second, the real value of the investors is their network. In this case, Maciej Cegłowski's network is a collection of links featured in an indexed, polished, simple-to-use product. Why accept money from him when his network is already available for free?
Third, seeking outside investment prior to building a prototype has been heralded as a path to madness. You should at least have some sort of Bootstrap-based splash page on a .io domain before you accept his sizable investment.