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It seems to be mainly a west coast thing. "Good vibes" always bordering on fake vibes. East coast seems to be more willing to tell you that your idea sucks, you suck, and your grandma sucks too. Unfortunately they're also way less likely to give your company a decently sized investment and valuation, so there's that.
Is this before or after they hear your idea.
"seed" "female" "solo founder" "biotech" Please don't start wearing black turtle necks.
> I heavily prioritized male investors. Every time a female investor converted, I asked them to help me find male investors. Does the above statement seem bigoted?
Although that's not an explicit rule in the site guidelines, I think it's pretty clear that your comment broke more than one of the rules that are: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's also a flamewar tropes to switch some words around and act like the person said that when they didn't. Please don't do flamewar tropes on HN. Clichés are tedious and uninteresting to begin with, and the flamewar ones are poison.
Edit: it also looks like your account has been using HN primarily for flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity https://hbr.org/2016/03/women-and-minorities-are-penalized-f...
Yeah, please don't post these piece of crap blogposts with such strong wording that "women and minorities *ARE* penalised". For a forum that requests scientific rigour for sometimes even the most trivial claims, HN really does let these affirmative posts get away without any scrutiny. No doubt ONLY because of fear of being labeled a racist/sexist/x-ist. The blog post takes some very controversial claims and tries to…
Interesting that she had a much easier time raising from men than women. She mentions having a CRM with 150+ investors, so presumably this isn't just random chance based on a small number of interactions. One possible reason is that men may have been actively looking to invest in female founders for diversity reasons. Female investors wouldn't feel the same pressure for gender diversity among their portfolio companie…
In general it's good for men to be aware that women don't actually like each other, on average. Certainly not as much as men like women, on average. I keep "rediscovering" this, so maybe others need to be told/reminded.
If you want to post something nuanced and relevant about your own experience, that's great. But whatever your experience has been, inflating it into grandiose claims on classic flamewar territory is not going to end well—and is also much less interesting. We don't want gender war here. It's tawdry, repetitive, and boring.
This article got a lot of user flags. That's bad—it's obviously a substantive article, squarely on topic for HN and not sensational, ideological, or predictable. Even a quick skim is enough to see that it doesn't break down along any of the obvious faultlines for this general topic. That not only means it shouldn't have been flagged, it makes it HN gold. If you've been wielding the flag club that indiscriminately...p…
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Yep, if you want to hear a brutally honest answer, ask some Russians. If they seem to be grudgingly impressed, you are golden.
That's my experience with Germans. They are as subtle as a chainsaw. I love it. They give me low latency instant feedback of the situation which allows me to act upon. It's an eye opening experience.
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I don't understand this comment. Below we see plenty of dead comments posted at an earlier time, which seems to illustrate some existence of fuel for internet drama. At this time the first 50% of the comment page does not discuss gender so it clearly turned out right, but they were posted after the dead comments. If a fresh article has the majority of comments being people warring about gender then the option given t…
Yes, because if an article is particularly good, it's not fair for disgruntled users to be able to sink it by posting shitty comments. That would be a big loophole. If the article were garden-variety flamebait then it would be a different story (no pun intended) – but this was such a clear case of the opposite. The best thing is to give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com. That could be either "hey, there's a really…
A standard version that I often see is when articles get sunk by shitty comments are when the author is controversial. The negative comments are focusing on the author, and often that dominated the article comments until the article get flagged to death. Fair? No. It is however a pattern that keep repeating itself.