YC Demo Day Session 2
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YC Demo Day Session 2
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#2uBiome looks interesting. Has anyone tried them?
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#3uBiome may be onto something. I read a study the other day that said obesity may actually be linked to gut flora, which I found very interesting. Excited to see what comes of this.
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#4> Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds. Even though hedge funds have outperformed S&P 500 over the past decade, very few investors have access to them.
Hedge Funds on average do not outperform market indices such as S&P 500. I'm curious as to whether this was TechCrunch's take on the problem, or the startup's?
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#5Flynn could really make a dent in the PaaS space, although they seem to have a problem communicating their value proposition. I understand it's something like an open-source version of Heroku? If they take all the hassle out of deployments (everything that happens between git push and bare metal), I see a lot of Heroku users that are sick and tired of paying outrageous 35$ a month could flock over to them.
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#6I'm really excited about some of these, but particularly ubiome. It's pretty "ew, gross" to think about, but it does seem like an area of medicine and diagnostics which is open for deeper exploration, finally. (disclaimer: I met the team a couple times before in bay area tech contexts and like them)
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#7"Death begins in the colon" seems to be attributed to an expert (albeit an old one), but unfortunately the adage is mostly associated with "wellness" practices on Google; it seems to be a shibboleth for things like colonics.
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#8Helion seems unreal. I am not ready up to date with fusion research, but as far as I know there was not even a demo or prototype in lab producing energy for a few seconds (or minutes), and they claim to have a product in 6 years. Can someone tell me what I've missed ?
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#9Flynn could really make a dent in the PaaS space, although they seem to have a problem communicating their value proposition. I understand it's something like an open-source version of Heroku? If they take all the hassle out of deployments (everything that happens between git push and bare metal), I see a lot of Heroku users that are sick and tired of paying outrageous 35$ a month could flock over to them.
Flynn seems to be focusing on the deployment side of things but that's only 1/2 of the value Heroku offers which is a fully managed platform. You take on that responsibility with Flynn.
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#10> Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds. Even though hedge funds have outperformed S&P 500 over the past decade, very few investors have access to them. Hedge Funds on average do not outperform market indices such as S&P 500. I'm curious as to whether this was TechCrunch's take on the problem, or the startup's?
I agree. I recall reading somewhere that warren buffet took a bet with a hedge fund guy a d his premise was also that a hedge fund cannot beat S&P index over a long term .
But a sucker is born every minute and I think sliced will do well for itself.