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If I were you I'd put link to API docs in top navigation. If you are targeting to devs, that's the first thing they look for.

I think it is mainly an acquahire.

Metamind was always a services company. I may be wrong but they don't seem to have any product. They were going after contracts north of $250K for two month projects.

May be there is not much dough in consulting market.

I would say do lots of market research. See what kind of products are in top demand in your niche and if you have time commitment to deliver.

You should def go to NYC Resistor in Brooklyn. They have open hack nights every Thursday evenings. http://www.nycresistor.com/

> GM recently formed an internal autonomous vehicle development team and entered into a strategic alliance with rideshare service Lyft earlier this year – adding a whopping __$500 billion__ to Lyft’s latest funding round to help build a connected network for self-driving cars.

WTF?

I am founder and CEO of Exivest [http://exivest.com/]. We help startup employees value their equity, help match them with direct buyers or arrange synthetic liquidity.

We've talked to many startup employees and they all have given positive feedback. One concern that comes up is that startups are not OK with changing the cap table for tiny transactions. In that case, we have plans to offer synthetic liquidity solutions via derivative transactions.

We'd like to hire your thoughts on the problem we are solving and our approach so far.

Startups don't fail. Founders just stop doing their work. You can't succeed if you give up.

Snapchat is asynchronous video/photos whereas Periscope is live video.

You should follow him on snapchat for more goodness. This guy is one insane moffo. :D

To be clear and fair, Free Basics is the East India Company of our day.

Going a little bit off on a tangent here but this article reminded me of how the gold price against the dollar has historically been set:

>Every morning at nine o'clock, [acting treasury secretary] Morgenthau; Jesse Jones, the head of the RFC; and George Warren would meet with the president over his breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, to determine the price of gold for that day. They began at $31.36 an ounce. The next morning this increased to $31.54, then $31.76 and $31.82. No one had a clue how they went about setting the price, although everyone presumed that some subtle analyses of the world bullion and foreign exchange markets went into the calculations. In fact, the choice of price was completely random. All they were trying to do was to push the price a little higher than the day before. The exercise brought out the juvenile in Roosevelt. One day he picked an increase of 21 cents, and when asked why, replied that it was a lucky number, three times seven.

Source: "Lords of Finance"

I am already on DuckDuckGo and I love it.

To play devil's advocate, Airbnb was in business for at least two years already before they got into YC.

Yes, one can argue, times have changed a lot since then as the applicants pool have significantly increased. One other the thing, founders were extremely impressive; so, Airbnb may be an outlier.

IMHO, accelerators early on in your startup life are to give you marketing boost to get customers when nobody gives a shit about you. More than anything. These days you can get a product ready with little or no money. As for advice, there is so much written out there if you just spend some time reading, thinking and doing things you can accelerate your startup growth.

If you are going to go through accelerator, why not go with the one that carries the most social capital.

I downloaded but I am lost. Where do I exec the help command?

http://imgur.com/TccpbXS

I have been through the same! :)

Back in high school when I started programming with the LAMP stack I was totally hooked. I spent most of my first two years in high school doing the same. As I entered my third year I was kind of burned out and wanted to try something new. I shifted my focus towards doing other cool stuff. There was still that tinkerer in me who wanted to break and fix things.

One thing that kept my interest was my desire to break and fix things without thinking about the outcome.

My email is in my profile if you want to talk. :)

dope. let's connect.

I wholeheartedly feel product engineers are best suited to start their own companies. I literally do not know any company that can give them the kind of experience they seek.

According to this post - the author's read at least two books per week in 2015. How does one do that? Serious question.

If anyone's trying to use ghit.me - beware that api rate limit from github is preventing the tool from working. May be, try again:

  {
    "message": "API rate limit exceeded for 107.170.25.70. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)",
    "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
  }

I guess nobody paid attention last time. It's a classic trick to launch over and over again until someone cares to give two cents.

That all sounds good. But why not just grab a book and read. I recently read "Crossing the Chasm," and it was completely eye opening as I was able to reflect on mistakes I made in terms of early market development when I "started out."

To each his own, I guess. Perhaps I just don't like to glorify schools of any sort.

These are definitely good problems to have!

To be clear, finance "for the sake of finance." ;)

In finance you don't create any value. It's pretty much a zero-sum game. I never understood why money is the biggest motivator for a lot of people. So absurd.

A blockchain is only as good as its network. And bitcoin happens to be on the biggest blockchain network to date.

They are not storing cookies but simply relying on if an ad blocker blocks ads.js or not:

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Don't see any reason why an ad blocker would block them.

This is the French way of writing. See "Simulacra and Simulation" by Baudrillard for more examples of this writing style.

Looking for an entry-level engineer to write web crawling, data mining software primarily using Python. Some understanding of HTTP protocol, APIs, xml/xpath, and scripting languages in general would be useful. Message me if interested.

An interest in economics would be helpful, too. Email me at zeeshan.jp@gmail.com if interested.

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