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Reforge Partners – accelerating growth for startups

far33d — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:44:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reforge.com/partners

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24561726

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Fitz Frames – custom fit 3D printed glasses for kids

far33d — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:11:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/15/fitz-frames-with-2-5m-in-seed-funding-wants-your-kid-to-have-custom-glasses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779039

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by far33d in "Pixar in a Box"

far33d — Tue, 24 May 2016 17:47:32 +0000

Usually, a frame is rendered on a single processor.

New comment by far33d in "Segment Sources – Load Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe into Redshift and Postgres"

far33d — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:53:46 +0000

We have been very happy with sources - it doesn't cover EVERY service we use (yet) but taking even just one or two out of in-house ETL is a huge benefit.

New comment by far33d in "The Latest Battle Over When and Where Kids Can Walk to School"

far33d — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:56:14 +0000

P(adult evil | talk to them) < .0001 P(stranger evil | they talk to you) > .0001

New comment by far33d in "Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf]"

far33d — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:48:47 +0000

It's kind of ironic that this article is presented as a PDF version of a journal paper.

New comment by far33d in "Financial Misstatements"

far33d — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 23:45:47 +0000

I would add bookings vs. revenue.

If you sign up a $120k yearly contract, you have $120k in bookings, but can only recognize $10k of revenue each month.

New comment by far33d in "Pixar Online Library"

far33d — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 02:21:05 +0000

This list is missing my favorite pre-Pixar paper.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS284/PAPERS/CatmullClark...

New comment by far33d in "My Interviews with Airbnb, Dropbox, Posterous, Reddit, Weebly and Wufoo"

far33d — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:59:57 +0000

I would LOVE to see a Founders at Work 2.0 - so many incredible companies have been built since that book was published. The iPhone had just been released, for instance.

New comment by far33d in "Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results"

far33d — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 04:05:13 +0000

Never underestimate the human ability to consume power / CPU / memory / sensors / etc. So far we've never had "enough" of any of these.

New comment by far33d in "Why we prefer founding CEOs (2010)"

far33d — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:06:56 +0000

the worst thing about "the hard thing about hard things" is that Ben seems to have slowed his blogging output.

Radical Transparency: Here Is YesGraph’s New Content Marketing Strategy

far33d — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:27:31 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.yesgraph.com/yesgraphs-content-marketing/?hvid=41JlB

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8859130

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by far33d in "[dead]"

far33d — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:21:58 +0000

I hate this stuff.

Steve was pretty explicit to Tim Cook and others that they should never ask "what would Steve do". He knew what that kind of attitude did to Disney after Walt died. It destroyed their creativity for years.

New comment by far33d in "Exploding Offers Suck"

far33d — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:00:11 +0000

This is true for ALL exploding offers. Not just accelerators or investment term sheets, but for employment as well.

New comment by far33d in "Brain changes are associated with casual marijuana use in young adults"

far33d — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:01:02 +0000

It's amazing to me that medical journals print results based on 20 control and 20 test subjects.

New comment by far33d in "Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft"

far33d — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:23:29 +0000

This article only describes a concerted effort to recruit drivers by hailing rides. Lyft still gets paid.

I believe that the hail / cancel tactic is unethical, but this article only describes direct recruitment.

New comment by far33d in "Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft"

far33d — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:12:59 +0000

So which is it - is poaching another company's drivers bad, or is making secret anti-poaching agreements bad?

New comment by far33d in "Ask HN: How much should a bootstrapped startup ask for an acquihire?"

far33d — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:14:34 +0000

I think you should think about it as a multiple of what you would expect per-employee were the company to hire everyone off the street. So if you would get 10k options / employee off the street, what multiple of that is it worth to get the full team.

New comment by far33d in "TSA: don't bring uncharged devices from oversea"

far33d — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 01:04:35 +0000

This is a huge pain in the ass. When I travel, I often don't use my phone for many days at a time, and usually return without a charged device.

New comment by far33d in "Signing up for a new Twitter account shows why the company is struggling to grow"

far33d — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:30:17 +0000

No.

Signing up for a new twitter account shows why _you think_ the company is struggling to grow.

Without any insight into their acquisition, retention, or other core data that drove these decisions you have no idea what you are talking about.

Don't get me wrong - I think these are all good hypotheses. But without data they are just hypotheses.