You can use fuzzy numbers to get varied output, and if you want to do MC you can use the API into your model to call it with whatever distributions you want and aggregate the output. But no, our UI doesn’t natively support doing a MC sim because the demand is frankly less than you’d expect. :)

wave :)

Happy to connect anytime to talk financial planning or support usage of the product.

Long-time HN’er, had the idea for Summit while fundraising for my first startup (Stormpulse, recently acquired).

For the forecasting geeks and curious: this video lays out the tech behind Summit’s forecasting engine (password: everest3): https://usesummit.wistia.com/medias/fd3pk1fuvz

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I've been writing at length about this movement (https://medium.com/swlh/the-new-bootstrappers-how-alternativ...) and the kinds of startups that will emerge as smart investments (https://medium.com/swlh/rise-of-the-transformers-db7887c2668...)

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Re: "By binding the payback to profit" -- but it isn't bound to profit. Re-read the terms. It's Founder Earnings, which is profit PLUS any founder salary above a 'low but fair' threshold. You can be breakeven or below zero and still have shareable earnings with a SEAL if you are making a market rate (not low but still fair).

I spent days thinking this through and would be happy to explore your objections in a higher-fidelity forum or longer-form format than HN comments.

For now, suffice to say I have no incentive to mislead founders.

I address this in the 'Seal Typing' section of the article.

_"You may as well also include the effective interest rate on every VC investment that returns 50x or 100x their investment"_

I address this in the "Cash & Carry" section of the article.

Hybrids are hard to design[1], hard to evaluate, and hard to compare. That's part of my worry and a lot of the inspiration for the article.

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My guess is it's a narrower slice of the startup population than Earnest intends. And my prediction is they will update their terms to broaden the slice.

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Riskpulse is looking for a senior, full-stack engineer to join our team of engineers, scientists, and meteorological researchers solving problems across the complete supply chain.

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https://angel.co/riskpulse/jobs/87376-senior-engineer

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I enjoyed all the mentions of weather, as Paul T. at the Memphis GOCC is someone I've had the pleasure of talking to about some of those issues.

I'm the co-founder of a company whose mission is to synchronize climate and commerce. Would love to find out what you're doing these days as you are clearly a SME (almost beyond belief) and I'm guessing I could learn a lot from you.