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I smiled when I saw this question. It's a question that heavily favors people starting a company in a field they work in and whose problems they're already intimately familiar with. While this might seem unfair to some, it's probably an extremely good indicator for investment quality.

I would like to think that its overwhelmingly due to #2. It's a really articulate, I-know-what-the-fuck-I'm-talking-about explanation of a huge problem and market. Rest is icing IMO

"No online demo yet. It might be awhile before we have a dashboard and mocking up a fake API for you doesn’t seem worth it."

Honestly my favorite part of the application. It gives the implication that "you're smart enough to understand that this would be a waste of both our times"

Posted this in the comments section there, but I would love to hear your feedback as well.

I think the primary issue is constrained supply. As klochner said, barely any new housing is added and SF has a fixed land mass. But this problem is made much much worse by rent control.

If you have an apartment in SF with Rent Control and prices are rising, you don't move. This means fewer apartments are on the market, which further increases the price, leading to a price inflation cycle.

Of course, ironically now that I live in the city I would never want rent control taken away. Pretty much everyone else I've talked to, even those who agree with my assessment on its negative aspects, also find it very convenient once it's in their favor. So it's removal will likely never pass in a public vote situation.

Based on the last line of his post, it looks like he was working on his own startup anyway. While the timing is suspicious, I think he might have felt that a clean break was the best solution to a situation where no one wins.

So this has actually been a pretty common 4chan prank for a while now. People give you instructions for Googling webcam IP addresses (very typically just an IP string or something similar) and then try to find something worth sharing. Just like the printer post above, it's incredible how many webcams are left completely unsecured.

Ironically I think Silicon Valley will appreciate this show so much more than Bravo's attempt to glamorize it.

I'm not a backer, but I've heard people on Twitter make fun of the Pebble for being a bit bulky, a bit dorky, or even "a useless novelty product that will burn out faster than the Slap Chop". But these people are short-sighted, and should be ignored, because they're missing what the Pebble represents.

The Pebble is one of the first entrants into the relatively young hardware category of wearable computers. So is Google Glass, FitBit, Jawbone, and others. But the Pebble has a place in there too. Being able to access your iMessages, Email or Calendar without taking out your phone is actually a pretty useful skill. And once people get over the "dork factor" (remember the first iPhone users?), they'll pay for a device like Pebble if it offers enough convenience.

At Betable, four of us do CrossFit. It's not sadistic as the title says, though I'm sure that can depend on the gym. The one in SOMA is pretty supportive and accommodating, probably because they deal with a lot of startup engineers :)

Anyway, was struck me about CrossFit and really any group exercise routine is how much more it makes you tax your own body. When you're at the gym, you don't push yourself. You run comfortably fast on the treadmill, lift a comfortable amount of weight, and do it at a comfortable pace. Group exercise is great for breaking you out of that habit and making you push your limits. It's too easy to pretend that 45 minutes at the gym, 15 of which is "cardio" and 15 of which is "cooldown", is going to change anything.

Yeah, sadly this lawsuit is just "cost of doing business" for Best Buy. They earned $140m in the first year, they only had a % chance of paying out for a lawsuit, and the lawsuit was worth less than 20% of the $140m earned. They just profited over $113m (plus the benefit of money now vs. money later) from destroying a startup

Business as usual in America nowadays :/

Go CMU! We might not start as many startups as MIT but our research is some of the best in the world. #proud

Honestly this sounds like the beginning of a terrible corporate culture for engineers Just put whatever you need to on that report to survive