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Comment · 2 years ago
A geyser gazer friend of mine shared the following image pair: a "before" Google Earth image and a USGS overhead image captured today after the event. The debris field surrounding the spring is evident -- including the damaged boardwalk. (links to a png) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dcd55YX7oF8KPrHsog75vPS_Mc9...
Comment · 2 years ago
Over 60 observations of this hot spring erupting in some fashion over the last 18 years. https://geysertimes.org/geyser.php?id=Black+Diamond Many of the reports mention black water and rocks and "big" -- so not particularly rare. This eruption appears to be larger though -- typically the rocks and debris do not make it to the boardwalk.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is a reasonable YC link for Series A milestones:
[3] Series A Milestones:
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/1k-benchmarks
Comment · 6 years ago
Tangential--I used to work with a lot of caves as a hydrogeologist:
Seven favorite cave names: Abisso "Queen Mama", Big Cave with Bats, Cave of the Swords, Eisriesenwelt (world of the ice giants), Hell Below, Lemon Drop, Mad As A Wet Hen Pit
Nice caves, but seven names that could use some help: Carroll Cave, Ellison's Cave, Fitton Cave, Kartchner Caverns, Lehman Cave, Lilburn Cave, Russell Cave
Comment · 6 years ago
YC's Demo Day attendee portal has had an online component at least since Winter 2018--the first I attended. The pitch videos were made available a few minutes delayed from real-time live.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is a water gap, a feature which is commonly formed from a river older than the mountain range. In combination with that older river, in this case, the specific location was caused by "subrosion (a general expression applied to karst processes influencing the course of a river) and..meltwater channels at low altitudes" (Rohde 1994, Martini et al 2002-page 285).
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gap
-- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97814443042...
-- Rohde P, 1994. Weser und Leine am Berglandrand zur Ober- und Mittelterrassen-Zeit E&G Quaternary Science Journal 44(1): 106–133, DOI 10.3285/eg.44.1.10.
Comment · 7 years ago
A quick answer. I will expand later if I have time.
(1) Finding VCs: Research online. Nowadays most VCs want to be known, and they have websites and blogs and Twitter accounts. Find the appropriate VCs and send them a short email with a link to your deck. Join founder communities such as YC's https://startupschool.org or https://openland.com.
(2) What to prepare: A pitch deck. https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/
(3) What to avoid: Inexperienced startup investors. Also, in the United States, unaccredited investors. Before taking money from an investor, you might talk to a founder of one of their other portfolio companies. Also avoid complex financial agreements: learn about SAFEs and convertible notes beforehand. Overall, you should just review all of YC's latest Startup School materials. https://www.startupschool.org/latest If that's not the way you like to learn, get a copy of Feld and Mendelson's Venture Deals book -- they also run a free online course twice a year.
(4) Common mistakes: Contacting VCs who were not appropriate for the business, location, and stage.
(5) The number one way to increase your chances for getting a VC investment is to not need the VC's money in the first place. A business that is growing exponentially creates its own gravity. Barring that, each investor will have their own priorities. For me, it is the speed of the founder's iterations and progress. That often means I meet the founders long before any serious consideration of investing (e.g., https://bothsidesofthetable.com/invest-in-lines-not-dots-611... )
Comment · 7 years ago
For visiting Yellowstone in the "off season", the main consideration is road closures.
Most Yellowstone park roads are closed from November 4 through December 14. During that time, almost all park facilities are closed. The road from the north entrance to the Mammoth Hot Springs Visitor Center remains open all year.
From mid-December through February park travel is only possible via snowmobile and snowcoach (again, except for the north entrance / Mammoth area). Then all roads close again in March.
Roads open to normal cars again starting at the end of April and into May. Snow accumulation and animal activity can keep some roads and trails closed into June.
More info from the Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/parkroads.htm
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When to visit:
Best wildlife watching: spring. Fewer people and lots of wildlife out with their young.
Best geyser watching: the hottest, cloud-free day of summer. Hot water makes lots of steam, so eruptions are more difficult to see in cold weather. Similarly, geyser eruption plumes have low color contrast with respect to clouds. Also, see: https://geysertimes.org/
On balance, best time to visit: September and October. Fewer people. Roads and trails usually open. Days can possibly be warm. Plenty of wildlife.
Comment · 7 years ago
In this batch, Juno College of Technology and Microverse both teach coding using income sharing agreements. Of course, from previous batches, Lambda School and Modern Labor are coding schools that charge via income sharing.
Comment · 7 years ago
Tensil.ai and Vorticity.xyz. If they are not both on Golden's list (I'm on mobile right now so cannot easily check), they can be found on YC's companies page. Ycombinator.com/companies
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks, Jude! From a quick scan, it seems there are quite a few companies in direct competition--particularly in: 1) incoming sharing education, 2) bespoke computer processors, 3) medical billing, and 4) recruiting software.
Comment · 7 years ago
Same config -- right inside a window. It took three layers of tiny tape squares to conceal the light on mine today. The cameras run pretty hot and the adhesive is going to make a gooey mess.
Comment · 7 years ago
Of the 500 or so pitches I have heard in the last six months in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, about ten proposed a no cap note--a few of these with a discount and a few with no discount. These were almost entirely Stanford students at a single Stanford event, so I think that was more about targeting rich alums who might wish to help new entrepreneurs at the Alma mater.
Comment · 7 years ago
I went to a YC angel investing workshop in March 2018. The lectures are all on YouTube. My takeaway was to try to independently consider deals, and not worry about herd mentality. Of course, there was a lot of material, ranging from YC partners, external angels, and VCs. There was conflicting information and advice about the decisionmaking process -- which is good, I think: the process is different for everyone.
Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aiJlRS2i_w&list=PLQ-uHSnFig...
My evaluation template for the recent YC batch: https://alanglennon.com/2019/03/15/yc-w19-template/
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