tsenkov

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I'm looking to join a startup: https://medium.com/@tsenkov/im-looking-to-join-a-startup-b5f840251a5d

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Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, thanks for the question(s)!

There are at least a couple points in your message that I wanna address.

> genuine insight is very rare and extremely hard to identify.

Insights capable of spawning billion-dollar companies are hard to come-by, indeed! But the smaller the scope of the idea - the bigger number of insights in existence that you can work on. When you can have a PMF on an idea with TAM of $100M in a matter of days, and you don't need VC money to make it happen, AND you can test it out with a rep of the target audience - isn't that something worth pursuing?

> How do you prevent Vibed from becoming a graveyard of half-baked ideas, I mean projects that are trivial, already solved, or fundamentally flawed?

I think people would genuinely not be incentivised to be posting projects for already solved problems, UNLESS the solutions are not exactly accessible to them, which in turn makes those project potentially a good idea still. We are just starting out so I'm not going to pretend I know rn how we would solve every problem we hit along the way (yet I hope we hit many and for a long time, haha), but one of the best ways for us to get the CONTENT we want - would be to work on getting the PEOPLE we need on the platform. We are also pretty well-versed with AI too, so we will be able to do a great moderation too (including a check for past projects that are similar -> thus to discourage repetition and plagiarism).

Hope that answers your question(s).

Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate you taking the time to write it - there is a lot of useful info in-here and def food for thought.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the reply. We are not keeping continuous presence in the country, just have a teammate who lives in Canada, but is from China and would like to visit family for a month or so.
Comment · 3 years ago
Does anyone know if Amazon Workspace hosted in Tokyo, could be accessed from China? Latency to AWS Japan would likely be one-of/or the lowest from China to an AWS datacenter?
Comment · 6 years ago
Perhaps someone has info on the building?
Comment · 6 years ago
That was my thought as well - basically, how do you know if the strain doesn't kill if you don't check for severe and lethal cases linked to the same strain? I understand the part about looking for specific mutations, and assuming they would indicate the "usual" complications with the deadlier strains would not be present, but mutations are not exactly predictable, right? If they don't cause the sympthoms of the current deadly strain - they may be causing something else completely, which could be as deadly a little bit later down the line - isn't this a reasonble concern, @danieltillett?
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks Ron. I will check them out.

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