tylerhwillis

May not be a helpful comment, but investing in the US as a non-citizen is surprisingly easy. I have several investors from outside the US and they mock my US based investors who have more hoops to jump through.

The USG doesn't feel like it has to protect you, so if you want to put money here, they are more than welcome to take it. :)

(Of course, don't trust me, get a real advisor / tax advice)

I share a lot of the sentiment here, but I also think our generation is conditioned from a decade of hearing about all the newsworthy corner cases.

As an example: cops don't always make it worse, 95+% of the time they are helpful and create better outcomes for society. That said, all we've heard for the last ten years are the news stories that you mentioned - so we think of them as a negative force.

I think this same problem applies, in some capacity, to all the institutions listed here. That said, every single one of these institutions needs a massive overhaul to be a functioning member of the future (except cops, I really think you're wrong on that, they may need new priorities from the government -- but their organizational structure and methods seem to work pretty well).

Upvoted because this sounded interesting: "Our idea is simple - that anyone on your team should be able to use any iteration of your app or website with zero configuration. Awesomebox lets you create and collaborate like you would in the physical world, where it's easy to show people the real thing without having to ask someone to run code locally, install dependencies, or configure a staging server. What Heroku is to back-end development, Awesomebox is to front-end development - a platform that lets you focus on what you do best."

I couldn't find that on mobile without signing up, you might want to add that to an about or FAQ page.

Has anyone ever tried something like this? Seems like an interesting way to get a good domain for an early stage venture (pay a high but not crazy monthly with an option to buy in a year).

However, this seems to have few "brand" domains and lots of autoaccidentlawyer.com type stuff. That coupled with the fact that the guy who built it tries to hide his involvement with the site makes me think twice about using it.

It seems hard to use emotional arguments against logical decisions, and vice versa. Given that their initial decision was emotional ("I want to build something my mom will use!") it seems likely that an emotional counter-argument ("you respect me, and you're losing my respect by acting illogical") was more likely to work.

Applaud the effort, despite the data problems. In its current state I consider it more interesting than useful, but future versions could clearly be massively useful.

One thought: since many reg d filings are purposefully delayed by 1-2 months to control timing (and press) it might be more effective to analyze the time period of 9 mo ago to 3 mo ago.

May also be useful to add levels of caution (yellow is no deals in the 6 mo period, red is no deals in 12+).

Also, factoring in deviation from normal behavior would be a wonderful addition (and would remove some of the folks without much data represented)

PG has always been in favor of "ramen profitability." I've never heard him disparage revenue or think having it is indicative of being a small company.

+1, an incredibly important point. Feeling detached/disconnected from the world is one cause of depression. Feeling disconnected is a logical outcome of changing everything about your life all at once.

Changing habits/attitudes/etc. is important, but I'd try to do it incrementally - testing to see if these changes improve your experience, while focusing on maintaining and strengthening connections to things that you think make life easier/more enjoyable (could be friends/family or work or hobbies or ...)

[I'm not well versed in psychology, please take this as an idea to start your own research, and not a prescription of activity]

Good to see some of these firms get some good PR, but the metric they are judging by is number of companies in their portfolio that were acquired (IPOs aren't included). That's going to heavily favor funds that do lots of deals, and doesn't give a good indicator of whether the exits were profitable ones.

I really like this thank you page. Welcome to the team guys!