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Thu Dec 17 17:16:47 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> My sophomore year of college I was a neuroscience major and my plan was to unlock the secrets of the mind and universe. Then I realized that the path of grad school, professor, grants, and incremental research wouldn?t be a great way to pursue this goal. At the same time, I read Paul Graham?s essay on How to Start a Startup. I felt a strong sense of ?I could do this!? and ?making a lot of money from a startup
Thu Dec 17 14:35:05 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "We built like crazy. That?s the thing about us engineers; if you give us something interesting to build, we will forget everything else and just build. Our first prototype, which automated lights, was ready in 45 days. The second prototype, which could automate lights, fans, ACs and water heaters was out in another month. This is really fast according to hardware standards." << i wish i could disagree.
Thu Dec 17 14:32:34 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Let me back-track a few months to give you some background. In July, we started building smart internet connected switches that learn from user behavior and automate all the electronic appliances in a home. We felt that it?s a pity that our search results and news feed are personalized to us but our homes, where we spend most of our time, are not."
Thu Dec 17 14:23:07 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> Perhaps if someone customized the clothing for them? Like a designer? But that?s actually what UDesign? would have been all about. By employing a naturally occurring genetic algorithm, spurned by the social interactions of users actively generating the plethora of patterns (some bad, some good, and some ugly) available on the edge of our very own little creative ?adjacent possible,? to borrow the term from Amer
Thu Dec 17 13:54:04 UTC 2015 <adlai> !s mpoe sleeps
Thu Dec 17 00:42:34 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> 'That Google approves the javascript in AMP is a tradeoff. You want the javascript to be minified, secure, compact, and standardized. But you also want new things in AMP and there?s an open process for that.' <<< ahahahahaha
Wed Dec 16 22:05:53 UTC 2015 <jurov> !s photovoltaics ascii
Wed Dec 16 21:27:33 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> "Heiniger?s call-to-arms, reproduced in at least one local paper, predicts that solar farms could shift land use to such an extent that ?it is highly unlikely this land will ever be farmed again.? Heiniger also denounced solar energy as a government-subsidized boondoggle that is ?highly inefficient at producing energy.?"
Wed Dec 16 20:46:52 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> !s meni rosenfeld
Wed Dec 16 20:41:30 UTC 2015 <kakobrekla> !s Decred
Wed Dec 16 18:59:07 UTC 2015 <assbot> Why It’s Over For Litecoin | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/227WNhV )
Wed Dec 16 18:25:24 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 16-12-2015 18:17:06; mircea_popescu: not having owe's own horse i could see, on the grounds that, well... it;'s the town.
Wed Dec 16 18:17:06 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> not having owe's own horse i could see, on the grounds that, well... it;'s the town.
Wed Dec 16 17:42:03 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> !s axenic mouse
Wed Dec 16 17:37:51 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> !s princeton review
Wed Dec 16 16:58:13 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> So what was it? Did we just pick the wrong videographer? Did we pay too much for what was being offered? Should we have paid more for a more experienced videographer? Or significantly less for someone of equal calibre? Maybe our product just didn?t need a video? I mean, we?re selling women?s clothing and the items themselves are undoubtedly ?out there?. Perhaps leveraging word of mouth would have proved just
Wed Dec 16 16:55:14 UTC 2015 <punkman> "No one is in charge; it’s visibly decaying. Megatons of it, irrelevant, incapable of restoration, the walking dead…the House of Usher."
Wed Dec 16 16:35:19 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> We had a user acquisition problem, and the best route involved a competitor?The best acquisition method I saw was tapping into an existing network of people who had filed 1099s: like Intuit?s hundreds of millions of tax returns, many with 1099 income. Unfortunately, Intuit released an identical competing product to us. It?s not ideal when your best user acquisition strategy is partnering with a company who has a
Wed Dec 16 16:33:39 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> Escribano said that the company?s main problem was user engagement and retention. ?In every marketplace you have the chicken-and-egg problem with buyers and sellers. We tried to capture them both organically and via paid marketing, but it wasn?t enough. Getting sellers was somewhat easy, but buyers much more complicated?
Wed Dec 16 16:32:08 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> ?We knew acquisition was the best course of action,? says [Evan] Graj. That eventually led to Dine In being approached in February by a major Internet company active in the online food space, and it?s my understanding that by April ? and significant legal fees later ? a sale had been agreed. Then at the eleventh hour the deal unexpectedly fell through, leaving the restaurant delivery startup ?high and dry