kylered's comments

we measured this at our last startup anonymously; seems there is some research behind it. we didn't have enough data points to really gather much meaning out of it though.

http://www.aamga.org/files/hr/MetaAnalysis_Q12_WhitePaper_20...

Not sarcastic... I didn't know about FlashFill. I looked at the videos, and it seems that it's not as powerful as this tool. In excel the results would be a custom cell format combined with custom text functions.

I hope you sell your IP to Microsoft Excel. This would be a major time saver feature for a lot of the Excel world.

I wrote a post about this same issue a year ago. It's sad that debt is fueling the growth of administration staff.

Some interesting charts are here:

http://kylethered.tumblr.com/post/37790176790/data-says-high...

Good stuff!

Looks like a clone of https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/throwdown-fitness-community/...

Thanks for the information!

I've started a successful event series in the fitness space, so I know a little about event promotion and operations. I was more interested in the communities that would like to get involved in this.

Our current event company runs events in 30 major markets in the US, so it can be based anywhere. I'd probably do the first one in the mid-Atlantic, but would quickly organize a others in the Bay Area/Austin/Charlotte markets if things went well.

So, first event, in DC/Richmond area?

If you want to get involved, email me. It's [email protected].

I think the meetups and small events are great, but they are really geared towards people who are super enthusiasts, not those people who want a more casual, approachable racing event. Just some thoughts.

Thanks for all the great feedback! Keep it coming!

What are current drone racing events missing?

I've built GIS databases w/ parcel data, owner data, tax data and zoning layers of high growth Virgnia and North Carolina jurisdiction. It's a very time consuming and ad hoc process. Some jurisdictions charge a lot of money for this data. If anyone has any interest in exploring a parcel based CRM startup concept, contact me. There is a lot of demand for this service. I have a few paying consulting customers and thinking about building it into a SaaS tool to power real estate development.

one of the best articles with interesting commentary on the subject:

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/01/robert-farago/marin...

In case anyone is interested, we open sourced this one about a year ago: https://github.com/VividCortex/johnny-deps

In case anyone is interested, we open sourced a process manager and web interface a few months ago.

https://github.com/VividCortex/pm https://github.com/VividCortex/pm-web

VividCortex - Charlottesville, VA and Montevideo, Uruguay (FT or INTERN)

TL:DR - Go, Angular, Database Performance Management

Systems Programming

Our agents, backend systems, and infrastructure are all written in Go (it's awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL and other technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment.

Operations and System Administration

We’re hosted in Amazon AWS and looking for people who do developer and sysops types of work — writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Ansible code, and so on.

Front End Development

The web app is backed by a small amount of PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by Angular and D3.js, CSS (Less), and HTML5. There’s a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex single-page user interface with rich data visualization that’s key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We need people who can work in Angular, D3, design, styling, and so forth.

ya, we've had some complaints about that. sorry.

we don't have a reserved pricing structure yet, but we will in the near future :)

and an overview... https://vividcortex.com/blog/2014/04/03/vividcortex-quick-to...

Did you smoke peyote?

VividCortex - Charlottesville, VA - MySQL Database Performance Management

Positions for both summer interns and fulltime available.

https://vividcortex.com/jobs/

Systems Programming

Our agents, backend systems, and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL and other technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment.

Operations and System Administration

We’re hosted in Amazon AWS and looking for people who do developer and sysops types of work — writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Ansible code, and so on.

Front End Development

The web app is backed by a small amount of PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by Angular and D3.js, CSS (Less), and HTML5. There’s a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex single-page user interface with rich data visualization that’s key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We need people who can work in Angular, D3, design, styling, and so forth.

Looks great! You are making a big assumption with linear, fixed COGS scaling. I will probably use this, as it's a great document, but I'm going to add some more flexibility for COGS line items.

I wish AWS bills scaled like that :)

hipchat, github, google hangout, waffle.io, google docs, chatbot

Few questions...

Does this give YC an ability to set a lower cap because it has reduced the investor upside in a forced conversion?

If I were an entrepreneur, would I continue to raise multiple safe rounds and keep pushing the cap on the safe up? That would make the most financial sense to me as an entrepreneur. I'm not sure investors would want that, but it creates a large incentive for the entrepreneur.

Why is a forced conversion bad? I always thought a timeline was a good incentive to create value for investors, and to optimize around timing your fundraise with your cap amount.

How do you compensate investors for time value money if the deal takes a long time to get to the next round when there is no forced conversion or accrued component?

VividCortex - Charlottesville, VA - MySQL Database Performance Management

Positions for both summer interns and fulltime available.

https://vividcortex.com/jobs/

Systems Programming

Our agents, backend systems, and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL and other technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment.

Operations and System Administration

We’re hosted in Amazon AWS and looking for people who do developer and sysops types of work — writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Ansible code, and so on.

Front End Development

The web app is backed by a small amount of PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by Angular and D3.js, CSS (Less), and HTML5. There’s a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex single-page user interface with rich data visualization that’s key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We need people who can work in Angular, D3, design, styling, and so forth.