I've had a setup like this since the start of covid and it's what inspired me to seed https://opalcamera.com/ (because they built a pro-sumer webcam for $300)
Readit Newskn0thing commented on Using a "proper" camera as a webcam tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ltratt
kn0thing commented on Twilio, Asana to List on Long Term Stock Exchange wsj.com/articles/twilio-a... · Posted by u/rayshan
kn0thing commented on How to Succeed with a Startup [video] blog.ycombinator.com/sam-... · Posted by u/CyrusL
I find Sam Altman's advice on startup completely and utterly useless. They're akin to the "How to become a millionaire" books. I've said this in the past [1] that providing generic advice doesn't work for startups. Every company is unique and they have unique challenges. Instead, Sam should be focusing on bringing stories of various startups in light, interview their founders and have a focused discourse on what worked and what didn't for that __particular__ startup.
I want more stories from Loopt. It was ahead of its time and I know he learned a lot from his time as a startup CEO (before joining YC) that we rarely hear about.
kn0thing commented on At Initialized Capital, Odd Couple Looks to Do VC Differently forbes.com/sites/alexkonr... · Posted by u/prostoalex
Your citation is fake news; that footage is after I first saw her.
This is the moment when I first saw her: https://www.instagram.com/p/BP09-HFA-mb/
I wish you had the courage to re-post your previous comment. But more to the point -- this is Hacker News in 2018?
kn0thing commented on At Initialized Capital, Odd Couple Looks to Do VC Differently forbes.com/sites/alexkonr... · Posted by u/prostoalex
How often do VC firms develop their own tech to drive research? Just curious what the split might be between firms that follow the lead of others vs firms that due their own research.
I would love to know this, but also how often VC firms build their own tech to improve their daily processes and workflow, as well as develop their community of founders.
kn0thing commented on At Initialized Capital, Odd Couple Looks to Do VC Differently forbes.com/sites/alexkonr... · Posted by u/prostoalex
I think the point here is, a Founder-VC is better than a traditional VC because the Founder-VC understands ”the life and art of being in the trenches”.
And we ship. It's hard to unlearn solving problems via software when you've done it, especially at scale successfully, and it makes everyone at the org (and soon in the founder network) more effective and frankly happier doing their jobs.
kn0thing commented on Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams guilded.gg/v2... · Posted by u/iEchoic
I wrote about this Guilded update for the Initialized blog, because I'm so enamored with this product that probably would have saved me from needing to learn a lot of HTML two decades ago. It did serve me well, though... but I'd have rather been playing Q2CTF
https://medium.com/initialized-capital/if-guilded-had-existe...