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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Google also likely has the best computer vision experts, datasets, and algorithms on the planet. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap? Microsoft has been working on this for about a decade.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Today with algorithms we have a secret black box. Just like last century, corporations claim they can’t tell us what’s inside their algorithms as it’s ‘a trade secret’. I’ll add that they do actually make editorial decisions when they filter content through algorithms.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Id then allow digg style voting up of stories in order to bubble things up to the top page of the site. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic. Its on hold right now, the site thats up is probably 2 years old now with no fresh data. Very good points all around.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Fun does not include ERP or accounting or any other algorithmically non interesting character shuffling or dynamically generated SQL queries, so that you can collect micropayments from already broke teens.

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