I just went through it on my startup that has 3 people working on it.
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I think most startups with serious engineers on them will do very well on tech due diligence. I think most people complaining on here don’t really understand modern engineering or don’t fully lean into managed cloud services the right way. For example it is very easy to have geo-replicated database, automated backups/snapshots, auto scaling with functions.. on and on.
It seems like these companies are fully over valued so now they need to come up with shit to push down people’s throats for the IPOs so the investors can get out at a profit.
This is what happens when VCs keep funding these loses for a decade. We saw the same thing with Uber, pushing Uber eats as if it’s going to take over all food, meanwhile there has been like 3-5 startups already doing that at a very easy to value valuation.
Anyway, I’m not buying.
Edit: I’m referencing the following from the article
>>”He is known for making bombastic pronouncements, like this one at an all-company event last year: “There are 150 million orphans in the world. We want to solve this problem and give them a new family: the WeWork family.” In L.A., Neumann told his employees that the newly formed We Company would now have three prongs — WeWork, WeLive, and WeGrow — with a single, grandiose mission: “to elevate the world’s consciousness.””
Thanks for the great posts and for responding to comments!
Would love some feedback on choosing to raise money or not. I read this post (and many others) about having those filters ready ahead of time. The filter on raising money unfortunately I don’t have, I keep going back and fourth on that.
I have been working on an app, cross platform iOS and Android, that lets people listen to articles from the web. It uses great sounding AI ML to convert the articles to audio you can listen to in seconds.
I have been working on it for a few months have some good traction and a few paid users, working on it part time as a side project. I can’t help but feel that raising money would allow me to go full time and really concentrate while still affording my bills. The issue is VC money comes with strings.
(Shameless plug for anyone interested, the product is here https://articulu.com )
Things just keep getting better and better for AMD... it’s like once you have a little bit of luck things just keep snowballing from there.
They are on track to have an amazing year with CPUs that may take a very significant chunk of the cloud compute away from intel and then maybe even on the performance side.. it’s just fascinating that a company that almost died just a few years ago is now a big contender on multiple fronts.
Thank you for using the app, sorry that your having those issues. I will look into all of those.
Any chance you can shot an email to [email protected], so we can see the account, and let us know if your on iOS or Android. Any of the Failed URLs will also be really helpful so we can make the scraping more resilient. We are working hard to add features that help organize articles better.
Sure I follow them but their issue is it’s human read articles which is why the volume is so low.
Articles unlike books are being produced in the millions everyday and so it’s really hard to find the best pieces to read over.. which is what they have to do.
I think there is room for letting people listen to anything and AI/ML advancements allow us to get pretty damn close.
I absolutely love Audio Books, I think I went through maybe 25+ audio books, mostly non fiction, in 2018 alone. It is a fantastic way to maximize dead time, but generally I think non music audio is going through a sort of renaissance.
While the author of this post is really distraught about Amazons dominance with Audible I do think in some ways non music audio is much bigger than just Audibooks for example Podcasts are on the rise and at least for the moment they are totally open. I also think Amazons hold with audio books will be difficult to maintain especially as technology and AI gets better. Why pay them when a great sounding AI could read your book to you.
As a little shameless self promotion I have been working on a side project that does exactly this, it takes any Article or PDF from the web and converts it to great sounding audio so you can listen to it on the go. It sounds pretty good, and it’s a great way to maximize your dead time and stay informed on the go.
If you want to check out my project you can find it here:
>>You've got 276.5 out of a maximum of 330 points.
I think most startups with serious engineers on them will do very well on tech due diligence. I think most people complaining on here don’t really understand modern engineering or don’t fully lean into managed cloud services the right way. For example it is very easy to have geo-replicated database, automated backups/snapshots, auto scaling with functions.. on and on.