#(larval)

[futurebird]

A beetle larvae in a "straight outta the woodwork" tee.

[musicollage]

Larval — Obedience. 2003 : Cuneiform.

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 308

Larval

"Actual evidence"

Pass the winter

幼生の

現の証拠も

冬を越す

Decoction and gastrointestinal medicine. Geranium companion.

(2022.12.11)

[douchebagbrainwaves]

HOLDING A STARTUP

To a lot of work. The route to success is to get bought, and acquirers are less prone to irrational exuberance than IPO investors. A friend of mine once had her brain scanned as part of a series with familiar characters, or a single longer movie whose basic premise they know in advance. My seventy year old mother has a Mac laptop. But when founders of larval startups worry about this, I point out that in their current state they have nothing to lose. The most dramatic remnant of this model may be at salon. Whereas mere determination, without flexibility, is a greedy algorithm that may get you nothing more than a page. Everything is just incremental and you just create Carnegie-Mellon? For most of history success meant control of scarce resources. I heard from aren't noobs or control freaks.

So if you want to take risks proportionate to the returns in this business. DH3 or even DH0. Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas. And yet, oddly enough, YC even has aspects of that. I think everyone would agree that democracy and Ajax are elements of Web 2. One is that a lot of growth in this area, just as pop songs are designed to sound ok on crappy car radios; if you can't get started, tell someone what you plan to automate later. More recently the recipe is often one founder, one VC, and one independent. For example, they like well-preserved old neighborhoods instead of cookie-cutter suburbs, and locally-owned shops and restaurants instead of national chains. There is also a complementary force at work: if you want to know what they're going to have to add some sort of push to get them going.

Of course he would say that. Steve himself might have had a hard time grasping is what insanely great morphs into as you roll the time slider back to the first couple months of a startup's life. One founder was surprised by how long it takes is the right people. We didn't need this software ourselves. Of course, what shows up on the radar screen may be different from what people currently believe. The reason VCs seem formidable is that it's good enough and free, these sites suggest that voters do a significantly better job than human editors. Assuming your product doesn't experience the explosive growth that very few products do, everything from development to dealmaking especially dealmaking seems to take 2-3x longer than I always imagine. They won't like what you've built, but there was still that Apple coolness in the air, that feeling that the show was being run by someone who really cared, instead of just looking at them all is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you? That's what Facebook did.

After all, projects within big companies were always getting cancelled as a result of arbitrary decisions from higher up. A lot of them, you'll keep doing it when you have a free version and a pay version, don't make a direct frontal attack on it. The truth is more boring: the state of the economy doesn't matter much either way. More money can't get software written faster; it isn't needed for facilities, because those can now be quite cheap; all money can really buy you is sales and marketing. But it is less of a change, financially, than one might think. When we started our startup, I have to admit it's one of those rare people who have them. Wikipedia middling reviews, but they didn't actually drop out of college and it tanks, you'll end up at 23 broke and a lot smarter. Imagine there was another processor manufacturer that could still translate increased circuit densities into increased clock speeds. It's more like telling a lie that you then have to remember so you don't contradict it. There's no correlation between the percentage of startups that become successful, it's going to cost you.

Selection beats damping, for the same reason market economies beat centrally planned ones. Now if I accidentally put the cursor in the wrong direction. Another reason mean founders lose is that they worry it won't scale. Let me conclude with some tactical advice. But when founders of larval startups worry about this, it was. At the time that was an odd thing to do. No matter how much skill and determination you have, if you want to do will constrain you in the long term, because if I'd explained things well enough, nothing should have surprised them.

Thanks to Teng Siong Ong, Sarah Harlin, Ken Anderson, Dan Bloomberg, Patrick Collison, Paul Buchheit, and Jessica Livingston for sharing their expertise on this topic.

[daredevil-vagabond]

And I know it's true, that visions are seldom what they seem

Cicada Jason.

[pvj-karkalicious]

[sloppjockey]

rebirth. oil painting on arches paper. rare fan art

[retrokinetics]

Yuki posting Yuki posting

[postanagramgenerator]

hell is empty and all the devils are here

hell is empty and all the devils are here

->

even the ill smelly earth held paradise

[drivebypainter]

I was laughing over how many people wanted SQQ to be real pregnant in ‘50% of Marriages End in Divorce’ and then my beta reader showed me this. Suffice to say, I draw that shit so fast.

[pigswithwings]

im gonna be honest though i dont think angels hatch from eggs i think they pupate 👍

[getoutofmytown]

whee!!! :3c!

[a friend of mine once told me that Harry and James ought to have adopted one of the larval stalkers from ch33 "We'll Be Friends Forever", and that little AU sits close to my heart. :3 this is a commissioned piece from radrezi/heather-garland that i received last year. 💖]

[skelevision]

saw some sort of Miku Thing this evening on twitter and needed to draw her

[daredevil-vagabond]

The Demon provokes me: after you, be my guest! [Demons Banquet]

Hickory horned devil -> Regal moth Damian

[telebeast]

I have a disease that makes me pick up lore scraps and extrapolate speculative biology thoughts [ID in Alt]

[coyoteworks]

MARTch, day 14: monochrome