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cvander

164 karma · joined September 22, 2009

Co-Founder of Platzi Interested in Education + Livestreaming + Tech
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cvander··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
Thanks for building in public Lukas.
cvander··on YC Lessons From Two Latin Americans Who Walked Into Silicon Valley
Every case is different. Contacting a lawyer is the best advice to avoid getting distracted. You will anyway, but try to delegate as much as possible. Some countries have special quotas in the H1B, others have the NAFTA, some founders might do E2, others L1s, etc. And all the knowledge from achieving this is a good line to start a conversation with other international founders.
cvander··on I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
Silicon Valley is very open to risk-taking Mexicans willing to do the program in Mountain View.
cvander··on Live RethinkDB course on Platzi
Hi, Christian from Platzi here. We'll include an email/password login for future classes. Thanks for asking.
cvander··on Live Sails.js Course
We're working on more options. Should we include github or an email/password login first?
cvander··on Live Sails.js Course
Christian from Platzi. We're creating livestreamed classes with great companies doing stuff for devs, designers and makers. We've had Sam Altman talking about Startups and the guys from Gitlab. Today we have Mike McNeil teaching Sails.js. What else would you like to learn?
cvander··on Y Combinator Startup Class – Live with Sam Altman
The Startup Class has amazing contents. Sam wanted to share new ideas from a recent post using our live streaming platform.
cvander··on Y Combinator Startup Class – Live with Sam Altman
Hi, Christian from Platzi here. You're right, we'll update to include an email login option for future courses. Thanks for the feedback.
cvander··on Tell HN: Happy New Year
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cvander··on What Happened in 2014?
Facebook is doing video very good and very quiet. We're getting more views on a native videpost in facebook with less likes than from youtube with more subscribers. Part of this is because of the auto-play in the newsfeed.
cvander··on Stripe SQLite data exports beta
Cool work with Mastering Modern Payments too. Just found out about your work and will check the repo for some customized reports.
cvander··on Lecture 20: Later-Stage Advice
20 videos already. Great work. 17/20.
cvander··on Lyft for Work
Uber business is a good approach. But you'll get individual bills for every trip.

I hope Lyft gets you one consolidated bill a month for the company.

cvander··on Startup School 2014 Recap and Videos
Thanks again for such an inspiring event. Sharing the playlist with some friends.
cvander··on Why I Love Startup School
Thanks for the great Work Jessica. An amazing experience, great people and speakers. I fly from NY and found a bunch of people from around the world also traveling to California for the experience.
cvander··on YC Startup School Live Notes
Wan to borrow my laptop for a while to post the written notes? ;) I'm in the back.
cvander··on Insights from 6 hours of YC Mock Interviews
Good advice. Thanks.
cvander··on What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview
Just emailed the story to my cofounder to scare him off a little.

Thanks for sharing.

cvander··on Apple has lost their legal claim to the iPhone name in Mexico
Seems like the legal department of Apple is busy lately.
cvander··on SXSW in Vegas
Great venue. And flights are cheaper than Austin too.
cvander··on Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
It was about time.

I wonder if they get more viewers than Redbull on Youtube.

cvander··on Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby
I loved the program and the proposal.

As for the form, how about asking for HN users or githut accounts. They say more than a cover letter.

And was I the only one that didn't really got excited with the video? I rather get more leadership from the mentors when selling the idea.

cvander··on Ryanair now presents you with a Recaptcha every time you search for a flight
Amazing to throw away more and more usability in their platform and still retain customers because their price scheme is cheap.

I guess their budget is not good enough to hire a good programer. I wonder if the CEO hire his nephew, the one with some frontpage/dreamweaver skills for the job.

cvander··on Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
He had the opportunity to remain silent for sure.
cvander··on How much traffic being on a Google doodle gives
This remind me about SEO and Spain. Several spanish SEOs thought about this and started building landing pages to target future doodles. And this eventually killed links to search results in doodles in google.es ;) I'm not sure if the limit still aplies after Panda and if other country specific googles have the same regulations.
cvander··on SingleHop Are Cheats
Good discovery. Let's see if they change the practice or if you get more webhosting companies to notice.
cvander··on Noca - Payments Simplified
Competition is always welcomed in this market. Don't know how much users are going to use checks instead of a card, and the example only seems good in prices comparing agains authorize and paypal for small transactions, not big ones.
cvander··on Spotify for movies
It's called netflix :P

And spotify might enter the movie business itself. http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/28/spotify-lands-major-studio-...

cvander··on Every generation gets the self-help guru it deserves
Every startup could use a co-founder like Tim Ferris to make a project become mainstream.

Don't get me wrong. I read some of his books and didn't change my life. But it made me think harder about how to promote and sell my ideas and myself.

cvander··on Show HN: Cilantro ("About.me for restaurants"). Feedback wanted.
I like the approach of your project. I love cooking as a hobby and had been researching tons of websites from restaurants, food and wine products. That market has a huge opportunity but we need to focus in the details, in inspiring those restaurants about the web and good practices.

Much has been written about flash websites and how chefs want to do a show in their website. And now with social media they're happier having likes and tweets than something handsome.

About the website, my main critic is about the landing page. It's missing more magic. And I know that this could be very generic, but Cilantro is something amazing, something magic that you add to your recipes when they need that extra ingredient to be perfect. You need to get that love for Cilantro and show it in the website.

In fact, all the contents above the fold don't captivate. But when you go down to the gray area, I like the design better. Even when that's something that compliments the website. You need amazing examples, you need metrics. Teach restaurants about web metrics, about a A/B. Unbounced is trying for the rest of us, somebody could start doing niche markets.

Great project!

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