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judegomila

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CEO and Founder of Golden. Entrepreneur and early stage investor in 170+ companies, Co-founder Heyzap YCW09 - sold to Fyber in 2016.

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judegomila··on Beyond Helium
Agreed. It would need another material wrapping it or a better aerogel, those materials probably don't exist yet.
judegomila··on Reinventing the Airline Industry
So some good design problems to tackle.

1. Can we make cylinders with lightweight materials with sockets to join to the main plane. It doesn't have to be container boxed shape to be containerized.

2. Can we make Aeron style chairs withstand 16G. A kelvar mesh might be able to hold this G force. I'm not suggesting strapping actual Aeron chairs in there.

3. Good data. Looking forward to testing out the acoustic engineering on the 787

judegomila··on I made $200K and PayPal locked my account
This happened to me back in 2007, contact me for tactics.
judegomila··on ZenPayroll raises seed round from the Mt. Rushmore of Valley entrepreneurs
I've been using crappy Paychex for 4 years. Sometimes their software doesn't even work in any (yes any) of the current browsers. Their support wanted me to downgrade my browser to an older version of IE9 so that I could run their software error free. Could not use Chrome, Firefox or Safari and Microsoft had moved onto IE10 at the time. Time for change. Time for disruption.
judegomila··on The Curious Field of Metamaterials
You are correct. I just removed the word "periodic".
judegomila··on The Curious Field of Metamaterials
Black blob in the case of the EM "black hole". Invisible in the case of the standard cloak.
judegomila··on The Curious Field of Metamaterials
Thanks Javert. Corrected. Can you ping me if you see any other mistakes via email?
judegomila··on The Curious Field of Metamaterials
Xiang Zhang from NSEC at Berkeley has been working on super lenses for bio sensing purposes.
judegomila··on How to Name your Company
Just a prediction there...
judegomila··on How to Name your Company
Useful.
judegomila··on How to Name your Company
You should be able to pull off a great name in 1 day. Heroku is a great name: abstracted, unique, interesting and developer related. Ebay is also a great name.
judegomila··on How to Name your Company
Agreed there are exceptions! We need an xkcd sketch for this....
judegomila··on Synthetic biology is heading for the cloud
"Synthetic Biology - a primer" http://www.amazon.com/Synthetic-Biology-Paul-S-Freemont/dp/1...
judegomila··on Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox
I'm sure the competition commission in Europe will have something to say about this. Maybe a small $X billion fine or so.
judegomila··on MMO Asteroids
Add a tweet / FB share button :>
judegomila··on MMO Asteroids
This is great. An MMO pong would be fun...
judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
Launch it. Worst case scenario is that you become second place in modern warfare 3 global rankings.
judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
I'm thinking more interactive than Khan Academy.

Health focused YC clones are out there, there are no bio tech focused ones though.

On the Etsy for IP. I never felt much of a community with stock photo websites. I suppose this site would pull together all forms of IP under the platform.

In general, I think in the startup space, even subtle variation on the idea and positioning (given great execution) can lead to a winning startup.

judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
I'm not a fan of the model either. But someone will do it. Looks like Douglas Merrill is already on it with $73m in funding.
judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
I would also love to see more startups in this area. It would be amazing to open biology to every engineer on the planet. I'm thinking of a arduino like revolution but for biology. Achieving read/write cells for under $1000 on the desktop would open up biology to an entire new set of people. I'm not a biologist, but I'm intrigued by what we can unlock in this field.

OpenPCR is a good example of frugal engineering applied to the space. I hope to see more attempts at making this hardware cheaper and accessible.

Regarding the spec on the Database. User friendliness would be a start, can you throw in what you would want to improve - I'm interested in your ideas?

The company "ion torrent" caught my eye regarding the in vitro DNA sequencing. It disrupts Halcyon Molecular and could cut the cost down even quicker.

judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
The disruption to the currency risk also applies to china, india, russia etc. By having information control upfront this could actually be a smart way for the US to dominate global currency.
judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
I added some fun ones in there as well...though OpenPCR have made really good headway on the cheap desktop bio hardware front.
judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
You could fire it at some of the older satellites?
judegomila··on 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
You would need to take on some mass from space. The satellite would have a post launch snack.
judegomila··on New Heyzap Update Puts Your Favorite Android Games Up Front
We charge for non incentivized installs of games. We have some of the biggest game developers in the world as customers paying us right now. If you are interested please get in touch.
judegomila··on AT&T has a fiberoptic splitter copying our data to NSA
I was walking past the building wondering why they had .mil style no windows for such a large building. Other exchanges I had visited had windows. If we had collectively given the NSA rights to check our data, this would be ok. We didn't give them the rights. Think of the insider trading, that could be occurring by corrupt NSA officials.
judegomila··on HeyZap (YC 09) Goes After Social Discovery, Launches Check-in For Mobile Games
What's interesting is that we're going to see lots of sub graphs form outside of Facebook to solve the specific issues. Examples, Quora, twitter, foursquare, instagram, socialcam, heyzap
judegomila··on Heyzap (YC 09) Launches Android App for Discovering & Checking In to Games
iOS vs. android: opportunities and constraints has been an interesting game in heyzap for the last couple of months.
judegomila··on Who's hiring interns?
Heyzap is

www.heyzap.com/jobs

judegomila··on NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’
I lost 15 pounds in 4 hours after buying the book. This was uk currency though.

- it's an entertaining read.

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