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Seems more like they want all the data that ever existed for the database.

Valid question, aware of it as a response to this question, but it doesn't address the orginal question. If there's a existing notable service doing customer developement as a service, the fact they exist might provide an answer to your question.

Maybe one way to rephrase the question that might be more common might be:

Is it okay as a co-founder to let another cofounder handle customer development if they're more experienced at doing it? Or as a non-technical founder, is it okay to outsource development?

My experience is this is super common, and as such, if a solo founder is not experienced doing customer development, it would make sense at the very least get help doing customer development.

Curious, has anyone ever seen a startup that does customer development as a service?

>> "Rob Joyce, Chief, Tailored Access Operations, National Security Agency: From his role as the Chief of NSA's Tailored Access Operation, home of the hackers at NSA, Mr. Joyce will talk about the security practices and capabilities that most effectively frustrate people seeking to exploit networks."

BIO, Slides, etc: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2016/conference-prog...

Amazon wasn't listed on the PRISM partners slide. What documents are you referencing?

EDIT:

General info on PRISM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

"PRISM Partners" slide: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

"This is a private video, please provide the correct password to view."

How is the analytics done locally? If it's not, saying the data is stored locally seems potiental meaningless.

That's a huge improvement!

If you're able to fit it in the video description that would be the fastest way.

Might be worth explaining the steps in writing if you're able to do so.

Where is the data being sourced from?

This reads as click-bait, here's the original blog post and research paper by DeepMind:

"Understanding Agent Cooperation" https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13635218

Using the same two-key method, attorney–client privilege might be of use, though not sure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney–client_privilege

From the FAQs:

> How do I know my partner won't abuse my trust?

> You can't. However with Rumuki you have the discretion to only grant playbacks when you can keep an eye on them. You also have the option to revoke all playback grants and delete the recording if trust is ever lost.

From the FAQs:

> How do I know my partner won't abuse my trust?

> You can't. However with Rumuki you have the discretion to only grant playbacks when you can keep an eye on them. You also have the option to revoke all playback grants and delete the recording if trust is ever lost.

Related white paper:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g3TQsyCVHT8Z5vzqXiOJ0mZx...

Wire is not Signal, right?

>> "For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls."

For registering, is it possible to use a disposable number? If so, after the number is used for registration, is it ever required again, and exactly is it required to do?

Here's the main post that links to the video and covers at a high level what they're doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13611326

While if someone asked, I would likely disclose my startup experience, generally speaking I leave it off standard requests for information like YC's app; more interested in being judge on the matter at hand than my past.

My guess is that my pitches might be too off the wall or they have a bias against anonymous users. Or more likely, my pitch is not a good fit for YC. Who knows, as anyone that applies knows, they do not say why they decline to interview a given founder or fund them, and no one really should expect a reason for why either, that simply is unreasonable.

As for why I would apply, I am positive that I would get more value out of it than what they are taking, that I would provide a return on their investment, I love doing startups, and enjoy being around talented founders. Most of all, given I would be taking on funding, it would force me to change the way I normally fund & run startups; that being I normal do not have the objective of selling the startup or being a multi billion dollar company.

As for VCs, while I do not have anything against them and believe they provide value based on a well defined situation, I prefer to focus on doing startups, not building businesses; meaning all of my startups make money while I am working on them, when I am done, I move on to the next startup, since I value my time more than the money I would make finding a buyer, dealing with all the due diligence requests, and supporting the handoff too.

Thanks for asking, it's a few things, most of which are most likely a bias on my part.

(1) YC has a bias against solo founders; research shows this is not a signal of future success and to me it feels like I'm giving up 17-53.5% of a venture just to get in; YC gets 7% of any venture it funds and YC requires a cofounder have at least 10% equity, but suggest going 50/50.

(2) I personally don't agree with YC doing R&D and feel like this is YC admitting the yield it's getting from backing startups is under performing it doing its own thing, which to me is not a good signal.

(3) Majority of YC's billion dollar startups have all gone through a single VC; why not just deal with them directly?

(4) YC should focus on enabling mentors to expand it's deal flow.

(5) YC should have campus within 60-miles of the Bay Area with free housing, food, super-speed internet, etc. so startups don't have to spend the funds on commodities like this and are able to focus on growing. Free healthcare for a year for founders would be impressive too.

(7) I'm opinionated, largely do startups to learn, not be the next billionaire; personally, done more startups than 99% of founders, do it full-time, and have spent 15-mins plus mentoring 1000s of founders.

(8) YC should set the precedent for making the Bay Area not be the center of the universe for startups.

(9) I miss PG.

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(Above are just a few of the reasons.)

As long as the timing of the failure does not impact the potiental for success, why would you not want to fail sooner than later?

Yes, they require all the founders to be in the Bay Area from June-August 2017.

Also appears they have done away with the fellowship, which did not require a fellow to relocate.

Agree, as someone that's applied to YC multiple times in the past, I've decided that I will not be applying because I increasingly feel that there's a disconnect between YC's orginal purpose and what it's become.

For those that do not click the links...

Applications for YC Summer 2017 are open now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600594

By track the status, what exactly do you mean?

For example, they submitted an application, were rejected, meet YC, got funding, etc.

What exactly does this do? Clicked the links and it's not clear if YC is just request the community send links to the YC Application page, of if something else is going on.

As is, this is spam to me. Instead of posting an AD for your company, share something that's of use or interesting.

If I was able to do so, would you agree to allow me to publish real time any thought you're having and any information that's in your brain?

Suggest you read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect