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i work at andreessen horowitz, i'll throw this up the ladder and see what happens
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > YOSPOS > post the most worthless kickstarters and greatest investor rewards you got
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Ian McLean posted:So... do you guys actually think I might have a shot if I ramp up this profile and seriously put some effort into it? https://angel.co/statpedia lol yeah the low effort profile was your problem, def
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ian, buddy, pal i literally just read all your posts in this thread i don't think you understand this forum in the slightest.
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JosephStalinVEVO posted:i work at andreessen horowitz, i'll throw this up the ladder and see what happens Wow. Thank you so much.
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Oct 8, 2012 23:26
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ian i will work for free, please assign me a task
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im sad eeen went int ocomputers instead of finance bc i would have loved to eat him alive and take all his and his family's money some day
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got dat wmd posted:im sad eeen went int ocomputers instead of finance bc i would have loved to eat him alive and take all his and his family's money some day maybe when he pulls another 180 and does a phd in finance (you can do that right) you'll get your chance
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Guido van Possum posted:ian i will work for free, please assign me a task Okay. What is your email? Mine is ian@statpedia.com I can get you in touch with the other developers. Right now the main priorities is using something like python beautiful soup html parcer to drag any object from a website into the search display preview box. Then when they click on the object within search display they are directed to the webpage. There are also lots of tiny bugs in the table creator, and also figuring out how to sync in some functionality for uploading, excel/google doc sheets like the stuff within openheatmap I contacted stattransfer about using their program on statpedia, and they said no at the moment. JawnV6's comments on the election polling stuff is something that could also be done.
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i'm gonna assume you're genuine even though i think you're not so i only have one question a single question for you mr. mclean how on earth did you find this specific thread
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you mean you dont gis urself to j/o? cospop probably piqued his curiosity
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Ian McLean posted:So... do you guys actually think I might have a shot if I ramp up this profile and seriously put some effort into it? https://angel.co/statpedia no, because your silly website is a stupid idea to begin with
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Ian McLean posted:Wow. Thank you so much. welp, i just got fired. i showed your prospectus to marc and he fired me on the spot, told me to clear my poo poo out immediately. then as i was cleaning out my desk, he stood on a desk and shouted to the entire office that if anyone, ANYONE, ever brought him such a stupid idea again, he'd fire their entire team.
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jesus christ ian how many lives is statpedia going to ruin before you shut it down
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Ian McLean posted:I was there in 2008. yeah that coincides. curious though, i didnt think kings offered single-year exchanges for visiting students at UG level. how did u enjoy your tripos
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Ian McLean posted:So... do you guys actually think I might have a shot if I ramp up this profile and seriously put some effort into it? https://angel.co/statpedia 100% serious: in order to get interest on angel.co you would need to put substantially more into your pitch than you did for kickstarter. you would need to address the question i asked earlier, "what is the point of statpedia?" ie why does the average user care about it? if you're asking rich ppl to give you millions of dollars they will also want to know how you plan to eventually make money off your idea, bc they are betting on long-shots, not on ideas with 0% chance of ever making them money off their investment. you might also want to explain how you can possibly compete with larger, more established players like google or wolfram, bc if a "statpedia" type service became profitable, you can bet other people would be trying to copy your idea, and a lot of them will have enough experience and resources to do it far better than you, and in far less time than you. if you don't have some patent or special secret algorithm or some other specialized capability that protects your business model, you will be steamrolled by someone larger as soon as your site takes off. finally, you would need to demonstrate some track record of success, bc having a good idea is not the same as being able to execute it. having taken courses at UC Irvine is, sadly, not enough to demonstrate that you can successfully build and run a business, not even a bullshit web 2.0 business. to be 100% honest i don't think you can do any of the things i listed above. at best you might find some experienced dude on that site willing to give you some pointers to improve your game, but judging by your response to criticism in this thread, that would be a waste of time as well.
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Ian McLean posted:Okay. What is your email? Mine is ian@statpedia.com I can get you in touch with the other developers. 
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Ian can you employ me, I can clean pretty good with a mop
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Milkie Galore posted:yeah that coincides. curious though, i didnt think kings offered single-year exchanges for visiting students at UG level. how did u enjoy your tripos oxford is poo poo
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ian please stop posting you are an embarassment to our alma mater (UCI) you are The Worst Anteater e: Also if you gave a poo poo about this during undergrad you would have participated in the god drat business plan competition we have here which hooks you up with angel investors so you don't have to be a gross internet hobo. SporkOfTruth fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Oct 9, 2012 |
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There's a statistic I want to know, can you look into putting it on statpedia Ian. What proportion of idea men with no experience and no relevant skills profit from their idea? For extra credit, the proportion who make more money than if they'd spent their genius time at Taco Bell instead of having ideas.
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what will statpedia do that gapminder isn't already on
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ian, who do you think is going to use statpedia? because academics aren't going to touch it with a bargepole. so you're basically aiming at lazy journalists, and people who need one more useless "fact" to pad out their latest tedious fwd: fwd: fwd: email
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Nomnom Cookie posted:There's a statistic I want to know, can you look into putting it on statpedia Ian. What proportion of idea men with no experience and no relevant skills profit from their idea? For extra credit, the proportion who make more money than if they'd spent their genius time at Taco Bell instead of having ideas. taco bell idea guy 
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tef posted:oxford is poo poo im posting with a purpose here tef
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Ian McLean posted:JawnV6's comments on the election polling stuff is something that could also be done. uhh... no people were goddamn nuts about polls 1-3 weeks ago. it was seriously the focus of an entire news cycle, and you could've positioned yourself fantastically for armchair wonks who fantasize about being nate silver had you set it up then buuuuuut you didn't. why not, idk, but you didn't. the debate happened, everyone moved on from unskewed polls, and while there's a smidge of interesting polls coming out, it's basically the media being lovely and doing whatever they can to paint it as a dead heat by doing nationwide polls with RV's instead of likely voter models and hiding their crosstabs so just to reiterate, your window for doing this closed and won't be open for another 4 years. can you get it done in 4 years?
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ian why does your profile say "studied at UCI" when you're like 4 weeks into the first quarter? those are misleading and deceptive business practices dawg
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Milkie Galore posted:im posting with a purpose here tef sorry man 
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im not racist or anything, but what's Ians deal? i mean, let's be honest with ourselves here.
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SporkOfTruth posted:gross internet hobo mods, etc.
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JawnV6 posted:jesus christ ian how many lives is statpedia going to ruin before you shut it down Ian, we are suffering as dogs
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ian why don't you just apply to a ycombinator also lol rufo you were in middle school or something in 2008 don't act
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Oct 9, 2012 03:07
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I don't like that image. Please take it down. I create flavor.
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Resplendent Spiral posted:what will statpedia do that gapminder isn't already on Lol I was waiting for this
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ZYNGA FLAVOR SAVER posted:
I don't know.... who's going to debunk that video...? On ycombinator. Updating profile.
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Ian McLean posted:This guy is an interesting fellow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29oXQHh-U4 i have to believe this is a troll but if not, please share this important crank video with your physics professors ASAP so they know exactly how retarded you are and don't feel bad when they inevitably fail you
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that guy really *slurp* smacks his lips *slup* a lot *phthalp* while talking *blorphsh*
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Ian, you should get in touch with consultant and forums poster barbarianbob, we've all seen the really good work he does optimizing web-facing data services like yours.
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Ian McLean posted:I don't like that image. Please take it down. I create flavor. what kind of flavor do you create
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