I'm up at 5:25 anyway (even when not working), works for me! I've never had a job that worked from 9am-5pm anyway. Instead of I've worked 6am-2pm, 7am-3:30pm, 7:30amm-4:00pm, 7pm-4am, and then all the random retail hours.
But how many startups receive any appreciable amount of VC money? How many are operating on the savings of the founder(s) and/or money from family and friends rounds? How many founders are going into personal debt to fund their startup?
And how many of them that do raise funds go crazy on a hiring spree once they get any remotely reasonable funding, while not having a functional product or a remotely sustainable user base?
According to Crunchbase only 1 in 3 startups even make it to Series A (between 2011 and 2018, the % was fairly consistent each year)
Looking at "funding data from around 15,600 U.S.-based technology companies founded between 2003 and 2013" TechCrunch comes to the conclusion that only about 40% that close a Pre-Series A round make it to a Series A.
I don't know if it has been shared in this thread but Mark Rober did a video earlier this year about drones actively doing medical deliveries in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU
That you don't want people with suicidal ideations flying planes.
There are plenty of medicines that warn against operating motor vehicles or heavy machinery, off the top of my head some blood pressure meds like Losartan and HCTZ because they can make you dizzy/prone to blacking out. I imagine there's similar logic here for pilots.
But, won't most anything startups be out of business in 3 years?
Data from the BLS shows that:
"approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more."
I'm guessing because a Google search of "Adderall side effects" immediately returned this:
"Rare but severe side effects of Adderall can include emotional instability, psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular events. Adderall misuse can lead to seizures and death."
Doesn't surprise me, they didn't give me a cost of living increase for over a decade and new hires were making almost as much as I was when I quit after 15 and a half years (office job), along with about half the office quitting within a year.
>Wow! Reddit as a business does a disservice to mods by not compensating them for the effort they put in to keep these communities safe and functional.
No one is forcing us to mod. We mod because we value the communities we mod and like being active parts of them. I don't want Reddit to pay me, it isn't a job, it's a passion and a hobby.
>The thing is that there's a lot of valuable information that I don't think we should just delete like that.
Agreed. In the past 2 days I've been overly annoyed as both days I've had multiple google queries dump me to seemingly useful threads that I can not see because of this foolish nonsense of shuttering communities in "protest".
"Hello moneybags, I have this idea for an app, it's super niche and wastes almost as much time as doing the task without the app except we get to charge them for it! Our costs are really cheap because we mostly pay in equity and we're exploiting the generosity of other startups to keep our 3rd party service costs down!" <- feels like 70%~ of ideas.
Well, they couldn't exactly run realistic and viable computer models in the years of 1949-1969... so they took a harmless, commonly used model organism, and conducted tests.
Something science teachers do as a simple experiment now (with various substances), something Mark Rober even did on his own channel with 'Glo Germ' powder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5-dI74zxPg
>I'm using reddit for ages and never even considered anything besides their website.
Same. I have never used anything other than old.reddit on a proper computer, with the exception being when I need to edit the new.reddit sidebars for subs I moderate, which I still do on a proper computer.
>I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this.
It's my understanding that Apollo users make up a fraction of a percent of active users. Reddit almost certainly doesn't care. Fact is they've taken in over a billion in funding and aren't really returning a profit, charging for API access starts moving them in the right direction though.