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brianbreslin

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Director of Student Entrepreneurship at UVA. Run https://www.uvafoundry.com

Serial tinkerer. Occasional Blogger. https://www.brianbreslin.com

Started the largest startup community in SE USA: https://refreshmiami.com

Kellogg MBA.

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Ask HN: How does the US Gov shutdown affect your co?

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www.refreshmiami.com 7y ago

Softbank invests rumored $800M in ParkJockey

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medium.com 8y ago

Ford and Argo launching self driving test in Miami with Postmates and Dominos

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Ask HN: What are your favorite entrepreneurship resources

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qz.com 9y ago

US Homeland security banning electronics on Mid-East Flights

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qz.com 10y ago

Amazon Echo is a sleeper hit

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www.forbes.com 10y ago

Northwestern Finds a New Solution to the Ticket Pricing Dilemma (2014)

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Northwestern Finds a New Solution to the Ticket Pricing Dilemma (2014)

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Japanese sushi chain abandoning conveyor belt for tablets

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Who is disrupting car buying?

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www.priceintelligently.com 11y ago

Why Tinder's Pricing Strategy Makes Sense

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What are good smartwatch app use cases?

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www.miamiherald.com 11y ago

Startups seize opportunity to make urban living greener, smarter, easier

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

India’s Answer to Uber, Olacabs Takes $210M Led by Softbank at $1B Valuation

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

A Pump War?

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www.pcworld.com 11y ago

Google buys smart spoon company Lift Labs

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www.scientificamerican.com 11y ago

BPA-Free Plastic Containers May Be Just as Hazardous

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qz.com 11y ago

10 years stuck at minimum wage

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qz.com 12y ago

All the companies that make up Alibaba

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www.wired.com 12y ago

How Uber could use bikes to take on amazon

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priceonomics.com 12y ago

The economics of infomercials

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How $2 in debt almost turned into $90k

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Tesla may build Ford F-150 pickup competitor

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IOS App that automatically measures you for your bike

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Why the rich stay rich

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Teaching kids science history using rap

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money.cnn.com 13y ago

Mexican Hospital 'eats' pollution

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

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www.quirky.com 13y ago

Quirky partners with GE to speed invention

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Does this fundraising only make sense if cursor is planning to jump into the infrastructure side too? To do application hosting layer like Replit.

The oral semaglutide (sublingual dissolving) is like 10% as effective as the injected version. But it presumably could be given in higher doses to counteract that. I'd be shocked if the manufacturers aren't working on a more effective non-injectable version.

You can build a $30k MRR business with 1% the effort you need to build a $30M MRR business. Once you escape a certain size/scale the day to day operations grow in scope. So do you want to deal with HR or payroll? Do you want to have to keep bringing in $100k worth of google ads traffic a month?

The question to think about is can the small idea potentially be big? Or is it a TAM limited scope? Don't forget there is horizontal vs vertical scaling to think about too.

My team has been building custom software for a large german multinational shipping and freight forwarding company for 18 years now. Happy to chat, my email is in my username @ gmail.

Our client has tried what you're discussing several times. They are a bit bigger (10x) than your org, but never built up the software muscle in house despite hiring and firing entire teams to attempt to build stuff in house. We've handled one corner of their offerings for nearly 2 decades while all their other teams have cycled in and out of internal and external suppliers.

There are also 100% tariffs on Chinese cars in the US. so doubling the price. Chinese EV manufacturers will likely set up final assembly plants in Mexico and ship them 90% finished, and then they will be able to circumvent that tariff. That's how Chinese steel manufacturers get into the US market.