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A contrarian bet has outsized returns.


Simple Token, led by Fab.com / Social Median's Jason Goldberg. CTO + team is Germany's most experienced blockchain developers. They are making a Stripe for tokenization.


Why not just take a loan from a bank? That way you can spend that hiring and managers to let you off the hook of day to day operations.


>Why not just take a loan from a bank?

Precisely. Is the startup world so financially uneducated that they see taking venture capital as the only means of raising capital, or worst yet, some sort of duty?

The post practically says the company is awash in money, which would mean there are multiple ways to raise cash. The real question is why are you raising money?


if there no cash flow or assets banks are hard to work with. Unless you want to risk your house etc.


Crossing my fingers for a Lego sorting robot...


Ha ha yes a kids toys and clothes sorting robot.


In the Philippines, Dinuguan is one of our top 5 best known dishes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinuguan


We just removed Flurry because Crashlytics' Answers is way too awesome.


If anyone is looking to do the same. Our office in Davao City, Philippines is open and free. We have Internet, coffee and meetups monthly at least.

Meals can cost as low as $2 and lodging as low as $4 / day. Everyone knows English and very westernized compared to other SEA nation.

Email eric (at) lifebit.com if you are interested.


The Ice King is one of the most tragic characters ever written in recent times right next to Gollum. When you consider he was pivotal to how the Earth survived and how he protected a main character throughout childhood at a great ongoing personal cost - its astoundingly deep. The lore/universe is also very imaginative in the right way (somewhat grounded but very creative). Highly recommended. Watch Season 1 and 2 before judging because S01 is a little rough.


Also observe the physical resemblance of the Ice King to his creator, Pendleton Ward.


1. Steam

2. Steambox

3a. some VR peripheral (looks like a VR goggle/headset to me)

3b. some special cross-play between Steambox and Windows/Mac/Linux

3c. cross play between steambox and PS4


I hadn't thought about the possibility that day 3 could be about their VR stuff. Abrash has been beavering away on all that stuff for some time now. It has also been a fair while since he posted anything up on his blog (July 26, 2013): http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/


I am sure it will be just 3b or 3c. a VR peripheral would be a long shot but I would be glad to be wrong. :)


1. SteamOS

2. Steambox

3. It looks like two sets of wheels from side on. Gaben is giving us all A NEW CAR!!!


Wow. this is a big win for the team. Carmack can go deep and can also look at the controls on an instinctive level since he made Doom and Quake.


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