Re:A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
by wethebestcoder on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:58PM
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Do most VC companies provide training or mentorship like YC? What if you're a sole engineer with a good product and a patent but no idea how to turn that into a business. Do you even need venture capital if you're just selling one thing? I don't even know how to spend $1000.
Re:A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
by WrtCdEvrydy on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:58PM
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> how to spend $1000
It's really funny because when building something, I will often look at overall cost as one of the main motivators for doing something for a personal business.
Re:A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
by sytse on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:27PM
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We recently launched a simple stock option value calculator on our jobs pages https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen... that has a few scenarios. I love how this calculator gives a lot more variables to try. Maybe we should link to it.
Re:A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
by floatrock on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:02PM
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Author here! (neat, didn't think I'd see it submitted it here again, glad the person who dug this up found it useful!)
I made this four years ago as an experiment in D3 when the scroll-to-transition style was first getting popular (think nytimes and such).
All of it is basically hand-rolled D3 transitions with lots of debugging around enter/exit state... haven't looked at D3 lately so not sure if it's any easier. Charting libraries are a dime a dozen now, but these days when I need some easy charting, I like the D3+React bindings from VictoryCharts https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-char...
Kinda hard to wrap your head around how they do transitions in react-eese, but well, so is raw D3...
Re:A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
by TuringNYC on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:46AM
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@robbya - Really enjoyed your visualization, time-lined interactive visualations like these are great!
Quick suggestion: You mention "Venture Makr" at the end but dont provide any way to capture my email and no way to be notified of Venture Makr's launch.
It's really funny because when building something, I will often look at overall cost as one of the main motivators for doing something for a personal business.
Another tool some might find useful, which I was introduced to during YC Startup School:
http://growth.tlb.org
Startup growth calculator that helps get a basic feel for funding requirements and runway length. Really helps when it's visualized like that.
I made this four years ago as an experiment in D3 when the scroll-to-transition style was first getting popular (think nytimes and such).
All of it is basically hand-rolled D3 transitions with lots of debugging around enter/exit state... haven't looked at D3 lately so not sure if it's any easier. Charting libraries are a dime a dozen now, but these days when I need some easy charting, I like the D3+React bindings from VictoryCharts https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-char...
Kinda hard to wrap your head around how they do transitions in react-eese, but well, so is raw D3...
Quick suggestion: You mention "Venture Makr" at the end but dont provide any way to capture my email and no way to be notified of Venture Makr's launch.