Dispatches from Underway

Structured (and stray) thoughts from Jed Christiansen

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Nov 15, 2016

Make a difference in government: a 3-step guide for blue state tech workers

As a blue state tech worker (CA, in my case) it seems that I don’t have a lot of ways to affect politics. My Senators, representative, and local politicians already hold the same values and believe in…

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Nov 9, 2016

President Trump

It’s official: Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States.

I’m deeply saddened, and am finding it hard to deal with this news. It shows just how insulated we’ve become as a country. We’ve always been divided (Hamilton reminded me of this), but the effects…

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Oct 14, 2016

$20 Billion — and a relaunch of Seed-DB

Just 11 years after Y Combinator funded the first handful of companies in the first seed…

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Jun 8, 2015

$10 Billion

Ten years after the seed accelerator model was pioneered, Seed-DB has now identified over $10 billion that has been invested in accelerator graduates. Over 200 seed accelerator programs around the world have funded nearly 5000 companies, and over 300 companies have already exited for a total of over…

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Feb 16, 2015

Going to California…

My wife and I have recently made a big decision. After over eleven years living in London, we’re moving back to the US… to the San Francisco/Bay Area of California!

Wait… what?!?

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Dec 17, 2014

Startups want operators — what about Special Forces?

First thread: I try to go out of my way to help current and recent military members to transition to civilian jobs and careers. I remember how tough it can be to translate the very rich experiences I had in the Navy to something that…

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Dec 12, 2014

Trending on Product Hunt during YC’s Demo Day — the Seed-DB experience

I had a bit of a weird experience on August 19th this year.

It was Y Combinator Demo Day, and I knew to look out for startups launching so I could enter them in Seed-DB

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Dec 11, 2014

No regrets… ever

definition of regret:

re·gret — r???ret/

verb

1.feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that has happened or been done, especially a loss or missed opportunity).

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Dec 9, 2014

Highly recommended read — “The Martian”

I originally heard about “The Martian” via this tweet from Clay Bavor, a VP for Product at Google. As he wrote:

If you’re an engineer, you must read The Martian.

If you’re into space, you must read The Martian.

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Dec 8, 2014

Accelerators and the focus on Demo Day

If you check out seed accelerators for long enough, you’ll come across one relatively consistent criticism. (Particularly for the lower quality programs, I have to say.) That criticism is that accelerators focus way too much on Demo Day. I believe that founders…