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Tim Ferriss Needs A Startup To Invest In
- omegant 13y agoMm what a pitty that we are only lacking 10000 paying costumers to meet the requirements...(we are about to launch in a couple of weeks, 0 tracktion by now) Anyway here it is www.apparly.com
- mileschet 13y agogreat idea, just bookmarked it ! thanks
- omegant 13y agoNo, thank you! We are really in the costumer search moment that pg writes in his last essay. We are about to start looking for costumers. Would you mind to give it a shot once we have launched?.
- philbarr 13y agoYou need to look at your copy again - missing words, and missing spaces galore on this page: http://www.apparly.com/providers http://www.apparly.com/providers. Even in the title! - Are you [a] provider.
- omegant 13y agoThanks, I know, working on it, just uploaded this version yesterday, but some texts are not showing what they are supposed to (the initial texts were just giberish and meant to be replaced).
- simonbarker87 13y agoThey need to look at every page, even the home page: What is Apparly? [We are] an Appstore that lets you choose how to pay.[space]Download Apparly, [and subscribe, buy the license or 'Pay per use' the program you need] needs rephrasing. Our application list Browse the list of Apps available for subscription, pay per use or sale.[space]Let us know if you don´t find what you are looking for. Good luck though, looks like a good start and you just need to do some final polishing
- omegant 13y agoThank you, I am not coding the home page and made the text edit on the file. It takes some time to know how it looks well as I'm not a programer myself and the guy uploading this is not of the team. I hope to nail it this afternoon! By the way would you mind If I ask you for a short test once we launch?
- jacques_chester 13y agoIs it possible to short startups? Because I would love an opportunity to short Tim Feris, even if only by proxy.
- ezl 13y agoits possible. just find a counterparty who wants to take the other side of the bet. people short unshortable assets in finance all the time by getting the bank or a marketmaker to take the other side in an "over-the-counter" (OTC) agreement. You just make up the rules and there's a signed document. i.e. "bets backed up with legal documents". And... I, for one, would probably take the other side of the bet against Tim Ferris in the short term.
- jacques_chester 13y agoAre we making a bet? Because we'd need to work out some sort of terms. The nice thing about shorting a stock in the open market is that it's easy to peg it to a fall in price. For a privately held company it's much harder.
- coopdog 13y agoIf there's one thing he knows it's marketing and hype, pretty sure that'd be useful for a startup with a proven business model.
- jacques_chester 13y agoThe base rate for all startups, regardless of hype, is not awesome.
- gadders 13y agoYeah, I have to be honest I'm not really a buyer of Ferriss. No hard evidence, just not convinced by him.
- porter 13y agoHard to short a guy with a massive following. He can sell pretty much anything to his loyal fans. And there are a lot of them. You'd be better off shorting Tesla and Elon musk. Take away all their government subsidies and all you're left with is hype.
- 1337biz 13y agoIf he were true to his own principles I would expect each employee at that startup has only to work 4 hours a week. Would love to see how far they get with Ferriss' success strategies.
- omegant 13y agoLet's see if he comes and comments about that! I think that his nick is tferris.
- dualogy 13y agoI doubt that's him. Comments/submissions history is almost all about coding (Go, Ruby, Node/Express etc. etc.)
- omegant 13y agoYep too much hours to learn that to be him!
- 1337biz 13y agoMost likely too busy and already writing his next book on "how to own 5% of the next Google by writing a 5 min blog post".
- cuntfartjones 13y agoOr "How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in a Month by Liberally Defining the Words 'Gain', 'Pounds', 'Muscle', and 'Month.'"
- freshfey 13y agoThat's actually not at all what he preaches. He's just an advocate of minimizing work you don't want to do and don't do the famous idle-work/pseudo-work the whole day (I can work 12 hours a day, adjusting power point slides, but that doesn't really make me productive).
- radiusq 13y ago>Massive national PR/exposure. This is going to get a LOT of attention, and I’m famous for maximizing impact The only thing Tim Ferriss is good at is making a name for himself. Rest assured this would be the only purpose in his investment.
- agilebyte 13y agoSlightly OT when Tim says "US-based investable entities (which is easy)" how easy it really is? Even if one incorporates in say Delaware, according to (say UK rules) a company is resident where the heart of the company is. And if I, as a director, am physically out of US (or Delaware), how can you claim your company is resident there? Nominee directors?
- rrouse 13y agoI believe the intent is that the business was founded in the US.
- agilebyte 13y agoOK so incorporated in US but paying taxes wherever in the world?
- chollida1 13y agoNot really. He explains what he means in the article. > - US-based companies, or companies willing to create US-based investable entities (which is easy). Shopify started in Canada, for instance. The business can be founded anywhere as long as it has a US based entity.
- rrouse 13y agoVery true. Wasn't aware Shopify was started in Canada
- freshfey 13y agoIt's really sad to see the HN community hate on Tim Ferriss so much. Yeah, he's a controversial person, and he's totally aware of that (even using it to his advantages). But after you inserted your 4 Hour joke here, think about what you have done, that created value in this world? Tim wrote three NYT Bestsellers and at least two (if not three depending on how you'll measure this) have touched and changed so many lives in a positive way. What have you done?
- eduardordm 13y agoThere is just one single (and dead) negative comment about Tim Ferriss in this thread. "What have you done?" Ask that more often, you will be surprised to learn that mostly every single person actually creates and do things that are important to others in one way or another. Don't diminish people just because their work is not broadly recognized, everyone is important.
- TheHeasman 13y agoLandscape's changed in 10 hours. Negative comments have gone to the top. And true, but not necessarily depressed people.
- cuntfartjones 13y agos/Tim Ferris/Al Sharpton/g s/Tim Ferris/Donald Trump/g s/Tim Ferris/Robert Kiyosaki/g and on and on... Personally I'd rather hitch my wagon to Ron Popeil.
- schappim 13y agoDon't expect more than 4 hours of mentoring!
- karangoeluw 13y agoDamn weak.
- Nimi 13y agoThere's a lot of negativity about Ferris in this thread, and it's clear he's a very divisive figure, not only here on HN. But I wonder, what about those successful startups he advises? Surely, if Uber, Evernote, WordPress, and Shopify are happy with his services, he can bring something to the table? I'm genuinely curious why all the negativity. Just in case anyone's wondering, I'm not particularly a fan of his either, but I'm open to the possibility he can add value to companies.
- cuntfartjones 13y agoHe seems to add value in the same way that Donald Trump does, and is only slightly less unsavory a human being.
- boothead 13y agoI just can't take a judgement of unsavory seriously from someone who's chosen to call themselves cuntfart... :-)
- cuntfartjones 13y agoI didn't choose the name...it chose me.
- eduardordm 13y agoI would also invest 100k-1mi in a company that's growing 10% month-to-month and had 10k+ paying users. No companies in such position should need to raise that amount money. It's not completely useless, but: you can't hire talented developers with it, you could spend cash with office and 'stuff'... My point is, if you are profitable, raise 20mi, 10mi. 100k won't make much difference. Maybe you want to work specifically with Ferriss, but the truth is, profitable startups are in high demand (because there are none) and they are the ones choosing partners.
- porter 13y agoI don't think these kinds of startups would work with Tim for the money. They'd work with Tim because he'd turbocharge their growth. Tim is a better partner than the vast majority (maybe all) of the other VCs chasing these fast growing startups. Tim can offer money and massive exposure. Other VCs offer just money. Take your pick.
- karangoeluw 13y agoI think these companies would work with Tim for just the exposure and press.
- eduardordm 13y agoMaybe it came out undervaluing Tim's help (which is worth much more than 100k), we share the exact the same opinion. I'm sure that with Tim's help, any startup would get a huge investment within weeks.
- loceng 13y agoThis is why he wants to preferrably be first money in. It's smart. He needs to be careful though. If he does this and a high valuation is had for future money but the company doesn't do well, then VCs will be cautious of future hype.
- tonymarks 13y agoI find it interesting he states "No enterprise software".
- porter 13y agoIt's because he can't add much value to enterprise software companies. He has broad reach to consumers, not businesses.