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by 2pasc 12y ago
But Denmark, like many Northern European countries is an economy with high tax rates and high redistribution, which can compensate for the lack of growth of labor wages. The US is not a market like that at all.
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by 2pasc 12y ago
Sure. But Larry Page was not referring to Google employees reducing their hours, but everybody else.
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by 2pasc 12y ago
France did that (the infamous "35-hour work week") in 2000. This has proven to be a disaster on multiple counts: - it created a mess in public hospitals where it completely screwed up the organization of shifts for nurses and doct
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by 2pasc 12y ago
Doordash brings delivery + demand (beyond technical chops). That's a lot for a small local restaurant.
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by 2pasc 12y ago
Sequoia, like all VCs, is funding startups, and startups are defined by growth. If these guys are growing at such a speed that they are selling $10M worth of food in 10 months, they are growing freaking fast.
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by 2pasc 12y ago
Good point. On the other hand, what do we know about the insurance that Homejoy provides its cleaners? There is a lot of grey areas for most of the collaborative consumption startups.
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by 2pasc 12y ago
On the other hand, once you have found somebody that you like there is very little incentive to stay in their system.
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by 2pasc 12y ago
Congrats guys!
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Tango Raises $280M from Alibaba to compete with WhatsApp(recode.net)
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Sure. If your ASP is $6, then 2.75% is $0.165. This is to be compared to a merchant account for which the 2%+ 0.45 is $0.57. As you can see there is a huge difference. The problem is that credit card processors (Visa, Mastercard...) are cha
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Congratulations to Square for making people that it was in the mobile payment business. Square is typically the kind of Company with a great initial product that raises too much money for its own good and end up chasing 500 battles because
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by 2pasc 13y ago
>>Customer support via blog post. Not the most effective method I can think of. No - but the only one where a manager will have his job on the line. (unfortunately)
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Hi - congrats on the openness about DrawQuest. Did you consider building cloud based offering for DrawQuest that would allow consumers to save their drawings onlike and or share kids drawings with family members? Or selling physical produc
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by 2pasc 13y ago
True. I wrote a blog post about this 18 months ago that outlines just this: http://2pasc.com/2012/05/18/the-power-law-of-startup-employe...
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Thank you.
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by 2pasc 13y ago
But in that case, do you do product search or mostly FAQ/Help related search? Thx
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Is Swiftype suited for ecommerce? (i.e. product search)? Do you have something for mobile apps?
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Sure. But a vast majority of men do that, and are proud to do it. In Israel, you meet your best friends in the army.
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by 2pasc 13y ago
In Israel, military service is compulsory for all men when they are 18 years old. The best hackers in the country are detected and lured into cyberwarfare positions where they need to be the best cyber attackers in the world for 3 years. Y
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Hey Salomon - is this a good news?
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Interesting. Looking at some of the Weebly figures on the Sequoia website, I thing many people (myself included) would be surprised of the revenue run rate you guys must have today. This is an amazing venture - congratulations to you guys!
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Didn't Weebly raise a Series A with Sequoia? They list them as a portfolio Company at least! http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/home/weebly/info
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Indeed - they could definitely do that.
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by 2pasc 13y ago
I have always wondered why Spotify does not raise their subscription fees (maybe after one year for example). If they asked me to pay more than $10/month, which seems a totally unreasonable number for everybody in this market, I would
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by 2pasc 13y ago
"Hopefully those twenty years old developers will solve more meaningful problems than sharing cat photos." The truth is that cat photos are mostly shared by people in the middle class that is being destroyed. 20 year old developer
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Indeed, especially in the era of mobile which tend to focus on remote control solutions to problems. I like Scripted a lot - funny that you work with Paul B. also ;-)
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by 2pasc 13y ago
The problem of Taskrabbit is that they could not be associated with one clear repeatable need that people had, which lead to a sub par experience for almost all use cases. Most marketplaces in this space are pretty "directed" by t
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by 2pasc 13y ago
I think the issue described here is real. Truth is, today IPOed tech stocks tend to go public much later than previously in their life for many reasons. Look at PayPal. They went public with a $20M revenue run rate, growing 50% Q over Quart
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by 2pasc 13y ago
Good point.
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by 2pasc 13y ago
That's for sure. But hindsight is 20/20, and when you are growing like a weed, like they were at the time, it's easy to be caught in the "I want more" mindset, especially when you are a younger founder.

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