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by Dwolb 9y ago
Lutron’s wireless offerings work off local ISM bands. No cloud required.
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by Dwolb 9y ago
Just a note - while you can be at the offices 24 hours a day, they officially shut off all climate features starting at 6PM. This means any sun-facing office get HOT. 6PM for ending a work day is silly IMO and I emailed our office manager
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by Dwolb 9y ago
Context in this quote: > Cereal sales have declined for years, and Kellogg's snack-bar business also has performed badly—with its once-strong Special K brand losing its allure with consumers Kellogg’s doesn’t know how to build a bus
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What's the best way to manage Slack when it's both internal and external-facing?
1 points by Dwolb 9y ago|1 comments
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by Dwolb 9y ago
That's a great story. My first instinct for where to look to find things that would affect experts and beginners alike is manufacturing defects or poor suit design. I'd say also weather but that seems more likely to be highly vari
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by Dwolb 9y ago
Pretty interesting perspective - maybe check out the Hologram Dash which is programmed with the Arduino IDE + has full compatibility with Arduino functions. It includes a cell modem as well: https://hologram.io/dash/
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by Dwolb 9y ago
I see this a lot at start-ups as I come from automotive (similar to large enterprise sales, engineering teams with product teams make calls on buying 10's of M to 100's of M in product.) The biggest problem I see is you're no
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by Dwolb 9y ago
This credit is unique in that it can be used against federal payroll taxes. i.e. most companies (even if unprofitable) can realize a cash benefit immediately
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by Dwolb 9y ago
What about a mechanical sling shot system at each sub station? As the train arrived it gets slowed by a spring or similar system which is then used to propel the train forward once it needs to depart. Also, what about just slower trains? T
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by Dwolb 9y ago
It's a money market. We move money from the money market to a checking account to pay suppliers/make payroll. We also use company credit cards with to increase available cash.
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by Dwolb 9y ago
What are the big pain points around provisioning new device firmware?
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by Dwolb 9y ago
We typically park cash in a bank account to keep it liquid. Are you trying to do something different than invest in your business?
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by Dwolb 9y ago
As an operations person, I love how lean this car program is. They really stripped the car program down to just the necessary components and options to hit the price point they want. By limiting complexity I think they'll have the bes
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by Dwolb 9y ago
>Empirically, the number of IPOs in the USA has dropped, and the size has increased. The empirical evidence could also be explained by other factors such as increases in availability of venture funding.
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by Dwolb 9y ago
Great problem they're tackling. Some issues: Splitting inventory is an expensive activity. Often times you need to purchase more overall inventory and incur more warehouse receiving cost when you try and divvy up your stock around the
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by Dwolb 9y ago
The key financial metric I'd look at is "months to cash out". Basically someone reasonable needs to decide "if no other money comes in to this organization, how long should it need to operate?" From there you can g
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by Dwolb 9y ago
For reference what are the flavorful types of fish and which types of cooking add more flavor to the process?
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by Dwolb 9y ago
A few thoughts here. 1) DHL started in the US in 1969 and became German owned a little after 2002 (it has a pretty cool origin story where the founder felt there was a better way to deliver overnight goods to Hawaii than to literally sit a
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by Dwolb 10y ago
Super interesting. It's a shift from straight meal kits that are more "healthy meals that you don't have time to shop for" to more wholistic kitchen foodstuffs management. It's more like a personalized Instacart in
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by Dwolb 10y ago
I think assuming people will have a base set of ingredients (i.e. olive oil like you said) is a great idea. It's probably a good idea too to offer these ingredients through your service as an upcharge. "Buy your kitchen starter pa
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Bluegogo Bikesharing Company Leaving San Francisco(thesfnews.com)
1 points by Dwolb 10y ago|0 comments
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by Dwolb 10y ago
I wouldn't call it bad intentions. I'd call it being opportunistic or having unaligned incentives. When you own the platform and discovery features (i.e. search), you can create an environment in which your products could be on av
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by Dwolb 10y ago
This feels a lot like Amazon's ecommerce activities. Since Amazon own the platform in ecommerce, they can detect which goods are most successfully sold, sell those goods themselves, and use their scale and distribution to muscle out c
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by Dwolb 10y ago
There's a way out of this that doesn't involve self-driving vehicles if Uber's willing to give up some control: 3rd party integrations. If they allowed other ride-share/delivery services to integrate seamlessly into the
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by Dwolb 10y ago
Do you by chance know what your company's tax obligations are? We'd love to open up for international remote work, but we also don't want to run afoul of any international tax obligations (i.e. local payroll taxes) due to re
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by Dwolb 10y ago
Thanks for the advice it gives me confidence in negotiating a bit. Any idea what a partner would bill versus an associate in Chicago?
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Start-up R&D Tax Credit Question
3 points by Dwolb 10y ago|2 comments
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by Dwolb 10y ago
Via in Chicago seems to be the Southwest of ride sharing. Via is like Uber Pool, but more direct. While waiting, you only have less than a minute to hop in the car. Also the car only goes down major thoroughfares and moves only forward wh
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by Dwolb 10y ago
They could use Hologram's SIM which uses T-Mobile's 2G and 3G network as well as AT&T in the US [1] [1] https://hologram.io/cellular/
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by Dwolb 10y ago
You can open the page in incognito mode.

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