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by _sentient 11y ago
Aside from being something of a personal violation, this behavior is also front-row evidence to a lack of creativity. Do not pass go, and do not collect $12,000.
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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by _sentient 11y ago
That's not actually the case for a market of any scale. More like 1000 providers / market. :) Also, routing optimization is a fairly hard problem and requires significant critical mass in a geo. Pretty hard for individual service
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by _sentient 11y ago
Yep, that's one of our primary value props. Once we reach critical mass in a market we're able to do job clustering and route optimization. More jobs per day + less time spent burning fuel sitting behind a steering wheel means muc
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by _sentient 11y ago
Founder of Lawn Love here. We think a lot about disintermediation risk. We do a number of things to prevent it, but it ultimately comes down to providing enough value to the supply side of your market. If you build a product that drives rea
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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by _sentient 11y ago
According to Travis Kalanick, Uber's preference stack is less than 1/10th their earlier $40B valuation. https://twitter.com/travisk/status/598313405905113088
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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by _sentient 11y ago
Keep in mind that the noise ratio is high, particularly in strong bull markets. Not all that glitters is gold. If you no longer want to watch from the sidelines, you can follow this simple formula: 1). Build something great. 2). Tell people
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Lawn Love (YC S14) is hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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HN: By the numbers(arnauddri.github.io)
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in San Diego
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by _sentient 12y ago
YC doesn't have some sort of moral objection to solo founders. They simply exist to find and fund huge companies, and smart risk/upside management is fundamental to winning that game. Being a solo founder represents added executio
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer in San Diego
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by _sentient 12y ago
As incoming CEO of Bannerman, I would like to thank Jonathan Chin for his contributions to this point. His efforts have been truly instrumental, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude. I am excited to begin executing on our newly formed mis
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer in San Diego
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer in San Diego
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by _sentient 12y ago
YC is explicitly oriented toward circumstances which have the highest potential to yield huge upside, and will naturally fund companies that fall into those trends. It seems prima facie obvious that they would not deliberately avoid investi
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Lawn Love (YC S14) is hiring a full-stack engineer
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by _sentient 12y ago
YC isn't just about credentials. A significant part of the value is concentrated in the Tuesday dinners and in-person office hours. Even if YC did accept remote companies, the value of the program would be greatly diminished if you did
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by _sentient 12y ago
I believe the caloric intake was the same across all diets.
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Grocery delivery giant Instacart raises $220M at a rumored $2B valuation(venturebeat.com)
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by _sentient 12y ago
A pseudonym like, say, Evan Miller?
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by _sentient 12y ago
I don't think so. Being rich/connected is great, but there's a third option: Show early traction. Absent other advantages, you will need to get to product-market fit pretty quickly if you want to survive.
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Digital Marketing Manager
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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Back-End Engineer
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by _sentient 12y ago
The expected returns on late stage investments are much lower, which is proportionate with greatly reduced risk. Nobody is betting that Uber will return 100x from this point.

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