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by aberman 16y ago
If you have a year or two of living expenses, a mortgage, and a family, it's a much bigger risk than if you have nothing...especially if "nothing" means very few big-ticket expenses. If you have nothing, you are risking the opportunity cost
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by aberman 16y ago
You may be jesting, but I actually think you have a pretty good point. People think that starting a business looks like this: 1. Come up with an idea 2. Build a product or service 3. Sell the product or service When, in reality, it often lo
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How to Start a Meaningful Business Plan Competition(blog.wepay.com)
19 points by aberman 16y ago|3 comments
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by aberman 16y ago
"Saying "I'll do anything" doesn't make the MBA-intern clueless, rather makes him a lot more motivated and open-minded about his career and future path." When you say "I'll do anything", I hear: "I'll do anything that you want me to do" Tha
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by aberman 16y ago
wait, which one is which?
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by aberman 16y ago
Clever - I could see myself using this.
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by aberman 16y ago
I'm changing my bank to this one immediately.
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Adobe Responds to Jobs(blogs.adobe.com)
235 points by aberman 16y ago|122 comments
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by aberman 16y ago
ummm.....if these are such great startups, then why not charge the investors for good deal flow?
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by aberman 16y ago
And Highlightcam
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by aberman 16y ago
me :)
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by aberman 16y ago
That should actually be #7, I think - I'll add it if I get the chance. I started off like the person you describe, and I have since moved pretty far in the opposite direction.
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by aberman 16y ago
see edit on my original post.
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by aberman 16y ago
good point and duly noted (though i find your style of offering feedback somewhat abrasive).
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by aberman 17y ago
Here we go again... Nobody is requiring people to offer working unpaid Like I said, these are students looking to fill positions that don't exist . I'm not going to offer you a job, let alone pay you, for something that I don't really wa
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by aberman 17y ago
You are flooding the market with artificially cheap labor, making it impossible for others who can't work for free to compete. You are assuming that unpaid interns would otherwise take the jobs of paid employees. In this regard, you are c
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by aberman 17y ago
Don't even tell, just show ;)
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by aberman 17y ago
We are in a different position now than we were a year ago. We are happy to offer paid internships. That being said, if we (and other startups) don't want to hire you because you are inexperienced, offering to work unpaid may make it easi
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So you’re inexperienced, non-technical, and you want to work for a startup(blog.wepay.com)
68 points by aberman 17y ago|51 comments
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by aberman 17y ago
paypal was billpoint without ebay. It didn't work then either.
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by aberman 17y ago
Think about all the things one communicates on a daily basis: where you like to eat lunch, what music you like, what you find fashionable, etc. These things are all communicated in one way or another through your transaction history. To the
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by aberman 17y ago
My co-founder and I had been working almost a full year before we got accepted to YCombinator, and we made some pretty substantial progress building out our back-office financial partnerships and getting savvy in the payment space. Bill had
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How to Intern for a Startup(blog.wepay.com)
53 points by aberman 17y ago|41 comments
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by aberman 17y ago
If you didn't get into YC, COME WORK FOR WEPAY :) Seriously, though. I promise to take you to all the YC events (they usually welcome alums), so you'll get that experience. We are still a 5 person team, so you will get the startup experienc
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by aberman 17y ago
I just reread my post, and I realize how point #4 sounded. It was somewhat unintentional. Raising money in silicon valley is hard to do without being part of the silicon valley in-crowd. Raising money in Boston is hard to do in general, b
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by aberman 17y ago
Nothing is so bad about that. I'm not trying to say that life is going to suck, you are going to fail, and therefore you should never try. I'm just saying that "knowing" something will be hard, and experiencing something that is hard are tw
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by aberman 17y ago
I was wondering if anybody would catch that ;)
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by aberman 17y ago
Now @ryanamos can get more than 2 hours of sleep every night. Congrats guys, you're a great team.
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by aberman 17y ago
I believe YC takes common stock, not preferred stock.
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by aberman 17y ago
"Maybe I'll create a competitor that doesn't charge anything." And yet, I would still bet on airbnb...

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