andrewcamel

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by andrewcamel 6y ago
Does anyone have context as to why FB finances a project like this? Is there an economic argument (ie expanding FB’s TAM by bringing more people online)? Or is there something more nuanced about better connectivity means higher quality and
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by andrewcamel 7y ago
AppViewX and Venafi are the two main competitors in this space of certificate lifecycle automation - many Fortune 1000s are customers of one or the other to prevent exactly this type of problem - Venafi is the larger incumbent but AppViewX
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by andrewcamel 11y ago
Doesn't the R&D ramp look a bit unusual? 57 -> 79 -> 141? Totally destroys their margins, right in the year when they must know they're going public?
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by andrewcamel 11y ago
Could not agree more on Lyft. In a winner-take-all market where an all-out land grab is critical to the long-term success of the marketplace, moving quickly and being the first to reach that golden scale of monopolistic ownership of supply
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by andrewcamel 12y ago
Lachlan, make sure you're open to job opportunities that aren't initially in software. When I was 13, a doctor (and close friend of the family) hired me to organize sign-in documents for new patients at his office. While there was
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by andrewcamel 12y ago
I think you get at a great point that the onky way to solve the right problems is to be committed to learning about an industry through all available information channels. To be comfortable spending that much time on one specific industry t
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by andrewcamel 12y ago
This type of story is so motivating to build vertical software, but for people like me who are trying to identify a vertical software opportunity, it's discouraging that these developers needed to spend a couple years in the industry t
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by andrewcamel 12y ago
That's pretty comforting to hear. Do you know of any resources off the top of your head to learn this type of thing?
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by andrewcamel 12y ago
Reading through documents like this really pains me because I it seems like such interesting work and I immediately want to understand it better, but then realize the time required to acquire the knowledge and experience necessary to unders
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
If you're alright ignoring the far more profitable iOS market, then sure, Android is better. But if you're trying to operate a startup that actually needs to make money, it is not a smart business decision to ignore it. Complain a
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
Sorry I meant churn, but >80% annual retention is very good. 98% annual retention is unheard of in pretty much any decently sized business I've seen.
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
You said annual?
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
Annual retention is honestly considered fairly strong <20%.
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
I disagree - there exist SaaS companies that have successfully executed and are on the path to successfully executing the profitable B2B SaaS model. Take Constant Contact, Responsys, and Blackbaud. While not all of these companies are highl
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
And a book -- The Billionaire Who Wasn't
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
I totally agree and think this is an important line to draw. If it's anything having to do with offsetting the core unit economics of the business, I'd get worried. E.g. Not correctly determining the cost of delivery as Instacart
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by andrewcamel 13y ago
This is really impressive. It seems to have much of the functionality needed to create a pretty rich web service.
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Sibyl Vision analyzes the debate with sentiment analysis(sibylvision.com)
1 points by andrewcamel 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewcamel 14y ago
The feature I would really like to see would be a printed title Box in the moleskin notebook, which would allow me to title my written work and then pass that title into Evernote when it's scanned. You could obviously also extrapolate this
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by andrewcamel 14y ago
Totally agree -- it'd be great to get a product comparison on the site to see some feature differentiation laid out. Except for the nice UI, it looks like just another to-do app.
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by andrewcamel 14y ago
I would love to see Microsoft Exchange integration -- I know just I alone could pull in a couple hundred users for you with this feature. In terms of aggregation and presentation of data, this is 100x better than any previous offering for E
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by andrewcamel 14y ago
Quick note on my gut reaction about the design: The changing text and the header below the blue section don't look very good with serif fonts. They seem to not flow well with the rest of the design and are giving (at least me) a feeling of
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I'll give it a shot and get back to you. Should be doable.
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Make sure you check out Addepar - they're developing a wealth management platform that seems like a good thing for you to work on given your experience. Only negative is that you'd have to learn Java, but it's a small price to pay to get in
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
BUG: Zip codes are losing leading zeroes - make sure you store them as strings rather than numbers.
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Would you consider posting weekly updates? I would really like to read them and I'm sure they'd contribute some traffic to new site.
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I completely agree. It's time for all of the pirates to stop justifying their stealing by putting up the facade of protecting online freedoms in front of the obvious primary motive, not paying for content. Steal if you want to, but stop try
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
icebraining: You copy something. You have taken it. It still exists where it originally did, but you still took it because you now have it in your possession. You can't keep justifying taking something without paying for it (stealing) with
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Let's go with a movie as an example. I agree with you - you cannot own an idea, but a movie that took a hell of a lot of time and money to make is not an idea. And if you want to have further justification for this, a movie is a physical th
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
As correct as earbitscom is in his response to this comment, there is another issue. Some of these people are being compensated so well because they are able to play a part in the making of a movie, which millions of people want to watch an

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