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by aresant 6y ago
An article by Tom Tungz that relates SAAS co marketing budgets to to annuity grabs helps me contextualize this S1. Asana's gross margin is ~85%! Their net retention is tracking @ 120% in 2020. So every $1.00 dollar of sales to a custom
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I’m excited to announce Lambda School has raised a $74M Series C(twitter.com)
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I accept your challenge, here's why my comments are relevant: - This post is front paged on HN, grabbing your attention, mine, and a demographic that skews largely to Apple's core corporate HR need and customer base. - It is impor
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by aresant 6y ago
Trying to uncover some facts to help infer the article's complaint with nuance prior to knee-jerk hopping on the "big apple is bad" flavor du jour was my intent in posting the comment. My point is not that it is less "im
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by aresant 6y ago
To provide some context Ted Hodges, the author of the article, was employed as an Apple Expert (1). An Apple Expert is a ~$20/hr retail job - https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/114438150/us-expert The
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by aresant 6y ago
Over the last few days I've seen several front page articles on SEO pop up on HN. It is almost too meta for my brain on Friday afternoon to see a !@$@! buzzfeed article on HN that is lightly chronicling AirBNB's amazing publicity
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by aresant 6y ago
Years ago a Google engineer on HN infamously said something to the effect of "Google considers SEO / free traffic a BUG" - somebody have that link handy?
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by aresant 6y ago
Office buildings are a $2,500,000,000,000 asset class in the USA alone. Throw in retail and you're at >$5 trillion of value. And the market is in total chaos due to COVID-19, fortunes are going to be made and lost on a ridiculous sc
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Handful of good links on price elasticity testing 1 - https://vwo.com/blog/ab-testing-price-testing/ 2 - http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2012/12/why-price-elast... 3 - https:&
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by aresant 6y ago
The "San Francisco tech CEO" angle is pure link bait. LinkedIn Solid8 appears to have either 1 or 2 employees. The guy in question is a recently convicted criminal. (1) But titling "Convicted criminal kicked out of Carmel Val
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by aresant 6y ago
Amen.
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by aresant 6y ago
Lemonade and Agora's IPOs in the last two weeks both doubled right out of gate and have kept going (1) Bankrupt HERTZ pumped 500%+ over a couple of weeks in June, to such a degree that their board nearly got a $500m unprecedented &quot
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Star Wars concept artists Joe Johnson says they literally lifted the famous Walker designs directly from Syd Mead's US Steel "futurism" portfolio - http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Sid_Mid_Syd_Mead_
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by aresant 6y ago
Check out https://culdesac.com/ - their first project is a clue to the scale of ambition that they're thinking with regard to city development. And they are traditionally VC backed.
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by aresant 6y ago
A company that picks up, breaks down, and recycles Amazon boxes once a week for $49.95 a month.
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Saving Lives(folklore.org)
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Not sure there’s a finer visual artist to produce in the medium of retrofuturism than Syd Mead - passed away late last year unfortunately but left an inspiring catalog and vision of the future that I imagine will endure a very long time -&g
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Ask HN: Browser Based or Desktop App?
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Shopify Launches “Shop”(shopify.com)
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by aresant 7y ago
What an absolutely shit article. Here's the key quote "When we asked our employees to come back, almost all said, “No thanks.” If they return to work, they’ll have to take a pay cut." Or maybe the employees are concerned abou
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by aresant 7y ago
"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk." That is probably the bes
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by aresant 7y ago
Get a great web camera or at LEAST some great lighting for your interviews! A poorly lit fuzzy image is a great way to start off at a disadvantage. Study after study shows that people that identify themselves as broadly accepting and non-bi
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by aresant 7y ago
With 30% of the US economy out of work and the gov't prioritizing business vs. consumer handouts I would argue the inverse. 80% of people that get COVID have a mild case.(1) Mild / average cases of COVID run ~2 weeks beginning to
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There is not a shortage issue, there is a logistics issue. The logistics issue is that we have commercial and retail supply chains that are Apples & Oranges level different in terms of getting end consumers what they need. For instance:
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I have a friend that owns a restaurant, doesn't sell gift cards online and no idea how to do. What's the fastest way to set up a Gift Card program?
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What are HNers doing with elementary age school kids in CA / Bay Area? Seems inevitable that we are heading towards school closures en mass - reasonable to get an early start?
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VC's "skin in the game" is interesting. EG the $21,000,000 they just "gave away" will need to be paid back to investors before Sequoia partners see any of their carry / performance fee. On a $100,000,000 fund t
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Quarantined kids in Wuhan get homework app taken down with one star reviews(mobile.twitter.com)
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Top of Hacker News and there's nothing clickable above the fold that takes me to the SIA website. Content marketers and technical marketers - don't miss the opportunity on Medium and other platforms to at VERY LEAST link to your h

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