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by bcx 5y ago
Keep posting about this stuff. I can tell you this is a feature our customers often ask for, but we ( https://Olark.com ) refuse to implement, we do lose business over this. I'd like to believe the karma for not letting any o
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by bcx 5y ago
It seems like this is more of a critique on the tax-code than anything else. By not realizing any gains, and taking a small salary it seems like an exception to the tax code wasn't meant to handle. I think we can all agree that the ta
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Our people and our values pushed us to build better products for all(linkedin.com)
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Behind every algorithm, there be politics(linkedin.com)
1 points by bcx 5y ago|0 comments
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Value of Time(miten.co)
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Ask HN: What is the best way to spend $1000 to improve your productivity?
37 points by bcx 6y ago|42 comments
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by bcx 6y ago
As someone who spent time in Ann Arbor in the mid 2000s I think most of the monkeys were very much in the infosec realm and were good ppl. I would be curious to know how it all started if @dugsong is around maybe someone can ping him to lea
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by bcx 6y ago
I remember /dev/payments back in Summer of 2009 when were were in YC with the Collisons I am curious if any of the APIs are actually 11 years old ;) (that said, I am curious what happened in S09, we wanted /dev/payments
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by bcx 6y ago
Does anyone still use podcatchers? I've been using stitcher for podcasts for a super long time, and found podcatchers pretty annoying throughout time. The only use case I could conceive is storing a podcast to listen on my apple watc
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by bcx 6y ago
It's not surprising intercom has raised their prices so much given intercom has raised close to 300M, they really need to push their pricing up into ACVs where they can pay for the sales organization they've been building, and gro
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Show HN: A tribute to our startup cat, Franklin (2008-2020)(franklin.bootstrapcat.com)
3 points by bcx 6y ago|0 comments
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Remote Creativity(blog.olark.com)
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by bcx 6y ago
I think somewhere along the line the expectations for what people get when they click on a floating chat box changed. When we started Olark ( http://www.olark.com ) in 2009 it was novel to show status before you clicked on the cha
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by bcx 6y ago
I have no idea what stage you are at for your idea, but I'd recommend trying to line up customers who love the product based on something you sketch out on a notebook (piece of paper) as a step one. I'd also validate that the prob
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Ask HN: Does your SMB/Startup match employee donations? Why or Why not?
1 points by bcx 6y ago|0 comments
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How to start matching your employees' donations in 10 minutes or less(blog.olark.com)
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by bcx 6y ago
useful fix :)
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by bcx 6y ago
This is the same situation that happens on most platform plays. You can see this in how Salesforce and Shopify are leveraging their platforms to learn what is popular and produce/buy their own products to sell to their customers to cap
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by bcx 6y ago
I'd like to see a version of this article and headline that figures out the effort required by the banks to administer a program like this. Quick read looks like 2.8% off the top, for 0 risk (10/349). Total businesses receiving lo
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by bcx 6y ago
Automatic Pro-rata was a relatively recent addition to YC. (i.e. when we went through in 2009 it did not exist) It also clearly isn't scaleable without infinite capital. Plus, if you had complete information, why would you ever want t
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by bcx 6y ago
This post made me wonder what happened to ICQ. "(2010) AOL has sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russia's largest Internet company, for US$187.5 million. DST's offer was apparently more attractive than those of Russ
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by bcx 6y ago
I shared this article for two reasons. 1) I thought it did a good job of calling out the role of leadership as “direction-giving”, “meaning-making” and “empathy”. 2) It highlights the concept of using a transparent "alert level decisio
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Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a class in crisis leadership(theconversation.com)
1 points by bcx 6y ago|1 comments
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by bcx 7y ago
Theoretically, and JUST for the sake of argument. Apple could buy Disney, give themselves a perpetual license to all content, and then immediately spin off the parts of Disney they don't want (including any executives, theme parks, e
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by bcx 7y ago
It sounds like the company wants to work with you to work out a good solution. How have they responded when you told them: * I'd like to keep roadmap control * I'd like to be compensated for the work I put in on my own time out si
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Making the “Right” Decisions(linkedin.com)
7 points by bcx 7y ago|0 comments
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You (yes, you, the CEO) should be talking directly to customers(medium.com)
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by bcx 7y ago
thanks.
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by bcx 7y ago
I think you need to understand the audience for this post. Dan is trying to demonstrate that there is room for many more large VC style returns by investing in companies that's primary value is being an API. His argument is that the m
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by bcx 7y ago
There is some version of this that creates a dystopian future where AI software companies shed liability by outsourcing ethical decisions to armies of contractors. With AI currently set up as the "next big thing" this article is j

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