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by chadkruse 12y ago
Fisher - thank you for taking the high road, for being brave and starting a great dialogue on what I think is an important topic, and a heart-felt congrats on your upcoming two year anniversary of sobriety. Good on you.
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Don't have any direct experience with YC in a hardware context (only second hand), but in my experience the key to most hardware companies is the software (iPhones are great because of the App Store; Dropcam great because of their moti
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The Internet is awash in Bitcoin love, and Changetip is supplying the lube(pando.com)
2 points by chadkruse 12y ago|0 comments
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Appreciate the insight @tlb. One of the most interesting things we found when we first embarked on this journey was the seemingly inverse relationship between the size of the check and the donor/beneficiary connection. Great to see inn
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Ask HN: Have you donated to a YC nonprofit / Would you if it was easier to do so
3 points by chadkruse 12y ago|2 comments
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Assuming you have a strong business-minded attorney and a good relationship with them, ask them in an email. Skip the meeting (expensive). The answer, like most legal items, is complicated, but a good attorney can help you wade through it w
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by chadkruse 12y ago
For anyone that happens upon this, Bayes Impact was indeed the only nonprofit in the summer 2014 batch of YCombinator. https://twitter.com/bayesimpact/status/503996905928417281
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by chadkruse 12y ago
I'd actually be doing exactly what I'm doing now, though admittedly I'd change out the ramen for a more well balanced diet. We're bootstrapping, but if I was a billionaire I'd be dogfooding :) Let me explain... We d
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Ask HN: Was Bayes Impact the only nonprofit in the S14 batch?
3 points by chadkruse 12y ago|1 comments
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Bootstrapping with Meteor.js(medium.com)
1 points by chadkruse 12y ago|0 comments
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by chadkruse 12y ago
I've been using Lift ( https://www.lift.do/ ), but you may find the UX a bit cluttered for your use case (they're primary a habit tracking app). Nice UI though.
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by chadkruse 12y ago
With a successful exit under your belt and a large tech co name on the resume, go out and raise a $1.2M seed for the "Foursquare for time". I'll happily be user #1. There are many people both in my professional life and perso
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Anyone found a decent replacement? A quick search turns up the following but I haven't dug in to them yet: 1) http://vibeapp.co/ 2) http://www.connect6.com/ I'm going to miss the email prospecting
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LinkedIn Banishing Rapportive Tomorrow(intellerati.com)
2 points by chadkruse 12y ago|1 comments
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by chadkruse 12y ago
We've standardized on Github Issues as the PM core, Waffle to prioritize, and Slack to communicate. The tools largely stay out of the way, unlike many of the ones I've used in the past. Give the bureaucrats access to the appropria
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by chadkruse 12y ago
The fact that the answer is only one word is exactly why I love Meteor for MVPs and prototypes
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by chadkruse 12y ago
In my experience, hardware companies are incredibly hard to pull off, but they're also incredibly fun. On the software side, the problems that need to be solved can be wickedly complex, interesting, and far different than creating anot
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Other - I identify with [insert own name here]. Let me explain... I dated a woman once who dated a woman just prior to dating me (I'm male). We were having beers with a mutual friend and upon hearing that fact, our mutual friend said &
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by chadkruse 12y ago
FYI - Ask urls seem borked: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask?p=3 Pages 1 and 2 worked fine though [UPDATE] Now shows item #61 (perhaps the list was limited to 60 items and thus 2 pages when I first clicked...still showed th
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Raised $70k: http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/04/18/epic-s... Regardless, still a great story.
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by chadkruse 12y ago
I think the most interesting part of this post's comments is how everyone views bootstrapping differently. In Chobani's case, per the article, they didn't take in any outside equity, but they did take in outside investment. I
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by chadkruse 12y ago
+1 on starting with your old friends. The one time I was in this position I called the founder and quickly learned it wasn't going to be worth the effort. Saved them an unnecessary distraction and saved me from counting money I didn&#x
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by chadkruse 12y ago
> they claimed that this offer is in 75th percentile of comparable companies. Empirical data is the best data: https://angel.co/salaries Bummed OP had the original offer rescinded, but for anyone reading this in the futu
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by chadkruse 12y ago
> If you've used Pivotal, Asana, JIRA Agile or Sprintly... Good onya for having a go at what many people think is a saturated market. The space is huge and there will never be a clear leader, so plenty of room for building a nice li
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by chadkruse 12y ago
The times I've been in this situation it really came down to figuring out if I was a true co-founder or just the hired gun. True co-founder roles meant I was confident in the founder(s) ability to execute, was confident we'd work
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by chadkruse 12y ago
You're the uncle I hope to be to my 2 year old niece when she gets older. Good onya! I don't have kids myself and thus no direct experience to share, but my friends with kids in this situation seem to have the best luck with the h
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by chadkruse 12y ago
> If you try to build someone else's idea the passion will be hard to find. Having been hired by a few entrepreneurs as "the business guy", and having brought on a few true technical co-founders, I've experienced this
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by chadkruse 12y ago
> This says to me that Stripe's position is ultimately to be...the SWIFT of Bitcoin. Agreed. To illustrate how broken the SWIFT system is for those unfamiliar with international wires: Last week I wired AUS$2,500 from an account I c
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Off-topic, but curious...would you be interested in co-investing(1) in the nonprofit portfolio of YC? (1) By co-investing I'm referring to a tax-deductible donation.
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Using the lens of 'what makes the most sense in the long term', could you really handle commuting 54 miles? Personally I couldn't handle that commute for any price.

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