chadkruse

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by chadkruse 12y ago
Don't underestimate the anxiety that monetary stress will bring if you don't win the SaaS startup lottery in your anticipated time frame (in my experience the rule that it always takes twice as long and requires twice as much mone
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by chadkruse 12y ago
+1 Some of the unhappiest people I know have a single exit under their belt. I'm a capitalist and not afraid to admit I'd rather have more money than less, but I've learned through these friends that it truly is HOW you get t
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by chadkruse 12y ago
I snagged the same machine + the 256GB SSD upgrade two weeks ago and am quite pleased (I spend the bulk of my day in Meteor). Coming from a 15" MBP I was a bit nervous about screen real estate, but the 13" is plenty. One side bene
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Both wetland banking and conservation easements effectively do the same thing...you transfer/sell the ecological value to someone that values it, and lock it into being a wetland into perpetuity (or some agreed-to number of years). In
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by chadkruse 12y ago
I'm excited for you...I did the same about 12 years ago and the 2 1/2 years I ended up taking off remain some of the best of my life. Thought I'd share a simple budgeting tool I used to help alleviate/delay the inevitabl
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by chadkruse 12y ago
In my experience (two startups ago we had many of the same seed investors as Nuzzel), the difference between seed and a proper Series A comes down to data. Our seed investors invested primarily on the "story". The Series A convers
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by chadkruse 12y ago
You probably already know this, but if you think there might be wind generation potential I'd highly recommend throwing up an anemometer just for the heck of it. When I was mucking around that industry back in Oregon (helped a friend l
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Minimum Viable Business Person(medium.com)
1 points by chadkruse 12y ago|0 comments
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by chadkruse 12y ago
COO, particularly if the company has fewer than 10 employees.
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Gonna leave you with a simple thought: smart homes shouldn't be about the things...they should be about the people. I think the reason we haven't seen a blockbuster IoT app is because everyone is still focused on the things, not t
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by chadkruse 12y ago
I think rent is a good analogy, particularly for mission-critical apps (as Sprintly was for me at the time). Looking at non-mission-critical apps like Gliffy though, I only really wanted to enter a contract for one-month's worth (actua
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Ask HN: Anyone using 'good guy' SaaS pricing?
6 points by chadkruse 12y ago|7 comments
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by chadkruse 12y ago
Waffle user here...they're just doing some market/price testing. They don't actually charge a fee yet.
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by chadkruse 13y ago
What you describe reminds me of a weekend project I threw together to check out meteor.js: http://inception.getkyn.com/ The few submissions I got aren't earth shattering, but gave me a few new ideas for side projects.
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by chadkruse 13y ago
I also use Streak for a very lightweight CRM. Works great for identifying prospects and moving them through the close process. I'm also keeping an eye on FullContact. A few slight tweaks to their tagging feature and they'll be a g
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by chadkruse 13y ago
At the risk of making it more complicated than it needs to be: http://www.slideshare.net/tonyrice/consulting-company-valuat... The phrase you're googling for is some combination of the following: software consul
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by chadkruse 13y ago
In addition to Huboard and Octokan, there are a few more of these "Front-end for Github Issues" projects: TaskTub: http://www.tasktub.com/authentication/login Waffle.io: https://waffle.io/
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by chadkruse 13y ago
Giving away money is easy. Giving away money effectively is hard. Link: http://kyn.me
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by chadkruse 13y ago
Appreciate the heads up. I'll get in there and make it 100% legit. But yeah, I'm not going to come after anybody for making a calendar app...shame we live in a world where that happens from time to time (opportunistic frivolous la
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by chadkruse 13y ago
Hmm, yeah, maybe I was thinking of the "how do I find an idea" threads and one about sharing side projects people were working on. My bad. I'd love to see a thread by people with budgets for digital products describing pain p
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by chadkruse 13y ago
Clickable link: https://speakerdeck.com/chadokruse/10speak-pitch-deck-the-mo...
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Ask HN: Let's open-source our unused pitch decks
62 points by chadkruse 13y ago|10 comments
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by chadkruse 13y ago
I wonder how many Finance professors just opened up their Investment 101 lecture deck and added a new case study under the Risk/Return slide. I think a lot of investors and speculators just got reminded of regulatory risk. That said, t
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by chadkruse 13y ago
I'd love to see MBA programs require a class called something along the lines of "Minimum Viable Business Guy". Coming out of that, an MBA grad would be able to pass the following standard "MVB" test from any potent
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by chadkruse 13y ago
Spent 4 great years at the University of Iowa...like half the school, I'm originally from the suburbs of Chicago.
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by chadkruse 13y ago
Years ago a friend and I hacked together iFvckedUp.org with the intention of focusing on videos of ourselves and other startup friends talking about the fvckups we made (or were currently making) at our startups. We learned that a) filming
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by chadkruse 13y ago
PHPfog/AppFog credits an HN post for their start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414560 “I was hacking around with some code seeing if I could create something useful for my PHP programmer friends,” said Lucas C
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by chadkruse 13y ago
I wonder how many +1-as-a-service startups we'll see in the next YC batch.
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by chadkruse 13y ago
I've worked from home about 80% of the past 10 years. Here's what has worked for me: 1) Shower, then put socks on. Every. Day. Socks on = power. 2) Hit people up for free office space from time to time. I usually did it during the
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by chadkruse 13y ago
Good to know. For anyone that finds this later, relevant API docs: https://developers.dwolla.com/dev/pages/gateway/guest

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