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by corry 13y ago
The best way to look at the uncapped note is like investing in an index fund. Rather than picking and choosing specific companies, the money behind YC VC is betting that the basket of companies as a whole is going to perform well on aggrega
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by corry 13y ago
Part of it would have been access to YC deal flow, sure. But to me it was also like an index fund - i.e. invest in the basket of companies rather than picking and choosing because on aggregate the group is going to do very well. Really, you
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by corry 13y ago
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." Nowhere is this more true than in enterprise / gov, which is gradually being pulled out of the tech dark ages. It's inevitable - even if it'
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by corry 13y ago
I wouldn't say he's in his own bubble. Each of those companies has a good head start of 100's of millions of DAILY ACTIVE users + apps that actually are great at what they do. Could Facebook still enter? Sure, but they'v
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by corry 13y ago
Great article, Ted. It's a pattern we've all seen before - whoever nails the core utility / experience (Google->search, FB->friending) gets to build a massive platform around it. And messaging is clearly at the core (if
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by corry 13y ago
+1 for Preview.app signatures. It's like magic. I hadn't had a 'wow' moment with any out-of-the-box OSX software until I set it up - but it's awesome.
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by corry 13y ago
Have you tried using Workflowy? More of a list app, but could allow for very structured writing as well...
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by corry 13y ago
Serious question: Why aren't equity positions posted too? To me, that's part of the trade-off that the startup founder / leaderships takes (for good or ill), and seeing salary in the absence of actual equity positions is only
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by corry 13y ago
Hi Jason - mundane accounting question: how do you account for revenue deferral? I believe in general you're supposed to match revenues and expenses as they are incurred providing the services. i.e. Up-front revenue gets deferred ove
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by corry 13y ago
I initially felt positive about this -- and I don't doubt that it's working for them -- but I have the nagging feeling that there would be a break in the accountability chain. I can imagine a board meeting where an investors asks
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by corry 13y ago
Super minor thing I noticed: in your city drop-down list, you have "Kansas_city" instead of 'Kansas City' - looks like the string isn't being parsed properly like the others!
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by corry 13y ago
The merits of remote work aside, you have to hand it to 37signals for masterful marketing. They have a set of beliefs that they tell powerful stories about, in various mediums, to people who already believe or want to believe these same bel
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by corry 13y ago
Random suggestion - check out NearlyFreeSpeech ( https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ ). I use them for a few sites and like their vibe and offerings. It's mostly pay-per-traffic I think. The dashboard isn't really a d
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by corry 13y ago
Neat! Suggestion: show a 'actual size' thumbnail of it. Those of us new to pixel art have trouble visualizing what it looks like shrunk down to actual pixels!
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by corry 13y ago
Good points, and thanks for the other link. I'd disagree that it gives much (any?) actionable advice to real sales people since it's such a caricature-driven piece. It's anecdotal, but of the dozen sales and product guys I&#x
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by corry 13y ago
This article seems to be one big exercise in "false dichotomy" - the world is EITHER "sales guys are always right" or "engineers are always right"; the world is EITHER "engineers need sales guys more"
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by corry 13y ago
My $0.02 - this might be the wrong way to address the 2 biggest risks (cleaners stealing, cleaners not working). For me, by drawing so much attention to these items you're basically saying "we don't really trust the cleaners,
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by corry 13y ago
I think you answered your own question: "Why [does] everyone thinks BB10 is crap?" "[RIM] was big, sluggish, and full of idiots running it." Everything you write about BB being a new nimble company may be 100% true... bu
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by corry 13y ago
We're happy with OVH (we have some boxes in Montreal and some in their France location) - good prices, no issues after a year+ usage.
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by corry 13y ago
"Most things have been tried" <-- but the idea is that 'new things to try' are popping up all the time. My read on the article is that low margins show things have been optimized already, so new things that further
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by corry 13y ago
My guess would be the common factor is likely a person's general cumulative state of health (e.g. obesity level, presence of chronic injury, respiratory efficiency, etc). Would be fascinating to study this more.
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by corry 13y ago
Love this lead gen strategy - offer free super simple tool to your target audience, and you get lots of opportunities to convert them to your full tool. Adds a ton of value and shows you 'get' your customers before you engage them
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by corry 13y ago
Rdio lets you sync songs / albums locally onto your mobile device and then doesn't require a connection to play them. Not sure if other services have similar features.
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by corry 13y ago
Here are links to part 1 and 2 for anyone unable to "hack" the URL scheme. ;) http://blog.whitehatsec.com/interview-with-a-blackhat-part-1... (pastebin if it goes down: http://pastebin.com/jiUM0AFr ) http://blog.whitehatsec.com/intervie
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by corry 13y ago
I think successful "pivots" like this usually have to do with rebalancing the risk of the customers. In the article's example, the risk is shifted away from the publishers ("am I sure this software will be worth it?") to the startup ("we on
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by corry 13y ago
OVH.fr - great machines, good prices. We have a machine in western Europe. VPS or dedicated servers.
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by corry 13y ago
I enjoyed this post, although you didn't mention one of the most interesting things w.r.t. SMS-first apps: super high SMS coverage in the developing world. I have a vague (but exciting) sense that there are some big companies waiting to be
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by corry 14y ago
"Learn a bit of Photoshop yourself" - this is great advice. Even little stuff like how to export images, how to show/hide layers, how to move items around, how to edit text will give you major return. There's the $$$ saving aspect, but I've
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by corry 14y ago
I think in general we all might be underestimating the social stigma that is going to come from being the guy walking around in public recording strangers. The examples in the article (e.g. drones) are tolerated because (a) people aren't aw
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by corry 14y ago
Agreed. I started out solo in an incubator and had to be RUTHLESS with my time. Basically didn't really make use of the mentors / sessions / etc - too busy writing code / making sales calls. Didn't spend time networking with the other start

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