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by dkyc 11y ago
Hm. Of course it's unprofessional to hit on a support agent, but the way this blog-post is shit-talking about their very own customers (even joking that one of them is probably too poor for champagne because they are on the free-side o
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by dkyc 11y ago
I think this comment by patio11 is very relevant here: "We don't donate to OSS software which we use, because we're legally not allowed to. I routinely send key projects, particularly smaller projects, a request to quote me
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WebGL Water Demo(madebyevan.com)
6 points by dkyc 11y ago|2 comments
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by dkyc 11y ago
I try to, but there is all kinds of scenarios where I revert back to cash: I have to have cash in my wallet anyway for things like parking tickets, so sometimes when I'm in a rush I use it. Or for example when I purchase something via
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by dkyc 11y ago
This looks great, really good UX/UI from a first glance. My bank has a pretty modern banking app, so some of the features (like spending graphs) are familiar to me (though not as pretty as in Penny). Two things that I dislike with my b
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by dkyc 11y ago
Check out this awesome interview with Marc Ende of SeamlessGov ( http://www.seamlessgov.com ) that was released just last month: http://blog.close.io/how-to-sell-to-governments Specifically about B2G sales.
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by dkyc 11y ago
Actually, slider-pricing is often a bad idea for B2B-SaaS tools. Simple reason: Almost every purchasing process in almost every company (other than software startups) is expecting a fixed, monthly rate. Put yourself in the mind of your
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by dkyc 11y ago
You got that first one wrong, the 78% figure was yearly growth. AWS grew roughly 14% quarter-over-quarter: "Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up from $1.169 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. That’s a 78% jump
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by dkyc 11y ago
I just upgraded from a 13" MacBook Pro w/ Retina to the 15" version. Key Reasons: - Display Space: Even when set to the highest possible virtual resolution, there is still noticeable more space on the 15" version. It&#x2
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by dkyc 11y ago
Y Combinator Sales Summer School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-K2DHi99oI&list=PLb1c0oEEXW... This is basically Sales 101. Lecture by Steli Efti, YC founder of the close.io CRM. Insanely valuable. --- Y Combinator &
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Ask HN: How to account for annual prepayments in SaaS startups MRR?
3 points by dkyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by dkyc 11y ago
"You need to align your pricing to scale with your costs" I strongly disagree with that. You should align your pricing with the value the user receives. To do this optimally, you need to have a good grasp of who your user is, ho
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by dkyc 11y ago
I have no inside info, but I think YC Fellowship could be a startup lead generation system: when you get a Fellowship grant and your company begins to work out, you will probably apply to YC and get accepted. Then YC receives equity (and on
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by dkyc 11y ago
They are not affiliated, and are in quite different stages. Hubstaff currently nets some $40k MRR (you can see their live metrics here [0], pretty cool), whereas Hubspot has $115 million dollars in annualized revenue [1]. [0] https:&#x2F
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by dkyc 11y ago
According to CrunchBase, facebook has raised roughly $2.1B totally (including their IPO, which accounted for $1.5B of that). [0] In 2014, facebook totalled roughly $3B net income [1]. So they made dramatically more money back in the last
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by dkyc 11y ago
Parse was acquired by facebook more than two years ago (April 2013), so they had to plan it for a long time then.
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by dkyc 11y ago
Thanks for the story, it was a nice read. However, the answer is at the beginning: The author of the software is exactly the guy he claims to be. Along with photo and an interview in the Forbes Magazine . Yes, they use all kinds of fake co
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by dkyc 11y ago
They actually do something like this: Amazon ships stuff to a logistic center close to you when their machine learning algorithms decide you're likely to buy a specific item shortly.
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by dkyc 11y ago
"Swiss Data Security Our email service safeguards user data with strict privacy protections and our secure datacenter facility hidden inside a Swiss granite mountain." Now that is comforting.
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by dkyc 11y ago
The author's point is that by using Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, they hand over control over software and become "commoditized hardware providers", just like IBM and the IBM-clone providers in the 1980s and 1990s. I conside
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Www.paulgraham.com on mobile devices(transmog.net)
1 points by dkyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by dkyc 12y ago
I'm surprised to see this framed so negative. What they do is essentially being the lean huge startup . They launch a product, gather initial feedback, and if it turns out promising (like AWS) they double-down. If it doesn't work
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by dkyc 12y ago
What about " successful private company "?
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by dkyc 12y ago
Technically Twitch sold for $970m... Maybe he's referring to Quora (they joined YC late-stage)
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by dkyc 12y ago
They sold for roughly $250m to Salesforce in 2010.
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by dkyc 12y ago
I'm referring to the choice of words. E.g., I never heard anybody call their IDE/Editor/emacs setup casually "integrated developer environment".
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by dkyc 12y ago
"Everyday you sit down, put on your headphones and open your integrated developer environment." Right there, the first sentence. Hilarious. I think it takes the cake for the quickest sentence that gives away that the author is n
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by dkyc 12y ago
This is an ordered best-of-list of Hacker News "Evergreens", e.g. stories that were originally from a different year: http://blog.contextly.com/2014/11/hacker-news-evergreen-stor...
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by dkyc 12y ago
MongoDB was never about its benchmarking, scaling or sharding abilities. It was about two things: #1: No schema. If you're prototyping, schemas just slow you down. Maybe that changes as your application matures. #2: Great drivers. The
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by dkyc 12y ago
These types of programs represent a funny trend in the SV tech scene: While workers of every other sector are busy increasing the barrier of entry in order to reduce competition for jobs, every other week some new startup / bootcamp

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