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by drusenko 13y ago
although your point may be valid in general, you're pretty wrong about penn state: http://news.psu.edu/story/293418/2013/10/30/athletics/penn-s...
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by drusenko 13y ago
Like Dan said, we think that mixing a very intuitive CMS with a powerful eCommerce platform is really compelling. We compare really well to Shopify on a feature basis, but have some other cool things, like secure checkout on your own domain
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by drusenko 13y ago
Actually, the 3% commission is only for free users. If you're on the Business plan ($19-29/month depending on term) there is no commission at all to Weebly.
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Weebly (YC W07) Launches E-Commerce Tools To Lure Entrepreneurs From Amazon(forbes.com)
36 points by drusenko 13y ago|14 comments
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by drusenko 13y ago
there are usually a couple dozen emails per week, but easy to skim through. i read most of them, as i'm sure many do.
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by drusenko 13y ago
> The national debt is a bullshit non-problem. i don't disagree with you, but i'd love to hear why you think that.
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by drusenko 13y ago
I'm partial to ours :) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pkcd36tw2febm66/tNYzHJY80d
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by drusenko 13y ago
there are no normal hours. some people come from 7:00 to 17:00, others come from 12:00 to 20:00. it's entirely flexible and there are no cultural pressures to work certain hours either.
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by drusenko 13y ago
all of our employment agreements in CA must include this notice (besides, we'd never claim ownership over what someone does on their own time): Exhibit B CALIFORNIA LABOR CODE 2870 NOTICE: California Labor Code Section 2870 provides as
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by drusenko 13y ago
People don't work on a "real" project -- meaning a project that will be shipped into production -- so IP assignment is not an issue. The project people work on is dependent on their role (front-end, back-end, etc). It is mean
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by drusenko 13y ago
We try to be as flexible as possible. We have plenty of people with families that work 8-6pm. If you had kids and couldn't make the trial week because of that, we'd figure something else out. But we've had plenty of people go
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by drusenko 13y ago
It's only happened once.
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by drusenko 13y ago
We try to be extremely flexible in all areas of our hiring process. That includes being flexible with the scheduling of the trial week.
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by drusenko 13y ago
I certainly respect your point of view. In my mind this isn't a temp-to-hire -- that would be something more lengthy, maybe a 2-4 week temp period. So many people are frustrated with the traditional interview process, and we think it&#
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by drusenko 13y ago
We've never hired anyone straight out of college (but not because we don't want to). Nearly everyone we've hired has been currently employed, and about 75% were even relocated from out of state. On the college student front,
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by drusenko 13y ago
You'd be surprised the reasons it doesn't work out though. It's almost never intelligence. It's usually that someone was a huge dick, or was really lazy. It's just so strange to me that you couldn't keep your i
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by drusenko 13y ago
Out of 50+ product, engineering and marketing folks, only 2 have ever left. We have multiple people that have been around for 5+ years. So yes, amazing retention and team cohesion is certainly a by-product of the trial week.
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Trial week: Our hiring secret(sequoiacap.com)
122 points by drusenko 13y ago|133 comments
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by drusenko 13y ago
13% of VC-backed startups exit for over $10M, 5% exit for over $50M, and 2% exit for over $100M, although there are many different studies with slightly different numbers: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-truth-behind-9-out-
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by drusenko 13y ago
Android, Google Analytics, etc etc etc
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by drusenko 13y ago
All advice should be taken with a bucketload of salt (Limited life experiences + Over-generalization = Advice -- Paul Buchheit). That doesn't mean advice is pointless though.
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by drusenko 13y ago
we skipped what would traditionally be called a series A and series B and went straight to a growth-staged round with Sequoia
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by drusenko 13y ago
> True, but BigCo's also have consistent (if meager) raise policies. We have consistent (and not meager) raise policies. > With a typical engineer slice, a $10m or even $100m exit isn't meaningful. You might get $10-20k p
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by drusenko 13y ago
To be fair, there are good and bad apples in any general population. Startups are no different, and the posted conversation is a complete trainwreck. In defense of good startups: 1- Some of us pay equal to or more than BigCo, so you'
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Working with the Stripe Payouts API(blog.chriswinn.com)
91 points by drusenko 13y ago|47 comments
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by drusenko 13y ago
Around the same time you posted this comment, I just edited my post to clarify that we were already planning on removing many of the annoying emails, including the "Your website misses you" and the "It’s been 8 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes and
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by drusenko 13y ago
I'd like to jump in and clarify a few things. First, we have recently been testing the frequency of our email sending, and the author seems to have been bucketed into the "more frequent" group. That being said, we were actually planning on
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by drusenko 13y ago
The real issue is that uninsured people are an externality to society. If we actually let people choose to not buy insurance and deal with those consequences, that would be fine. But as a civilized society, we don't find it acceptable to le
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Weebly (YC W07) launches new service, Android app(techcrunch.com)
57 points by drusenko 13y ago|2 comments
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by drusenko 13y ago
Actually, that's a slideshow, which is a feature we offer. It uses javascript. Regular images are just good 'ol <img> tags :)

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