francescopnpn

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by francescopnpn 5y ago
A $250mm sale is lottery type sh+t. u can't plan it. 1:1mm odds. you're naive. $10mm is realistic while still highly unlikely. like 1:100 odds. just build a SaaS that makes $3mm a year (e.g 5k customers paying $49 a month or 300 t
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by francescopnpn 5y ago
I told people to buy btc and decentraland here on HN 2 years ago and now you'd be up x100. now I'd tell you, trading NFTs should be your full time job
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by francescopnpn 5y ago
Buy a weekly option on a company it's going to announce a merger or predict any other many-sigma event with week/month-precision always using weekly options
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
Extremely unhappy too with Stripe's support. Patrick Collison never answered my emails (not that I expected to). They disabled and re-enabled our Stripe account multiple times thinking it was a forbidden business. With another company
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
different people have different tolerances. clearly your sweet spot was "half a dose" dude.
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
As the solo founder of a profitable $1MM ARR company I'd say you can do it on your own and there's nothing they can add anyway. Just pick a domain you're deeply obsessed with in the first place. Remember, in software in 2020
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
Memento mori. Unus sed leo.
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
Same. Sometimes I use Airbnb and it's a mixed bag. Same thing happened with me once a year ago: I left a bad review for the host, the host a bad review to me, both have been removed. so much for trust. Why not completely remove reviews
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
I always think that the best business to build or own is the one with the highest margins which usually means catering to wealthy customers. Apple, Tesla, Gulfstream. One exception is if your business accepts payments which can't be re
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
I agree. But amazon has AWS too which is high-end. I always think that the best business to build or own is the one with the highest margins which usually means catering to wealthy customers. Apple, Tesla, Gulfstream. One exception is if yo
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
what about just drinking water and eating berries? I kid you not, you will feel so much better.
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
This is peak YC
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
I guess people eventually could win twice in a short span if they're unlucky and they'd be out of money
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
How much does the insurance cost? Was it hard to find someone wiling to insure that? Finally, you pay 0.2% but Ally pays 1% yet you say your rates are as good.
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
true and sad-reflective of the world's state (last 50y)
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by francescopnpn 6y ago
Reporting and testing across different countries is not equal by any means. I'm always amazed by these headlines that mean literally nothing. Statistics 101? The conclusions you can actually derive by the deviation in deaths YoY https
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
check the last article I submitted.
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
I don't?
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
Given the immigration situation, probably not. If you just want disposable income, go to Zurich.
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
1) get a better job 2) get a partner 3) do smth rewarding such as non profit work
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
1. BTC's ATH is $50K and it's still the dominant cryptographic assets & will overcome gold as preferred store of value 2. There's a recession, SPY drops 40%+ in 1Y 3. First Electric Planes 4. We go to Mars 5. First somewh
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
wasn't the Bill Gate's something line along the lines of "It's not a platform until businesses that make $1M+/y can be built on top of it"
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
just the age old question "Why now?" repackaged as nonsense
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
Remember that his experience is just an anecdote. You should not base your reasoning upon someone else's experience. You should research and keep in mind that yes, bad trips exist and also that we're talking about banned compounds
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
Another nightmare that could even come close, I can not imagine.
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
Very much appreciated & good luck with this. I edited my original post and added a fifth question.
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
It would be interesting to know a few technical/regulatory details. 1- You say you're live in 8 states. Which ones? 2- Did you have to obtain 1 license per state? 3- How much time did it take to obtain each license? What it entail
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
Leetcode+Referrals/cold app Series A,B,Seed companies
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
This is the worst attempt I've ever seen at building a social network. 3 out of 4 of the major social networks were started by 20-22yos, 4 out of 4 were initially for teens only, 3 out of 3 in the last 10 years were mobile-only, ios-o
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by francescopnpn 7y ago
is this satire? because if not, you wanna short it to 1 to 2 sentences.

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