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by gatsby 11y ago
Full text if you don't want to deal with google/paywall workarounds: More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government’s main student-loan program aren’t making payments or are behind on more than $200 billion owed, rais
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by gatsby 11y ago
Storefront - https://www.thestorefront.com/ - raised almost $10m for a similar idea, and just shut down last month after four years, so I wonder how/if Bulletin will approach the market differently.
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How Compose uses Interviewed and Slack to automate blind-hiring(compose.io)
1 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 11y ago
This is a great idea. A huge part of the success over the last 10 or 15 years in the cafe and coffee industry has been about branding and design. Starbucks knows this: bright green straws, red holiday cups, etc. You can see a Starbucks cup
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How effective is Robinhood’s growth hack?(advice.interviewed.com)
1 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments
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The Economics of Pawn Shops(priceonomics.com)
4 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 11y ago
Congrats to you and the team, Nate! We have several shared customers and they all speak very highly of Lever.
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Small-town America is primed to beat Silicon Valley in innovation(medium.com)
5 points by gatsby 11y ago|1 comments
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Employees with non-American names are penalized in the US(advice.interviewed.com)
2 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments
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Car Startups Destined to Die(advice.interviewed.com)
2 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 11y ago
Congrats on the initial traction! I feel like "co-living" is definitely a huge opportunity, and someone will get it right. Curious what you're going to do differently than Campus and several other SF-based companies that had
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Software Development Has Diseconomies of Scale(allankelly.blogspot.com)
138 points by gatsby 11y ago|87 comments
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You Can Never Size a Market in Excel(medium.com)
76 points by gatsby 11y ago|24 comments
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by gatsby 11y ago
This is really fascinating, and I've heard similar stories from my younger cousins about maintaining multiple accounts on FB, Instagram, etc. "Real" social media = your fake life "Fake" social media = your real life
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by gatsby 11y ago
Yes, Square's private per share prices: Series A: $0.21627 Series B: <$1 Series C: $5.79817 Series D: $11.014 Series E: $15.46345 IPO @ $9 is not great for lots of folks, but mostly late-stage employees (assuming D & E investors
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by gatsby 11y ago
Wow, that's priced at ~2.8x 2015 revenue. So low.
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by gatsby 11y ago
We had an identical experience. I just counted and I have two threads with Zenefits - one with sales and one with acct mgmt. The first thread with sales has 38 emails, and the account management thread has 16 emails. All of this to get set
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by gatsby 11y ago
I would love to see this as well. A salesperson from Gusto (fka Zenpayroll) who we use for payroll sent me multiple emails about switching to Gusto for benefits, so I emailed, "Hey - We're currently running everything through Zene
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How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws(nytimes.com)
1 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 11y ago
Great analysis. The author of this blog compares Campus to WeWork, but WeWork is actually doing a very similar concept to Campus called WeLive: https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/office/welive-and-...
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by gatsby 11y ago
In addition to being one of our most helpful and thoughtful angels, Jared's just a genuinely nice guy. When I read this, I immediately thought of Jared: http://paulgraham.com/safe.html Big win for YC.
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by gatsby 11y ago
Fascinating that despite years of "inflating or exaggerating [borrower] assets, incomes, and job titles” this bank maintained a delinquency rate less than a twentieth of the national average. In 2009, they had 4,399 mortgages and only
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by gatsby 11y ago
Full article (because it's behind a paywall, then a survey): The digital revolution sweeping through the banking sector is set to wipe out almost two-thirds of earnings on some financial products as new technology companies drive down
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Deepening Our Roots All Across the Bay(newsroom.uber.com)
1 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 11y ago
Right. This is part of it. Real estate is still the largest purchase most people make in their lifetime, and there are tons of things to deal with: inspections, title companies, escrow accounts, taxes, etc. I'm overgeneralizing, but if
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by gatsby 11y ago
There is a nice opportunity if you can cut out rental brokers and apartment locators, but you really only see these types of brokers in a few markets: Boston, Chicago, Miami, NY, and some locators throughout the southern US. People who live
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by gatsby 11y ago
Congrats on the launch, guys! PickTrace is solving one of those massive problems that I assumed was already solved by technology, until I spent a week on a family-owned farm a few summers ago. The amount of labor to track the crop yield and
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Interviewed (YC S15) Uses Automated Simulations to Evaluate Job Candidates(techcrunch.com)
27 points by gatsby 11y ago|2 comments
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by gatsby 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8473541
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How big is Snapchat?(photoworld.com)
6 points by gatsby 11y ago|0 comments

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