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by greghinch 12y ago
To a degree I think in B2B you have every right to be quite a bit more risk averse as an investor, and demand to see a solid revenue stream coming in. In B2C you can bet on the idea of "explosive" growth, but that's much less
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by greghinch 12y ago
Quite a roller coaster of experience for 22! I'm sure we'll see great things from Nikki in coming years. You kids doing startups in your early 20s have so much going for you! I wish I'd not waited until my 30s to get on this
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by greghinch 12y ago
To be honest, often I found delivering work on time and being easy to get along with trump doing good work to a large degree (particularly being on time). That is to say, if you are easy to get along with and deliver on time, but your work
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by greghinch 12y ago
> and the "automated killer drone AI" isn't close yet either. Now there's a terrifying prospect. Is this actually something we should expect to see any time soon? My understanding has been that, films aside, "AI&
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Theranos, a revolutionary blood diagnostics company poised to change health care(fortune.com)
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by greghinch 12y ago
The simplicity is probably going to drive their adoption. Typically securing a loan for a business is a lot of paperwork, back-and-forth, etc. In other words, time away from your business. If Square removes all of that, they're leagues
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by greghinch 12y ago
The thing you have to remember about the British press (and the majority of their readership) is, more than anything else, they love taking someone of notoriety down a peg. You can just hear the tuts and proclamations of "well this is
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by greghinch 12y ago
A lot of times you are going into existing, older markets where there isn't just a "set of requirements" to be defined by a good PM. Commercial real estate is a great example. The existing processes in renting are extremely c
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by greghinch 12y ago
> But what's getting them to the threshold in the first place is a damaged economy, and harmful public policy that has forced millions of people to look to odd jobs for sustenance. Would be nice to qualify that statement a bit more.
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by greghinch 12y ago
I was born in 81 in the north bay, then and now we always said "the city". Possibly geographic?
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by greghinch 13y ago
"Indeed, the federal tax return offers no clue to a person's net worth." Kind of takes the wind out of what the title is getting at
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by greghinch 13y ago
Amazon also has a startup program where you can get like $7k or similar free AWS credit when you register. They do some basic checks, but it's pretty easy to get IIRC.
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by greghinch 13y ago
There are a lot of things in life which are better than money, and they're all very, very expensive
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by greghinch 13y ago
Elon Musk has 5 sons (!). It that doesn't prove that children being a distraction is a fallacy, what will?
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by greghinch 13y ago
Right, malls are dying in certain areas and flourishing in others. As demographic shifts continue to happen across geographies (and those shifts only seem to be increasing), the very concept of a stationary location of offline commerce ceas
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by greghinch 13y ago
> Malls aren't dying. Some malls are, but that has nothing to do with the mall paradigm and has more to do with the local population. A mall can't get up and move. It's like a tree. It is where it is and it either thrives
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by greghinch 13y ago
I can brew my own beer relatively easily in the comfort of my own home, for the final price of less than $1 per beer in ingredients. I still buy much more beer at the store than I brew.
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by greghinch 13y ago
It's also a challenge for merchants, because the fact that the payment fails may not be known for up to 5 days. I would love to see if GoCardless could do something with the FasterPayments system as well, which processes in a matter of
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by greghinch 13y ago
To hire good devs in the Bay Area, particularly mobile, you'll easily start approaching $150k/yr. in salary. Couple in employment taxes, benefits, etc. and you are easily in that neighborhood
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by greghinch 13y ago
Well generally with more or less standard docs in place, the board can vote to remove the offending person from the company. And then it's just a matter of the vesting schedule as to the leaving person's remaining stake (this is w
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by greghinch 13y ago
This is why you have a board. And hopefully some decent legal documentation in place. Talk to them, lay out facts and the action you want to take, and just follow the documented process for things like board votes and such (again I hope you
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by greghinch 13y ago
#3 definitely is why there is so much enthusiasm running around regarding their punishment
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by greghinch 13y ago
You're building a two-sided marketplace, one of if not the most difficult model to get up and running in the startup world. Kudos for taking on the challenge! While we're not building a dating app, we are building something that i
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by greghinch 13y ago
My career as a developer has been coming up through the role of front-end engineer, really from when that was first being defined as a separate role (2004-2005, around then). In hindsight now, I would never hire myself. Either you're a
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by greghinch 13y ago
This. The tangled, incestuous web of government contracts and bids is such a colossal failure that is destroying the US government from the inside, out. It's easy to point fingers a politicians and public figures, but in reality you ha
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by greghinch 13y ago
It's mostly just bureaucratic ceremony and British strict rule-following
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by greghinch 13y ago
I was actually at my 3rd bank trying to open an account, but without any other documentation than my passport & visa. I think it was Halifax. The guy I was speaking went in back for a bit, and per usual said "I'm sorry but wit
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by greghinch 13y ago
As someone who just went through this, an FYI for anyone else in this situation: Lloyds Bank will let you open a current account with just a US passport and a UK work visa, no other docs needed. HSBC has a similar account you can get, but,
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by greghinch 13y ago
#2 is mostly in case you want to make sure the tool is released to the general public and not just absorbed by the employer into their own IP.
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by greghinch 13y ago
I'm going to expand a bit on this. I am not a lawyer, but I see 2 possible scenarios: 1) You want to retain sole the rights to the IP and possibly license it for money to others some day. In this event, you should license it to your em

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