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by harmmonica 10y ago
> I know I've handled that particular situation in a bad way. This is a key realization. Assuming you really want to stay at the company, you should speak directly to the PO if you can keep from being defensive/angry/frust
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by harmmonica 10y ago
I come from a marketplace background myself and went through two bubbles so you were spot on when you said it was easy for me to say "bets are off in a bubble"--it was easy! And it would have been even easier for me to say marketp
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by harmmonica 10y ago
Nice to see someone still reading this. I again agree with almost everything you're saying here. Plenty of companies flourish in difficult climates, but the margin for error is much greater in a rising or static market. In a falling ma
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by harmmonica 10y ago
I agree with so much of what you say here (hope for the AWS strategy; the fact that this is a service business, which is what the existing brokerage business is as well of course; using data/ml to remove (massive) fat), but I'm to
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by harmmonica 10y ago
It is bizarre. The difference in numbers between what you're saying exists in Australia and the US is staggering. I'm clueless about the market there, but even if there are laws on the books that better protect buyers/selle
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by harmmonica 10y ago
I believe they are trying to fundamentally change the market. For a fee (I guess it's 1-6% on top of the typical 4-6% commission?), Opendoor removes the pricing (list price), appraisal and financing risk and let's the seller unl
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by harmmonica 10y ago
Deal. Will email you.
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by harmmonica 10y ago
Have you given thought to opening up your pricing model/algorithm to the public for every home in a market (a la Zestimate/Redfin estimate) as a means of eventually driving seller inventory even if someone is not ready to sell tod
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by harmmonica 10y ago
Think it's surface until it's north of Brannan (but pretty sure that's always been the plan or at least since it was approved). http://www.centralsubwaysf.com/content/faqs#stationlocation
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by harmmonica 10y ago
Such an interesting comment for me given the plan in the article. I grew up in the tri-state area as well, but north of the city and so my access point was always Metro North and thus arrived at Grand Central. Every time I'd show up th
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by harmmonica 10y ago
The article says post tax but the standard is closer to what you're saying. For a landlord renting a property, for instance, the safe rule of thumb is typically for your tenant to have a gross annual salary of 40x the monthly rent
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by harmmonica 10y ago
If you ride a bike regularly for exercise the ride itself wouldn't be too extreme because the hills are not that steep for a fit cyclist, but for those of us who only ride in the flats it'd be a brutal ride over the hills. That sa
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by harmmonica 10y ago
I think that was a smart move. I'm similarly ignorant of the nitty gritty financial details of how stocks end up priced where they are priced, but I do follow a bunch of (mostly tech) companies and more or less invest/gamble on &q
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by harmmonica 10y ago
I was thinking it was odd to submit a stock quote myself, but then I thought this is totally relevant to HN because Twilio's one of the few "startups" (realize it hasn't been a startup for a long while now) that's a
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by harmmonica 11y ago
Dreaming here, but I wonder if someone from the Periscope team could go around mid-Market/Tenderloin and try and get people to do exactly what you're describing. Spread the word: "Need to call 911? Use Periscope to educate th
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by harmmonica 11y ago
Always poor form to use an anecdote to shed light on an issue, but I once "cried wolf" to the SFFD because I thought a homeless person was in an emergency situation. I was walking on (upper) Market St when a woman, sitting on a st
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by harmmonica 11y ago
After spending a couple of years traveling on and off after quitting a job, there are a few things I wish I'd known/asked myself beforehand. 1. In your daily life, are you typically happy/comfortable not having a schedule? Yo
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by harmmonica 12y ago
Loha | Remote | Part-time (6-8 hours per week) | Backend (Ruby on Rails) Dev https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loha/id866898916?mt=8 http://www.loha.co Recently-launched, bootstrapped web/mobil
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by harmmonica 12y ago
This thread is long so this comment will likely fall pretty quickly, but this page is pretty telling in terms of usage by sector: http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1108 1. Environmental 50% 2. Ag 40% 3. U
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by harmmonica 12y ago
You're totally right that the commission does come from the seller's proceeds, but since openlistings acts as a buyer's agent, they, traditionally, get half the commission once the deal closes. 500k sale price (yes, they exi
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by harmmonica 12y ago
How much does competition account for the "impatience" that Uber's seeing? When I launch Uber and see a "long" wait time, my immediate reaction is to launch Lyft to see how long their wait time is. Not that Uber wou