hipsterelitist

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by hipsterelitist 10y ago
Showmanship/Entertainment. The whole point of being in Vegas or on a cruise ship (prior installation), is to have a spectacular experience. An efficient, mundane, McD's dispenser isn't quite the same.
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by hipsterelitist 10y ago
Just thought I'd add a bit of "color" to this submission since it seems to be dropping: Honestly, for most of my career, I can say that it was far more than 10k a year. In the last few years, as more people have posted salar
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by hipsterelitist 11y ago
Early on, this was precisely what they did.
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by hipsterelitist 11y ago
Maybe you wouldn't, but this is why financial reporting is important and often a requirement. These people bet on someone else's gambit and lost, but according to all the signs they could see, things were sparkling.
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by hipsterelitist 12y ago
I've used this for years and love it.
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by hipsterelitist 12y ago
As someone with a formal design education and a uhh "technologist", I think this argument is pure crap. You're looking at "designers" in tech and making a very valid critique of the industry at large, but these desi
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GrubHub/Seamless S-1(sec.gov)
2 points by hipsterelitist 13y ago|0 comments
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by hipsterelitist 13y ago
I can say I've had similar experiences all across California with AirBnB.
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by hipsterelitist 13y ago
These guys made an electric bike/scooter hybrid a few years back that had some buzz here in NYC before release, but just seems to have fizzled. I'd be curious to know what happened.
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by hipsterelitist 13y ago
I think this is relevant, since it launched today and no one in the last 7 hours has provided context: https://www.urbancompass.com/ http://www.businessinsider.com/ori-allon-has-hired-63-ex-goo...
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by hipsterelitist 14y ago
_why is both an attempt at a symbol and a person. Most of the interest around the persona was generated by the eccentricity in hiding as much as (if not more than) around the other theatrics and unique works created. That's not how you cre
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by hipsterelitist 14y ago
Then how would you properly incentivize someone to come in to take a company out of such dire circumstances? Someone with the talent to take a 500M loss and reduce it to 10M certainly would command the same salary with more upside at a solv
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by hipsterelitist 15y ago
I'd hardly call Dan a "very green" CEO. http://www.linkedin.com/in/danporter
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by hipsterelitist 15y ago
I'm glad this happened in such a public way. I once heard him speak at a VC event about his firing practices with the same sort of attitude. I won't get into the details, but I was shocked that such an individual could be so championed, but
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by hipsterelitist 15y ago
I think most of you are missing the point of the title ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal ). His suggestions are not meant to be taken seriously, and as others have pointed out, it is quite likely that TPB's suggestion may not
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by hipsterelitist 15y ago
It actually wasn't single founder when YC funded them, Dan Albritton was the other founder. Really nice to work with them back in the day.
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by hipsterelitist 15y ago
Be surprised. Living on the LES or Nolita can very easily be done on 75k without the 20 minute crowded commute on the L train. Plus there is quite a lot to do, I don't understand this Brooklyn-centric view of the world that developers and t
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by hipsterelitist 15y ago
All things aside, there seems to be more talk about Arrington than the possibility of racism in start-up culture. I see this as a very big win for his hype machine.
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by hipsterelitist 15y ago
4 years and over 200k dollars seems like quite a bit. I understand being meticulous, but this is a bit absurd.
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
40% better?
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
Perhaps I'm spoiled by living in NYC, but I don't see a way that this could actually work here. San Francisco is a notoriously awful place to catch a cab, but I hardly see how taking advantage of a local policy/market failure represents som
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
Interesting. From what I recall, LucyPhone is based near you guys. You might want to link up, at least for a powwow. Mike is an awesome dude.
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
"The refer 3 friends for an invite" promotion is rather annoying considering you don't disclose anything about the product.
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
I'm rather impressed that this was started by someone with so few followers.
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
How does this stack up against something like AlchemyAPI ( http://www.alchemyapi.com/ ) which seem to roll in a lot more than simple sentiment analysis in a far more flexible product?
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Social Fashion Site Fashism raises 1M(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by hipsterelitist 16y ago|0 comments
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
we got him to cater a lunch at our start-up... i think most of us weren't very keen on the sandwiches, though we thought it was great in the abstract.
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
At least they didn't use the word "jihad..." it is one thing to alienate your customers, but to bring a whole load of sensitive cultural bagage with it is quite another. In any case, I feel as though both these strong armed legal tactics an
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
heh, please see my reply to the post below this.
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by hipsterelitist 16y ago
We actually have weeks with free submissions and we're strongly considering changes to the pricing structure. Our main argument for the current fee has actually been to discourage a huge amount of submissions so that we could take time to e

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