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drawo.sh obviously wins. Not just because they paid the most. Because its the first ad ive clicked on in ages that gave me exactly what I expected it to. And asked for nothing.
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Surely you have to run the "Verify my identity" process before using the account?
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Cheers for the links. If you followed the sequoia link you would end up with a huge deck though - I think the original article [1] sums it up better. [1] https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/writing-a-business-plan/
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Ask HN: YC Series A Deck Template?
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I was saved by a consultancy that dropped in my lap, a foreign company looking for a local representative to manage a key account. Basically 10-20 hours a month doing some product/marketing and account management stuff within my area o
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It is completely bonkers. But it seems to be working for them, apparently they done quite well last year - got some nice tax cuts too! https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/27/svb-financial-grou...
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> the Alangyi Village set up a team of rangers to patrol traditional areas. > confirmed that rangers from the village had spotted the Formosan clouded leopard in person, but he was not at the liberty of disclosing the exact time and l
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It's not that cut and dry. - Most professional investors aren't investing their own money and understand a majority of their portfolio will fail. Even if the fund performs poorly it will take years to find out and they are paid re
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A single board seat doesn't imply control over direction. As long as you have more than 1 seat or the chairmans extra vote the founders are still in effective control. Granted there may be provisions in the shareholders agreement that
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I think your misunderstanding the goals of alibaba / Tencent. The derive their value precisely from their strategy of doing lots of things ok instead of one thing well. They are "platforms" not applications. And if they stuck
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More than that it seems: >In 2017/18, 138 (96%) of all worker fatalities were to male workers, a similar proportion to earlier years. [1] Assume thats related to the disproportionate % of males in the trades / farming? Perhaps
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This is really important. If possible run all your expenses through a single dedicated personal bank account. Where each of the founders transfers into this first and expenses are paid from here. Saves a tonne of hassle later.
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If your interested in using it then there is no way you wont drop a quick email. Even if you are considering it against others with public pricing you would still be curious. Also as a purchaser the resultant communications flow tells you a
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This is absolutely great. And 100% the direction we should be taking programming. Easy, practical, just works. Thanks Guys
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1) Get up really early on weekdays. I wake up at 5 and start work at ~5.30. Nobody else is around until 8-9. During that time I try to work on a small list of tasks ive created the previous eve, or over breakfast. The "thinking"
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How about taking it further - private companies are by nature non-democratic and optimising to something other than general wellbeing :)
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I think thats pretty common practice - Though if your outside the US you may have to swap "non-democratic" with whatever term is locally used to drum up opposition against another country. Eg "foriegn agents" [1]. [1] h
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It would be great to deploy this on hacker news itself, at least on the "see comments" link of the main page. Page-loading is already blazingly fast, but my latency is still a bit high as I use a mobile internet connection.
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First the "make your sites pages instant" snippet and now this. How lovely it is to click on a link and not wait :) The last time I can remember that feeling is when I first arrived at college. The LAN network in the college was c
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Isnt a "lifestyle" business a business to support the lifestyle of the founder? IE money is not typically a problem, either the company is profitable or the founder will support it loss making. The main function of the company is
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ha! Same here. I was sent notifications from a military application once (seemed to be some SAP style system). I responded to a CCd email and they politely responded and corrected the address. The others are more mundane. Mailing lists with
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The email from support (only sent a few hours ago) stated: > The impact to users could come in the form of not tracking opens, clicks, bounces, email sends, inbound email, webhook events, and more. Right now, it looks like the database o
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For sure. I think there is both demand and it's possible to scale it. We have examples of amazingly successful group curation at scale with wikipedia, stackoverflow etc. We also have forum platforms that successfully curate information
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Some context around Papin and his boat from wikipedia[1] for those interested: > In 1705 he developed a second steam engine with the help of Gottfried Leibniz, based on an invention by Thomas Savery, but this used steam pressure rather t
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Lots of hate for SMS as 2FA here. By no means perfect but does anyone know of a viable alternative? Genuinely curious as this is a problem we have hit deploying financial services applications for predominantly underbanked / non tech s
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Just because a password field in a web form is susceptible to various methods of attack doesn't mean its not a factor of authentication. And the same goes with SMS. It's still 2FA, just not absolutely secure/reliable. Also th
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>I find it weird the way Facebook seems to be using the term here. In my experience fraudulent chargebacks for payments processed without liability-shifting authentication (3D secure etc) are typically lumped together as "friendly f
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I thought it was about portable cement mixers. Which we call "mixers" and obviously.. rotate.
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We are a relatively small team (~10 people), with basically two people spending half their time developing and one full time UI designer. We dont have a product manager, QA, or devops though many in the team have experience in these areas.
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> that's just being helpful, nothing more. To add, the introduction itself is a very small part of the process of closing funding. Typically consultants/bankers who help with larger fundraising rounds and charge for it would pr

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