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   by ismail 11y ago

   Nicely done guys for spotting the schelp blindness. I have been at many large enterprises where due to the pain of manging passwords everyone uses the exact same pass.
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   Ask HN: Best books to understand Bitcoin?

   1 points by ismail 11y ago|1 comments
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   by ismail 11y ago

   Online office hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785941
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   Ask HN: Should we apply for YC Fellowship if YC has funded similar company?

   2 points by ismail 11y ago|2 comments
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   by ismail 11y ago

   @OP - Find a hobby/community to be part of outside of coding/startups. What do you enjoy doing? Passionate about? Something physical would be best... For me it is a weekly soccer game. I get to chat with friends, have a work out a
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   by ismail 11y ago

   Mark, sad to hear about Trevolta. All the best for the future. Maybe there was a pivot in there somewhere? Though as we know here in SA you often do not have enough time. i.e We (2 co-founders) raised $<10,000 for chowhub as you know,ran
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   by ismail 11y ago

   Have sent a mail to emily@support, would love to have a response.
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   by ismail 11y ago

   From the gigster faq "Profits come later when we are at scale" From the faq. 1. This is dangerous if there is no clear plan on what competitive advantage scale gets you. - Is it network effects? - Is there some other benefit that
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   by ismail 11y ago

   This is awesome. YC reputation has grown in the last few years. Raising the bar quite high, making it much harder to get in at the earliest stages. I believe this is the reason for this.
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    What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?(motherjones.com)

    2 points by ismail 11y ago|0 comments
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    by ismail 11y ago

    https://web.archive.org/web/20080610175916/http://news.ycomb... Some interesting things on mine: Does Apple's Steve Jobs have cancer again? (alleyinsider.com) https://web.archive.org&#x2F
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    Ballmer: iPhone has “no chance” of gaining significant market share(arstechnica.com)

    2 points by ismail 11y ago|1 comments
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    by ismail 11y ago

    I keep getting error when trying to logon. Standard rails error.
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Note: We have built a marketplace to connect drivers and passengers, so we understand some of the challenges in scaling a business like this. Like all marketplaces, you are faced with the chicken and egg problem. The market place is supply
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    by ismail 11y ago

    I have seen a few companies that do custom apps for events. Could you maybe partner with them? They include it in their app as an addon and you have a rev split? Win win on all sides. I know one of the co-founders at: https://www
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    by ismail 11y ago

    My View: The smallest amount of features that will add value.
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Just curious why have you chosen "professionals in the oil and gas, energy, and finance industries"?
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Hey, who is your market with this? From my POV developers doing testing have quite mature toolsets to do automated integration tests I.e selenium. So what other types of people would find it useful? Off the top of my head: 1. Tech Companies
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Hey, here are my thoughts: Where do tennis players meet? Where do they hang out? Are there online/off line spots you find them hanging out at? How are these leagues formed? Where are they formed? i would answer these questions and then
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    by ismail 11y ago

    If anyone else has any thoughts mail me : (hnuser)@codiez.co.za
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Apologies for delayed response. Tethering from mobile was choppy and had to get to more stable wifi. Should we pivot to a different market/model?
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    by ismail 11y ago

    We are also seeing the network effects kicking in (which is a massive positive). Our matches keep increasing at a much higher rate than trips posted.
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Thanks for the response Kevin. - Yes we realize that the supply side is constrained, and lacking. Passengers seek out a solution and find us easily. - There are no car-pool lanes in South Africa, they had a trial a few years back but did no
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Background: Every day in South Africa low income people suffer through 2+ hour commutes into work using public transport. This has a serious impact on their lives, due to long wait times and inefficiencies. I interviewed a single mother, wh
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    by ismail 11y ago

    This works for facts and general knowledge. However I would say that for really difficult questions there is no option to Google. In my experience these come up in business. There are no right or wrong answers just heuristics and past exper
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Read 0-1
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Depends which parts of Africa they are from.
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    by ismail 11y ago

    Pretoria, South Africa | ONSITE | Full-Time | Various Every day millions of people in South Africa have to suffer through long wait times, and +2 hour long commutes just to get into work and back. We are on a mission to change how people co
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    by ismail 12y ago

    The one glaringly obvious issue I see in this post is comparing ms, fb and Google % increase at different # years after they had gone public. Who is to say that: Ms has already reached peak, Google is somewhere in between and fb is just get
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    by ismail 12y ago

    11. There is a massive industry from manufacturing [1] to distributing sim cards and getting them into the hands of customers. I do not see a bright future for them. http://www.gemalto.com/techno/sim