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by joeemison 13y ago
Of note, the company I most recently founded absolutely fits into the "finding a problem that large companies have, build a solution, and sell it to them". I can also name a bunch of highly-profitable B2B companies in the insuran
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by joeemison 13y ago
There was a courier service that had an office next to mine about 15 years back that took all sorts of precautions that they weren't shipping drugs. Here's an article that shows that those guys (Asheville Courier) weren't an
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by joeemison 13y ago
keychainlogistics looks like uShip--using existing professionals on the road. I totally buy that business model. I don't buy Alice and Bob transporting packages on their way to work. As I said, though--definitely happy to be proven w
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by joeemison 13y ago
I actually never argued (or at least didn't mean to argue) that one needed to have worked in a particular industry--rather, I was arguing that one needs experience with the particular industry. Experience can certainly mean (a) cu
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by joeemison 13y ago
I agree with everything you've said here, and it's possible that one could pivot the idea of ride-sharing for packages to something viable. I think I could have made it clearer in the article, but my point was not that The People&
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by joeemison 13y ago
What were your reasons why it would fail?
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by joeemison 13y ago
If your customers pay you before you ship, and they trust the shipper, it's definitely going to happen. Happens every day now already.
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by joeemison 13y ago
I tried to make it clear in the piece that I think Startup Weekends are a really good and useful event. I think that everyone who participates in one, no matter what experience they have had to date, will learn something from one. I defin
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by joeemison 13y ago
I would submit to you that there are bad ideas that we know are bad without having to throw money at them and watch them fail. (And, look--even if we do throw money at them and watch them fail, that's not a definitive disposition, si
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by joeemison 13y ago
Right. The People's Parcel was essentially ride-sharing for packages (but packages can't move themselves to locations for pickups or deal with transfers or travel the last mile after getting dropped off close-to-but-not-quite-at
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The Worst Startup Idea(medium.com)
48 points by joeemison 13y ago|57 comments
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by joeemison 13y ago
Nothing in the piece argues that one shouldn't try new technology. Under this 85%-rule-of-thumb, we went with Amazon Web Services for 100% of our infrastructure in 2008. It was clearly the right choice, and worth learning. My point
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by joeemison 13y ago
The idea of the 85% rule is more a rule of thumb than some kind of rigid metric--I mean, I'm not sure how you would even quantify that. But I would argue that "as long as business features are being implemented regularly" is
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Outsourcing and Limiting to Core Competencies are Essential(medium.com)
33 points by joeemison 13y ago|19 comments
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by joeemison 14y ago
It's really not that hard to switch from Recurly, since they will send your stores credit cards (if they have recovered them) to another provider. About a year ago we had a problem with Recurly and were dissatisfied with their attitude towa