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by kalvin 14y ago
If you're willing to fund overhead and give up the direct-to-recipient portion, you "should" contribute to PIH because nonprofits have a much easier time covering their program costs compared to overhead costs. Nobody wants to contribute to
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by kalvin 14y ago
Watsi is awesome. Kiva and donorschoose made "direct" p2p lending/giving popular long ago, but Watsi is the first that feels like, well, a YC startup (just from the site-- product, team, mentality). Also be sure to check out givewell.org fo
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Documenting and Assessing an Ad Experiment across Search and Social(blog.adstage.io)
15 points by kalvin 14y ago|4 comments
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Change transportation. Create joy. Ridejoy's looking for a stellar engineer(ridejoy.com)
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Ridejoy for iPhone(ridejoy.com)
82 points by kalvin 14y ago|17 comments
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Change transportation. Create joy. Join Ridejoy. (YC S11 in SF)(ridejoy.com)
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Change transportation. Create joy. Be our first engineering hire at Ridejoy.(ridejoy.com)
1 points by kalvin 14y ago
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Have PR experience? We're hiring. (YC S11)
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by kalvin 14y ago
FYI, Karma's best mechanic is that you send a gift to a recipient without entering cc info; then when the recipient accepts, you become socially obligated to complete the payment process. It also asks the recipient for their address, so you
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Change transportation. Create joy. Be our first engineering hire at Ridejoy.(ridejoy.com)
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Change transportation. Create joy. Be our first engineering hire at Ridejoy.(ridejoy.com)
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Ridejoy's searching for our first engineering hire (YC S11)(ridejoy.com)
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Join Ridejoy as our first engineering hire (YC S11)(ridejoy.com)
1 points by kalvin 15y ago
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by kalvin 15y ago
Does anyone have more information about this? Saw this last year, thought it was a cool idea (with a great name!), haven't heard a peep since. It's like asking frequent lottery ticket buyers to promise 1% of their future winnings for charit
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Ridejoy's looking for one friendly software engineer (YC S11)(ridejoy.com)
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by kalvin 15y ago
Oh my god, thumbkissing. "A feature called 'thumbkissing' shows your partners thumbprints whenever they’re touching the screen, and both phones will vibrate if your thumbs are on the same place." This is clearly the best YC startup ever. Hu
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Ridejoy's looking for a friendly full-stack engineer (YC S11)(ridejoy.com)
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by kalvin 15y ago
(For the unwary / spoiler alert: HumbledMBA is Jason Freedman's personal blog, it's popular on HN, and Jason recently started 42Floors, so this is basically a startup acquisition blog post parody. Unless I'm totally missing something.)
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by kalvin 15y ago
This is a great experiment given how many YC teams change their idea midway. For teams who have many ideas (but have not implemented any), would you advise them to a) pick one and apply through the normal process (thus demonstrating they're
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Ridejoy's looking for a lead engineer and a UX & visual designer (YC S11) (ridejoy.com)
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UX Designer or Engineer? Ridejoy's hiring. Now with extra joy. (YC S11)(ridejoy.com)
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by kalvin 15y ago
Not sure if this is too adorable (adorkable?) for Hacker News, but it's certainly relevant! It's a bit irrational to put this much effort into a job app-- but it's also an incredibly strong positive signal. For early-stage startups, passion
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Ridejoy (YC S11) Refuels With $1.3M Seed Funding from High-Octane Investors(blog.ridejoy.com)
50 points by kalvin 15y ago|10 comments
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Ridejoy's looking for a UX(+UI) designer. Engineers too. (YC S11)
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UX(+UI) designer? Come solve hard problems at Ridejoy. Engineers too. (YC S11)
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UX(+UI) designer? Come solve hard problems at Ridejoy. Engineers too. (YC S11)
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UX(+UI) designer? Come solve hard problems at Ridejoy. Engineers too. (YC S11)
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UX(+UI) designer? Ridejoy needs you. Engineers too. (YC S11)
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by kalvin 15y ago
Great essay, Avichal. Totally agree on 10x teams being the real differentiator. On "shared culture", I want to point out that a shared monoculture can be just as big a disadvantage for some companies as it was an (likely) advantage for Payp
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by kalvin 15y ago
It's interesting to note that 2008-onward is the perfect economic environment for Taskrabbit to have started in. The tasks I've posted, for cleaning and office work, have gotten offers by Stanford and Harvard grads at rates of around $15-20

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