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by kapilkale 13y ago
Agreed. Most business folks don't know the answer to that. And given the booming tech industry, many of them are switching in from non-tech roles. Suddenly they find themselves needing to ramp up fast. Unfortunately, none of the online
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Modern Tech Education Isn't Addressing An Important Audience(kapilkale.com)
10 points by kapilkale 13y ago|3 comments
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by kapilkale 13y ago
It's high quality content that people want to share. Some of those people will inevitably share it on their blogs, with links pointing at the site. As a result, Yelp's pagerank improves and they stay ahead of their competition for
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by kapilkale 13y ago
This is one of the best SEO pieces I've seen all year.
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by kapilkale 13y ago
One thing I suspect will change for VCs is the 2/20 model. Because the cost of building a startup is going down, and assuming the opportunity lies in early stage investments, VCs are going to have to make more early stage investments t
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by kapilkale 13y ago
They are booming but certainly not "quietly" - Bitcoin is all over the news - Capital Access Network, Kabbage, etc are at multi 100M valuations - Stripe and Braintree are running around at multi 100M vals. - Simple and Green Dot &
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by kapilkale 13y ago
Do you own a dog?
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Whistle Launches a $99 Fitbit for Dogs(techcrunch.com)
1 points by kapilkale 13y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 13y ago
There's a serious possibility that people are more interested in putting fitbits on their dogs than they are on themselves. Wealthy pet owners will spend an irrational amount of money on their dogs in almost the same way that wealthy parent
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by kapilkale 13y ago
San Francisco, Full Time. TownSquare is hiring full-stack web engineers in San Francisco, CA. We are a well-funded stealth real estate startup. You would be our 7th team member. We're looking for smart hackers in the Bay Area who: * Can cod
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by kapilkale 13y ago
Someone pitched me this idea a few months ago and I urged him to pursue it. I'm glad to see that it's being done by a super technical team who seem to know what they're doing. Here's why I'm so excited: 1. Shloosl solves a small but acute p
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Valuation. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2013/01/17/surveymonk...
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by kapilkale 14y ago
They've got ~100 people and $2M in revenues, so I doubt it.
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New real-estate startup looking for first engineer
1 points by kapilkale 14y ago
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by kapilkale 14y ago
This looks cool. Is it meant to on a dedicated iPad or in a Square-type POS flow? Side note: NPS questions should be on a 10 point scale, and the actual NPS should be the % of promoters - % of detractors instead of a straight average.
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by kapilkale 14y ago
I suspect it is the same reason that people hire brokers to sell their houses. * Hand holding through a new, high-risk process * A scapegoat in case something goes wrong
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Rap Genius isn't suing.
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Stealth real-estate startup looking for first designer
1 points by kapilkale 14y ago
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by kapilkale 14y ago
I might have misread the article, but it seems like the artist will be controlling the display. It'd be cool if they built an API over this and allowed for crowdsourced displays, almost like how Google accepts designs for their homepage log
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by kapilkale 14y ago
I suspect many startups follow this pattern: 1. Launch with flawed hypothesis. 2. Confused or disappointed users say what they really want. 3. Pivot that leads to product market fit (in Seatgeek's case, launching stadium maps, Columbus, etc
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by kapilkale 14y ago
It was before. http://success.heroku.com/rapgenius
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Betaworks Year-End Report(betaworks.com)
3 points by kapilkale 14y ago|0 comments
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by kapilkale 14y ago
As an operator of a payments company, I second this.
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Rabois seems moderately connected to Sequoia- they've shared in a ton of deals, given he's a prolific / selective angel & he and Sequoia partner Roelof Boetha both worked at PayPal. Don't think there's a formal connection between him an
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Thanks Andrew- this is really helpful.
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Ah- there IS a status page. Thank you.
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Not even close.
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Sure, but email is still the preferred form of external communication with customers and clients.
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by kapilkale 14y ago
Running clean.
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Gmail's Second Major Problem(kapilkale.com)
61 points by kapilkale 14y ago|72 comments

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