kareemm

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by kareemm 10y ago
Integrations with other platforms are on our list, but right now we're focused on improving the product for existing GitHub customers. The GitHub market is so large that to split our focus right now wouldn't make sense.
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by kareemm 10y ago
Go for it :) Edit: and thanks!
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by kareemm 10y ago
We wrote a post about this recently[1]. It really depends on how you want to use them, but here are three things that might not be obvious about Projects on first glance: * GH Projects exist within a repo, so you can only have Issues from
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by kareemm 10y ago
OP here. Happy to answer any questions!
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What it's like buying a $128k side project(blog.codetree.com)
313 points by kareemm 10y ago|77 comments
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Vancouver’s $1,000-a-Day Home Price Escalation Starts to Stutter(bloomberg.com)
2 points by kareemm 10y ago|0 comments
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The Munger OS: How to Live a Life That Really Works(farnamstreetblog.com)
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by kareemm 10y ago
Question for Nick/Patrick (or anybody else w/ experience): what's the accepted 2016 way to do A/B testing in Rails?
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Good Engineering Manager / Bad Engineering Manager(deanhume.com)
11 points by kareemm 10y ago|1 comments
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by kareemm 10y ago
> One project with multiple repos just adds unnecessary work of integration and management. Or, your definition of project is something big, vague and blurry. I think this depends on your job function. At Codetree we have a bunch of cus
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Value-Seekers Warm to a $450 Annual Credit Card Fee(nytimes.com)
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by kareemm 10y ago
Hootsuite was absolutely a little snowball. Invoke Labs was an agency in Vancouver that build Ow.ly (a link shortener that's still around). They then continued to build an early ver of Hootsuite to manage their clients' social me
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The Falling Man(esquire.com)
170 points by kareemm 10y ago|79 comments
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A framework for picking and funding your business idea(blog.codetree.com)
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0 to $640M: Non-Obvious Lessons Learned at BrightRoll(medium.com)
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by kareemm 10y ago
We paid $128k, which was asking, and 3.5x seller discretionary earnings (basically revenue minus expenses, where expenses don't include any money the seller chooses to take out like his salary or healthcare, etc). Our opening offer wa
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by kareemm 10y ago
> getting people to recognize that the tool is important enough in terms of time/hassle to pay for is super hard. In my experience if it doesn't solve a top of mind burning problem for your customers, selling is going to be uph
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My Dead Girlfriend’s Bot(medium.com)
2 points by kareemm 10y ago|0 comments
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by kareemm 10y ago
David @ FE did a great job for you guys. We had talked to him a couple years ago about being our broker when we sold a previous company. We didn't use him for other reasons, but having been on the buy side of the transaction, we would
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by kareemm 10y ago
Good q, thanks Shorrock. > What do you understand about the business that the seller doesn't that makes this seem worth while? We were guessing that the seller was getting too busy running his day job at Drip to devote enough time t
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by kareemm 10y ago
Good q. In our experience a dev tool is right for a team if the tool fits the team's workflow. If you want to customize the heck out of what you do, use JIRA. If you're hardcore Scrum, use Pivotal. etc Codetree's biggest di
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by kareemm 10y ago
I'm going to cheat and ask derrickreimer a question because i'm curious. Was there any point in time during the negotiation when you thought the deal with us was going to fall through?
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by kareemm 10y ago
Good q, thanks! > There are a ton of project management tools out there, why buy Codetree? Was there something specific about the business that stood out to you? We believe that in big markets like project management there's lots of
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by kareemm 10y ago
Had similar terrible experiences with Escrow in the acquisition we just did ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12406892 ). They're the worst.
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Q&A with both buyer and seller of a 6 figure web app. Ask us anything
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How to avoid building a company that you'll hate(blog.codetree.com)
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by kareemm 10y ago
Agreed. I think part of the reason this is true is because there are so few models for the other paths. Big numbers are good stories. Raising $Xm is a much more interesting story to tell than 20% YoY growth to a business that has a natural
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How to avoid building a company you'll hate(blog.codetree.com)
14 points by kareemm 10y ago|2 comments
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Is group chat making you sweat?(m.signalvnoise.com)
1 points by kareemm 10y ago|1 comments
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Harvard psychologist: too many people think about happiness all wrong(yahoo.com)
1 points by kareemm 10y ago|0 comments

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