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by lquist 13y ago
Not reported here, but they recently (i.e. a few months ago) brought their software consultants (General Things: http://generalthings.com/ ) in-house. General Things did all the work behind the GoPro website, and I always th
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by lquist 13y ago
A bit off-topic, but I thought here would be a good place to ask: What are the economics like for a consultancy (say 50 people)? What are the major challenges that make scaling difficult?
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by lquist 13y ago
Your best bet might be startups that have been acquired by mega-corps. Such as: * Heroku (owned by Salesforce) * Climate Corporation (owned by Monsanto) The above two and some similar companies should hit all your checkboxes.
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by lquist 13y ago
Reviewing rejected apps would be a waste of time given how many apps YC has received. A script could probably do the most time consuming bits.
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by lquist 13y ago
A friend of mine recently asked me "I'm looking for a job. If my only criterion (it isn't) was which companies are most likely to 10x in value in a few years, which companies would those be?" My answer was Docker and Ocu
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by lquist 13y ago
Check out `git add -e` ( http://pivotallabs.com/git-add-e/ ). Like `git add -p` on steroids. That said, both have their place depending on what you're trying to do.
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Speak Good English Movement(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lquist 13y ago|1 comments
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Services
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by lquist 13y ago
Anybody have an idea as to how much Stripe is doing annually?
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by lquist 13y ago
Value gets created when a company does things like build widgets and sell them to customers. As a rough guideline, it’s good to stay in roles where you’re close to the doing. It’s easier to sit around and talk about building a startup tha
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by lquist 13y ago
If I see a github with 30+ solved Project Euler problems, 99% chance it becomes a hire.
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by lquist 13y ago
Bootstrapped pass-through entity. Year 1 Salary: $100k Year 2 Salary: $600k-$1M (6 months in to Year 2. Estimated salary)
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by lquist 13y ago
Source: My girlfriend does promo modelling from time to time. Here are a few things that I found interesting: * Bikini modelling (perhaps obviously) pays the most. Numbers are in the $50-75/hour range. * For non-bikini modelling, liquo
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by lquist 13y ago
Don't see your email address in your profile. Are you open to being contacted? Would love to connect for advice as we are looking into options for sale of our small profitable business (~$3M revenue in 2013; $5M revenue run rate). Plea
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by lquist 13y ago
Seems like PG's Submarine essay ( http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html ) may be relevant here?
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by lquist 13y ago
The Meteor team has been working on Meteor for almost 3 years now and recently raised enough money to do it for a few more years.
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by lquist 13y ago
Do you mind sharing your current revenue run rate (roughly)?
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by lquist 13y ago
Does it really make it easier? If DST knocked on the door, I know I'd answer. Well, if I was looking for funding ;)
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by lquist 13y ago
I never understood Yuri's involvement. I always thought his investment philosophy was to enter at the Series B or later stage. On another note, here's a recent anecdote (the plural of anecdote is not data!) about Khosla Ventures.
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by lquist 13y ago
San Francisco has nearly 40 restaurants per 10,000 households, which is 40 percent more than the second highest city. Is this the right way to determine the variety of restaurant options available to a city resident? I think maybe a bette
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by lquist 13y ago
Don't mean this as a dig, but if this is the definition of bootstrapping, isn't almost every YC company bootstrapped?
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by lquist 13y ago
If you’re working in any startup hub, you almost certainly have friends that are working on their own startups. Ask them to help you. The first question should be, “Am I ready to fundraise?” I would actually phrase this another way, &quo
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by lquist 13y ago
another top tier VC once told me that out of the thousands of business pitches he receives in his office every year, his firm has never funded one that came in completely cold. Referring to Chris Sacca ( http://lowercasecapital.
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Bitcoin hits $350(mtgox.com)
8 points by lquist 13y ago|4 comments
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by lquist 13y ago
Sure! The product is priced highly ($10k minimum) and provides a tremendous amount of value. We only need ~350 customers to get to $5M. (The serviceable market is something like 10M in the US alone, so it's not very niche either). I th
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by lquist 13y ago
I didn't say that our case was representative of the situation at large. I merely gave one counter example.
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Posted about it under a different handle. This is my "venting" handle. I didn't want to talk about the product under my real handle for competitive reasons. The amount of money that we're making is not immediately obviou
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by lquist 13y ago
Good try, but not an impulse buy and doesn't target devs. Actually, very few devs would be attracted to the product.
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by lquist 13y ago
Why not have this cover more of the body? E.g. a vest or something?
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by lquist 13y ago
Myth: All I have to do is get TechCrunch. That’s marketing. Reality: You’ll have 2,000 unique visitors today and zero tomorrow. Spend five hours on the HackerNews front page and get a few thousand uniques from the most cynical, judgmental

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