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Ask HN: Designed the entire website in PowerPoint. What do you think?
1 points by man_bear_pig 13y ago|1 comments
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
i have a private equity background in retail / online retail and have experience in startup space in retail. i can help analyze but need more background story to help out. let me know how i can reach you if you want my take.
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
It's definitely not a straight-line good thing if you think about long-term game theory. they are already hitting the limits of getting startups who shouldn't need their services... i.e. already proven traction and can probably g
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
1) it is my CTO who has asked me to reach out because the whole idea was for him to come here when we raise new funding. if he can't, he does not want to be in the way of progression and would need to think about what is the best poss
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
thanks. that's pretty interesting to note. but i'm pretty sure they also had a stacked team with 8m bucks under their belt with former orbitz top guys on the business end, bunch of vc's to support and help recruit. kayak stor
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
Thanks for your response. It's not that he's proven capable in the past or not. It's the future (with a new set of investors and new set of obstacles). Everyone wants to win at whatever cost. If I knew that I was not the best
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
awesome question. pretty spot on. to be completely honest with you, i am worried about leakage. from my experience, there are definitely some inefficiencies with working in a completely different time zones and having to skype all the tim
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Ask HN: Investors asking us for another technical co-founder
4 points by man_bear_pig 13y ago|11 comments
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Ask: Coin? amazing or flawed...
1 points by man_bear_pig 13y ago|0 comments
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
hahaha. love it. if you long usd at the same time you're technically hedged. you should just figure out the ratio and maybe you can stat arb that across various currencies. otherwise, probably not the best idea.
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
most stock brokers don't know wtf they're talking about. that's because most can't even beat the snp. most hedge fund managers (intellectually the smartest of the smartest bunch) also can't beat the snp. you are co
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Snapchat valuation remind you of this story?
2 points by man_bear_pig 13y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: funniest amazon review ever...
1 points by man_bear_pig 13y ago|3 comments
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
that's right! gotta make sure if they fire me for no good reason my options vest pronto : )
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
cool. Thanks!
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
Thanks lbr. I got a chuckle out of your comment so didn't take any offense to it whatsoever! I'm pretty sure PG is too busy to care about a potential oversight of an interview based on some off-chance strategic acquisition happe
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
Thanks so much for your insights. This one is my favorite so far! Actual meat in here for me to chew on. What I want or what I want for my company? I work with a team, not for myself and even though my team works for me, I like to think tha
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
1. not mourning but stating a fact and also successfully got people to comment and provide feedback. 2. as an uninformed participant, even if 9/10 are deemed irrelevant information any incremental and relevant information will be benef
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
haha. love it. if that job pays 200k a year with 1m+ option vesting over 3 years... i'd have to think about it for a day. otherwise, it'd be npv negative for the risk i've already undertaken to do a startup in the first place
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
Thanks for the insight! Please let me know if there is any way for me to be able to reach out to your buddy.
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
I play in a multi-winner space if you play it one way; a winner-takes most space if you play it another way so I'm not too worried about competition. They're actually worried about another competitor who just got in so they want t
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
Hmmm. That's interesting (breakup-fee). Is that market or would you say it's an exception for startups in acqui-hire situations? My only reason why I would take this a bit more seriously is that I know the following: a) a friend o
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
I love the idea and product is coming around. People seem to like the initial product of what we are offering (beta test users avg time spent 9 min on site which I heard is pretty steller for what I'm doing). I have 5 guys who all used
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
I have no idea what the offer would be like but I'm sure if they were to acquire me then they'll force me to work there for 3-4 years before anything vests. If it is just team acquisition then maybe it's just pay back seed in
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
very true. i wish i could reveal a lot more. at least my product and what i'm going for and have the yc community tell me their honest opinion. founders on the other hand - from the tech end nothing extraordinary but solid. on the busi
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
haha. i wish he would! if i got into YC, i would definitely not care about the large player as much and play hardball with them instead of the other way around : (
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
Thanks for the insight. I'm pretty sure I can negotiate better than them as my partners and I have done a ton of complex M&A deals in the past so no one is going to fk me over in any way, but I do agree with you that this can be an
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Ask HN: YC rejected. Now an acquisition scenario came up. Help?
35 points by man_bear_pig 13y ago|41 comments
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by man_bear_pig 13y ago
hey i like your idea but i think there's some things you can do to make it better. i've thought about similar ideas but had issues with how tech would stall in the case with retail/fashion products (the only market I would re