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by martinkl 16y ago
Honest criticism is encouraging, at least if you approach it with the right attitude. Sure, you might feel down for half an hour, but once you digest the criticism there are two possible responses: 1. "You have a point, I had a niggling fee
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by martinkl 16y ago
Why did you choose the name "Y Combinator?" The Y combinator is one of the coolest ideas in computer science. It's also a metaphor for what we do. It's a program that runs programs; we're a company that helps start companies. http://ycombi
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What's so special about Y Combinator?(martin.kleppmann.com)
99 points by martinkl 16y ago|41 comments
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by martinkl 16y ago
I wrote a Ruby gem for accounting stuff a while ago: https://github.com/ept/invoicing --- it's unmaintained at the moment, but it does a lot of things right, so anyone interested in taking it over would be most welcome to do so.
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Accounting for Computer Scientists(martin.kleppmann.com)
520 points by martinkl 16y ago|75 comments
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by martinkl 16y ago
It's a simple formula: build a product that people love, have a basic free version, charge users money for advanced features. The product you see now will most likely stay free forever, but we are planning additional premium features based
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by martinkl 16y ago
YC was (and is continuing to be) very valuable for us. Sachin Rekhi has written up a good summary, which I broadly agree with: http://www.sachinrekhi.com/blog/2009/02/26/the-value-of-the-... -- and I would add to the list of benefits the
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by martinkl 16y ago
Yes. The guys at Heroku were incredibly helpful, to name just one example.
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by martinkl 16y ago
Yes, we probably were doing something wrong. That's the point of the post: to explain how easy it is to get into a situation where you are making little progress, and our story of getting out of it. I sincerely hope that others will be able
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by martinkl 16y ago
I was planning another post on that topic :) in a nutshell, we got H-1B visas. With a good attorney the paperwork is mostly tedium, but lots and lots of tedium. The process is very opaque and full of uncertainties.
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by martinkl 16y ago
Nothing is fun when it goes beyond a certain level. User support is interesting, but it gets a bit repetitive if you need to do it all day long. Scaling is really interesting, but getting no sleep because the database is on fire is not fun.
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Having a launched product is hard(martin.kleppmann.com)
248 points by martinkl 16y ago|60 comments
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by martinkl 16y ago
Facebook is an example of a product with distinct modes of use for different audiences (the users and the advertisers). One audience pays, the other does not.
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by martinkl 16y ago
Nothing that deep. I just thought that I had come to an intuitive understanding of what I think of as intuition (meta!), and I wanted to share it. The analogy isn't scientific at all; it is just an attempt to communicate, in the hope that o
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Intuition has no transfer encoding(yes-no-cancel.co.uk)
93 points by martinkl 16y ago|14 comments
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by martinkl 16y ago
Your definitions are pretty close. no lead = there's no one investor who particularly stands out (e.g. by taking >30% of the round); a lead would usually drum up the other investors; with no lead, it's the entrepreneur who drums up the
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Rapportive (YC S10) Raises Over $1 Million From Gmail Creator & Others(techcrunch.com)
120 points by martinkl 16y ago|44 comments
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by martinkl 16y ago
Great feedback, thanks!
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by martinkl 16y ago
We find that the coverage varies a lot -- some users get a great experience, for others very little is found. We really want to improve that, and covering those 10% of emails which come from organisations is a first step. Would this be suff
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Rapportive (YC S10): 10% of your emails aren't from real people(blog.rapportive.com)
64 points by martinkl 16y ago|21 comments
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Plancast Plans To Spread Throughout The Web With An API And Widgets(techcrunch.com)
3 points by martinkl 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Apps Marketplace Enables Contextual Gadgets, The Battle for Gmail Begins(thenextweb.com)
4 points by martinkl 16y ago|0 comments
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Valuation caps on convertible notes, explained with graphs(yes-no-cancel.co.uk)
12 points by martinkl 16y ago|0 comments
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by martinkl 16y ago
Please contact support@rapportive.com and we'll send the documentation. For now we want to work closely with developers to make sure we're heading in the right direction.
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by martinkl 16y ago
We're have lots of ideas for Raplets which would be useful, and talking to lots of people. But anyone can write a Raplet! Just to give one example, http://favstar.fm should be coming soon, letting you see the person's most-favourited twee
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Rapportive turns the inbox into a platform(thenextweb.com)
11 points by martinkl 16y ago|4 comments
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by martinkl 17y ago
I tried to find someone else to hand it over to, but it's hard. It's more than just understanding the code. A large part is also the vision, the gut feeling for the right thing to do, the personal contacts to early users etc. Those things c
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by martinkl 17y ago
It was a very very hard decision. I was working on Rapportive (rapportive.com) as a side-project, when suddenly a few big blogs got hold of it and we found ourselves with 10,000 users in 24 hours (and continuing to grow). It became clear th
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by martinkl 17y ago
Notes in themselves are only barely CRM, but we plan to allow you to share them with your team. And that's about as much as Highrise allows you to do! (Ok, there are also tasks, deals, cases etc. but who actually uses those?)
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by martinkl 17y ago
Sorry to hear about that bug -- we will look into it. For now, you can disable Rapportive by choosing Window -> Extensions from the menu, and clicking the 'disable' link on Rapportive.

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