nabraham

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Grading 74 political pundits predictions vs reality(theatlanticwire.com)
2 points by nabraham 14y ago|0 comments
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by nabraham 14y ago
I remember when you first launched renthop was all about no-fee listings. Are you now including fee rentals? Can you say more about the current pivot?
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Indeed, An Almost Entirely Bootstrapped Job Search Giant, Gets A Monster Exit(sfgate.com)
83 points by nabraham 14y ago|23 comments
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by nabraham 14y ago
I think this how Yipit started. They initially were looking to do bar deals in nyc. http://viniciusvacanti.com/2012/03/26/how-getting-rejected-b...
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by nabraham 14y ago
Nailing the 5%-10% delta could be huge. The yield management software used by big property companies promises 2%-5% improvement and that is a billion dollar business. Additionally, a more realistic choice facing the landlord would be pickin
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by nabraham 14y ago
I agree that this isn't a copyright issue. If you're operating in California, the 9th Circuit is probably your best bet for holding that your scraping of their data doesn't damage or impair their computer system. But given your other commen
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Codecademy closes $10M round(blogs.wsj.com)
168 points by nabraham 14y ago|94 comments
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by nabraham 15y ago
Congrats!
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by nabraham 15y ago
Add late night service from 2am - 4am!!
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by nabraham 15y ago
This post might be helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973060 Everything is a negotiated outcome, but good engineers are worth market salary in the absence of equity. With equity, one rule of thumb I've heard is give 1% for every
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by nabraham 15y ago
Awesome job Dr. J!
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by nabraham 15y ago
There is one minor difference in that many music performers may not make any money from the cd but use it as marketing so the tour rakes in the cash. In the VC instance, if the entrepreneur isn't going to make any money, the business usuall
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by nabraham 15y ago
While I've 5-6 cs classes, I'm not currently a hardcore coder so I can empathize with you. I think it depends on your time frame. Short (1 month): use linkedin to find friends or friends of friends to network with. Emotional connections hel
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by nabraham 15y ago
I use a pc and have multiple chrome windows open, each with 20-30 tabs, which I leave open. After hibernating 5-6x it starts to get unstable. It used to be fine, but the flash upgrades have made things horrible.
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by nabraham 15y ago
Also interesting: they do $200,000 in payments a day, which is $73m/yr, from which they generate no revenue. If the merchant fee is 2.9% and wufoo gets a .5% referral fee, that's another $3m/year in revenue, which is still in our $3m-$7m ra
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by nabraham 15y ago
Probably a bad source: http://gorumors.com/crunchies/how-big-is-surveymonkey/
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by nabraham 15y ago
I'm curious what they do in revenue and it's not listed anywhere. Here's a first stab: Surveymonkey did $45m in 2009 revenue with 20m monthly uniques which is $2.25 yearly for 1 monthly visitor. Wufoo does about 1.5m in monthly uniques whic
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Elevator Pitch generator(pollenizer.com)
1 points by nabraham 16y ago|0 comments
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by nabraham 16y ago
It may seem so obvious that more data is better for social welfare, and in 95% of cases it probably is better. But parties incur costs when processing more data. For e.g., Dodd-Frank mandates that issuers of ABS securities issue loan by lo
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by nabraham 16y ago
Great to see Bay Area and Chicago in the same sentence. Pumped to be part of a chicago meet up and would love the feedback. Thanks!
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by nabraham 16y ago
The real question is how far above market do you want to go and what should the equity/cash split be. If you pay 20% cash + 80% equity to employee, the wage has to overcome stock liquidity issues, and control issues. 5% after 18 months may