nedwin

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by nedwin 10y ago
Forcing employees to stay until liquidation isn't in the founders interest either. You retain employees who might have been great from the zero to 50 stage but not as well suited in the 50 - 5000 stage. But their incentive is to stick
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by nedwin 10y ago
Avoids some of the issues, creates more particularly limiting upside potential. Strong recent article https://medium.com/@chamath/spending-money-to-make-money-aka...
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by nedwin 10y ago
If you read the template they link to you would see that it's really a blank slate - more a placeholder for the conversation every parent needs to have with their children around money, relevant to that families reality.
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by nedwin 10y ago
It was $2m in 2014
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Buffer raises $3.5m, $2m for founders (2014)(open.buffer.com)
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by nedwin 10y ago
They recently took around $3m off the table if I recall correctly.
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by nedwin 10y ago
They have enough buying power - they could probably mandate it
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by nedwin 10y ago
Wow, you're right. 27%. Versus 10% and 11% for DotCom and 90s recession respectively. That's a lot! "typically lasting 4 years" but 6 for 08 to return to pre-downturn levels. Rough. Glad I'm mostly cash right now th
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by nedwin 10y ago
Unlikely to see a big drop unless something really catastrophic happens. Relatively small drop in 08.
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by nedwin 10y ago
Expensive. If you moved here 5-10 years ago your rent isn't too bad but good luck if you need to move out for whatever reason (eviction, bad housemate vibe, meet a partner, have a kid...). Relatively high crime rate, human shit on the
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by nedwin 10y ago
Tons of great comments in this thread. I would recommend the book "essentialism". You can't do it all. You need to define what is the most important things and avoid everything else. This is how you get balance and reduce str
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by nedwin 10y ago
Sales team means different things to different companies. To you it means an aggressive person hunting you down, to me it means a consultative person to follow up a lead. How many JIRA owners get a direct contact from Atlassian? Every one w
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by nedwin 10y ago
I've had a couple of zeros or very cheap fares in last couple of days as well. What was this zero in your case?
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by nedwin 10y ago
Am I the only one who wants to play this in VR with a Vive?
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by nedwin 10y ago
What's the market like for a software engineer in Wellington? Was in town a few weeks ago and loved every minute. Raglan Roast has got to be one of my top 5 coffee joints of all time!
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by nedwin 10y ago
What are you doing now you're no longer a partner at YC?
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by nedwin 10y ago
"You get the cofounder that you deserve". Time to get to work.
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by nedwin 10y ago
+1 to Weave. Have been going on Weaves for last few months and met a bunch of incredibly talented / accomplished people.
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by nedwin 10y ago
I don't go to too many networking events but would be keen to grab a coffee. Not ready to start my next thing again but learning to code and have more than a few ideas up my sleeve. Email in bio.
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by nedwin 10y ago
And the author was slammed by the NYTimes editor for not disclosing conflict of interest throughout that piece (Marc Andreesen invested heavily in AirBNB through A16Z / Laura Arrillaga-Andreesen is his wife) http://recode.ne
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by nedwin 10y ago
How flexible are the density and new development policies? Increased demand with no supply = increased prices and low supply.
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by nedwin 10y ago
Are you using Yahoo and Marissa Mayer as an example of counter-point to remote work?
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by nedwin 10y ago
Are you saying Amazon have built a tool to time the market?
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by nedwin 10y ago
Was the lack of enterprise sales, and being beaten out by competitors, the reason the product failed? From your story it sounds like you were on the brink of success relatively recently. What are you working on now?
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by nedwin 11y ago
aesthetics
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by nedwin 11y ago
Haven't had success here either, generally I'll use a whiteboard or a piece of paper and show it to my web cam. If I have more time I'll throw something together in Illustrator. Would be nice to have something more collaborat
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by nedwin 11y ago
As with all things, YMMV. Keen to hear if you think you're an average example of your cohort or in the top x%.
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by nedwin 11y ago
If Hulk is worth $25m and had his reputation heavily tarnished that effects his future earnings potential. Was he likely to make $115m over the rest of his life? We'll never know.
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by nedwin 11y ago
Which is kind of funny advice since essentially you're suggesting to avoid working for companies with successful founders.
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by nedwin 11y ago
If we fixed zoning/planning in SF at least you could build new homes / apartments on lots that already have buildings on them. You don't need greenfield space. More relaxed zoning, including things like the density bonus, cou

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