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Ask HN: Do Not Reply to This Email Why Not?
1 points by nwenzel 12y ago|2 comments
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Publicity stunts get in the way of actual progress. Money is fungible so it's impossible to actually hold true to that promise. They could only use google money to buy sandwiches. But then money that used to go towards sandwiches can n
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by nwenzel 12y ago
You can use your term sheet to talk to your firm about fees. Your VC will have a number in the term sheet to address their legal fees. Your should be somewhere in the 1.25-1.5x neighborhood of that number. More if your books aren't org
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by nwenzel 12y ago
OP here. Any legal hackers out there who want to get involved, please do reach out. Our customers get really excited when they see how much work we take off their plate.
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Predictive Software for General Counsels(blog.simplelegal.com)
17 points by nwenzel 12y ago|1 comments
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by nwenzel 12y ago
We all die in the end anyways. Optimize for happiness.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Here's a broader look at tech stacks used by startups on Angel List: http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-ex...
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by nwenzel 12y ago
ASU is on a roll. They've done quite a bit of work on the Mars Rovers. They recently announced tuition assistance for Starbucks employees to make college education without crippling debt more widely available. Now they're advancin
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DARPA's jetpack will help soldiers run faster [video](engadget.com)
3 points by nwenzel 12y ago|3 comments
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by nwenzel 12y ago
My second child was born after submitting the application and before being accepted. The fact that I have kids was on my twitter profile and not hidden. It's tough. But not impossible. My solution was to cut everything else out. But, I
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Are online stores as simple as blog + inventory + accepting credit cards? I don't mean the platform is simple. Or that implementing a store builder is simple. But the concept and the interface from the end user (store owner) point of v
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Congrats to both teams. There's a lot of work to make clusters as easy to manage as single machines. These are definitely the right people to make it happen.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I'd be willing to bet that counting out Jack Dorsey and Square is going to look a lot like counting out Jeff Bezos and Amazon back while they were investing in AWS. To me, it looks like Square used credit card readers as an entry to po
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by nwenzel 12y ago
"Do you think it's right to continue work on a project that the majority of people dislike for a variety of very legitimate reasons?" Almost certainly yes. How else can you find new, previously unknown products and ideas of v
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Shame they didn't put more thought into their info graphic to better communicate their point. Different graphs using the same color scheme to represent slightly different sized bins of what may or may not be the same measure. Lower to
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Poor bank UI crushes startup's bank account. Thanks for posting Seth. Must have been a tough one to write. I can't say this enough, use Zenpayroll. In a prior company I had one of the other payroll giants (Zenpayroll didn't e
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by nwenzel 12y ago
You should talk with someone who will just listen. You might not even need advice. Just someone who will listen and let you walk through your thoughts. Go to http://www.7cupsoftea.com/ and reach out to someone. You'll
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by nwenzel 12y ago
If the power was out for a period of months, if the internet, cable tv, phones, and all electronic communication were down so on day 2, you only knew that the power was out and you couldn't reach anybody, what would you need to do to s
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Walmart was a startup once. Starting a company to take on an entrenched giant is not rational. But I don't know what else I would do. It's right for me to take on Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis. Probably not for everyone.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Well that was fast. The recent early-stage-company acquisitions are an interesting change in the business world. The other, in my opinion, is the move to hold off on IPO until later stages. It seems the opportunity to invest in growth is ge
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Mountain View 2 roles in Marketing INTERN - Outreach (or junior full-time) and Director of Marketing Both are our first hires to separate the sales role from the marketing/lead generation role. These roles are: - NOT Cold-Calling. -
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Can't your get far more bang for your buck by using convection and a pizza stone or a brick or something else to hold in the heat? Certainly the steam/humidity thing won't be helped by the pizza stone. But keeping the air mov
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Yes, startups have a structural advantage.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I've used Paychex and ZenPayroll. ZenPayroll is awesome. No reason to ever look back! Great post on why startups can win. Startups can win because the company cares more about their customers. I'm sure plenty of people at large co
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by nwenzel 12y ago
It's probably not important to track down to the second. So no real need to use a timer app. Most important thing is to track it every day. Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll take care of it at the end of the week. You&
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Tough to beat pen & paper as an easy to use UI.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Basic things: are there enough chairs, are they compliant with maximum occupancy restrictions of the building, are there enough snacks. Less basic things: No on said YC Hacks way of getting people in the door is better. It's just the w
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by nwenzel 12y ago
When are we going to be finished with raw speed tests? I get it that faster is better. But I've always been a believer that good design will get you farther than choosing one software/hardware/infrastructure over another. Als
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I'm buying a car and checked out the service. So much better than randomly driving around to various lots. It's an improvement on buying from an individual. Cars have been inspected. No way I'd buy a car without the inspectio
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I think I'm looking for the same things all early-stage startups are looking for. My company exists because my co-founder is awesome. He and I willed it into existence, took pretty massive income hits to make it happen, and have put a

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