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by nwenzel 13y ago
Cat's out if the bag... We haven't launched publicly, but we have customers on our beta application now. We've analyzed over $1.1B in legal bills. If anyone here is from NJ, you've probably read the news stories about yo
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Great story of compassion and triumph. So... How do we make it scale? Is it mandatory insurance? Insurance doesn't make everything affordable, but it probably wild have been helpful. Though maybe the co-pay would have been $50k. Univer
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Pretty sure this could be part of the answer to the pros/cons debate of working remotely... productivity vs collaboration.
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My inner-management-consultant-child just shed a little tear thinking about how many times I've had to redo work lost to coworkers editing the wrong emailed version.
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Sounds like what we need... a way to enable a payment from one of our customers to another. Not a wire, not a credit card transaction, can't require anything more than a regular bank account on both sides of the transaction.
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Is this an effort to take the pg investing trends essay to an extreme? Or an effort to quickly fill the deal pipeline for a new VC?
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by nwenzel 13y ago
I'm a big believer in finding the candidate you're not supposed to find. Meaning, if you find the person you're supposed to find, then everyone else will as well. Plus, they probably already have the job you're offering.
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by nwenzel 13y ago
"but most of all because I don't want to." Like a boss. pg - I know you mentioned increading idea conflicts in the essay, but in your comment you touched on it again in a slightly different way. VCs can only invest in one of
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Stripe knows how to innovate. Simplify knows how to copy. Go with Stripe.
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Academia is really pushing the boundaries of neural networks and getting machines to perceive visual and auditory input. Great to see commercial ventures step in to create value from those advances. Google is hiring in that field because [0
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Yes please... Anything to get past crappy mobile websites. At least most mobile websites with apps (or is it baked into iOS?) are smart enough to give you an option to open an app after the page loads. And from a retailer's standpoint,
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Would be interesting to see more GPU equipped machines designed for data processing instead of just processing graphics. ("just" not to minimize the value/importance of design, photography, and art, but "just" in th
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by nwenzel 13y ago
While I doubt there will be some Reverse Big Bang of creative destruction, it's tough to argue that the need for knowledge workers is being reduced. In theory, even Excel reduces the need for knowledge workers by allowing a single analyst t
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by nwenzel 13y ago
From the acquirer side: Maybe they wanted to put some excess cash to work. Cash is important when you don't have it. But once you have it, it's a dead asset that produces no meaningful return. Excess cash is important as an option on future
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Great post. I think one key to the whole program are the weekly deadlines. And of course the big deadlines. It's the same as not having a boatload of startup cash. It forces you to figure out what is really important. The trick is, deadline
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Thanks again Jason. Your advice and insights were very helpful. I feel obligated to pass on what I learned: 1) Don't forget what it's like to not have your background in your industry. 2) Be very good at explaining what you do. Succinctly.
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Thanks. Any chance you want to mock interview me? We build software that stops law firms from overcharging our customers. nwenzel edgesolutions.com
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Email sent with phone number. Thanks! Can't say how much I appreciate it. But, I'll try. Pumped for Sunday! Pumped for phone call today!
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Thanks for the post. Interviewing on Sunday. I've been trying to figure out how much time I might be able to get to explain what we do before the first interruption. 15 seconds? 10? Basically, I get a verbal twitter post, right?
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by nwenzel 13y ago
I do. Sample size = maybe 3 (I've moved around a bit). I'm in the US, have lived in Southern California (Edison Electric), Phoenix (SRP?), San Francisco (PG&E), and Boston (NStar pronounced N-Staaahhh by my Mass. friends). I thought all
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Just don't forget that you're dealing with problems caused by growth and demand. You're basically being crushed by latent, pent up demand. I feel your pain. But I have to say, having problems for those reasons can't be all bad. And, if high
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by nwenzel 13y ago
OpenShift from Red Hat is often cited as a competitive offering in Heroku vs X reviews. When I first checked it out they hadn't yet come out of beta. Uses git just like Heroku. Has a similar "dyno" concept but calls them gears. Has a free d
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by nwenzel 13y ago
On kWh costs, don't forget that when you reduce use, you reduce the last kWh first. Meaning, in a tiered pricing model, you reduce your most expensive electricity first. So, the price you would use to calculate savings is not your average p
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Actually, that's not entirely true. If lawyers bill inappropriate charges, you don't have to pay those charges. Inappropriate charges include excessive hours, administrative tasks, overhead, or other charges you disallow based on your agree
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFA) are becoming more popular in the insurance world. An insurer will hand over substantially all of their plain vanilla cases in a certain line of business (usually workers comp) in a specified geography to a
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by nwenzel 13y ago
The bad old days are still alive and well in insurance and banking. Bankruptcy is even worse. Eight years in the insurance world has shown me that the two biggest law firm "bad behaviors" are excessive billing and multi-party meetings. Both
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by nwenzel 13y ago
Love that this is #1 on HN and I'm going in for my YC interview on Sunday to explain how we can help insurers, banks, and VCs (and apparently startups) reduce their legal expenses. It's a sign! For a more substantive comment, moving the leg
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by nwenzel 14y ago
Cloud storage companies reduce their costs and storage needs by analyzing stored content to find duplicate content (and I would think partially duplicate content) so that they can store only single copies. I think BitCasa offers unlimited s
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by nwenzel 14y ago
I think the OP and my own experience with Instacart (see below) highlights the importance of high-quality customer-facing employees for startups. If the CEO has to step in to solve simple problems, you're probably doing it wrong. We had a w
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by nwenzel 14y ago
Why the big fuss about saying some startups are "bad"? I'm sure some startups are bad. There's certainly a possibility that some bad startups looked good and made it through the screening process. Other accepted bad startups may have been r

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