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by oisino 3y ago
Wouldn’t index to much on Apple just meeting with Bing as a sign of Bing being a realistic solution. If I was apple I would off course try to create the sense Bing is viable alternative to extract as much value from Google in negotiations
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by oisino 3y ago
Not sure how much this makes google look non monopolistic. Doesn’t seem like a competitive market when Apple passes on Bing 7 times over a decade.
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by oisino 3y ago
I have interviewed and hired a couple engineers from Invison over the years. Internally they saw Figma coming but they got stuck in legacy tech dept. They did the cardinal sine of trying to rewrite big parts of their tech from scratch inste
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by oisino 6y ago
My current sass startup I bootstrap to 20 million arr in 4 years before raising money. This my third software company bootstrapping to millions in arr. Shoot me a message down to give you whatever advice I can and intro you to other people
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by oisino 6y ago
You should be charging a % of revenue as people scale. That way you align with taking value as more value is driven. If you look at companies like Shopify over half of their revenue comes from processing fees. Maybe price is a good place to
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by oisino 6y ago
10 years ago out of college I helped set up some microfinance banks in Coffee producing communities in Honduras. At first your taken aback that people are paying 40%+ annual interest rates on small loans for these banks. But when your in th
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by oisino 7y ago
Public reputation is a funny thing its not binary and its lagging. By the time people tell you stuff to your face usually its way too late for they have been building their beliefs around who you are way before.
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by oisino 7y ago
Curious signaling as a VC to be involved in something so negatively publicly. The best companies/ entrepreneurs are super picky on who to raise money from and I have already heard a couple companies mention this as a reason they didn&#
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by oisino 9y ago
Curious why Y Combinator doesn't open this up to all startup companies just not the small % that went through YC already.
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by oisino 9y ago
Talking to people behind self driving car companies the issue is not the self driving technology or laws it's more infrastructure around extremely low latency internet to make self driving cars work in the general wild. This article as
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by oisino 9y ago
The fact that airbnb is negative for rental rates and hurts locals is Airbnb biggest existential threat. In reality renters outnumber home owners that do Airbnb thus when it comes to regulations people will vote for more regulation long ter
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by oisino 9y ago
Personal referrals that this person was amazing. One huge challenge of remote team members is training is a lot harder. You end up hiring very experienced people due to this and not junior talent. Helpscout another remote team has a bunch o
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by oisino 9y ago
I run a mainly remote team with over 30 people that also has a small office in LA. I am blown away with the level of competition for remote roles we hire for vs a role in our LA office. On average job boards will drive 5x more candidates fo
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by oisino 9y ago
Curious how Sam would overcome his lack of relative charisma vs people in politics to win. Paul graham essay on this is more than ever true in the world of social media http://www.paulgraham.com/pow.html
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by oisino 10y ago
Having friends who have had startups that relied on contractors the death blow is being forced to treat contractors as employees. The mass market model doesn't work when you have to charge 40% more just to cover the additional costs in
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by oisino 10y ago
I was at a dinner last year for the Shopify conference and a dev asked Tobi about a new update to the Rails templating engine and why Shopify hadn't adopted it yet. I was blown away to hear Tobi talking how he personally figured out th
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by oisino 10y ago
I run ReCharge we are made up of 22 people that are all remote. From my experience weworkremotely.com has the best remote jobs. Companies that are actually completely remote post their. These companies usually pay the best but even more imp
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by oisino 10y ago
Doesnt need any of these things for it has: 1. Huge loyal fan base built up since 90s 2. People post their Pokemon Go experiences naturally on FB/ Snapchat/ Twitch due to the visual nature of the content (i.e. Pokemon are cool lo
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by oisino 10y ago
As someone who has built a lot of saas products off Shopify this makes total sense. Square, Amazon, and PayPal have already gone down this path and proved its highly profitable. I would be curious if Shopify is white labelling a banks offer
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by oisino 11y ago
I help run ReCharge a billing platform for ecommerce stores. We have thousands of ecommerce stores using a variety of processors. From their experiences I have seen the following. If you process less than 80k a month: Use Stripe their API
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by oisino 11y ago
The fact Apple Music has 1/3 of the paying customers that Spotify has already shows you the power of distribution. The ability for them to build it into their on boarding flow for all new iphone purchases gives them an amazing edge esp
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by oisino 11y ago
I built 6 apps for another ecosystem (Shopify https://apps.shopify.com/partners/socialproof-it ) and had very much the same experience as you. We did the low fidelity approach like you and also found that has diminishin
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by oisino 11y ago
Not the sexiest stock but as someone who has built their company off Shopify I cant say I have worked with a better product/ company in my life. The way they handle third party developers, designers, and stores is exceptional. They rea
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by oisino 12y ago
I did this successfully with my agency http://bootstrapheroes.com/ https://experts.shopify.com/socialproof-it we grew from a team of two to 10+. The biggest lesson I learned is if you want to create an agen
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by oisino 13y ago
Host Gator gets around this by putting a fake coupon in its signup flow to make you think coupon has been applied https://www.evernote.com/shard/s151/sh/0189a90d-cf03-426e-88...
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by oisino 13y ago
Huge pain point!!!! Waste to much time resizing images.
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by oisino 14y ago
Great article.. Setting up CDNs in China is extremely hard without government support and local business being lead investors.
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by oisino 14y ago
You guys are doing amazing!! Just wish your % cost on transactions was competitive with some of the big guys.. At a certain processing level I am forced to work with dinosaurs that take weeks to integrate but in the long run save me allot o
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by oisino 14y ago
Great to see tools coming that help beginners learn programming.
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by oisino 14y ago
super helpful article

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