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by pitdesi 15y ago
FeeFighters INTERN OR FULLTIME Rails Developers or Intern (Chicago or Remote) and a Marketing Intern (Chicago only) http://feefighters.com Looking for a Rails developer. We’re a startup working like mad to disrupt a multi-billion dollar f
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Yup. Further complicating things, ACH isn't truly settled for a 6 months! ACH's can be charged back for 180 days and there is no adjudication process, like with credit cards. If an ACH gets charged back, you lose the money, that's it. The
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Another data point... This is a snapshot of our ( http://feefighters.com ) google analytics visitors page for this year (~70k visits), filtered for news.ycombinator.com: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/Screenshots/bc.png US: 65%, CA: 7.4%
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Much of this is not true. This is in an occupy subreddit so be careful what you see in comments and what gets upvoted... One thing that he doesn't make clear: hedge fund fees are 2% annual management fee PLUS 20% of any upside (very similar
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Happy Meal Ban: McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco(blogs.sfweekly.com)
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To Kick-Start Michigan's Economy, Rick DeVos Invests In Art & Startups(fastcompany.com)
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How to market your website(feefighters.com)
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How can I hack getting good at visual and interaction design?(quora.com)
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From Silicon Valley: Giving Isn't Just For The Rich - Forbes(forbes.com)
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Cuing customers to look at your key messages(thinkeyetracking.com)
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Cupcake Ipsum - Sugar-coated Lorem Ipsum Generator(cupcakeipsum.com)
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Apple Sucks At Social(techcrunch.com)
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Gratitude As A Business Strategy (fastcompany.com)
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“Will It End Very Badly?” Probably Not.(techcrunch.com)
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This article does an absolutely terrible job describing work "Inside McKinsey" and seems to be more of a puff-piece for the firm than anything else. If you are interested in what management consulting is or looking for an interesting read (
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Want jobs? Encourage immigration(cnn.com)
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The State of Jay-Z's Empire(online.wsj.com)
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This is an interesting business model. I like it, but am interested to see how you will commit people to paying you $100/month for the next 5 years unless structuring it as a loan (which has it's own headaches) For those interested in somet
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U.K. Job Shortage Prompts Entrepreneurial Network(nytimes.com)
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We get a lot of crap email address signups at http://feefighters.com We do a little bit of filtering to check that the email address is legit, but let you get by anyway (with an additional click) if it isn't... we have a 1-click unsubscri
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Why do we sleep?(quora.com)
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Half of our company is made of MBA's. Getting an MBA is very different from doing a startup. If you want to do a startup, do a startup. However, there are useful things you can learn from an MBA. Here's why we like them: http://feefighters
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Python-Controlled Sprinkler System Wastes No Water(lifehacker.com)
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Far from being immoral, it is REQUIRED for the benefit of the poor. 6 years ago, I left a 6-figure job in the states and spent a year living on $2 a day in India (I was an early employee at http://kiva.org trying to understand the plight
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Poor Americans can obtain a $150 computer & $10/month Internet Via FCC(washingtonpost.com)
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Crowdsourcing your commute: app channels one drivers misery into anothers gain(theatlanticcities.com)
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Seed Edition Launches Free Subscription Billing Platform For Seed Stage Startups(techcrunch.com)
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BlackBerry 7(us.blackberry.com)
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I think he's right, for the most part. It's also interesting that a lot of these startups end up with "successful" exits where their technology isn't used at all (ie talent acquisition for FB/Goog, etc). I don't know if there should be a co
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This is interesting. I really like Dwolla as a company and the ambition, and think the are executing well, but there are some things you should know. 1) Most Americans use credit cards because they need the credit. That is something that wo

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