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by raiyu 7y ago
You hit the nail on the head, we are best for SMBs and teams that want to get things done quickly and don't need the hyperscale and added complexity of AWS. Our focus has always been on simplicity and as our customer needs and our own
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Visa Grants Coinbase Power to Issue Bitcoin Debit Cards(forbes.com)
35 points by raiyu 7y ago|1 comments
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I think community colleges are great, and if you can get one on one instruction anywhere it is fantastic. The challenge is that bootcamps are really designed for people who are changing careers. Which means they have already gone through co
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by raiyu 7y ago
The other wasn't a weak cohort. It was the most recent data. Also if you were an institution interested in disclosing information fairly you would simply list all cohorts and let the consumer decide. But they aren't doing that and
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by raiyu 7y ago
Secured by the is the part I focused on. When a loan is secured by something, the underlying asset is what the loan originating company retains after you fail to pay for the loan. So if I take out a mortgage, and fail to pay for it, the ban
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by raiyu 7y ago
There are always two sides to every story, but when you have outright fraudulent claims I don't think you can say that the article is simply painting the school as "Satan" If you stated that you have an 86% placement record a
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by raiyu 7y ago
I've had a fair amount of experience with coding boot camps having have helped several friends and coworkers apply, get accepted, attend, and complete bootcamps across various cities and institutions. The idea of bootcamps is fantastic
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by raiyu 7y ago
It is selling, because the loan is backed by the ISA. Which means if Lambda can not repay the loan, the loaning company now owns the ISA and can use any sort of aggressive tactics to get the student to repay their ISA. Just like if you take
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by raiyu 7y ago
Except Facebook makes most of its money from US users not from international users. Also hard to argue that their campus that houses the majority of their employees in the US isn’t the one generating the IP.
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by raiyu 7y ago
Wow that’s amazing. I always said pay as much to the customer spending $5/mo as tens of thousands because who knows what they can build. Congrats on the success and hopefully more to come. Never under estimate a good cookie!
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by raiyu 7y ago
Agreed, just like most business books could be 5-7 short blog posts. But I understand the need to put in filler there to justify the price, but still would prefer an almost executive summary at the start of each book that gives you all of t
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How to Compete with AWS(redmonk.com)
3 points by raiyu 7y ago|0 comments
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Gatsby Cloud: The best way to build and maintain Gatsby sites(gatsbyjs.com)
1 points by raiyu 7y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 7y ago
Most obvious and best use case has been the proliferation of point of sale systems especially to small businesses which couldn’t make a large investment in that area before.
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Apple vs. Spotify a Timeline(timetoplayfair.com)
2 points by raiyu 7y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 7y ago
You bring up a number of issues that we've went through as a company, but I think this is no different than many other companies that grow quickly and struggle through the complex process of getting alignment. There is no company that
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by raiyu 7y ago
AWS was in the market before we ever got started, so unlike other startups we never had to worry about them entering our market and competing with us because we were actually entering their market. What made us successful was focusing on a
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by raiyu 7y ago
Absolutely!
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Haha, thanks but I'm just a cofounder not the CEO, and no it didn't pass through legal =]
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Our profit/loss for the year is determined by growth rate. In 2013 when we hit product market fit, we ran at a huge loss (on a percent of revenue basis), so much so that we wouldn't be able to survive without raising capital from
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by raiyu 7y ago
Thank you for sharing. Our goal with DigitalOcean was always to help more people get involved with technology. The community team that is one of the pillars of DigitalOcean was built by Etel. She herself went through this transition. She gr
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SoftBank’s $750M Investment in GoPuff(theinformation.com)
4 points by raiyu 7y ago|2 comments
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by raiyu 7y ago
I think it's a learned behavior. The more time you spend in the corporate world, the more comfortable you are with corporate speak. I haven't spent any time in the corporate world and I personally value honesty very highly, so I a
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by raiyu 7y ago
There is no impact to customers now or future. The changes were mostly internal in how teams were structured and was the result of leadership changes that happened. From the customer perspective we have never launched a product and then kil
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by raiyu 7y ago
Hey folks, Cofounder of DigitalOcean here. Letting people go is always a complicated matter at any scale. Whether you are a ten person company and firing one employee or you are 500 people and firing a larger number. Wanted to address a few
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by raiyu 7y ago
I was in Lisbon for Web Summit and the scooter on the streets was a great way to get around. So for none locals it's definitely a benefit for short trips and for the fun that it brings doing it in a group of people. However, doing it o
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by raiyu 7y ago
At the beginning VCs love to see the revenue increase and when you are dealing with companies like this you can grow revenue rapidly by moving into new markets. And it requires a tremendous amount of capital to do so, because they are purch
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by raiyu 7y ago
Never thought that could be one of the additional benefits for the get paid to write program. Very happy to hear that it worked out so much for you!
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Canva’s Growth Strategy: How they acquired 15M users(growthmanifesto.com)
4 points by raiyu 7y ago|0 comments
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Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers(philipwalton.com)
3 points by raiyu 7y ago|0 comments

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