riteshpatel

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by riteshpatel 10y ago
Something I just saw in my news feed that'll also help to give more insight: https://medium.com/jme-venture-capital/meaningful-vc-exits-2...
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by riteshpatel 10y ago
VC firms invest other people's money and those people have money in a specific fund entity. Each fund has a specific structure that has various rules on stuff like minimum investment sizes, ownership and time to return the investors&#
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The Ticket Fairy (YC S15) Is Hiring a Head of Growth(angel.co)
1 points by riteshpatel 10y ago
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The Ticket Fairy (YC S15) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Developer in Sydney(angel.co)
1 points by riteshpatel 11y ago
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by riteshpatel 12y ago
The reason single co-founder companies are less likely to be accepted is that, once you start to get to a certain scale, there's just FAR too much work for one person to do. We're already experiencing this. There are two of us and
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by riteshpatel 12y ago
Exactly, or their phone only syncs emails back a week/month and they bought the ticket months before the event. Loads of scenarios where this can happen when you run a consumer-facing ecommerce platform
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by riteshpatel 12y ago
As a platform that sells tickets to events ( https://www.theticketfairy.com/ ), I feel that I should make a counterargument to not making users create an account. Our checkout process requires no existing account, so you clic
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by riteshpatel 12y ago
It's nice having cheap/free DNS from people like Rackspace and Amazon, but situations like these make you realise that it's sensible to use a company like Dyn ( http://dyn.com/ ) that are experts in highly-avai
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by riteshpatel 13y ago
Hey Patrick, Any chance this is possible for us as well? This is the only reason we're using PayPal for the majority of transactions at the moment. Thanks, Ritesh
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by riteshpatel 13y ago
A+ without any changes, whoop :) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=theticketfair...
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by riteshpatel 13y ago
Awesome. We have US, UK and AU Stripe accounts and this is exactly what I was wishing for a few weeks back. Thank you :)
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by riteshpatel 13y ago
English is one of the official languages of India and almost all people who are wealthy enough to own a smartphone browse in English. In fact, many kids actually go to schools where English is the primary teaching language - it's not u
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by riteshpatel 13y ago
Just compared our SSL config ( https://www.theticketfairy.com/ ) to the one at the end of the article (based on HN recommendations) and pretty happy that it was already set to pretty much exactly that (apart from us having 10
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by riteshpatel 13y ago
The 'Submit Your Startup' form doesn't validate because there's no way to say no to the 'Is this a cloud service intended for developers?' field (because it's a checkbox rather than radio buttons).