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by ryporter 10y ago
This is a laudable idea, and I do dislike the focus on "breaking news" (which can apparently be anything currently happening). But, news sites have moved that direction because it works. I don't foresee many people collecti
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by ryporter 11y ago
How will you solve the problem of companies listing far more requirements than are actually needed?
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by ryporter 11y ago
eBay tried this feature (which they called "Want it now"), but they shut it down. Why will your service fare better?
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by ryporter 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the origin of the name? Is it pronounced like "hub riff" or "hubris" with the last letter changed?
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by ryporter 11y ago
Why can't YouTube make African short films easily discovered? They have lots of data about their users, including location and past viewing history.
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by ryporter 11y ago
These are excellent questions. To follow up on the last one, is the network infrastructure in Africa even capable of allowing you to achieve YouTube-style growth? What specific advantages does your technology have in the African market? S
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by ryporter 11y ago
This seems like a useful service that could get traction, but I think you'll need to find other ways to monetize it than charging companies to track their employees' progress. There are a lot of companies that sadly don't ca
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by ryporter 11y ago
Random feedback on your name -- my brain automatically added an "m" between the two a's in "Obaas."
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by ryporter 11y ago
This seems insufficiently different than Twitter after their recent changes, where you are can tweet your status, write posts that are longer than 140 characters, and direct message other users.
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by ryporter 11y ago
It still sounds like it would be more promising to focus the business exclusively on providing a better mapping service. It's hard to build out all of the functionality for a marketplace (including dealing with very hard problems such
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by ryporter 11y ago
Thank you for editing the post. One more grammar note -- there's no space before punctuation marks such as commas and periods.
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by ryporter 11y ago
The "watching" app sounds very cool. You should add a link to a demo or some other way to learn more about how it works. I have to say, though, that you lost me with your last paragraph. First, it has many grammatical issues, in
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by ryporter 11y ago
First of all, while I understand that English may not be your first language, you're going to have to improve your grammar before investors will take you seriously. You post is riddled with errors in punctuation, spacing, and capitali
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by ryporter 11y ago
You really have to change the name. I couldn't read your pitch without fixating on what would be grammatical errors if "Let's" were not a proper noun.
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by ryporter 11y ago
How are you going to differentiate yourself from existing price comparison websites (such as Google Shopping) that allow you to filter on items available nearby?
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by ryporter 11y ago
That sounds like a good plan. You seem to identified a market that's easier for a startup to penetrate, which will then give you a basis for expanding into more lucrative customer segments. Based on this discussion, I'd suggest t
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by ryporter 11y ago
Right, but their tagline suggests that their primary customers will be public defenders. I don't know much about that market, but I doubt that they have much of a budget for tools like this.
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by ryporter 11y ago
How will you make money? You made no mention of it in the post, and it would really surprise me if there's enough money in this market for you to be able to deliver the sort of return VCs are looking for. This may be a better candida
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by ryporter 11y ago
That doesn't make any sense. Why would a company spend so long in development if they were a scam? They could have launched a fake product many years ago. Their development efforts failed, and they clearly ran their lab horribly, but
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by ryporter 11y ago
This is a good overview of the multi-arm bandit problem [1], but the author is far too dismissive of A/B Testing. First of all, the suggested approach isn't always practical. Imagine that you are testing an overhaul of your websi
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by ryporter 11y ago
I think he's referring to Glassdoor posts made by current and former employees, not the ones about applying to work at the company. Even if there aren't any explicitly negative reviews, you can learn a lot by reading between the
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by ryporter 11y ago
The very first sentence begins with "I’m delighted to finally be investing in Asana."
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by ryporter 11y ago
It's a straightforward and logical business model. Restaurants want a way to deliver food to their customers. They provide this service, and are compensated for it. They ensure that the food is edible by working with restaurants that
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by ryporter 11y ago
Why "state-sponsored" attacks specifically? If any group of attackers is targeting me, then I'd be just as concerned. Introducing that distinction seems like it will force Google to determine whether a group is backed by a
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by ryporter 11y ago
I just showed up, and I assumed it was due to the attacks on Brussels. Currently, the #5 post is "Safety Check for Brussels." It makes more sense that it's for Andy Grove, now that I think about it, but I agree with others
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by ryporter 11y ago
Absolutely. There are several good points in that quote. I've seen the cap tables of startups that used lawyers who clearly hadn't worked with startups before. It was not pretty, and once it was a key factor in deciding not to
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by ryporter 11y ago
While FinTech does face headwinds, it's not as bad as the author claims. Taking the points in turn: 1. "FinTech businesses don’t scale quickly." Online lending platforms can actually scale rather quickly. According to SoFi&
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by ryporter 11y ago
The Mike Volpi quote is curious: “Right now, we don’t really know what things are worth...When you don’t know what something’s worth, you don’t know whether you are getting a good deal or a bad deal, so the obvious thing to do is, not much.
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by ryporter 11y ago
It links to a slightly longer article [1], which provides a bit of detail, but doesn't elucidate. First of all, how do you only allow passive orders? If an order is marketable when it arrives at the exchange, then is it rejected? Seco
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by ryporter 11y ago
There is a difference. You are lumping many aspects of starting a business into the marketing category. Identifying a market? That's one of the first things you do when you start a company. It's finding a group of people to ma

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