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by sachinag 16y ago
OMFG, this is amazing. And they're from Illinois. Someone in Chicago please fund them before they run off to the Valley.
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by sachinag 16y ago
I was interested in reaching out to you for a possible engagement, but I couldn't find anything in your profile or your product webpage that would help me contact you and learn more. sachin@blueleaf if you're available and interested. (Plea
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by sachinag 16y ago
But that's an entirely different business model: selling add-ons, not support. One, by the way, that does have analogues in open source: WordPress's Akismet is a good example. (Back in my investment banking days, I worked on a thought piec
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by sachinag 16y ago
Ha, awesome! Nice to see all sorts of ideas around this space pop up. Love that companies have to give the subscribers something special to be featured. (We submitted AlphaList, which doesn't do promotions and asks the e-mail list subscri
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by sachinag 16y ago
I am so happy for Sam Yagan and team - they've been busting their butts on OKC since 2004 (seriously, the site's that old), and it's good that they can finally take a load off. Hopefully Sam will now become Chicago's #1 angel (it's a low b
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by sachinag 16y ago
I'd add BatchBlue. It's what all the cool kids are using, I hear.
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by sachinag 16y ago
OK, so in practice, what happens if the company can't raise a round? Do they just return what they can to the fund and close up the doors?
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by sachinag 16y ago
This is the first time I've seen the optional conversion into Series AA at a $5 million valuation. If it's optional at the company's option, that eliminates the one and only risk I could think of: the lender calling back the principal + in
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by sachinag 16y ago
Cambridge, MA (sorry, no remote) Blueleaf.com -- looking for interns: Marketing Engineer Intern: ideal for someone who wants to be a founder someday; lots of A/B testing implementation, making APIs do things they weren't designed to do, imp
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by sachinag 16y ago
Between Blueleaf and BankSimple, I think all of these points (save the investment banking one) are being attacked. Fun note: we share an investor in Sean Park ( http://seekingalpha.com/author/sean-park ).
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by sachinag 16y ago
Heaven forbid you were a woman or black back then. Furthermore, if you don't want to take advantage of regulations and consumer protections, you're more than welcome to raise your own damn pigs and build your own lamps in your home workshop
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by sachinag 16y ago
They really should have labeled the lines themselves on the right side instead of just using the default legend in Excel. I can't really tell who the hell is on the top since there are like three different greens (let alone the colorblind).
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by sachinag 16y ago
Hey, you must know Aashish! I was super impressed with him back when I was starting Dawdle back in 2007. Small world.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Well, TechCrunch had an ad for WyzAnt next to your article, so I just signed up for them. :) No, seriously, happy to help however I can. Hey, if Ann Arbor can support a $200/hour GMAT tutor, then great. (Boston does have a base of banker
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by sachinag 16y ago
That's cool - you may be onto something. I'd wager there's some overlap between subjects and SAT IIs, AP exams, and name-your-state equivalents of New York State's Regents exams, as well. I'd do some thinking and planning on your expansio
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by sachinag 16y ago
I'm curious why you're doing actual subjects and not doing test prep. Did your customer development say that people prefer Kaplan et al for SAT, SSAT, PSAT, ACT, etc.? (Personally, I would really love to have a service that screened potent
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by sachinag 16y ago
Yes, the search for a technical co-founder is easily something that would interest, oh, about a million other people.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Sweet - just downloaded the free app!
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by sachinag 16y ago
I didn't know there was precedent for the moronic positions of most university tech transfer offices. Ah, humans: making the same mistakes, over and over again.
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by sachinag 16y ago
For now, the thanks of grateful founders. (/West Wing'd!) Over time, yeah, we've considered ways to help them get paid for feedback. Note how one-on-one conversations are opt-in for alpha users, for instance. If they don't want to be bot
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by sachinag 16y ago
Lots of people have signed up as founders with ideas and added their e-mail as alpha users - do both sides, we encourage it! On a meta product design level, we wanted to keep the submission barrier a tad higher than that for alpha users. A
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by sachinag 16y ago
It gives us a quick and dirty way to vet someone as an alpha user based on their profile, followers, following, and whatnot. LinkedIn, Facebook, Quora and other sites aren't as readily parsable (I know that's not a word, but just go with i
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by sachinag 16y ago
It's all actually done through e-mail, a la Angelist's early days, so there isn't really an "alpha user version of the site". Based on the comments here, it looks like we need to do a better job of explaining what exactly is going on since
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by sachinag 16y ago
Here's the blog post explaining the impetus for it: http://alphalist.posterous.com/introducing-alphalist This was hacked together as part of University of Michigan's Startup Weekend this past weekend (1/21 - 1/23). I'm really proud of th
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Review our startup: AlphaList - get expert feedback on your startup idea(alphalist.co)
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by sachinag 16y ago
DIY MFE: pretty easy, have a 12 month track record on Interactive Brokers. DIY MBA: most jobs are through referrals, so this is pretty hard. A blog could help, but you could also look like a dilettante if you don't have a track record. Th
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by sachinag 16y ago
"WePay offer" is correct British English. I'd wager the parent is from the UK rather than mistyped.
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by sachinag 16y ago
OK, this really helps; thanks! Let's say that you really wanted to study CS at Oxford; if you pick the wrong college to apply to, are you shut out from the university entirely? Or can you apply to multiple colleges at the same university
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by sachinag 16y ago
Could some kind UKer(s) please explain to this American exactly how Oxford, Cambridge, and the UK university system works? I'm familiar with what A levels are, and that you supposedly apply to a particular college at each of Oxford and Cam
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by sachinag 16y ago
I can't speak to everyone there, but Peter is an exceptional engineer. Their head of affiliates is exceptional. Andrew is clearly exceptional. Their copy is exceptional. Go work at Groupon.

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