sameer_sundresh

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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
There's two levels to the scale problem: (a) sufficient scale for a successful small business, and (b) sufficient scale to repay a whole VC fund, with interest. VCs agreed that (a) was achievable, but they really need (b) and didn&#x27
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
The totals are all over 2+ years, not per year.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
Poor choice of photo, perhaps. This wasn't a posed photo originally intended for the article. We were just smiling to look good for the camera.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
I don't know why the article list salaries, payroll and personnel costs as separate numbers like that. Payroll includes salaries, and personnel costs includes payroll.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
Your second paragraph exactly describes Everpix's computational needs: bursty with no use for local persistent storage.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
Our per-user income was above our per-user costs. But we hadn't yet reached the economies of scale where fixed costs were covered.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
When you go down the VC path, they expect hypergrowth; certain doors are opened and others are closed. Personally, next time around I minimize dependence on funding.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
I know what you mean, SF is too expensive. But it's basically impossible to relocate a team of 7 who already have various different ties to a given area.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
That's right. AWS infrastructures costs were already being covered by subscription income. We also had prototypes ready to flesh out to reduce per-user costs as we scale up, but were not at that point yet.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
Essentially part-time specialist employees. Hiring them full-time would have cost a lot more.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
We're sending out emails in batches. We will also be in touch about refunds and downloads.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
Definitely. For Everpix, sharing to email is 25x as popular as sharing to Facebook.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
T-Mobile's plans are all unlimited talk and text now. The only difference is the amount of high-speed data (after which you still get EDGE data access).
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
It's pretty common to buy things for friends and family, in the hopes of improving the quality of their lives and the quality and amount of time you can spend with them (this doesn't always work out as planned). It's also pre
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
Thanks, I'll have to try that out. So far, I haven't had great experiences accessing my Android devices from my Linux laptop. That said, your workflow isn't representative of most users, if only for the fact that most users d
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
From our research at Everpix, most photos taken today are on mobile phones, and most people very rarely connect their phones to their computers. So you really need a solution that starts on the mobile device, and cloud services work the bes
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
Digital hoarding isn't just backing up your family photos; it's compulsively finding, downloading and storing all sorts of content that you have no real use for (movies, music, TV shows, books, software, etc. -- usually in violati
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
No, that's not true. It only gives us the rights to (a) display your photos to you and those with whom you share them, (b) auto-organize your photos for you, and (c) delete photos stored on our serivce (when you click delete photo or d
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
That's correct. It's legalese for an almost tautological statement: "we are allowed to do what you tell us to do with your photos." We take privacy seriously.
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by sameer_sundresh 13y ago
I can't help you with Flickr, but the tools the author mentions in the article (Dropbox for backup file storage and Everpix for auto-organization/exploration/mobile access/selective sharing) can handle 100,000 photos, no