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by sarora27 4y ago
Note: I work in the payments space. Shopify is one of Stripe's largest customers and a very heavy influencer of their roadmap (example: Stripe Treasury, BillPay (coming soon!), and more!)
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by sarora27 4y ago
As an OSU Alum, it's embarrassing how much of a cult mentality exists around OSU sports. This is literally the dumbest use of university resources and reflects what the admin (an ever growing, bloated bureaucracy) considers important.
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by sarora27 4y ago
We started off by launching Kbee in 100s of different internet directories, communities, and subreddits (i found a list of "places to post your startup that listed all of these places). Our first set of users actually came from r/
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by sarora27 4y ago
Thanks for the compliment! The best example we usually share is our help center: https://help.kbee.app Every article in our help center is a Google Doc in a folder within our Google Drive. We simply pointed Kbee to this folder a
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by sarora27 4y ago
Two years ago, my cofounder and I built and launched a tool that turns Google Drive folders into a wiki ( https://kbee.app ). It's making about $1.5K/month and growing organically on it's own...
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by sarora27 4y ago
In most cases, virtual banks: - Do not require minimums (something that until recently was standard practice across all major banks) - Offer products that help customers through cashflow issues (Example: Chime's SpotMe feature) - allow
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by sarora27 4y ago
First job out of college (July 2013) was w/ an employer (Bay Area company whose name rhymes w/ Crisco) who marketed all of these things (GPA cutoffs, checking transcripts, etc). My college transcript was....less than exemplary but
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by sarora27 4y ago
Hello ex-coworker (Talkdesk). Recognized you immediately!
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by sarora27 5y ago
Former Adobe employee here. IME, most folks at Adobe don’t really care about listening to customers, providing a great customer experience, or putting the customer first. Most of the organization was highly political with different BUs figh
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by sarora27 5y ago
We use Nolt.io as our public roadmap for a side project we're running today. It allows our end users to add in suggestions, upvote other suggestions, and give us a running list of improvements to role out. Surprisingly cheap too
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by sarora27 5y ago
We launched this last year: https://kbee.app Kbee turns a Google Drive folder into a searchable wiki for you and your team. We're currently doing ~$1500/month in MRR
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by sarora27 5y ago
I went through a similar situation 2.5 years ago and had a pretty similar reaction. Reflecting back on this experience, here's what I'd tell myself knowing what I know now. 1. Accept that you are now in a Rest & Vest position.
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by sarora27 5y ago
I currently work for a fintech and i can argue we're not getting around the rules, we're just able to move faster on it. We have invested a ton of resources into things like AML, KYC, and ensuring compliance. The only difference
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by sarora27 5y ago
I spoke w/ a YC founder who distilled it down into 3 simple words: Pain, Claim, Proof - What pain are you solving for? - What's your solution to this pain? - What's the proof that your solution works?
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by sarora27 5y ago
This is an awesome idea! Signed up and playing around right now. One quick piece of feedback around the setup process (specifically "pick an investment strategy"). It would be great to see what the 1y & 5y ROI looks like for e
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by sarora27 5y ago
Agreed. This was my biggest reason for leaving Columbus as soon as I could. Most of the folks who "talk tech" have no idea what they're talking about. Just a sea of Professional Services Consultants configuring software for &
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by sarora27 5y ago
In 2017, I joined a company that had been spun out of Ebay and bought by a PE firm. The firm invested a large amount of "growth capital" in the biz to transform the product from a software license to a cloud-based service. This t
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by sarora27 5y ago
I love what you're doing. These kinds of services are so desperately needed. I used to volunteer for an organization called Build (build.org) and experienced first hand just how powerful mentorship can be.
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by sarora27 5y ago
It’s actually Adobe that owns Marketo now. Source: former Adobe employee
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by sarora27 6y ago
I'm reminded of the "eye statues" at the dungeon entrance of a Legend of Zelda game on Gameboy color: https://www.purezc.net/Tiles/t1s1.gif
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by sarora27 6y ago
Former Magento Cloud team member here. Most ecomm businesses are more complex than connecting a front end to a payments gateway. Generally requires multiple complex systems (Product Management System, Order Management System, CRM, etc) to w
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by sarora27 6y ago
Link?
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by sarora27 6y ago
Full disclosure: I’m one of the founders of a product that lets you create a wiki on google drive ( https://kbee.app ). We’ve been live for over 3 months and have heard first-hand about how hard it is to get everyone in your org t
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by sarora27 6y ago
haha ironically u/thesandlord is my cofounder
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by sarora27 6y ago
Wow, this matches my 1st startup experience to a tee.
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by sarora27 6y ago
Found a bug w/ trying to insert a link in my description. Ended up creating a project here: https://provetheywantit.com/project?public_token=pub_XAWtPgA...
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by sarora27 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! If you don't mind me asking, what other pricing are you comparing ours to?
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by sarora27 6y ago
Hi Everyone! We started building https://kbee.app at the beginning of December after our frustration with other help center/wiki tools. Every wiki/help center tool seems bent on forcing users to learn a new authoring&#
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by sarora27 6y ago
If $10k is all it took to incentivize someone to leave the Bay Area, I suspect they never really moved here for the right reasons.
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by sarora27 6y ago
Usually make contact via email or Linkedin. Show your cards up front and make it clear that you're not selling anything, just looking to learn more about a specific problem you think they have. Set expectations that convo will be brief

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