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by someear 10y ago
Polly.ai | Full-time & internship | Seattle, WA | On-site ( https://www.polly.ai ) Polly.ai is a venture backed startup tackling the world of enterprise polling and surveys, reimagined through the medium of chat. We've go
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by someear 10y ago
Polly.ai | Seattle or Silicon Valley | Full-time | ONSITE Looking for employees #2 and #3 * Full-stack developer * Front-end developer Polly.ai is a venture backed startup tackling the world of enterprise polling and surveys, reimagined thr
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How the Trump Presidential Campaign Is Affecting Trump Businesses(medium.com)
2 points by someear 10y ago|0 comments
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by someear 10y ago
I think Michael Seibel says it himself somewhere else - yes you do want smart money. But the reality for 95% of the time you just need money. The founders make or break the company, and optimizing for just the best investors is optimizing f
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by someear 10y ago
especially if there were animations going on in those ads. Most battery savings come during (even super short) periods of idle time, when various hardware components can enter lower power states
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by someear 10y ago
curious to know what kind of trust you're talking about. Trust that they're being genuine here, or trust that they could protect your data?
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by someear 11y ago
Subcurrent | Seattle or Bay Area or REMOTE | Full-Stack Engineer & Designer | Full-time Subcurrent is building bots for Slack. We are currently the #1 HR Slack app, and #4 in Social. Our bots process and analyze data on various company
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by someear 11y ago
There are lots of dumb startups. But a handful of these dumb startups are going to turn into big, meaningful companies that change some aspect of people's lives, hopefully in a positive way (at a minimum they will offer employment). Be
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A Guy Like Me(theplayerstribune.com)
2 points by someear 11y ago|0 comments
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by someear 11y ago
I assume you plan on raising money? In your case, you would likely get even more than a 6% valuation bump, making YC worth it on that alone. I think there are some key details missing in this post which make it hard to tell why you were in
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Twitter still has a major problem with employee diversity(theverge.com)
14 points by someear 11y ago|5 comments
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by someear 11y ago
A big challenge super early companies/products have is getting eyeballs on the product. PH can get you thousands of users with little to no effort. So it's not about your product living or dying from PH, but it can take startups
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by someear 11y ago
You may or may not have had experience with anti depressants. But in the cases referenced in the article (mild to moderate depression), especially during pregnancy, the choice is always with the patient (at least with any good physician).
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Records show $70k CEO hasn't actually mortgate his homes(geekwire.com)
8 points by someear 11y ago|1 comments
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by someear 11y ago
Dude has passion. Worked at Microsoft for a few years, and even though I didn't agree with many of his decisions...he does what he loves, and loves it so much, that it passes on to others as well. We need more of that everywhere, in e
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Why mobile first may already be outdated(blog.intercom.io)
2 points by someear 11y ago|0 comments
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by someear 11y ago
But that's something the CEO did instead. In many ways, Adora represented the Homejoy brand, and if people saw other founders they wouldn't get as much attention. It made sense for them to have one person be the voice. Not everyon
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How Bad Will It Get for American Express?(bloomberg.com)
51 points by someear 11y ago|77 comments
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How Bad Will It Get for American Express?(bloomberg.com)
3 points by someear 11y ago|0 comments
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by someear 11y ago
religion, language, political ideology a reason to separate? Are you against immigrants too, since they dont align with the 3 of those characteristics? Diversity is good, learn to accept it, it's your inevitable future whether you like
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Where sound goes to die(news.microsoft.com)
1 points by someear 11y ago|0 comments
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by someear 11y ago
Decent read, but not a fan of the clickbait headline. Don't usually see this from TC.
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by someear 11y ago
Why are there a ton of great reasons to have your core engineering team in SF? Biggest concentration of talent seems like the main (only?) positive. Super high cost of hiring + recruiting these days, difficulty getting candidates to accept
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Steve Wozniak spent night in jail for building a fake bomb in high school (2011)(businessinsider.com)
64 points by someear 11y ago|10 comments
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by someear 11y ago
Great read but not a fan of the headline. The underlying concept is good - growth and headcount dont always need to scale together, user count is too relative to the industry, company, or product. In some cases, scaling to 1000 users would
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by someear 11y ago
Any benefit to applying early? I know previously it was always said there was, but in Spring I remember sama saying they'd only start looking at them after the deadline.
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by someear 11y ago
Sell and outsell your vision, dreams, and potential, not the facts.
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by someear 11y ago
If the "second hollywood" is in fact in Atlanta, I think you're validating the original point (i.e. there is no second hollywood). Being second miles and miles behind the leader doesn't actually mean you're close t
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by someear 11y ago
Founders tend to have insider info on when a company is headed for death. Side projects are essentially an internal acknowledgement of that, but the "official" death of the company or the publicizing of the side project only take
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by someear 11y ago
It's too easy to diss the smaller, less effective accelerators, but they have many forces working against them to improve. They don't just attract lower quality applicants, but lower quality mentors, operators, etc. Most people th

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