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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I believe you are correct but they eventually relented after they had sold part of the business. Lemonis, for his part, voluntarily gave up part of his equity to the manager of the location who volunteered to shut down his own location.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
You're right, if I had said that it would not be fair.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
There is a particular episode where he turns around a chain of family restaurants. I can't remember the numbers but various locations earnings were something like: +1 million, -1 million, +300k, +100k. Now he bought it for some multipl
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
> "There are a lot of counterexamples to the “failure” scenarios I described above, both for first time and repeat founders." As a reminder the two failure scenarios are (1) idea -> pitch -> raise -> start company and
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Peter's point still holds. If the company has 100 employees, that is $7! For 10,000 employees, it comes to $700! His point is that it isn't really significant. How can "catching" him on the single employee assumption be
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Don't steal this idea: a pirate certificate with advantages: 1. Anyone can get it, not just MIT students 2. It does allow you to engage in acts of piracy 3. Includes the accent
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
The consensus is with you. I wonder if they could win it back somehow. Or at least make it easy enough so that building a client is low risk.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I see from all the other responses too that this is the case. I thought if it was available to their own web client, another local client could just effectively scrape that data.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I am not familiar with these limits. (I mean, I know they have some, but not how they work). Can't any client just read off the web version? Is there something preventing that?
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
This allows the following to happen: 1. If someone can make a better MacOS client, they should do so and charge for it! 2. Customers can probably pick up a free client from someone who wants to play around or pay a little more for a pro cli
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Anyone know why this was upvoted? I can't tell it apart from the dozens of other "good" cloud providers (Lightsail, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode)
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Picking cities using criteria for Amazon's HQ2(washingtonpost.com)
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I note that all three points you make: 1. I agree with and 2. Don't contradict anything I said The question at hand is whether there is reason to believe that Pittsburgh's future growth will outperform its past growth because of C
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
But CMU has been producing world class CS grads for decades now, and some % do stay to start their own ventures, and yet Pittsburgh is not (yet) in the same league as even the "Next Silicon Valley" list cities. (Seattle, LA, etc)
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I wonder why they picked Coursera over Udacity or EdX. EdX seems quite Microsoft heavy. But Google has released a lot of material on Udacity, and they have other connections (Thrun). Just curious.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Its great that you have experience in the matter. Can you share the industry? And are you saying that they also engaged in cold calling?
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I'll give an example. I know someone who really wants to make products abroad cheaply and sell them in the united states. I think -- I haven't talked to him in years -- that he would love to receive a call that says "Can you
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
The most successful people I know are on the phone all the time. However, I don't know if they would want to talk to strangers about something unrelated to their business.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Whom were you calling? Was it a random list? And did you notice more willingness to talk from certain kinds of people?
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I have a question for other HN readers: if you got a call from a stranger asking you to discuss generic (or even specific) problems you face in your life, your job, or elsewhere, what would you do? I looked through the scripts presented and
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Yes, this is very interesting. I wish I could upvote you more so you get a boost but I don't think I can. So after you went over the parts, you had to come up with labels and branding and packaging. Was the manufacturer able to do all
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Sorry to hog up all the question space but I have another question: can you describe your process in more detail? Where did you find the suppliers? How did you pick your product? How did you know they could make them? Did you trust them to
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I assume -- maybe I should not -- that there are many products that are comparable. So even at $30/unit, you sold about 2000 units over a few weeks which is (to my mind) pretty good for a brand new product. You mentioned ads, so what w
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Making movies, books, comics, or any other form of story telling.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
p.s. this seems like a bad time to hit the front page of HN since Amazon says you only have 11 left in stock!
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I'll start with some obvious ones: how much money did you make? What was revenue and what was cost? How many units did you sell? How did anyone ever hear about the product?
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Thanks. A better home page? How could they possibly improve on that homepage. It is the envy of front-end JS package homepages.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I said the same thing and noticed you had said it 4 hours earlier. Whatever happened to knockout? If it failed, why?
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
This reminds me of knockout. http://knockoutjs.com/ Whatever happened to knockout?
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
You get to live in Canada as long as you want on a PR instead of a few years in the US on an H1b.

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