taylorhou

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by taylorhou 4y ago
At 200+ full time, I found being 100% transparent extremely difficult when lacking context (especially around cash in bank) because some took it as company was in bad shape, start looking for another job. However due to the recent downturn,
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by taylorhou 4y ago
would love to connect as we're evaluating ledgers for rental properties. there are a gazillion management softwares with "accounting" ledgers but they were always an after thought. we're interested in building the defact
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by taylorhou 4y ago
super cool to see the maturity in knowing what you want. i realize now that i was wayyyyy more profitable (cash money in my pocket) when my startup was literally 10x smaller. for those aspiring to be the next big blow up, as you grow/s
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by taylorhou 4y ago
proptech is continuing to thrive. people need a roof over their heads whether it's to rent or own so startups solving problems surrounding renting/buying/managing/living in a home, apartment, condo, association, trailer,
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by taylorhou 4y ago
Lots of comments about random pains from what I'm going to assume are relatively younger folks. I was diagnosed with ulnar neuropathy before 30 where my pinky and ring finger went numb. It was caused by my sitting and even laying posit
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by taylorhou 4y ago
oo i have a 4 and 2 year old running around as i type this comment. you specifically asked what to prep for what's to come so i'll make some recommendations for that: - you're going to lose sleep, i dont know how to practice
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by taylorhou 4y ago
#shanghaistrong
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by taylorhou 4y ago
what's crazy is in this day and age, you'd think uber/lyft are available in most markets but last week, I had to go to Baton Rouge (LSU with 50k students is based there) and I was relegated to a beat up, cigarette smelling, l
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by taylorhou 5y ago
There are soooo many accounts on IG and FB that just repost TikTok content. FB doesn't even need to do this themselves because they pay/help monetize based on views/engagement regardless of if it's your content or not...
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by taylorhou 5y ago
Most people in general have a short term cost/benefit analysis period. What China seemingly does different is they have 10, 20, 50+ year plans which in the time horizon of their multi-thousand year history even seems short term. Your e
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by taylorhou 5y ago
Consistency is the #1 part. Do whatever it takes to turn any form of exercise into a game, challenge, or fun. Going strict keto (<20g net carbs a day) was fun for me too and allowed me to have a single metric to focus on reducing. I lost
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by taylorhou 5y ago
Is HN employing TikTok style algos now?! Literally have been discussing with our devs what we can use that's as off the shelf as possible for a HN style community. They said it would be best if it was built with RoR. I see this post ra
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by taylorhou 5y ago
If anyone is based in Houston and looking for an optional in-person environment, my startup apmhelp.com (we help property managers scale their business) has space and will continue to grow at the Ion office in midtown. We're hiring acc
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by taylorhou 5y ago
absolutely agree. a google or microsoft wouldn't cus the customer base overlaps with their own anyways. Salesforce on the other hand could continue on their path to becoming the enterprise suite of everything. real question though is w
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by taylorhou 5y ago
Zoom has done well but the bundling of video conferences by microsoft and google will likely win out in the end. All it takes is a single botched update or more bloat in the software to have others try an included option. My company is on g
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by taylorhou 5y ago
APMHelp.com - we are the back office for over 1k property management firms in America. Primarily doing accounting/bookkeeping and maintenance coordination that can leverage more tech to automate. We have our own embedded finance produc
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by taylorhou 5y ago
a similar situation happened at my company where management was informed of severe burnout. we didn't have a policy/SOP on it but created one where we gave our valued employee 2 weeks forced PTO and actually suspended their gsuite
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by taylorhou 5y ago
body treats everything carbs (except for dietary fiber and sugar alcohols) as glucose eventually. getting under 50g net carbs a day is fairly easy. staying under 20g net is harder but not impossible these days.
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by taylorhou 5y ago
Don't know if SV specifically makes a difference but my lasting relationships from when I was in 500 startups were the in person fellow founders/startup folks that were grinding day in and day out. Literally visited one that I bef
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by taylorhou 5y ago
literally LOL'ed at their blog picture/headliner page. they are borrowing from the festival world where the bigger the headliner (aka investor/check?), the higher and bigger they are displayed. wonder if there are parallels b
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by taylorhou 5y ago
interesting point. I wonder if an incremental regulation can be passed whereas if the marketplace decides to become a participant/competitor, those in which it competes against no longer have to pay the marketplace fees to "even t
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by taylorhou 5y ago
my company has almost 50 full time in the US and 120+ full time internationally. x2-3 in the next 12-18 months. hiring for pretty much every possible role and willing to be creative/flexible. dm me to chat! apmhelp.com is our core serv
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by taylorhou 5y ago
just spent $230 for all issues to date T_T
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by taylorhou 5y ago
If you don't want to reinvent the wheel when it comes to managing the rentals, my company runs the back office to many of the Co living and property management businesses around America. Happy to help.
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by taylorhou 5y ago
although I'm a HN reader, I'm in the camp of "since this doesn't affect me personally (unless apple's algo's mislabel my kids photos as offending), apple is helping make the world a better place" - not eno
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by taylorhou 5y ago
I'd agree with you if they were more savvy or specific with their marketing (ie: FSD v1 or FSD V2) but sorry, they call it all "Full self driving" - whether that's via subscription or not, it's one in the same. So a
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by taylorhou 5y ago
I did a quick Google search cus I could've sworn Elon tweeted about full self driving hardware on all Tesla's sold after a certain date. Found the official blog post: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-
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by taylorhou 5y ago
Once you make enough money to not have to constantly watch your bank balance, priorities change. Unfortunately, most don't get to experience what that's like before they are saddled with money requirements such as kids and mortgag
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by taylorhou 6y ago
coming from anecdotal data (i'm a superhost that co-hosts for others), airbnb's are KILLING it right now as families are visiting families and when families travel, they tend to prefer whole home rentals rather than hotels (in nor
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by taylorhou 6y ago
Fantastic read. Time for Ben of Stratechery to pass the baton :p - I'm assuming Eugene is now going to get a gazillion messages of employment or consulting requests at the aforementioned FAANG companies to help steer the direction of t

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