throwaway724

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by throwaway724 7y ago
This also happened with a piece of shit OTC Facebook app developer called SNAP Interactive when Snapchat was going IPO. I met their CEO at a conference in NYC, and he literally had business cards printed out touting how high their market ca
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by throwaway724 7y ago
None of those things strike as 1) important or 2) indicative of a high-performing product development team given their size. But we can agree to disagree!
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by throwaway724 7y ago
I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these people doing all day? I can't point to a single notabl
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by throwaway724 7y ago
I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these people doing all day? I can't point to a single notabl
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Twitter test-launching ephemeral tweets called Fleets(twitter.com)
1 points by throwaway724 7y ago|2 comments
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by throwaway724 7y ago
I'm increasingly of the opinion that technology like this will never see broad regulatory approval. I just can't see an argument where any agency will be comfortable with acceptable losses, and I don't see any endgame in whic
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by throwaway724 7y ago
Sure. But in my experience, the amount in which investors posture that they're contrarian and look for unconventional opportunities versus how much they actually do is quite notably different.
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by throwaway724 7y ago
Companies who raise $75mm don't lay off massive chunks of their workforce because they found product-market fit. Justin raised $75mm because he's Justin, and for all VCs posture like they're contrarian risk-takers, they'
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by throwaway724 7y ago
Ehhhhhhhh. Auren ran one of the shadiest companies in recent history (Rapleaf) and he's discussing Thiel, who in my opinion was completely in the wrong w/r/t Gawker and is incredibly thin skinned and petty for someone who tal
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Ask HN: Reverse Recruiting
1 points by throwaway724 7y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway724 8y ago
Plenty of current athletes with lots of money to burn as well. I can count on one hand how many cases I've seen an athlete actually be value-add; in most cases they're the dumbest of dumb money who vastly overrate the influencer v
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by throwaway724 8y ago
Great, but how does that impact you? How are you going to edge companies who are much larger than you, for the finite number of skins allowed in each state? What's your plan for working with the regulators, including the necessary amou
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by throwaway724 8y ago
Posting anon due to industry reasons. How in the world was this invested in? 1. It's unclear how, at least in the context of March Madness, this is preferable to any number of alternatives. Given that they don't touch money, it&#x
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by throwaway724 8y ago
Hi everyone! Well, thank you for all of the comments - didn't expect my short little tale to be that interesting :) As for me, it worked out - soon after arriving in NYC, I took a chance at starting a company for myself. Unlike Burbn&#
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by throwaway724 8y ago
Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account deple