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   by tomasien 13y ago

   "They don't get excited about pretending to run a startup" That's the biggest difference between me now and starting my first company - I was ultra-excited to call myself "CEO of startup" the first time around,
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   by tomasien 13y ago

   I did a quick model with this tonight after a full day of investor pitches, and even though I'm exhausted I got about a 70% accurate model done in about 5 minutes. I know how to use Excel, but I just wouldn't have gotten that done
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   by tomasien 13y ago

   I'll give you this: "It's hard to argue I'm biased against female founders when I have a female cofounder myself" is a weak sentence. Yes, you having a female co-founder is strong evidence, but if you do sexist thin
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   by tomasien 13y ago

   It's a clunky transition, but the transition goes from "I (PG) have a female co-founder" to "here is the makeup of YC as it applies to women" in the second sentence of the second paragraph. He was accused both of be
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   by tomasien 13y ago

   Saying what Airbnb isn't growth hacking doesn't mean it wasn't. There were no protocols into Craigslist for cross-posting and they had to hack them together to get growth - that's growth hacking.
6. 606.▲
   by tomasien 13y ago

   Side note: if anyone knows who said "instead of being a gatekeeper, we should be a gateway" I'd love to see it. It's similar to what I said except way, way better and I'd love to see the context.
7. 607.▲
   by tomasien 13y ago

   I think you're reaching. Paul isn't talking about whether or not he is sexist, he's talking about whether YC is sexist. He's not saying HE has women FRIENDS he's saying YC is actually RUN in a large degree by women,
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   by tomasien 13y ago

   Also, I must say I apologize for my Gatekeeper comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986872 ). I didn't have YC's female founder numbers at the time, but being 2x the average VC's portfolio in terms
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   by tomasien 13y ago

   I think health is a wealth asset of it's own, because if you lack it you'll trade your wealth to get it back if possible. It also gives you the ability to turn your education and intelligence into more tangible wealth, which I wil
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Shopify is an awesome company and it's great to see them connecting online and offline commerce. However, I hope they'll explore alternatives to the "race to the bottom" of relying on putting fees on top of already outra
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    I like that a lot - it kind of bothers when people talk about what Bitcoin IS, like a recent TechCrunch article explaining how the writer lost faith in it as a money transfer protocol. Just because BTC is really valuable right now, doesn&#x
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    This is a really good idea - my last semester of college I tried to get a sorority to let me do this for them (bc of something PG mentioned once that seemed like a good idea), but none of them actually could identify a problem they had. It
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    How Bitcoin shows us that 2014 will be the year of payments (istommydrunk.svbtle.com)

    3 points by tomasien 13y ago|2 comments
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Um, yeah - gatekeepers are WAY more present in TV, radio, and blogs than even at YC. At least at YC there are lots of partners, in those examples it's usually one person who decides to have you on. Patriarchy is a way bigger problem in
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Great question - and as a side note, sorry to the people on HN I'm going to be bothering about this for the next 6 months. We're building this for Hackers and this is where they live - should be a mutually beneficial relationship
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    I find iOS autolayout to be horrible, so I agree. Even dealing with iPhone4 vs. iPhone 5 is ridiculously hard for no reason.
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Got it, that's what I was assuming it was. That's very cool. Will it handle screen sizes, scroll views, tablet vs. phone, etc? If not, I can't give my design team this tool then code from their views, it just won't work.
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    I'm not interested in being a co-founder, but I'm SUPER interested in talking about what you're doing. I think maybe we can help each other. We're seeing a lot of the same things, have a lot of the same goals, but don&#x
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    I think it's kind of awesome. You're trying to get people's attention, and while you're not going to go through the process of laying out the whole product and what it is (because it's not there yet), this kind of t
20. 620.▲
    by tomasien 13y ago

    Haha well there we go! We'll be launching our APIs at least publicly around late February, so stay tuned! Also going to change the name FYI, but haven't settled on what.
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Is that for designing cross-platform, just Android, or is it better than XCode in some way?
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Agreed, but they are technical in that right now they're really hard to use. We're fixing that.
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    First of all, that comment is very exciting to me: you totally get what we're doing, you just didn't know you got it. That's awesome. Two things I'd like to clarify: 1. We DO oAuth (or whatever protocol they provide us)
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Working on fixing this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5UTLxe5zA&feature=youtu.be
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    I know it's not quite "not relying on banks and credit card companies", but removing ONE of them from the equation (credit cards skimming fees) is what I'm working on now. This is how it works https://www.yout
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    "Temporary" means "while you're making the payment". Once that's done, it's gone. It's never stored outside of the memory, so we couldn't keep it longer if we wanted to.
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    We act like and have the same compliance standards as a bank - so we don't have "unrestricted access" to your bank account anymore than someone you give a check to does. Yes, that person now has your bank account and routing
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Thanks! Checking it out.
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Hey thanks! Subscription - so instead of paying a fee on a payment, you pay a small subscription based on how many payments you take a month. We're designing to take care of lots of edge cases (to allow more micro-transactions than CC&
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    by tomasien 13y ago

    Clickable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5UTLxe5zA&feature=youtu.be