tommaitland

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by tommaitland 6y ago
+1 on B Corp certification being better than a “social enterprise”. I’ve seen so many companies call themselves social enterprises with little evidence of impact, which really amounts to a new form of greenwashing. B Corp helps solve that
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by tommaitland 6y ago
No haven’t raised yet (haven’t needed to), but have spoken to VCs. Being a bcorp hasn’t ever been mentioned as an issue.
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by tommaitland 6y ago
There isn’t much around to govern social enterprises, so we don’t have much of a framework. We report impact regularly internally (it’s in dashboards the whole team has access to) and through the B-Corp certification we get assessed in deta
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by tommaitland 6y ago
I think it’s certainly an extra thing to consider and just focusing on profit is maybe easier in the short term, but I think profit without purpose quickly leads a company directionless and staff demoralised.
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by tommaitland 6y ago
I co-founded Raisely, we’re a social enterprise. Impact is baked into our constitution, we report on it before profit, we restrict who can use our SaaS and we’re a bcorp. I wouldn’t call it “riding a wave” or just “talk” - it’s just genuine
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Ask HN: Best format for engineering annual reviews?
2 points by tommaitland 8y ago|0 comments
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6 myths about ethical open source licenses(medium.com)
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Why we need an Open Source License that considers the misuse of our code(hackernoon.com)
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by tommaitland 9y ago
Always happy to chat if you’re interested! tom [at] raisely.com Also thanks for the heads up I’ll have a look at what’s causing that.
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by tommaitland 9y ago
I had the same dilemma and eventually teamed up with a few others to start a non-profit technology company, to serve other charities. The industry often gets the edge of commercial tools not built for their needs, or ones that haven’t been
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by tommaitland 9y ago
Thanks everyone, some useful thoughts there. The "ultra low cost" comment was just recognising that the value of the tech here would be compared to the staff expense of building it yourself. It would just be saving some precious d
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by tommaitland 9y ago
If you see reports of screen recording I’d avoid that company completely. I’ve never heard of it as common practice for remote jobs and more something that has come out of Upwork. The best remote jobs focus on output not time anyway, and ev
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Ask HN: Would a SaaS tool to handle webhook delivery be useful?
4 points by tommaitland 9y ago|10 comments
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The Chrome extension for humanity(rehumanize.me)
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Ask HN: How do I price my SaaS web app?
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by tommaitland 13y ago
Doesn't seem to be any harm in keeping them for the moment? There's still a lot of people on older browsers (Safari, Firefox, MS) who need those prefixes and seeing as the browsers support the features I think it'd make sense
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Show HN: A properly semantic, responsive grid system(github.com)
1 points by tommaitland 13y ago|0 comments