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by trjordan 6y ago
> Tesla's terms and conditions say if a refund is needed, it can pay in either the exact amount of Bitcoin paid or in US dollars based on the dollar price of the car - whichever it wants. Fascinating.
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by trjordan 6y ago
Always, a little bit? I've founded one startup and sold it, and I've been part of 2 others that got sold. I'm currently enjoying being a PM at Slack, but at some point that'll get old and I'll want to do another sta
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by trjordan 6y ago
Broadcast audio further than video. Make it easy to find a break in conversation.
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by trjordan 6y ago
I’d frame it slightly differently; it’s not exactly “the right guy.” B2B marketing is frequently about getting a critical mass of people at a company to come to consensus. The best strategy here is frequently getting 1 person very excited a
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by trjordan 6y ago
They mostly use stock grants and options, both of which are taxed as income on they day they vest. Are there other vehicles you’re referencing?
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by trjordan 6y ago
I think there’s two parts. One is table stakes. What is the ROI of a website? Of showing up in Google organically? Of a well designed logo? On some level, customers expect to be able to find you. You need to show up, and show up well, at th
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by trjordan 6y ago
This is something I worked on for a couple years, and I fundamentally agree. I started a company around marketing analytics, eventually selling it and integrating it with another marketing analytics company. Our product was B2B revenue attr
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by trjordan 6y ago
Why is it the job of the person who was interrupted to correct the behavior? Why not the interrupter? Why not somebody else?
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by trjordan 6y ago
I read it as 75% of the company being split among the 3 founders. It's not clear to me there's a real company here with only the OP. I don't think it's unreasonable to assemble a founding team in the way it's been d
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by trjordan 6y ago
Just as a gut check: 25% of the company for 200k is a lot of equity for a low price. That's a yellow flag to me. It says to me that the investor doesn't think the company will grow huge and/or there should be room for future
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by trjordan 6y ago
Discovering the problem and discovering the solution are two different things. The art is getting people to say “this part of my day sucks” without inviting them to specify the solution. Your job, as founder, is to understand the problem de
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by trjordan 7y ago
Do you buy products with 3-star reviews?
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by trjordan 7y ago
Code thinks in objects and functions and values and pointers. Databases think in tables and columns and rows and queries and indexes. If you don't pick an ORM to help manage this translation layer, then you'll end up re-implementi
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by trjordan 7y ago
I sold a two person company to a fifty person company, which triggered this situation. After the acquisition, I was a "normal worker" by most definitions.
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by trjordan 8y ago
I certainly see less of this than you, but you have a brand. I suspect that matters a lot.
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by trjordan 8y ago
If you require the PIN to lift a credit freeze, some people will lose their PIN and never be able to lift the credit freeze. So there must be a workaround that relies on verifying identity, based on non-random information (e.g. no PINs, no
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by trjordan 8y ago
10x return on the $60m investment means getting $600m back. Depending on ownership stake, that's probably between $2.5b and $6b after IPO. A big multiple these days is like 20x, so that's $120m - $300m in revenue. FWIW, $25m was a
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by trjordan 8y ago
Yes, always, both. There's almost certainly a non-trivial sales team spend here. Redis Enterprise isn't a decision that organizations take lightly, and databases aren't cheap. Mongo is public on a similar model, so there&#x27
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by trjordan 8y ago
Two founders are better than one when one of the key problems you will face is hiring. One founder hasn't proven they can recruit. Two founders have proved they can convince at least one other idiot to join them. This is important for
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by trjordan 8y ago
I get the disdain for VCs -- it's a specific model with a specific set of failure modes. So that's fair. What I don't understand is this dislike for investing ahead of growth or success. Why is the expectation that everything
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by trjordan 8y ago
> Build you own Mint > Fancy interface is out of scope for this demo. OK.
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by trjordan 8y ago
They're basically the Google Photos team, now. Have you seen the ads about face recognition and auto-sharing? They've been working on the problem of photo sharing ever since they figured out that people didn't want to share c
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by trjordan 8y ago
This is true, but one of the important inputs to socioeconomic asymmetry is race and gender. It's hard for your parents to escape poverty if the police profile and arrest them. Or if your mom could have been promoted faster than your d
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by trjordan 8y ago
Config blast radius, hardware sizing, networking partitions, disaster recovery, dev/prod separation -- lots of good reasons to have multiple clusters! As a gut check, most of these reasons apply to AWS AZs as well. If your Kubernetes s
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by trjordan 8y ago
This is, like all good HN articles, technically correct and practically incorrect. It is correct that containers leak, and people know this. Multi-cluster strategies are real, and they shouldn't be. It should be OK to have one big clus
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by trjordan 8y ago
Did you read the linked papers? They go into a lot of detail about how they did it.
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by trjordan 8y ago
YouTube Vimeo is more like 1% / 99%. By almost anybody's definition, that's winner take all. Vimeo aims for $100mil this year: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iac-interactive-vimeo/iac... YouTube
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by trjordan 8y ago
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Linus Torvalds A rude leader drives people away from the organization. It is directly counterproductive.
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by trjordan 8y ago
It's technically correct that www.example.com and example.com are different domains and can serve different stuff. So are https://example.com and http://example.com . If you serve materially different content bas
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by trjordan 8y ago
It would cost a bunch of money but go part of the way towards fixing the problem. But if you're going to spend the money, maybe you could entirely fix the problem. You'd have to run the numbers!

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