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Did you read the article? Do you not believe it? It says across the entire US. They're spending money because they're expanding abroad, and the lag between opening offices / hiring people and getting rideshare is real. That&#
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> I'm sure stuff like this happens at any company that big. Not that gets written up in detail, with numbers, with much frequency. > Why do they publish pointless news like this. Sexism is real. Adding context and response to a l
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A good thought. There is a real pressure to perform at the highest level. There's a naive view that lets you either ignore this kind of sexist behavior because the perpetrators are productive, or condemn it, possibly tanking the compan
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If Uber fired their CEO, would you think they're going to turn it around? 8 months ago, Travis raised $4.6B for the company. That's certainly a real contribution. If you're looking for victories that are primarily from the CE
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No it's not. They report they're profitable in larger markets, including all across the US. There is a real opportunity here to push cabs out of the market. The efficiency of driving a cab around and picking up at random is certai
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This is true, but I think you've overstating HR's loyalty to other individuals in the company. When an employees places a complaint against another employee, neither of those parties is "the company", even when one is in
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It wasn't hunky-dory at all. That's the point. There are a couple of different ways of running a business, and a lot of them can be captured in what kind of growth you expect. Buffer did 50% growth last year. Great for what it is,
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Ahhhh that's probably it. $300 / month is easily half the rent if you have a couple of roommates. ... which is exactly how I did it from 22-24, not sure how I forgot that.
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$3,000 a year is a weird number. Of course anything helps, but when rent is $1,000, $2,000, or even $3,000 / month, is that really make or break? I wonder if it's paying security deposits or first / last deposits. When I was
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The only time it'll be tested is in hindsight. If you scrape the data and put it on your laptop, they don't really care. If you then sell the data, they can come after you for breach of service. They're not trying to keep you
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Intent matters. If Alice's archive gets no traffic, and Roger's recruiting firm does 40% of their business using Alice's data, and Alice and Roger get dinner together every week, Alice seems to be doing something wrong. Even
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There's no way to win with ballpark pricing. Even if you have a consistent unit you sell by (servers, users, etc.), the feature set, volume, and contract term can move that price by a huge amount. "Starting at $9 / month &#x2
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A bit late, but hopefully still helpful. The main insight here is that people don't need more software. There are a lot of people out there that can validate whether your product is cool, or provides something that nobody else does, or
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"There is no magic." Before I started my career, I thought there was a point where products mostly built themselves. Coding changed that. When I was in engineering, I thought there was a point where products mostly sold themselves
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It's a good question. I mostly know it from that context, but a disproportionate number of my acquaintances are developers.
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I don't actually disagree with that post-mortem. Databases (and similarly, SDKs, widget libraries, and all other sorts of code-only deliverables) are rough to monetize, precisely for the reason that the RethinkDB founders believe. In a
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Obviously this wasn't about revenue! A sane valuation is 2x-10x revenue, so their bet is that this quickly can be turned into something that generates $30m a year. You could think about this as incremental to a business with $400mm a y
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Low, even for a startup. Those numbers almost imply pre-revenue. Revenue machines generate $1mil / employee: companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Startups in growth mode can plausibly run around $100k with the excuse that t
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Instagram's value prop was, and is, mobile.
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Estimations are a game we play. To understand how good you are, you need to figure out what's happening with the business and understand the impact you're having there. For a small company, this is probably the rate at which you s
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Reasons I Won’t Fund You(saastr.com)
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Netflix was originally in the business of renting physical media as well.
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Agreed, this is hard. My personal benchmark is: does this article have information that would change a political viewpoint? If so, then political talk feels like fair game. Story where the NSA creates a practical quantum computer? Let'
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It's a vanity metric, until you realize that for your business, it predicts churn. A lot of SaaS businesses have proved this for their customer base and found it's worth driving by. If it's not true for you, that's fine.
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Because if you have a bad experience with a Pixel phone, you'll complain about it on social media. Never mind that it's not their device anymore. Never mind that your problem is because the reseller pried it open and swapped out t
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Perhaps Hackers News is the wrong audience to suffer this problem, but coordinating meetings between companies (i.e., sales calls) is a mess. When a call winds down and you've got two people on the phone coordinating their calendars, t
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A big part of Starcraft is that certain units counter other units. Tanks counter zerglings, because they do splash damage to a bunch of them at once. Here's what you can do with infinite APM: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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You'd be surprised. I'm not sure it's obvious that people on porn sites who install ad blocks aren't interested in porn ads. Alternatively, there are services that do well to advertise on PornHub that aren't porn:
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As far as I can tell, "better". Because they have their payments dataset, they're relying on having access to more non-public information to better train their models on.
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This is a weird article. It assumes that this style is bad up front, then mocks all the different ways in which it was defined as good. "People like green spaces, how crazy is that?" I like cities, but I also really enjoyed the co

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