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by vm 5y ago
For tradespeople we're a high value, repeat client. Similar to a large landlord.
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by vm 5y ago
Thanks! Reach out if you ever want to work on this or just geek out on the category - myhomebreeze at gmail
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by vm 5y ago
Totally agree that we need to make top contractors happy. We're building a way for them to not have to deal with the "running a small business" tasks that can eat up a huge chunk of their time and that many (most?) don't
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by vm 5y ago
Hey, Vineet here, one of the HomeBreeze cofounders. Really appreciate you sharing this. We've seen a lot of #1, #2, and #4. We haven't seen too much with landlords yet and would love to learn more...What kind of unit do you rent (
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by vm 5y ago
Interesting... HomeBreeze has quickly become an important B2B relationship for the home pros we work with. Although a lot of what you're describing is for construction, which we don't serve, your comment makes me think that we cou
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by vm 5y ago
Vineet, one of the cofounders here. Would love to chat! Don’t see your contact info anywhere - could you email myhomebreeze at gmail?
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by vm 5y ago
Appreciate the support! Love the “landlord” concept too - we have a few ideas here…
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by vm 5y ago
Good to know. So much room for innovation in this market. Appreciate the support!
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by vm 5y ago
Great! Will reach out
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by vm 5y ago
We have a few ideas on how to manage this but totally agree that maintaining quality is critical (and hard!)
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by vm 5y ago
We’ve seen similar things for general contractors and construction, which is a market we don’t yet serve. Today we target jobs that are completed within one day. We find our jobs get prioritized because we drive material volume to contracto
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by vm 5y ago
We need to unpack what makes someone “unreliable” because we’ve found every single contractor runs late, ghosts some leads, misses some scopes, etc. The root cause is that it’s a complex job to manage and they may not excel at those small b
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by vm 5y ago
What type of contracting does your brother do? We see what you’re describing with general contractors but rarely with plumbers who are our initial focus
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by vm 5y ago
Spot on. It’s all about trust, which in this context means getting the offering honest scoping & pricing, completing work as promised, and doing quality work. Contractors who deliver that trusted experience already are usually booked up
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by vm 5y ago
Initially we're focusing on a set of services that we can define well, some of these were previously considered "unpredictable". The contractor takes on the liability, just like any other job. As part of our quality standards
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by vm 5y ago
The contractors who love us are small, independent shops who are great at their craft, but not great at sales & marketing. Unlike lead-gen services, we send them jobs with defined scope and payment. We need to be really good at scoping
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by vm 5y ago
We had a lot of those concerns too. We're here to build a sustainable business (really the only kind of business). We have zero interest in hyperscaling something that isn't viable. We started with categories with minimal tail ris
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by vm 5y ago
Homes with majors issues like that have been extremely rare in our experience. When they come up, we've been able to catch them early (at least so far). In the future situation where we miss it, we have some back stops with our scope o
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by vm 5y ago
We want to level the playing field!! Similar to your experience, we've seen too many examples of homeowners receiving different prices or treatment based on gender, socioeconomic status, or other factors that have nothing to do with th
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by vm 6y ago
The reuters link posted here is click-bait junk. This section from the Microsoft blog provides better context. >We detected unusual activity with a small number of internal accounts and upon review, we discovered one account had been use
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by vm 6y ago
While I can't speak for Delhi, Mumbai is closer to the "NY of India" and attracts young people in the same way
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by vm 7y ago
From the article. Investment dollars in and realized + unrealized gains.
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by vm 7y ago
They’ve made ~$15B on ~$65B invested. $15B!!! Ignore the sensationalist headline.
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by vm 7y ago
This piece wasn't written by investors. It was written by two opinion columnists at Bloomberg, the same publisher that refused to retract its widely refuted story about the Chinese government hacking Amazon & Apple. That aside, som
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by vm 8y ago
I'm surprised by the negative comments on Zoom's profitability. The return on sales/marketing investment is exceptional . Net income is a poor indicator of high growth SaaS company health. See this deck for a detailed view o
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by vm 8y ago
i give them credit for doing it. if they find something there, they can improve on it. v1 rarely nails everything (nor does v100!)
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by vm 8y ago
Amazon was also overvalued in 1999. It took almost a decade to get back to its dotcom valuation. Amazon of 1999 and 2009 were two very different companies.
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by vm 8y ago
+1 Understanding exec 2nd level thinking is perhaps the largest opportunity of your internship Always think about WHY behind their actions. Think about their incentives. Think about what they're trying to accomplish. Same for the other
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by vm 8y ago
School starts early because of parent work schedules.

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