wensing

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by wensing 15y ago
No, but we're thinking fast.
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The White House bunker uses Stormpulse [fast fwd to 3:15](whitehouse.gov)
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by wensing 15y ago
REMOTE Austin, TX preferred. Stormpulse is looking for: (1) Front-end engineer (1) Back-end engineer (2) "Inside"/corporate sales reps We are Python + AWS. Our team is composed of 3 technical founders and 1 jack-of-all-trades. We're the #1
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by wensing 15y ago
This is cool. When I was at IBM in Austin last week, one of the IBM-ers mentioned that one of the first areas they hoped to use Watson was primary care. Amazing. I think I'd rather go to Watson than most GP's.
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Tell HN: Stormpulse presented at IBM SmartCamp today
2 points by wensing 15y ago|0 comments
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by wensing 15y ago
In our case, using the National Weather Service site or a small handful of private services.
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Ask HN: How to measure market size of a disruptive tech?
4 points by wensing 15y ago|5 comments
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by wensing 15y ago
Likely out of your price range but Stormpulse will send you an email or text any time chance of rain exceeds a threshold of your choice. http://stormpulse.com/products
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by wensing 15y ago
Agreed in that I wouldn't take his request as a call to arms for making something that only applies in low-stakes situations. But his point about making weather accessible to consumer levels of expertise is spot on.
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by wensing 15y ago
Weather is not a solved problem. Your vision in the solution space is just limited. We have some extremely talented people working on Stormpulse and the size of the underserved market is staggering. And yes, we have an iPad app launching t
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by wensing 15y ago
We've been at it since 2006 and are seeing some real breakthroughs now.
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by wensing 15y ago
Our (Stormpulse) iPad app is coming in June. Our vision is very much in line with yours.
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by wensing 15y ago
$10 CPM is at the bottom of the rate card for publishers like newspaper websites, etc. When we were doing advertising for Stormpulse we were making $5-12 CPM off direct sales and $2-3 CPM off ad networks. We knew the direct sales prices w
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Wildfire simulation sandbox (literally)(simtable.com)
1 points by wensing 16y ago|0 comments
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by wensing 16y ago
iStockPhoto I wonder?
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by wensing 16y ago
On my home cable connection they load in < 1 second.
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by wensing 16y ago
You can probably learn enough by being lean that parallel universes isn't necessary.
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by wensing 16y ago
I think your reasoning fails the real world test. Reasons Zappos' target customers use Zappos: vast selection, easy returns, no hauling your kids to the mall (this is HUGE), excellent customer service. I'd guess they could charge 5-10% ab
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by wensing 16y ago
Agreed, but if I were in those industries I would market the superior experiences those low-costs allow us to deliver, with price merely as an enabler (makes product a viable alternative to commodity/free option, or an accessible entry into
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by wensing 16y ago
One word of caution--do not, I repeat do NOT, focus on price ("we are cheaper") as the main reason for people to use you. People who are "priced out" of other solutions still need to buy in to whatever you are doing, beyond price, or else
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by wensing 16y ago
My question is: if you've built a function where f($1.00) = $1.25, why stop at $10K/month? What I'm really saying: if you stop at $10K/month, you haven't actually built that function.
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by wensing 16y ago
Very encouraging to see that AirBnB struggled to prove market size. I know the pain.
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by wensing 16y ago
Stormpulse here - from HN to PyCon in 1,356 days! ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29516 )
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The meaning of "value proposition" from the guy that coined the phrase(dpvgroup.com)
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by wensing 16y ago
Similarly, weather is an ugly, painful, lost-in-yesterday category--which is why we're so glad to be in it.
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by wensing 16y ago
Thanks for the response. I think if you are an entrepreneur and you skip angel list that you are stupid. Not sure how you make the logic jump from that statement over to "taking money from OATV makes you stupid." I should have clarified:
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by wensing 16y ago
Good luck finding deals off of Angel List, because those deals will be in companies run by very stupid entrepreneurs. If you’re an entrepreneur you’re going to embrace Angel List because that’s where the passionate, low-return driven money
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by wensing 16y ago
YC's greatest hack is their ability to invest without social proof from other investors.
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by wensing 16y ago
As an entrepreneur, I like it when investors need little to no social proof to make a decision.
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by wensing 16y ago
The criticality of your average “Web 2.0” application is one with loss of comfort as the result of something going wrong. Which is also why your average Web 2.0 application can't charge very much: without it, your comfort level slightly d

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