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by zaidf 13y ago
Someone unknown added a phone number and a new mobile pin to my paypal account recently. I called paypal support and they walked me through changing the pin. Few minutes later, the pin was changed once again by the unknown person. I call pa
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by zaidf 13y ago
With a non-answer like that, he's going to make a great public company CEO :)
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by zaidf 13y ago
Agree!
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by zaidf 13y ago
I'd also drop the "Yes" given we're auto-programmed to agree and make popups disappear. "Delete it" is more powerful.
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Finally, in response to your edit that attempting to build billion-dollar businesses is the norm: you can only come to such a belief if you have firmly ensconced yourself in the Silicon Valley startup scene. You misunderstood me. I never
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by zaidf 13y ago
Focusing on the former milestone before the latter is silly. Just because a company has billion dollar ambitions does not mean it isn't focused on the first million dollars. What remains true is that the first million can be just as
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by zaidf 13y ago
It is entirely possible to start a multi-million dollar business and still have a life Yes, but anyone that knows the author and his business should also know that his post isn't addressed to those looking to make nice profitable bus
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by zaidf 13y ago
But I just don't believe that you can't be a successful founder and still have a life/family/healthy lifestyle. You can be successful in any number of odd scenarios but that is not the norm. It is not hard to prove:
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by zaidf 13y ago
He's almost certainly cashed out partially. You don't get to Series F without cashing out.
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by zaidf 13y ago
The answer is inside sales. Sharefile, one of the leaders in this space for enterprise, has a well-oiled inside sales machine(50+ reps cold calling all day long). When Citrix failed to acquire Box, they acquired Sharefile.
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by zaidf 13y ago
The biggest reason DO took off has little to do with the reasons you cite. It's got to do with simplicity and hourly billing. AWS had the latter without former. Your typical VPS host has a bit of both but wont tell you launch 20 instan
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by zaidf 13y ago
But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone Clearly the home rolled stuff is working out for facebook. Twitter was/is on RoR and continues(!!) to have major downtime issues.
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He doesn't have to but he may choose to if he decides to sue Newsweek, for example.
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by zaidf 13y ago
How long before he denies this under oath? At that point he's risking criminal charges if he is found to be lying.
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by zaidf 13y ago
What does getting the last known cell phone tower contact have anything to do with whether anyone is alive? Like the OP says, all that is a single phone making contact with the nearest tower.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Counterexample: Pao's husband sued his employer for discrimination and made a sweet million: Fletcher sued his employer, brokerage Kidder Peabody, for discrimination and won $1.3 million in 1991. Read more: http://www.busi
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by zaidf 13y ago
At GoDaddy's scale, a horror story is hardly any evidence of much. If we are going on anecdotal horror stories, every Fortune 10000 company would qualify. I couldn't be farther from a shill. My company directly competes with the
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by zaidf 13y ago
GoDaddy is the perfect example of a company killing it with the mainstream while getting (often unjustified) hate inside the tech community. If you look beyond the common complaints against it, you'll find a company that has made smart
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by zaidf 13y ago
woops :)
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by zaidf 13y ago
And introduce yourself to a new set of problems? Like the possibility of some part of the program saving first name and last name as one field and other parts as one field.
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by zaidf 13y ago
it's just illuminating who the government listens to If Obama and the gov actually listened to Zuck, the problem would be fixed. Heck at this point, it is not too farfetched to think that parts of the government don't listen to
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by zaidf 13y ago
Works out to about $1,450 in savings if you process $50,000. I hope people don't impulsively go with them just to take advantage of this offer. In fact, you probably don't want this offer to have anything to do with your decisio
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by zaidf 13y ago
When I went through YC ages ago, pretty sure Dropbox got the most votes. They may be the most valued YC company atm.
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by zaidf 13y ago
I miss the Microsoft that was known for making solid products that could have a 5-10 year shelf life. It is sad that Office 2007 works better for me than Office 2010; Windows 7 better than Windows 8.
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The precise word that is used to describe your role in specific situations matters a lot less than knowing what it encompasses in whole. No one is saying anywhere that you should go out of your way to tell investors that your duties include
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by zaidf 13y ago
Alexis has a record of identifying himself as the non-technical founder. So do many, many other founders. Just do a google on this query to see founders describing themselves as non-technical: non-technical founder site:news.ycombinator.co
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by zaidf 13y ago
If you found the post interesting, you may also like reading how Kiran seems to have attacked the question he posed to Jason: http://divvela.com/post/77189320557/an-army-to-help-you
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by zaidf 13y ago
I don’t know why this comment struck me as odd … maybe it’s because the only people I know who identify themselves specifically as “nontechnical cofounders” are women. This means that you seriously need to go meet more founders. There are
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I hope you ask Pando.
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by zaidf 13y ago
I agree. I think the speed argument is becoming a little oversimplistic. The problem usually isn't speed as much as folks not spending that time on the right items. No one would complain if you took 2 more days to build a feature tha

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