Gaessaki

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Bond rout starting to sound market alarm bells(reuters.com)
94 points by Gaessaki 1y ago|108 comments
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by Gaessaki 2y ago
Mainly debt instruments (loans, lines of credit, etc.) and occasionally preferred shares.
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by Gaessaki 2y ago
Quebec probably has the single best cooperative financing ecosystem in the world (1B+$). There’s a need for more risk-driven investment instruments in the sector however to seed early stage ventures. Most of the funds end up getting reinves
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by Gaessaki 3y ago
Welp, there goes another SaaS platform in our corporate ops toolchain. Anyone have a recommendation for a tool to handle the cap table for an early-stage cooperative with several hundred members that won’t cost us an arm and a leg? Excel?
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by Gaessaki 3y ago
This was a fundamental question for me before taking the plunge into starting a coop. Long story short, I did a lot of research and there wasn’t anything that really compensated risk in early stage startups hence the dearth of platform coo
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by Gaessaki 3y ago
Our coop took part in start.coop. Open to answering questions from anyone interested in starting a cooperative startup!
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by Gaessaki 3y ago
This is good feedback though, as I had the same issues. It shows the value of launching and iterating quickly with user feedback, rather than building in the dark in the guise of perfection.
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Managing the dispatch of our delivery drivers and monitoring our infra over the holidays. Wish there was some way to bond with others that are on-call while being on-call. It’s lonely with the rest of the company being away. I guess this th
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Our venture-backed cooperative startup board has 1/3rd of its seats reserved for its employees, which incorporates both corporate staff (devs, marketing, etc) and operational staff (drivers, support). The other 2/3rds are divided
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
IMHO as someone who participated in a lot of these non-equity corporate accelerators, both as a startup and as part of the technical teams supporting the initiatives (at two different companies), it’s primarily cheap PR for both the parent
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Send me an email (bio), organizing something with a couple of others!
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Send me an email (in bio) and I’ll schedule a time!
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Shoot moi un courriel (bio) et je m’occupe du doodle !
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Montréal, anyone? :)
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Didn't mean to imply that they were necessarily doing anything wrong or right (and I tried to clarify that with the last sentence of my post). In my book, "taking down a notch" means to humble someone. Companies like Apple an
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
I could include another dozen or companies that I would target in this question. FAANG is simply a stand-in. I guess we could go with GAMA instead.
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
It seems like Stripe has an article on how to migrate data to their platform without business interruption on their site. I would imagine others would have similar instructions available. [1] https://stripe.com/docs/acc
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Ask HN: When will big tech be taken down a notch?
22 points by Gaessaki 4y ago|39 comments
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister. No longer doing consulting, but found it invaluable as a tech person building a consulting team and trying to break into enterprise. Probably useful for any professional consulting th
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Thanks for the tips. We’ve implemented some of these measures already and it has helped. We’ve had phone verification from day one for example. we try to balance the opportunity cost when possible. For example, we lose a lot of potential cl
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
That’s an incredible margin. Is this gross before paying out drivers or after? The suggestion for a local payment processor is a good one. We have another processing entity here in Canada called Interac whose fees are considerably cheaper,
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
That’s what I would have thought… Not to mention that with the in-person data we have from our drivers that other online merchants don’t, they would be able to sus out entire networks.
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
I don’t know if it would materially affect the individual offender. Lot of them are actually just teenagers. And the time cost for us would not be insignificant. That being said, if there was a way we could signal to all the would-be-offend
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
We’ve had phone verification since day one. We’ve left the secondary verification stuff up to Stripe, maybe that’s the next place to look. To be fair, the card fraud is not driving the business into the ground per se, just more annoying whe
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
This begets the question, why present a backend demo to a non-technical audience? Almost every time I’ve done this, the tech part was glossed over as the audience assumed I was presenting in good faith. Usually, the business needs garner a
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Card testers are so frustrating to deal with. We run a food delivery platform coop that processes orders and then delivers them on behalf of our restaurant members. We’re an ideal card-testing target for the perps before they hit up the Ap
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
In some ways, it can be better than lidar. The colour signal can be perfectly matched with the depth signal to provide further context. This is particularly useful for tracking moving objects. Vision-based systems also have a far greater re
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Archived: https://archive.ph/enXkn
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Union and Uber lobbied Ontario gov't to not classify gig workers as employees(theglobeandmail.com)
21 points by Gaessaki 4y ago|5 comments
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by Gaessaki 4y ago
Spot-on and reflects the reality I’ve been living for the past two years.

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