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The Car Vending Machine by Carvana(carvana.com)
1 points by alexdevkar 11y ago|0 comments
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by alexdevkar 11y ago
I believe your generalizations go too far. The "crazy" founder who succeeds despite all odds is only one archetype. There are others. Many outliers are successful by creating new markets. This guy (T.A. McCann) has successfully bu
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The audacity of big startup ideas(conspire.com)
1 points by alexdevkar 11y ago|0 comments
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The Definition of Social Selling(conspire.com)
1 points by alexdevkar 11y ago|0 comments
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by alexdevkar 12y ago
You're right. That's true the before the acquisition and after. Your employer can say you have to accept a reduced package or get fired. The difference is the starting point of the negotiation. If the acquirer wants to keep you, t
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If you have startup stock options, check your option plan(blog.conspire.com)
252 points by alexdevkar 12y ago|165 comments
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The Hardest Part of Startup MVPs(medium.com)
3 points by alexdevkar 12y ago|1 comments
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by alexdevkar 12y ago
The author notes (a) ways Harvard could spend its money that might have more public benefit and (b) that other non-profits are more deserving of donations. Even if all true, that doesn't mean it should be stripped of its non-profit sta
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How much traffic does a TechCrunch post generate?(blog.conspire.com)
4 points by alexdevkar 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexdevkar 12y ago
Other Conspire founder here. We will not spam your contacts, sell your or your contacts' email addresses or personal data, or otherwise sell data about you to third parties. Down the road, we will offer premium plans with professional
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by alexdevkar 12y ago
I'm a founder. Re permissions: We use IMAP to access email data, so there is no granularity. It's all or nothing. We never move or delete messages and only send messages with your express permission. (Google offers a Gmail API tha
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Google PageSpeed Insights(developers.google.com)
2 points by alexdevkar 12y ago|0 comments
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Pages So Fast Your Customers Will Freak(quickleft.com)
3 points by alexdevkar 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexdevkar 12y ago
Lots of innovation in this area: https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
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How to get an effective email introduction(blog.goconspire.com)
3 points by alexdevkar 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
Interesting research that seems directionally true, but I wonder if this overstates the case. The sample set is people who are willing to download an Android app and share data with Stanford researchers. Those people likely have more info o
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Payments Startup Clinkle Lays Off A Quarter Of Its Staff(techcrunch.com)
4 points by alexdevkar 13y ago|0 comments
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
If your friend knows of instances where Silicon Valley firms (1) double-billed travel time or (2) billed as you stated in the value billing section, consider reporting those to the CA State Bar. These are ethical violations.
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
I'd recommend taking introductory meetings with several attorneys. You should be able to quickly get a sense of what kind of person you're dealing with. Then check references. Yokum, for example, has a lot of clients who will say
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
This is important advice. Spend time finding someone you trust and that you feel comfortable talking to. You won't run into any of the unethical things mentioned in this post with a good attorney. In fact, some of those things are agai
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
Good point re point of failure. If LinkedIn doesn't put a lot of resources into the proxy servers, mail delivery could be very slow or fail completely. I"m still impressed with the creativity from a technical standpoint.
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
This approach seems almost magical. There are a couple areas that I'd like to hear more about. - How detailed is the strategy coming down from the top? "... [W]hat you work on is up to you, within the bounds of what’s important to
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
These can be non-trivial to integrate, but consider using third party authentication like https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login .
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
I did not expect to have my spirit crushed on HN this morning. Need to call my parents.
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
Given that hipchat groups are completely separate from one another—meaning no shared data—it seems that there are natural ways to shard the various datastores. There is no theoretical reason why comments from one group need to be placed in
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
If you are able to sell your product before it's ready, that is a great sign that you've found a customer's pain point. However, selling vapor-ware can be very hard. And you don't want to start your relationship with a c
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
This is an excellent term to throw around carelessly with your designer friends.
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
Investors typically are not going for acquihires. See for a good discussion on many issues: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/05/13/the-corrosive-...
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
I look forward to encoding other NP-hard problems into bin packing problems and hammering this API. Just kidding.
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by alexdevkar 13y ago
Conspire - Boulder, CO - Full-Time Conspire is a TechStars company founded in 2012. We analyze email data to give users detailed analytics on their email network and to understand the strength of connections between people. With this unders

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