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Bill Gurley: “I Hope to God We Have a Soft Landing”(techcrunch.com)
1 points by chadlpowell 11y ago|0 comments
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BloomThat (YC S13) is hiring engineers, designers and executors.(jobs.lever.co)
2 points by chadlpowell 12y ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator’s BloomThat takes a tech-savvy approach to sending flowers(venturebeat.com)
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BloomThat is Latest Startup to Stop and Sell the Roses(blogs.wsj.com)
7 points by chadlpowell 13y ago|2 comments
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BloomThat (YC S13) is hiring iOS engineers and designers
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
gathering reliable feedback in-app is a nagging problem. i'm excited to see audobox on iOS soon.
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BloomThat (YC S13) Is Hiring
1 points by chadlpowell 13y ago
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Thanks for your comment. You nailed it re: spam. They play a similar game with CPC ads - cornering the real estate with resellers and effectively bidding up the CPC on themselves. Speaking of which, I love the ads for the same companies und
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Agreed. Density is a key component here. The good news is that nearly 80% of Americans live in places considered to be urban (50k + population). Are they dense enough for a model like this to work is yet to be seen.
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Thanks for your comment. Your experience in the space is insightful. We see delivering products (of any kind) in as fast as possible more inevitable than as our differentiator. For a large group of consumers, Uber has contributed to the shi
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Thanks for your comment. You bring up good points. Most of our users are sending flowers in creative ways outside of the obligatory flower send occasions. For this reason and others, we see the total addressable market to be quite large. In
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Great insight. You're absolutely right. For this reason, we take a lot of inspiration from Warby Parker. By building an awesome brand that people want to associate with, you can (hopefully) avoid playing the super expensive demand harv
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Jeff, thanks a lot for sharing this episode. We haven't watched it yet but we'll take a look tonight when we get a chance. Existing online shops give florists a lot of leeway in the arrangements they put together. BloomThat, howev
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Hey scubasteve - great name - and thanks for the comment. You're absolutely right: pricing tricks and up charges are not cool. The price we display is the price you'll pay (plus a little tax). We're working hard to spread to
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Thanks for using BloomThat! The impact of sending flowers in the moment just to say thanks is really powerful. It's great to see people use the service for things other than the twice annual obligatory flower sends.
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Hi evmar, we really appreciate your feedback. We rotate our arranged bouquets seasonally and we're big proponents of supporting local flower growers and local brick and mortar florists. At any time, about 80% of our flowers come from C
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Hi Kyro, thanks for the comment! These are great ideas. Expanding our offering to include gifts is a great idea and we'll definitely consider as we continue to grow. Thanks!
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Hi, thanks for your comment! What you see online now is the MVP we used to validate demand. We're working on some pretty cool tech too. In fact, technology is what allows this to be possible today. Our API routes orders by zip code to
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Hi, thanks for the comment! Trust me, we asked ourselves the same question when we first launched our MVP. Do people really need flowers in 90 minutes? The answer has been surprising - YES! On multiple occasions we've delivered flowers
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Magic Does Exist With “Uber-For-Flowers” Startup Bloomthat (YC S13)(techcrunch.com)
82 points by chadlpowell 13y ago|55 comments
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
super cool!
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
So this is an interesting point... Indeed some of the greatest advocates of alternative parking solutions are businesses. More parking = more business. To test this hypothesis, we tested in neighborhoods in San Francisco that had crowded bu
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Hey, thanks a lot. Understanding our users is incredibly important. I greatly appreciate your comment.
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The Experiment That Killed P2P Parking(offthecufflabs.com)
1 points by chadlpowell 13y ago|4 comments
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
"So it is no surprise that as the Fed readies another round of money printing, more and more Amercians want to experiment with alternative currencies. Hence the intense interest in the digital phenomenon called the Bitcoin." Get real, Steve
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Hey Jason, thanks a lot for your reply. Your answer is helpful. Since posting, I discovered investor's tend to be forthright with discount and cap expectations. Going into early discussions I wanted to avoid being caught off guard. Thanks a
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by chadlpowell 13y ago
Great post. When will search engines start punishing keyword stuffing below the fold - hell, below the footer? For example, Google 'flowers' and scroll to the bottom of the top three sites. Other than bots, no one reads this 8pt font noise.
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Seed Funding: Is the convertible debt cap implied?
1 points by chadlpowell 13y ago|2 comments
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Eat24's Genius Customer Retention Hack(offthecufflabs.com)
2 points by chadlpowell 14y ago|0 comments
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Gangnam Style Virality: 3 Steps to a Billion YouTube Views(offthecufflabs.com)
1 points by chadlpowell 14y ago|0 comments

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