evancharles

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by evancharles 2y ago
"Threads is a Slack replacement designed for makers," from https://www.linkedin.com/company/threadsgroupinc/
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by evancharles 4y ago
You're going to get a ton of skepticism, but I think it's possible in a dense area to find enough people who have enough overlap in the staples they consume who are willing to pay for this. I would try to focus on quality first, p
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by evancharles 4y ago
I am involved with a company called Teamshares that helps small businesses convert to employee ownership. A big part of what makes it work is exposing company financials to all employees in a way that helps connect one's actions with f
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by evancharles 5y ago
The funny thing is this is more functional (and took longer to create) than the first version of DoorDash.
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by evancharles 5y ago
Entering the working world does not mean you have to give up diving deeply into new topics!
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by evancharles 5y ago
Our real estate and land markets seem hyper fragmented, not close to being a monopoly? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
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by evancharles 6y ago
When I've seen founders try to keep investors at arms length it seems to result in mistrust, leaving investors feeling like they can't get the real story, and thus decreasing the likelihood they invest further. So rather than keep
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by evancharles 6y ago
My guess is he means that VCs don't make decisions out of friendship.
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by evancharles 6y ago
thx so much for showing an example, very helpful. btw, if I may, it might be nicer to stick to just serif or sans-serif fonts in your deck, the mix is making my eyes a little sad.
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by evancharles 6y ago
I agree, but the opportunists are within that set
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by evancharles 6y ago
One trick to catch opportunists: start with those looking to increase their headcount faster than baseline (as any good opportunist will attempt), and then see if they will adopt an opposing logical argument as long as it leads to the concl
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by evancharles 6y ago
This seems like an extreme stretch and the motive doesn't check out. Oride was shut down two weeks ago for reasons unrelated to competition. https://www.pymnts.com/news/ridesharing/2020/softbank-backed...
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by evancharles 7y ago
I think you underestimate owner costs of turnover. Risking an empty apartment for even a few weeks can erase your yield for the whole year. Landlords, then, are only likely to hike rent aggressively if it's worth that risk, in other wo
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by evancharles 8y ago
I'm weary of getting into this, but I don't think that's the right conclusion from the beach issue. I'm not intimately familiar but if you care about it, I'd recommend reading what he wrote about it. https:/&#
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by evancharles 8y ago
Thanks for sharing! I was just searching github for something like this for my own wedding.
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by evancharles 8y ago
Love the persistence. Happy to help edit your app or do a mock interview. Random idea for your product you've probably heard before - wedding website providers might be a good channel.
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by evancharles 8y ago
Interestingly YC has encouraged startups to offer more equity to early employees and I'm not sure it's had an effect. See pg's recommendation in http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
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by evancharles 8y ago
Customers are also a great source of project ideas. You can pick a customer, like "small business owner" or "wealth advisor," and interview them. My favorite question that leads to ideas is "tell me everything you d
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by evancharles 9y ago
I once visited a career office at a community college that I wanted to hire out of. What I saw was crushing - a small office run by a student volunteer with nothing but a few binders of reading materials. I'm excited for private comp
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by evancharles 9y ago
If this is easy for you, you should quit engineering and run a growth equity fund.
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by evancharles 10y ago
We're a startup that builds software to simplify real estate, and we use capital markets to power that experience. The ability to buy the home directly allows us to put the homeowner in control of their timeline. I like pg's defin
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by evancharles 11y ago
While great CEOs of large companies do edit much more than they write, I see early stage CEOs that think they can start editing right away, because they're the CEO. For the first couple years (at least), it takes heroic effort to get s
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by evancharles 11y ago
whoa.. I think we were literally in the same class at Lab. Nice to see you here!
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by evancharles 11y ago
Btw, David Derbes, the writer, is perhaps the most overqualified high school physics teacher there is. (He was my teacher.)
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by evancharles 13y ago
How did we do? We're working on shaving off as much time as possible, that's where partnering with the restaurants really helps.
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by evancharles 13y ago
I like this idea. Managing a workforce like ours (DoorDash) is incredibly difficult, and our ability to do it well is probably the greatest advantage we could have. The idea is to make software that makes complex tasks simple.
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by evancharles 14y ago
I do it to reduce contrast, not increase it. White on black is awfully harsh. Never use black: http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/