jacobwal

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by jacobwal 6y ago
Hadn't heard the documentary story, thanks for sharing! Were there any choices in the first few years that you think made a particularly big difference in setting Amazon up for what it is today? Anything you're particularly proud
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by jacobwal 6y ago
I think you're overall on the money here, but I would probably be a bit more cautious on #3 (at least private units). Some of the managed rental providers that focus on urban markets seem to be doing OK. Sonder raised a new round in Ju
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by jacobwal 6y ago
Swedish and biased here, but as far as I understand a large share of the deaths come from nursing homes. The tactics to limit the spread in those homes failed. However, that is largely a separate question of policies for the broader populat
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by jacobwal 6y ago
They're pretty transparent about that too: https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/announcing-our-new-isa-... . They get a partial advance on the ISAs from other investors, but the bulk of their revenue is collected w
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Not sure about Second Measure specifically, but many credit card players sell anonymized purchasing data. Investors often look at this to predict how companies are performing.
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Approach 1 doesn't give you a work permit. It's merely an explanation of how you can spend 90 days in the US as a EU citizen. But I don't think Yellow Incubator would dive that deep to see if you have the proper immigration p
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by jacobwal 8y ago
As others have said, there aren't any clear cut answers. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, and you should ask a lawyer to be sure. At any rate, a few suggestions (assuming you're EU): - You could enter on an ESTA, which gives y
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Does anyone have the bull case counter to this? Similar to aresant I don't mean to belittle WeWork's achievement but these facts, alongside the headlines from CEO claiming that: "Our valuation and size today are much more bas
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Other than telling friends about it, anything users can do to help?
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Looks great! I'm a huge fan of content like Alt-Shift-X and Every Frame A Painting, do you hope to move in that direction over time? Not necessarily yourself, but providing tools/space for creators to produce it?
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Seems like it. But you have some new models - like Lambda School - that are showing a lot of promise
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Not OP but Kesté is great. This is their site: http://kestepizzeria.com/en/home/ Not to be confused with the Slice site, which is linked on Google Maps ( https://www.kestepizzavinonewyork.com/ )
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by jacobwal 8y ago
Liked his post on LinkedIn[0]. A level of detail and personal responsibility that I don't think we see too often in these post-mortems. Hope their learnings enable Kevin + team to build something even more useful next. 0: https:/
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by jacobwal 9y ago
I hear you. I don't find the argument that robust given that everyone is limited by their time - car salesman included - but I hear you. Agree that more data helps. For a headline I'd rather see revenue than margin or profit, as t
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by jacobwal 9y ago
A fair point. However, those are all relatively fixed. A car dealer needs to buy a new car to sell one. They don't necessarily have to invest more in the items you mentioned to grow their revenues. TLDR: businesses that scale vs those
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Yep, use it every day. Agree that it takes a lot of resources. But lack of investments in one aspect of the product doesn't mean that they haven't / aren't investing in other aspects.
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by jacobwal 9y ago
By no means am I calling the product perfect. Resource hogging is an issue that is particularly important to most HN users. But would you say that they're _not_ investing in the product? They're improving on search, their API, add
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by jacobwal 9y ago
But the inputs to his podcast are merely time (and one-time equipment costs). As you point out, a car dealership needs to spend a ton of money on the inputs, but that doesn't translate to a podcast business.
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Also allows them to invest more in the product, which is great for the users
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by jacobwal 9y ago
I think it's fair to say that those videos you linked are not examples of MVP / Lean, given how sophisticated the product was throughout the demo. The example that I've always heard (and couldn't find a link to now, so m
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Tried signing up but it crashed. Was able to create a team but then got a broken page at https://app.getctx.io/account/auth Working on something in similar space, so I'm curious to see what you've built!
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Thanks for sharing that. A few friends and I are trying to explore a product in this space, and what you said is pretty much what we've arrived at as well. If you have any other feedback you think we should keep in mind I'm all ea
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Thanks for sharing your POV
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Thanks for sharing that, I'm a fan of threading as well but see a lot of Slack groups that operate as though it wasn't an option
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by jacobwal 9y ago
would you use something that made it easy for you to save stuff from Slack in another place where it wasn't floating around? Like how you can star something for yourself, but instead you could star something so that your entire team co
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by jacobwal 9y ago
that sounds really cool. What was great about it?
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Great point, I don't use these nearly enough. Thanks!
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Cool. Do you find it easy to locate? I've struggled with their search at times. Also, do you end up extracting conversations into docs, or something that's easier to share with your team?
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by jacobwal 9y ago
For those who use Slack at work: Do you often use old conversations that your teammates have had to solve problems? Do you search Slack to find it? I've never been in a large Slack team and I'm curious how many people actually do
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by jacobwal 9y ago
Cool product, excited to try it out! Apologies in advance for unsolicited feedback, but I think you could benefit a lot on the revenue side if you played around with pricing. I've done a lot of scraping stuff in the financial services

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