jaf12duke

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by jaf12duke 7mo ago
I may predate you! We were shared an office with Heroku back during their/our YC days. Fun memory - James and bitscribe helped me with my prior startup. I remember them brainstorming a 'collaborative IDE' while they helped u
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by jaf12duke 10y ago
You have the dynamic mostly correct, but the motivations reside more at the partner level than the VC firm level. Individual partner IRRs are determined by the mark up they can report for the specific deals on which they have attribution.
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by jaf12duke 11y ago
I've been so impressed by the ambitions of YC since sama took over, as well the team that's been built to support it. pg's biggest contribution to YC may be finding sama and giving him the reins.
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by jaf12duke 11y ago
This is such good news for YC!
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by jaf12duke 11y ago
Really excited to see this launched! Congrats on shipping Aaron and Jen!
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by jaf12duke 11y ago
We're alums (YC W12 and S09). We do mock interviews every batch. If you're interested, reach me at jason at 42floors.
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The volume is too damn high on flights(blog.42floors.com)
234 points by jaf12duke 12y ago|173 comments
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by jaf12duke 12y ago
I wrote a post on how to defeat delayed sleep phase disorder. The key is light regulation. See HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409107
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by jaf12duke 12y ago
My mistake--typo fixed. Thanks!
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by jaf12duke 12y ago
It's actually less of question of whether you're right or wrong. Since most of us are usually wrong most of the time. Really good engineers don't want to be told what to do, because they want to run experiments and see the r
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by jaf12duke 12y ago
you could grab sortofobstreperous.com though...
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by jaf12duke 12y ago
Thanks! Fixing it now.
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Looking for Ex-startup Founder to Lead 42Floors (YC W12) in New York(42floors.com)
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Looking for Head of Operations to help open up our NY office(42floors.com)
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Run the 42Floors New York Office
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We’re hiring for sales and ops at 42Floors
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We’re hiring account managers at 42Floors
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Wanna break into startups? Join the ops team at 42Floors(angel.co)
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Kinda growing like crazy. We need salespeople and operations coordinators
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by jaf12duke 12y ago
Man, I wish it was a runaway success. Absolutely nothing has come easy. But we're getting there. One of the reasons I wrote that post a year ago was that I had to own up to the fact that we looked better than we actually were.
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Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? One Year Later(blog.42floors.com)
62 points by jaf12duke 12y ago|18 comments
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42Floors (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Coordinators
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I want to get into startups, but I don’t know where to start(blog.42floors.com)
96 points by jaf12duke 13y ago|79 comments
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by jaf12duke 13y ago
Actually, I'm explicitly saying don't worry about that stuff when you come to me for 30% feedback. I don't want you to have to worry about whether you're being respectful of me. I simply want to be helpful, and I'
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Thirty Percent Feedback(blog.42floors.com)
320 points by jaf12duke 13y ago|47 comments
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by jaf12duke 13y ago
Good! We'll be doing it again. To anyone that gets an interview invitation, contact me at @jasonfreedman and we'll be happy to do a mock-interview. Several alumni did mocks for us when we were applying and we found it massively
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by jaf12duke 13y ago
So stoked for you guys. I watched you guys apply and get rejected each time. And then emerge more determined. It felt obvious to me not only that you would get in, but that you would be one of the startups most likely to succeed. And now
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How to Fall Asleep When All Your Gadgets Are Still On(blog.42floors.com)
9 points by jaf12duke 13y ago|0 comments
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Five Paragraph Essays(blog.42floors.com)
134 points by jaf12duke 13y ago|73 comments
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Email Introduction Etiquette(blog.42floors.com)
402 points by jaf12duke 13y ago|116 comments

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