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by jdh 10y ago
I am sure you are right, but as a long time resident, I think this is the trees not the forest -- I would estimate these barriers reduce 95-99% of the car traffic through them, even if someone cutting through is indeed a daily occurrence.
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by jdh 12y ago
Almost by definition, if it were a black swan, you couldn't hit 5/40 no matter how good or lucky you were.
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by jdh 12y ago
Another point: it would help to know the terms associated with this investment to decide if it was smart. Author treats stock as if it was a public company, which is understandable. i.e. these investors bought $1.2B of stock at a $17B valu
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by jdh 12y ago
Maybe not in the next few years. But people who pay with cash because they aren't allowed to be in this country and don't want a bank account (some portion of the unbanked) might enjoy shopping in the digital world by using some
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by jdh 12y ago
Stock for stock deal. Price is arbitrarily set... All that matters is the percentage. If klout got ten percent, lithium just said they're value is $2B. Klout did have a cool looking office for sure. Hard to find that in SF today.
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by jdh 13y ago
" Why? Because that’s their job, to meet with entrepreneurs. It also means that if they schedule it on, say a Friday in SF at 11am, they can: a) avoid driving down to Sand Hill altogether, and b) arrive in Tahoe in time for a few eveni
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by jdh 13y ago
Perfectly stated. Employee compensation is a contract freely entered into by the employee. If you think you deserve more, don't take the job. However, I have sympathy for the fact that founder risk in SV has declined dramatically ove
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by jdh 13y ago
I don't accept the word "misleading" -- I do not believe the page in any way misleads. It does not try to position it as anything other than a subscription, and the language is plain english. Could they put the subscription
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by jdh 13y ago
You've posted this comment three times, and I won't reply on every thread, but let's be clear: these "review" sites are shady operations that extort retailers by aggregating negative reviews and charging to hide th
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by jdh 13y ago
Oh for god's sakes, did you even look at the site you just linked to? A site that gathers negative reviews to get companies to pay them> Did you read Amazon's review -- 1 out of 5 stars with 690 reviews, worse than JustFab&#x2
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by jdh 13y ago
I'm the Series A investor in this company. We in fact have done plenty of due diligence, and you will be pleased to know it is not a scam company. In fact, the company has very high customer satisfaction ratings, including an NPS that
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by jdh 13y ago
Medallions required to pick people up on the street. Über is classified as a limo -- pre booked, no curbside pickup. Los dint need medallions. However, the structure was created for old style limos: I.e. fat cat or prom kid books for hours
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by jdh 13y ago
I agree, but I think there's a bigger problem. I think first time entrepreneurs are prone to thinking that raising money is a win. Second time entrepreneurs almost never think that, they view it as an obligation. A lot of young, first
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by jdh 13y ago
Fundraising climates cycle from optimistic to pessimistic. If you take a ten year view, this would be an average to above average time to raise money in my view. In the difficult environments, everyone has their wallets stashed in their po
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by jdh 13y ago
Plastic goose?
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by jdh 13y ago
> Option pool I see the point that this is just a price negotiation. However, I don't understand why the form of presentation is so important to people. If you get a standard term sheet that says $2M investment at a $6M pre-money val
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by jdh 14y ago
I don't see how a camera phone will be as good as a 5D Mark3 anytime soon. I mean, phones don't have focusing! Not to mention a sensor that is maybe a tenth the size? I love me my iPhone 5 but unless you want a phone the size of a 1980s on
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by jdh 14y ago
It is good work if you can get it. So is getting $10M a year to play basketball. If you have the rare talents that our 21st century economy demands from the top performers, a nursery in your office is the least of the perks you get. If you
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by jdh 14y ago
Battery is nice when you kick the kids out of the dinner table and they go to another room... No shutdown reboot. Also plugged in is great at a desk but at a dining table it means a tripping hazard. No biggie but a little battery would be g
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by jdh 14y ago
Not a politician but still a courageous voice : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230381540457733...
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by jdh 14y ago
I wonder if people bitched about mail ruining their life back then the way I feel about my email albatross today. "Cricket! Ten more letters to reply to! Summon the scribe."
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by jdh 14y ago
Right. Let's consider the possible hypothesis that the customers like the service and know what they're getting into, and thus chargebacks aren't above average (which is the actual case with this company.) Chargebacks don't lie, not at thi
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by jdh 14y ago
Regarding your comment: "It says you'll be billed month per month on the right hand side under the VIP membership program, but I think it's pretty clear that the page is engineered to be misleading." I'm sorry: you're talking about the sect
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by jdh 14y ago
Biased answer but with some facts: I'm an investor in the company, and many here on HN know me personally. JustFab is not a scam, and I would not be involved with it if it was -- indeed it's a spectacular and very consumer friendly compan
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by jdh 14y ago
Just FYI us VCs aren't sitting around just hoping some rube will come by who is not incorporated so we know we can take advantage of him in a negotiation. Our model isn't leveraged around finding naive people to take advantage of. No price
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by jdh 14y ago
What a great American dream story. How tragic the death of most of his children, I'd bet he'd trade the $B to change that.
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Communicating with your Angel Investors(joshhannah.com)
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by jdh 15y ago
This was posted before, got a bunch of votes and had a robust discussion. For some reason it was deleted. Any way to know why this is? http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3443005
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by jdh 15y ago
I felt this way a decade ago when my wife and I rented Season 1 of the show 24. I never enjoyed it, but felt strangely compelled to find out what happened in the next episode, and would stay up too late watching. After one season I decide
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by jdh 15y ago
For mega-rounds: - SaaS companies like box flush it all on customer acquisition. Billboards on 101, google Adwords, telesales teams. See Jive's S1: $60m rev run rate and losing $2 for every buck of revenue. - groupon, living social: custome

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