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by jjb123 3y ago
I’d be down for this/have wanted something like this for remote friend groups like founders, but how does it work exactly? How is it different than most online poker events?
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by jjb123 3y ago
What are your favorite use cases?
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by jjb123 4y ago
This is inaccurate. In no way did people have to turn to their personal finances to help companies that their company invested in. That is like your banker, seeing your dire situation caused by a third party to you, and writing you a pers
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by jjb123 5y ago
We made those same moves 100 years earlier, with liberty intact. If North Korea made this relative progress over the next 30 years (and 70 years after South Korea), this same argument would suggest there’s something we should copy there.
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by jjb123 6y ago
The comments in this thread so far, imo, resemble comments at the beginning of dismissing BTC (just an observation, and I was one of those making similar observations in 2011/2012).
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by jjb123 6y ago
This topic (on a tool like Carta) would be worthy of discussion in a startup forum no matter the author, correct? I see part of your sentiment regarding context, but this can turn pretty constructive with the question that’s also on my mind
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by jjb123 6y ago
+1 for mercury, great option for this use case
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China’s Social Credit System Explained [pdf](bertelsmann-stiftung.de)
2 points by jjb123 6y ago|1 comments
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by jjb123 6y ago
Reddit is great for subject matter. Not perfect but actually gets better and better every year.
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by jjb123 7y ago
How so? Do you mean that people "would" help if they weren't racist? San Francisco, which has one of the largest homeless populations per capita, has a homeless population that is 35% caucasian (the largest represented racial
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The Cognitive Costs of Reaching for Your Phone During Break (Research Study)(akademiai.com)
1 points by jjb123 7y ago|0 comments
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by jjb123 8y ago
Rethinking this relationship is a major point of the original thread/article.
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Are nap breaks the new lunch breaks?(wsj.com)
1 points by jjb123 8y ago|0 comments
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by jjb123 9y ago
Congrats, Eric! Big win for every hardware company going through YC that will undoubtedly learn an immense amount from your experience.
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Tilt Is Hiring a UI/UX Designer in SF/Bay Area(tilt.com)
1 points by jjb123 10y ago
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Tilt (YC W12) Is Hiring for iOS, SySops, and Data Analytics(tilt.com)
1 points by jjb123 10y ago
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by jjb123 11y ago
My background is in development economics, and it's amazing how the majority of the developed world thinks a trend is going one way (increasing abject poverty) when the data actually says the exact opposite. "The world’s most impo
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Qz's “Chart of the Year” for 2015 announced(qz.com)
1 points by jjb123 11y ago|1 comments
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by jjb123 11y ago
I actually don't know the answer to this - but is the situation as straightforward as: "they left money on the table today, but it's in the effort to improve perception and health of the company - and they will be able to sel
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Show HN: Data visualizations of the world – Ourworldindata.org(ourworldindata.org)
6 points by jjb123 11y ago|0 comments
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by jjb123 11y ago
So is there an application that Google uses internally for this that others could check out? Wasn't sure if it was through Google+ or if it was a 20% project built independently/outside of Google+.
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by jjb123 11y ago
Co-founder here! Tilt differentiates from just about every other crowdfunding platform by focusing on smaller, bite-size objectives - typically among groups and communities that know each other (so instead of a $50,000 documentary, it'
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by jjb123 11y ago
We dig it! I think it's a fun thing that many people's introduction to our product via google will be unexpected/quirky.
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YC/HN Meetup in Austin, March 27th(facebook.com)
41 points by jjb123 12y ago|8 comments
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by jjb123 12y ago
We appreciate the feedback, and you'll start to see more and more cross promotion of campaigns on the platform in coming months (especially for our projects on the open source version Tilt/Open which has been powering some really
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by jjb123 12y ago
Hey there - fraud is still an ongoing issue for many non-profits, and it's been one of the most well-received features in the product (an understated but important one!). With Tilt.com and our other enterprise tools, we've needed
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by jjb123 12y ago
Hi there. Thanks for the comment, and it's a valid question if you've never tried to implement current options for donations -- I'd be happy to address each example you're talking about when you say "what's new
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by jjb123 12y ago
hi there, i'm having a hard time reproducing this - can you email me james @ tilt.com which version of chrome you're running?
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by jjb123 12y ago
Yes, there are - though credit card giving is the preferred online giving method (by far), PayPal, ACH, and bitcoin will be implemented (probably in that order) soon. Tilt.com is still where we spend about 90% of our resources, but our suit
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by jjb123 12y ago
Unlike most modals, you can customize the look and feel to your heart's content. You can also implement as an iframe to give you further control over the user experience (including adding other info fields) for donors.

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