jmzbond

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Ask HN: Are there founders who would like help "letting go"?
2 points by jmzbond 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Love this discussion! I’m currently running Last Minute Gear: www.lastmingear.com which rents outdoors gear for camping/ snowsports in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before that though, the concept was called www.projectborrow.com, very m
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How to ace your first job(medium.com)
4 points by jmzbond 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Fair points
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Thanks for sharing that! Yes the key difference here on the backend is that we make the food ourselves. But you're abs. right that from the frontend it's very similar.
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Ask HN: Feedback on text-based food delivery concept?
2 points by jmzbond 11y ago|5 comments
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Text2Eat food delivery(text2eat.co)
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The Definitive Guide to Hiking Half Dome(lastmingear.com)
2 points by jmzbond 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmzbond 11y ago
This is also why I think people should be very careful before comparing two entrepreneurs, or saying something like: "why is ___ so much less busy than you and more successful?" Well, because ____'s parents are literally bill
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Complete catalogue of backpacking sites within 2 hours of the Bay Area(lastmingear.com)
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by jmzbond 11y ago
I agree with you about how hard it is to maintain flavor and texture, it's always something we're working on. The meals come to you in biodegradable containers that you can microwave without transferring elsewhere. So far, so good
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by jmzbond 11y ago
At the moment we're not scaling out ourselves just yet, we're just in one region, but you're totally right that franchising could potentially be a model. We have a lot of ideas on how to better scale, when the time is right.
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Love the illustrative parabola thanks! I agree with so many of your points, but I do hope there's an alternative as well, and that's actually why we're in business, to explore those models. This is just the consumer facing en
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Oooh thanks for asking, why don't I give you my personal code: "jamesdd". It'll get you $25 off when you sign up for any of our plans =)
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by jmzbond 11y ago
True story for almost anything in food. The industry is famous for razor thin margins. We're passionate about small-scale local food systems and the ability of certain models of said systems to better weather economic downturns. That&#
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Yup, with the delivery thing it will be great if enough folks order from one area that we can designate a drop off point (like Lyft hotspots) OR just do a regular catering if that area is one business. Latter, specifically, would make much
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Well we're in Boston and Cambridge, MA. But in general why is food-tech "booming" more generally, I think it's a couple of things: 1) greater awareness, at least on my social media, about healthy eating, 2) related, a gr
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by jmzbond 11y ago
You're right! You know every time someone tells me this is a tech startup, I fire back that it's actually a logistics startup. Delivery is one of the hardest things for the new wave of "deliver everything" startups. We&#
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Agree, but I think now is the time when many small companies have dreams of figuring that out! We'll write about it if we do =)
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by jmzbond 11y ago
oh shoot thanks so much for the catch!
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Show HN: Farm Feedery – menuless lunch delivery with farm-fresh ingredients(farmfeedery.com)
23 points by jmzbond 11y ago|23 comments
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by jmzbond 11y ago
How do I not "wonder" what to eat? Not sure it's super obvious to me immediately from the site.
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by jmzbond 11y ago
you know what is amazing and hilarious? i have an idea on my pad that says: Idealist - a way to collect and help you move forward with your startup ideas =D Now mine was slightly different, since it was oriented more toward people in develo
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by jmzbond 11y ago
Thanks! Re your first point, do you think it would be annoying to you to see some items with an increment of 1 and others with an increment of 0? I.e., is it better to have separation between items that you can select vs. which specific ite
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by jmzbond 11y ago
A well balanced freak out certainly =)
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by jmzbond 11y ago
=D
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by jmzbond 11y ago
That's a really good idea, thanks! And definitely thanks for the example!
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by jmzbond 11y ago
We're building a rental company for people who don't need to buy. Currently that manifests itself in outdoors, but hopefully not forever, since our vision is to reduce unnecessary consumption by making renting as viable and easy a
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by jmzbond 11y ago
At the moment yes. Most of our customers are new to outdoor sports and don't know what specifications they want. They're also generally going car camping and only in the summer, so it's usually not a big deal at all. Putting
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by jmzbond 11y ago
And it takes more time to go to REI rather than just have gear show up to you ready to go. That and we're cheaper and open 24/7 but REI isn't, so you can be spontaneous! =) There's another thread on here with a longer an

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