kapitti

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by kapitti 15y ago
Came to post the exact same thing. With 20-30% going to insurance/benefits, taxes, misc costs - that's an amazingly low number....even more so considering they're in SF.
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by kapitti 16y ago
The number of shooting stars amazes me.
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by kapitti 16y ago
> You can't have a PR team and a customer service department that makes sure everybody gets a nice reply. Do you really need a PR/CS team to ensure people get a nice reply? Shouldn't that just be something that a /very nice guy/ would
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by kapitti 16y ago
Building something doesn't teach you much about quality if you don't have someone to review/assist every now and then.
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by kapitti 16y ago
Isn't a dozen a small percentage of total YC companies?
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by kapitti 16y ago
Interesting that TS would fund 2 companies basically doing the same thing: https://www.usingmiles.com/ & https://gomiles.com/
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by kapitti 16y ago
There's quite a few airports around the world where you'll run into this sort of scam. In Guadalajara, I've had to pay a "fee" to board a flight that I already had a seat on. In Bangalore I had to pay another fee so that my luggage would
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by kapitti 16y ago
I didn't get that feeling from the article at all. My brother actually has multiple myeloma as well; he's checked every 3 months to see if the blood levels have spiked and a skeletal survey is done every 6 months. It's almost a certainty
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by kapitti 16y ago
I always thought there was a decent community in Dallas, or maybe Alex Muse just convinced me of that.
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by kapitti 16y ago
I'm not sure someone that was going to perform short term contracting during YC would get accepted.
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by kapitti 16y ago
I've seen lots of BI tools used for creating dashboards in Fortune 500s given that most of the data is secure in random databases, mainframes, etc - the most popular of late is QlikView.
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by kapitti 16y ago
https://squadedit.com/
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by kapitti 16y ago
http://pick.im/
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by kapitti 16y ago
That's a pretty steep management fee.
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by kapitti 16y ago
I always assumed it was Matt Maroon punking us.
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by kapitti 16y ago
Images of my old home office, it's relocated and had some additional hardware since: http://i.imgur.com/o78Ix.jpg But it still features the belt: http://i.imgur.com/rK2Bb.jpg
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by kapitti 16y ago
In
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by kapitti 16y ago
I've had a 15-30 second delay after clicking onto the comments thread for a few days now.
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by kapitti 16y ago
http://www.bradcolbow.com/archive.php/?p=225
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by kapitti 16y ago
https://squadedit.com/
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by kapitti 17y ago
CheddarGetter.com
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by kapitti 17y ago
Wasn't balsamiq (Peldi) a single founder? I've founded a few startups as a single founder, but they'd most likely be classified as Micro-ISV's instead of startups. But I'm okay with that.
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by kapitti 17y ago
Chargify, CheddarGetter, Spreedly, Zuora, Aria Systems and now Recurly. Seems the space will get crowded quickly.
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by kapitti 17y ago
Any chance that those remote hobby farms actually have high speed internet available in those rural areas?
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by kapitti 17y ago
Health care and the complications of the US tax code.
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by kapitti 17y ago
Hopefully they'll just have video recordings posted online with the slides like previous years.
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by kapitti 17y ago
The realtor themselves don't make that much as it's a pyramid scheme. A realtor splits the commission 50/50 with the broker, and then pays fees (advertising, listing, business expenses, etc) out of their 50%. Take out taxes as well, and r
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by kapitti 17y ago
The Lame Ducks will be defending our title this year, after winning last year with MeetInBetween.Us. Bring it.
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by kapitti 17y ago
Team 'The Lame Ducks', previously known as Great Lakes Geeks, will be competing again this year, defending our 2008 win ( http://meetinbetween.us ). Who else from the HN community will be competing this year?
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RailsRumble 2009 Registration is now open(r09.railsrumble.com)
6 points by kapitti 17y ago|2 comments

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