kevinbracken

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Canada's tech talent industry tracks renewed interest in “tech talent visa”(betakit.com)
1 points by kevinbracken 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Interview Senior Tech Talent Remotely(betakit.com)
2 points by kevinbracken 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Hire Senior Technical Talent from Across an Ocean(medium.com)
1 points by kevinbracken 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Rapidly Scale Your Marketplace App with Bribery and More(kevinbracken.com)
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Announcing Torque: BCG Digital Ventures’ Entrepreneur Residency and Studio(medium.com)
4 points by kevinbracken 11y ago|1 comments
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by kevinbracken 11y ago
Background: this is a deck I made to explain to our investors why we killed Speakeasy, our event venue marketplace product. Now that our most recent product was acquired (Gymsurfing -> ClassPass) I am cleaning out our old assets and foun
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Why “Airbnb for event venues” websites all die/ venue marketplaces' fatal flaws(dropbox.com)
4 points by kevinbracken 11y ago|3 comments
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
brilliant. a little grey hat, but very cool nonetheless.
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Gymsurfing Acqui-Hires GymXchange To Build On Android(techcrunch.com)
1 points by kevinbracken 12y ago|0 comments
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
Best reply.
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
Yup, we screwed up big! :)
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
This was our previous company, two years ago. It was an event product. We each had equal equity and equal pay. He was a fine designer and developer and was able to rapidly prototype for us just fine before. Our vision for the product was ve
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
The ousted cofounder actually had no lawyer, he hates them. As for our friend lawyer, he's a great attorney, but just for big corporate law.
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
It's a good question - we had wondered, will there be a situation in which a cofounder and investor could collude to get more equity for themselves? That sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories more than young startups with very l
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
He became very skilled at making excuses, and saying he needed to "step back and strategize more." And it always kind of looked like he was working, but in reality he was producing 0 lines of code. That's when I brought on my
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
Completely agree. They seemed clueless about the fact that they could issue a restricted stock agreement and still allow us control of the company without having vested. It was awful.
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We picked the wrong lawyers for our first startup(blog.gymsurfing.com)
96 points by kevinbracken 12y ago|84 comments
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
I feel you. I book my Airbnb, rental car (and now gym) after I land, not before. Decision windows are shrinking for all travel verticals
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
totally! this problem occurred to us when we were traveling all over the country and found working out on the road annoying and difficult
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How we came up with our fitness app: living out of suitcases(blog.gymsurfing.com)
13 points by kevinbracken 12y ago|4 comments
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by kevinbracken 12y ago
damn I would use this all the time
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
Thanks, what's up fellow Kevin! That is a really awesome idea actually - will stew over it
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
Indeed. Our market back then was quasi-legal loft parties and house parties, so this was idea was definitely to fit the mood of the "modern speakeasy." Thanks!
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
I would like to reiterate that these were all house and loft parties - our events product was all about underground events.
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
Easiest way to get the sticky labels off!
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
It is worth mentioning, the recipients were all house parties and loft parties, which was our specialty for our previous product - find and discover secret events.
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
Our company is a little different these days. We had a team change and pivoted to a more professional customer segment (and from events to venues.) I thought this would be an entertaining story to share with HN from a scrappier time, though
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
Speaking of which, we are seeking a new lawyer for our startup, preferably based in New York. Please get in touch!
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
We were definitely pretty inspired by the Airbnb Obama-O's story
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by kevinbracken 13y ago
Thanks! If we were transferring milk I might be a little more concerned, but we sterilized everything in the dishwasher beforehand, and were using vodka to keep it extra-sterile ;)

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