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Ask HN: What are your startup IPO predictions for 2024 and beyond?
1 points by luckystartup 3y ago|1 comments
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by luckystartup 4y ago
It's fun to think about. I think it would be hard to make the most of the money and have a great lifestyle while keeping a low profile and not getting caught. It costs a lot less than $10M if you want to move to Thailand and live off-g
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by luckystartup 4y ago
SharesPost might be able to offer a similar loan [1]. Also have a look at Equidate and EquityZen. [1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180117005389/en/Sha...
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by luckystartup 7y ago
Yes, right now I'm feeling trapped by "option paralysis", and I'm actually looking for some help to untangle a very complicated situation [1]. I'm very fortunate to be a professional software developer with a growin
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by luckystartup 7y ago
Interesting, thanks very much! I will have a look at these blog posts.
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Ask HN: How can I find a consultant who can help with life and career decisions?
12 points by luckystartup 7y ago|3 comments
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by luckystartup 7y ago
I have a very similar story: Was on the first 10 employees at a now unicorn, forward exercised with a few thousand dollars, and my shares are also now worth around $1.5m. But unfortunately the company blocked all attempts at selling any sha
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by luckystartup 7y ago
Thanks, that was a great video! I actually think the 0.5% was very fair, or even generous. I didn't have much startup experience before that, and it was my first "real" job. They were also taking a big gamble with the relocat
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by luckystartup 7y ago
I was one of the first 5 employees at a YC unicorn. They haven't had an IPO yet, but it's getting closer. My original offer was for 0.5% of the company, but I didn't vest all of my shares before leaving. The shares are curren
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by luckystartup 7y ago
New Zealand would be great, but I heard that there are some separate rules for foreign shares. Or is that only for dividends? I need to learn more about that. I saw on this Quora answer [1] that I would need to pay tax on an assumed 5% divi
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by luckystartup 7y ago
I'm a non-US citizen who moved to San Francisco to work for a startup. I left that job (and the US) many years ago, but that startup is now a unicorn, and they're very close to an IPO. I believe that if I become a tax resident in
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by luckystartup 10y ago
> Kaggle, which has about half a million data scientists on its platform, ... Are there really that many data scientists? I thought it was a niche specialty. Is there enough work for that many people?
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by luckystartup 10y ago
What do you mean by this?
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Yes, definitely a good suggestion. I already use Lastpass, which makes regenerating all my passwords a little easier.
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Oh crap. I've entered my banking password into Transferwise quite a few times. Welp, time to change all my passwords.
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I wouldn't want to compete with this. It's a whole lot of schlep [1], and even if you match their features, you'd have to charge less than $19.99 per year. I don't think there's any more room for innovation or lower
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by luckystartup 10y ago
This is amazing. How does one person build so many successful startups while everyone else struggles to just do one? Maybe there was some momentum from his previous successes? If you're already a famous startup founder, then I guess it
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Is it true that most of these bugs wouldn't be possible in Rust? I think Rust might have solved: > heap-buffer-overflows, stack overflow, use of uninitialized data, SIGSEGV, undefined shift, invalid enum value, memory leaks I don&#x
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Does this open up any investment or business opportunities? I feel like the shipping and railroad industry is enormous and impenetrable, but there must be some smaller opportunities in here. Even if it's something sort of intangible, l
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by luckystartup 10y ago
This just makes me so glad that I don't have to spend my weekdays working with sharepoint, SOAP, excel, VBA, and internet explorer.
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Wow. That's an enormous number of people. There are 54 countries with smaller populations. Still, this is nothing to sneeze at. It looks like Amazon is now the 8th largest employer in the US [1]. Walmart is number 2, after the Federal
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Most server backends can easily scale horizontally, including Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Elixir. The only requirement is that you don't keep any "state" in your server code. A novice programmer can make this mistake in any l
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Sure, why not? They might work with the FBI to store data for specific targets, and the NSA probably intercepts and copies a lot of data onto their own servers, but I see no reason why the company itself would lie about this. They probably
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Yes, I think so. I'm not sure about Twitter, Groupon, or Uber.
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by luckystartup 10y ago
> I've never heard of anyone keeping backups of these on their local laptops. Hmm... That's an interesting idea! You could do that on a separate (empty) branch. Maybe call it `__project`, and you could just have folders of mark
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I've worked with a lot of tools. I've decided that I like things that are simple and don't cost much money to get started. For new projects I always start with Heroku, or Parse (on a free back4app plan now). I love Ansible. C
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by luckystartup 10y ago
It's not hard to scale a Rails server, when compared to other frameworks and languages. It's exactly the same as scaling a server written in Java, Node.js, Python, or any other language. You just spin up more machines and put them
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Maybe it's because I'm familiar with almost all of the gems, but I don't see anything wrong with their Gemfile. It's a pretty complex project, and they really do have a ton of integrations and features that need those ge
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I have at least 10 private repos on GitLab, and many public ones. Even so, this is no big deal to me. That's the beauty of git. Even if all of their backups fail, I can just do a push and everything is back up there. I just hope my lap
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Probably not the best response for a CEO to be making on an online forum. This is not the message you should be sending to potential clients and employees.

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