peterjancelis

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by peterjancelis 3y ago
The official recommendations to sailors is: Shut off the engine, take down the sails, make no sound, wait. What sailors will admit they do but not tell anyone: Dump a bit of diesel or petrol in the water around the boat to scare away the or
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by peterjancelis 3y ago
Assuming your company is established enough, consider working towards a COO ("integrator") to partner with you in running the business. More here: https://www.eosworldwide.com/blog/visionaries-and-integrator..
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by peterjancelis 3y ago
My experience: Psychological orphans with a basic income. "Psychological orphans" i.e. kids who had shitty parents and learned to adapt to survive. Then this behavior became a habit and a game. "Basic income" i.e. kids f
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by peterjancelis 10y ago
Heroku is down as well.
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by peterjancelis 10y ago
It's a required condition for me. She knows and has known for a long time.
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by peterjancelis 10y ago
Hope so! My fiancee is definitely super mature, only 24 years old but had to support her family (while studying) after her father died at 17 years old. She's completely onboard with us deciding what is fair in what scenario rather than
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by peterjancelis 10y ago
Timely post as just today I got engaged to my girlfriend. We will definitely go for a prenup, I want to avoid a 15 year long divorce battle like my parents had at all possible costs. I have created a subreddit for people interested in discu
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Shopify Capital(shopify.com)
137 points by peterjancelis 10y ago|42 comments
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by peterjancelis 10y ago
Having mass market B2C customers do this is a customer support nightmare.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Amazing service. Hope to see Atlas expand to Nevada LLCs or (one can dream) Hong Kong Ltd's soon.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
An investor buying $200K preferred equity at 5 million pre is not implying that investor would buy the entire company for 5 million cash. The preferred equity makes high valuations possible as the first $200K goes back to the investor.
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Ask HN: I want to make all emails public internally, is there an app for this?
1 points by peterjancelis 11y ago|1 comments
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Ha I was thinking of your app when I read this.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
I like the categorization but I think the more common names for those classes are self-employed, employee and business owner.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Do your own thing on the side. Much better than a few stock options. But make sure to have your project excluded in your IP and non-compete contracts with your employer.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
The value proposition is that girls can show off a new dress for each (facebook picture of) event they attend. So they're not renting dresses, they're renting the dream/perception of a huge designer dress collection.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
We all have to breath way more than we need TV, yet oxygen isn't a 60 billion market. It's just a nonsensical statement.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
As a former business student, I don't remember us having standards.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
I also hate the overuse of the word 'like' but didn't notice it here until you mentioned it. It was fine.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
I love how everybody in Silicon Valley claims ideas don't matter, only execution does, then hate on the company that is taking that maxim to its ultimate conclusion.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
DataCamp also did TechStars NYC. There are also successful companies that were bootstrapped, e.g. TheInternGroup.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
I don't see airbnb or IMDB being down. If there's some advice on what small time apps (like mine) can do to get thing up again sooner, please let me know.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
What I don't get is why being a war refugee entitles you to claim asylum in any country, even if you passed several peaceful countries in the process. It would make much more sense to have refugees claim asylum in neighboring countries
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Likely before their own income tax but excluding the company payroll taxes, which are often much higher in EU than in US.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Typically you are investing into getting new customers, so unless you can get CAC < first month payment[1], you will have a limited marketing budget hence a static number of new users. [1] One way of achieving infinite marketing budget i
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
There are some smart contracts / blockchain tpye startups in Zug. Monetas for example. You could reach out to them.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Rob and Mike have http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Twist in from Jason Calacanis.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
I keep reading Gangster.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
There was a French accountant in his late 20s who came here with 50K EUR of life savings and opened a French restaurant with a local partner. Worked 7 days a week for 6 months, restaurant was losing money, one day he gets kicked out by his
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Totally agree. Never felt so free to go about my life and business as in Saigon. Watch out with physical businesses however, foreigners can get scammed out of their stake.

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