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by rstocker99 2y ago
That drive through customer… oh my. I have new found empathy for drive through operators.
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by rstocker99 2y ago
If only handloom operators hadn’t been replaced by steam looms we’d all be in a better place.
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by rstocker99 3y ago
Postgres RDS has version 0.5 of the pgvector extension installed by default. Adding vector support to our app was as easy as enabling the extension and created a table with vector columns. No additional database required and trivial to do m
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Calorie restriction in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging(nih.gov)
110 points by rstocker99 3y ago|59 comments
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by rstocker99 6y ago
Likewise! Hope you are well too.
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by rstocker99 6y ago
One of my friends does a productized (fixed price) roadmapping session (1) as part of a larger "build your MPV" service. My understanding is that it works out really well for him and his clients. They get to try him out with a fix
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CTO interview: planning vs. coding, tech debt vs. regret etc.(codetree.com)
6 points by rstocker99 9y ago|0 comments
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James Harden’s Secret Talent Is Slowing Down(wsj.com)
1 points by rstocker99 10y ago|0 comments
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by rstocker99 10y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to find a good way to ballpark their financials without them supplying them. It's common in the cold email to say something like, "Our sweet spot is companies with an EBIT of $X-
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by rstocker99 10y ago
There are lot of similar type formulas. For larger deals you'd have some form of vender (seller) financing which is what the above really is. It's a type of loan from the seller. For smaller deals that are reasonably competitive y
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by rstocker99 10y ago
For sure. As a seller I think services like FE make a lot of sense. They have relationships with a lot of potential buyers to put your business in front of. Unless you're well connected it's going to be a lot harder to drum up buy
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by rstocker99 10y ago
Are you asking about valuations? FE has a post on how valuations work. It's pretty simple. Basically a multiple of how much cash you can take out of the business. If that number is small and not growing then the multiple is small. If t
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by rstocker99 10y ago
From the seller's perspective you've got to have a buyer and buyers at this price point buy on a multiple of SDE vs. development cost. If dev cost is greater than what buyers will pay then as the seller... you're probably goi
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by rstocker99 10y ago
Having your financing together is going to give you a leg up in a competitive deal for sure. Of course not all deals are competitive so it might not matter. In some cases your bank will give you a letter saying they are willing to lend you
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by rstocker99 10y ago
See my comment above on the alternative approach. The short answer is to approach the problem the other way. Build a list of businesses you'd buy and start emailing.
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by rstocker99 10y ago
kareemm has already answered the questions about financing but I actually think your second question about "where to find these deals" is really the more interesting and important question. The obvious answer is places like FE whe
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by rstocker99 10y ago
See my comment up the thread. It seems like that might be changing at least in Canada. I've heard similar things about SBA loans in the US though so perhaps similar changes are afoot in the US as well.
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by rstocker99 10y ago
(I'm one of the purchasers of Codetree) I had also thought that banks wouldn't be interested in lending in cases like this but surprisingly enough when we talked with our bank after we made the purchase they mentioned they'd
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The Munger Operating System(farnamstreetblog.com)
1 points by rstocker99 10y ago|0 comments
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Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming(aboveavalon.com)
280 points by rstocker99 10y ago|263 comments
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Silicon Valley May Want MBAs More Than Wall Street Does(bloomberg.com)
2 points by rstocker99 10y ago|0 comments
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Here’s How Uber Beat the Las Vegas Taxi Industry(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by rstocker99 11y ago|0 comments
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by rstocker99 14y ago
Actually this is why I'll likely use GDrive and it's one of the few things that leads to frustation for me with Dropbox. I use Dropbox for two reasons: backup and sharing. Almost everything I have in Dropbox is documents. I mostly use Googl
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Best SaaS pricing model - per user vs price bands(groups.google.com)
2 points by rstocker99 15y ago|0 comments
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by rstocker99 15y ago
That is an example of a great headline. It's amazing how effective good copy writing is.
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by rstocker99 15y ago
First off this is a great idea. I'd pay (see caveats below). 100% agree on YABP. It never even occurred to me that this would lead me into your "non-standard" blogging platform. I can't imagine most people wanting to do that. I know I would
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by rstocker99 15y ago
Well that would explain it wouldn't it. Branding is already better.
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by rstocker99 15y ago
Picplum reminded me of picwing which I believe is another YC company. I had a chuckle when I noticed that they both have the exact same testimonial from Jessica Livingston, modulo the company name. I'm not quite sure how both can be true:
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by rstocker99 15y ago
You know what would get me excited? A post that advertised, "Domain expert with deep understanding of high value business problem and strong selling skills looking for technical cofounder". Ring me up when that guy posts.
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by rstocker99 15y ago
This is something that I've wanted for awhile. Even better would be recording session data your collecting and then giving a means to play it back so you can actually "see" the what the user does. Maybe using Selenium or something for the p

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