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Authenticity, Decisiveness, Compartmentalization – Three Underrated Skills(medium.com)
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by saumil07 12y ago
Holy Cow this is a very good idea.
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by saumil07 12y ago
"Investors who own SF property?" I would be hard-pressed to name a venture investor that also finds themselves in the real estate business to such an extent that they want their investments to relocate? Investors do not own SF pro
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by saumil07 12y ago
Congrats to Marco and team - they busted their ass in a tough market, stuck with it for years when no one gave a rat's ass about them and are now flying high. Congrats!
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by saumil07 13y ago
Sam Altman is a great writer. He was also Founder/CEO of Loopt. I have to wonder why this post doesn't relate the traits back to his work at Loopt so the lessons learned can be more contextualized. For example, are there areas whe
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by saumil07 13y ago
Founders of early stage startups (as in, not AirBnB or Square or other companies clearly in torrid scaling mode) heading to Vegas frequently on chartered planes? Yeah that doesn't scream RED FLAG at all. I am honestly shocked at how po
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by saumil07 13y ago
Sorry I got the formatting screwed up (if that's indeed what you are referring to). Will try to fix. I wasn't trying to get you to work with me but thanks anyways!
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by saumil07 13y ago
Thank you for the gratuitous profanity :) 1. You're dead wrong if you think employers are always getting more out of the employee. It's a mutually beneficial relationship and a free, highly competitive market in SF. If poorly trea
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by saumil07 13y ago
I was talking about 25 onsite conversations leading to 10 offers and maybe 3-5 acceptances. In order to have 25 onsite conversations companies likely have to talk to 125-150+ total individuals via phone/email/networking events. Th
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by saumil07 13y ago
Sigh - yet another hiring process complaint post. As an employer hopefully I can shed some light here. a) If you are trying to hire 5 engineers, say, you need to talk to ~25 candidates at least. It's a competitive market. b) If you ai
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by saumil07 13y ago
yup - until he got to the robot, i thought this was real. sigh.
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by saumil07 13y ago
That's not quite right. It's unclear how much total the VCs put in, at least from the article. But it sounds like they continued to fund the company while the founders' involvement ceased over 10 years ago. "For the ne
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by saumil07 13y ago
For what it's worth - the backlash is still kind of the case in the South (not speaking statistically, just from personal experience). I grew up around Mumbai and traveled to the southern part of the country 5 years ago where Hindi is
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by saumil07 13y ago
I grew up in and around Mumbai...the ad is (unsurprisingly) quite disconnected from the facts on the ground but holy cow. Great production values, great storytelling, relevant tie-ins to Google products. Just great.
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by saumil07 13y ago
This is a real bummer - our company's first office was right next to Greplin and they were amazingly smart and quite nice. Good luck to the team.
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by saumil07 13y ago
It's interesting to note that across 165 comments, only 2-3 have even touched upon Quality Score let alone attempted to discuss it in detail. Based upon personal experience (worked at a company that spent 8 digits on Google Ads on an a
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by saumil07 13y ago
I have yet to see it work successfully in a startup context - I am sure it can be done and there is certainly empirical evidence out there - but I have yet to see it work. The feedback loop is frequently difficult to get right. Communicatio
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by saumil07 13y ago
I did AngelPad with them in Winter 2011 and we worked out of the same office building for a year. Awesome guys, great passion, sharp technologists and all around good people. Couldn't have happened to better people.
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by saumil07 13y ago
I'll disagree with the top commenter - I enjoyed the four hour workweek dig. Regardless, as a fellow founder with a startup of a roughly similar age and an office literally across the street from Referly this post makes me profoundly sad an
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by saumil07 13y ago
Um. No. That works for GitHub, Facebook and Pinterest (and God knows I'd kill to be in their shoes) but for the rest of us this advice doesn't quite work out. Any investor will also want to understand the overall market, trends, pain points
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by saumil07 14y ago
So, so so damn good.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Hey Emmanuel - Saumil Mehta here from LocBox, we spoke a few months ago on the phone. I would urge you to simply hire an excellent immigration lawyer to figure out your options w.r.t. the F-1 before you move forward. I have a San Francisco-
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by saumil07 14y ago
They're not desperate. They're hustlers. And probably smart enough to hire a great Django hacker with zero Rails experience.
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by saumil07 14y ago
I'm jaded with almost everything - and I still respect the hell out of MailChimp every time I see something new from them. Great company.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Great title, terrible post. What a giant muddle of critiquing everything from one company to a whole industry to a variety of tangential companies in the space...without data. No one except for dollar shave club and their investors knows ho
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by saumil07 14y ago
LocBox, San Francisco. Frontend Engineer, Rails Developer, Data Scientist, Inside Sales Representative. Relocations Welcome, H1B Transfers Welcome. More at http://www.getlocbox.com/careers and http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/10/31/locbox-
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by saumil07 14y ago
Congrats to the Crittercism team. Well done.
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by saumil07 14y ago
LocBox, San Francisco. Frontend Engineer, Rails Developer, Data Scientist, Inside Sales Representative. Relocations Welcome, H1B Transfers Welcome. More at http://www.getlocbox.com/careers and http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/10/31/locbox-
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by saumil07 14y ago
Fun to see former co-workers and managers quoted in detail. This is one of those acquisitions that everyone thought was crazy/weird/fluky on Day One but has made more and more sense as time as gone by.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Yup, surprised that he didn't directly mention crowded space. The argument around ossified consumer tastes and large players sucking oxygen out of the room is fair but ignores the multitude of consumer startups working in the exact same pro

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