seancoughlin

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by seancoughlin 14y ago
this is great feedback. right now, as churches join, we're collecting a version of every data point you mention. soon, search will begin evolving into more of a personality based matching service.
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by seancoughlin 14y ago
Sean from @FaithStreet here. We're focused on Christianity because its a big market (1m+ Christian communities, 60 million people actively involved in Christian communities) that we're passionately involved in, and we think it would be much
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Open Letter to People Who Judge My Post-College Lifestyle (McSweeney's)(mcsweeneys.net)
1 points by seancoughlin 14y ago|0 comments
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by seancoughlin 14y ago
Grocery spending versus restaurant/ deli spending stands out to me: 8.6% on Groceries vs. 5.7% on some version of eating out. In a better scenario, groceries, being cheaper and generally healthier than food "eaten out" would make up a bigge
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by seancoughlin 14y ago
been in the situation of working for terrible managers in a big company, was 24, working at a top 3 nyc law firm - quit after less than a yr - started working on the startup i'm applying to yc with for summer 2012, trying to innovate in a w
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by seancoughlin 14y ago
We submitted! Stoked.
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by seancoughlin 14y ago
I'm impressed by 42Floors and Your Mechanic. I like that each company identified an area full of inefficient orthodoxy and innovated - like AirBnb. 42 Floors also seems to have an especially strong team (Flightcaster) and has a slick design
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Give Away the Diagnostic: Sell the Remedy (C. Dixon on Freemium)(cdixon.org)
4 points by seancoughlin 14y ago|0 comments
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An NYC Girls Perspective on Online Dating Options(bouquetsandbjs.com)
2 points by seancoughlin 14y ago|0 comments
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
Yeah, the unequal bargaining power between the company and the candidate is a real problem. Even if the company makes providing the access information optional, there's still a kind of invasive coercion happening. That said, companies have
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School for Quants - Inside UCL’s Financial Computing Centre(ft.com)
2 points by seancoughlin 15y ago|0 comments
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
I hear that. However, the thrust of the article and the focus of my comment is about new grads, people in going through the recruitment -> internship -> job offer cycle
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
Second that. I lived for a year in Manhattan (East Village) while working on my start-up - I had roommates, but I made well under 75k and was just fine. Was still able to do all the things a 25 yr old guy wanted to do. The idea that it take
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
Most important part of the system the article describes: "We use the summer to decide if we want them full-time. So we give them real work. Hard work." Too many summer internships (see big law, big finance, etc) fail to give employers the i
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
One important difference that the author doesn't mention is that after a start-up launch you're still going to be testing hypothesis, making improvements/ changes/ pivots such that your product 6 months after launch might not look anything
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
i dig how you changed the cancellation process, because it encourages ppl to do what your app is intended to do - get groups of 3 together in real life. your old policy was giving incentives for your core mission NOT to happen. i wonder how
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
This is a neat article about how context shapes perception of self.
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The Jerusalem Syndrome: Why Some Religious Tourists Believe They Are the Messiah(wired.com)
4 points by seancoughlin 15y ago|2 comments
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
This seems right. Users are much less valuable for companies on Facebook b/c of user intent. What Facebook needs to figure out is how to channel higher value users to ads. One fix might be to create a separate search tool that focuses on "s
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by seancoughlin 15y ago
yeah, OpenTable is solid. I have experience in the restaurant industry as well. It does a very good job of mimicking the most efficient offline systems. Good software designers have to understand the real world experience of a problem to ad