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by shafqat 9d ago
Good post. Brought me back to HN after a long time. I’m 2007!!!
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by shafqat 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER: Must be in NYC. Looking for someone to build a simple Python/Django app for a huge customer of ours. You'll have to come by the NewsCred NYC office (or you can work here). Contact Asif : asif at newscred.com
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by shafqat 14y ago
NewsCred ( http://www.newscred.com )
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by shafqat 14y ago
The following line is not correct: "it has to be a UK co owning a branch in the States, not a US co with a UK office" It can be either way around. But your general point is true: the L1 visa is great. I moved over on an L1A visa (the US com
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by shafqat 14y ago
100% agree. It took us 2.5 years to get to product market fit. We raised a seed round and kept burn incredibly low for a long time while we figured things out. There were a couple of product adjustments along to way based on customer demand
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by shafqat 14y ago
NewsCred - New York City, H1B okay Lots of positions, but our main focus is to find engineers who are passionate about information retrieval and big data. So any interest or experience in Solr, Lucene, NLP, Machine Learning, etc would be a
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by shafqat 15y ago
I find it ridiculous that a significant percentage of the population here equate raising VC money with selling your soul. I know you cite the SvN post, but that is one opinion. Raising VC is good for some businesses, bad for others. So is y
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by shafqat 15y ago
There is a decent market. While its not our core business, we host content APIS for some large publishers. Because we're ingesting their content anyway (content syndication is our main business) and we already have a robust API, we've produ
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by shafqat 15y ago
If anyone wants licensed Bloomberg financial news content, we have that in our News API and can give to you guys at HN rates. Can be used for commercial use. We worked hard to get this agreement done with Bloomberg since we know a lot of fi
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by shafqat 15y ago
We did an L1 and it was straightforward. You need to be trading for one year in the uk.
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by shafqat 15y ago
Contact me and I'll set you up. We (NewsCred) have fully licensed news and archives from 750+ news sources. All available through an API. You can use it for commercial use but there is a fee. I can give you a HN discount ;-)
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by shafqat 15y ago
FYI - your email address in not (visible) in your profile.
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by shafqat 15y ago
Honestly I don't know. I would guess it's slightly under the average at most companies. Cetainly less than 20 days as an average. But we've had people take a month and work in Thailand which is not counted as vacation. So this is not some s
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by shafqat 15y ago
We have always had unlimited vacations at NewsCred and have never had anyone abuse it. We are approx 20 people now. People love it.
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by shafqat 15y ago
What is the underlying tech? Can you talk about your listening and topic modeling algos?
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by shafqat 15y ago
Hootie and the Blowfish website on Geocities in 1997. Made decent money through advertising. Tickets.com was my number one advertiser. Those were the days....
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by shafqat 15y ago
I tried a bunch of my competitors but for each one, it said "No Active Ads Found." Although I know they have ads running on Google. For example, try Yellowbrix.com. If this actually works for the competitors I want to track, this is an aw
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by shafqat 15y ago
You can use the NewsCred API (developer.newscred.com) if you want. We'll make it free forever if you email me.
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by shafqat 15y ago
Very helpful benchmarks. Anyone know why there should be a premium per employee for a platform as a service company? Why is PaaS any different from any other startup with regards to a per employee burn rate?
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by shafqat 15y ago
NewsCred - New York City We're hiring information retrieval engineers and sales people. More here: http://platform.newscred.com/jobs . We've created a single API for all the news in the world. We are backed by three top-tier VCs, have a pr
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by shafqat 15y ago
Interesting story for those of you on HN who have seen my startup (NewsCred) go through a bunch of pivots. We are now licensing and powering a lot of the premium content on the app!
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by shafqat 15y ago
We provide API access to more than 20 million articles (headlines, excerpts). People have done all sorts of interesting things with it - http://platform.newscred.com .
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by shafqat 15y ago
NewsCred is hiring in New York City. Lots of positions, but our main focus is to find engineers who are passionate about information retrieval and big data. So any interest or experience in Solr, Lucene, NLP, Machine Learning, etc would be
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by shafqat 15y ago
NewsCred is looking for engineers in NYC. We're looking for engineers interested in Information Retrieval, Solr, Lucene, Machine Learning, NLP etc. We're also hosting the NYC Hadoop meetup tonight (Thursday) at our offices at General Assemb
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by shafqat 15y ago
NewsCred - New York We're looking for an information retrieval engineer. If you're interested in solr, lucene, machine learning, NLP or solving big data problems, get in touch! We're in the General Assembly space, have a great team and a pr
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by shafqat 16y ago
Is that 100K/month gross? If so, what cut actually hits their bottom line? Is it a small fraction?
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by shafqat 16y ago
20-30% fully diluted is typical if you are taking money from a VC in a seed or A round. There are always exceptions (i.e. you are a "hot" company). In fact, a lot of VCs care less about valuations and are more focused on their percentage ow
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by shafqat 16y ago
We're a B2B company. We charge other web publishers a monthly fee to access our content API. Depending on what kind of content they need and how big they are, the pricing starts at 1K/month to 5 digits/month...
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by shafqat 16y ago
Yes - what kind of tech are you interested in? Email me (email in profile)!
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by shafqat 16y ago
NewsCred is hiring - we're looking for information retrieval engineers. So any experience (or even interest) in search, IR, solr, lucene, machine learning etc would be great. If not, willingness to learn. We'd love on site, but would consid

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