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by steiza 12y ago
I meant does it still count as bootstrapping if you raise after hitting $1m / year in revenue. Without VC there would be no Google, no Microsoft, no Amazon, ... I don't think many people seriously advocate for a world with no VCs.
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by steiza 12y ago
We (at Olark) are wondering the same thing. We just recently talked to Poll Everywhere (S'08) - they are also bootstrapped and well over $1m / year in revenue. Wufoo was as well (they were acquired in 2011). If you're a boots
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by steiza 13y ago
If you're feeling adventurous, carry a tape measure and check out the size and shape of furniture around you. If you really start getting in to designing furniture "The Measure of Man and Woman" ( http://www.amazon.
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by steiza 14y ago
I only recently realized how easy it was to run your own PyPI - it just has to handle a few HTTP GET / POSTs. If you want to run your own PyPI internally, here's a very simple PyPI server (~150 lines of Python) that I wrote: https://github
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by steiza 14y ago
Olark - Palo Alto, CA; Ann Arbor, MI; remote ok - Full Time ### Who is Olark? Simply, we're the people that put live chat on thousands of websites across the Internet. More than that, we're helping businesses scale their personal touch to t
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by steiza 14y ago
I can assure you Detroit has "normal" services like city water, garbage collection, electricity, and the majority of roads are maintained (even if 100% of them don't get plowed during the winter). I still don't see how anyone can say that i
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by steiza 14y ago
Detroit is not, as some comments are suggesting, in a state of anarchy. Yes, there is crime, similar to other major American cities with crime problems (like St. Louis or Atlanta). Yes, because of depopulation it is hard to get groceries, d
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by steiza 14y ago
Only now as an adult, having grown up in southwest Michigan, do I appreciate how unusual the region is. The amount of culture and philanthropy in area is very high considering the population. In Kalamazoo there's the Kalamazoo Area Math and
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Humble Music Bundle Launched(humblebundle.com)
2 points by steiza 14y ago|0 comments
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by steiza 14y ago
Zach from Olark here, sorry to hear you were having issues some time ago! Honestly, I'm not sure what could have been causing issues for you back then, but rest assured we take message delivery extremely seriously - whenever you're using
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Basic Workflow of Excellent Customer Service(olark.com)
7 points by steiza 15y ago|0 comments
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by steiza 15y ago
For the hackers on this thread in South East Michigan, there's a Ann Arbor CoffeeHouseCoders meetup tomorrow: http://www.meetup.com/coffeehousecoders/ It's a great way to meet the other area hackers and hear what other people are working
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Whom am I speaking with?(olark.com)
43 points by steiza 16y ago|48 comments
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by steiza 16y ago
This was a lunch keynote at codemash.org on January 14th, 2011, although it may not have been the first time it was given. For any HN'ers in the midwest, CodeMash is an awesome polygot conference that takes place January every year in Sandu
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by steiza 16y ago
Not only that, but the selection committee asked for clarification and gave extremely detailed feedback on the talk proposals; I think my proposal went through two major edits/reworks. Hopefully this will mean better talks all around. Other
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Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out(humblebundle.com)
341 points by steiza 16y ago|92 comments
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Olark (YC S09) launches Shopping Cart Saver(techcrunch.com)
37 points by steiza 16y ago|6 comments
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Open Source Altruism(blog.google.org)
7 points by steiza 16y ago|5 comments
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Python 2.7 Release Notes(docs.python.org)
1 points by steiza 16y ago|0 comments
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Servers Deleted(blog.olark.com)
52 points by steiza 16y ago|27 comments
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Skip the extra tools - my customers already hang out in my inbox and buddy list(blog.olark.com)
34 points by steiza 16y ago|9 comments
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Growing Your Business: Time-Effective Customer Interaction(blog.olark.com)
13 points by steiza 16y ago|6 comments
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by steiza 17y ago
I think most people agree that universities should try to teach people how to learn, and not just the latest technologies and good engineering practices. But I've sat through too many university lectures on programming language syntax or in