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by tomasien 6y ago
I think this is a great point. A routing layer on top of a deeply feature rich set of underlying providers is probably not a good idea. I think that's why API Gateways are kind of "meh" I think routing layers need to be super
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by tomasien 6y ago
The key - for us - is to be not just a routing layer, but a huge value add in addition to being a routing layer. We provide workflow management, decisioning, analytics, etc and those are things that all clients need. Underlying providers of
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by tomasien 7y ago
There are many hyper-local issues like this where the real solution involves: - actually wanting the problem to get solved - finding out, at a very micro-level, how to solve it - deploying those seemingly unscalable resources towards solvin
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by tomasien 7y ago
The only stat they cite is that some employers are raising prices. There are no other stats cited - only anecdotes. In the ideal pro-minimum-wage world, prices go up slightly but the impact on those who get the minimum wage bump is bigger t
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by tomasien 7y ago
Yeah there's tons of data on this, it's essentially not controversial if you care about data/what's real. Cars destroy business in every city in the world where they're dominant.
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by tomasien 7y ago
That rules. There are lots - LOTS! - of local regulations that hurt small businesses. But they're not all headline grabbers and they're certainly not all ideological battlegrounds like the minimum wage. We actually have a lot of d
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by tomasien 7y ago
There is an audience for "minimum wage kills jobs" articles and you can't write an article without a source. It's sad but true that the majority of the service industry is in perpetual failure mode, therefore, you can al
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by tomasien 7y ago
I just can't stress this enough: if you're reading an economics article that relies on anecdotes from owners in the service industry, DO NOT READ IT! You can find a service industry business owner to shit on literally anything loc
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by tomasien 7y ago
thank you
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by tomasien 7y ago
Thank you - that was incredibly hard to parse.
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by tomasien 7y ago
It's not intuitively clear to me what the point of this article is. Is it challenging the premise that building more housing stops the growth (or reverses the growth) of housing in urban areas? It seems to be but then most of what is t
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by tomasien 7y ago
I would guess it has more to do with many of the "best" angels who would round up syndicates just raising their own funds, first from the syndicates they would round up and then others. I have several investors that fit this mold
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by tomasien 7y ago
As a founder on the ground even in late 2015 (NYC), it was very hard to get a single angel check when we were trying to raise $500k. Ended up raising $2m from funds instead - which was the right thing but also very weird. Fellow founders wi
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by tomasien 8y ago
The electric vehicles item here is disingenuous without including how massively subsidized their oil-based competitors are. I understand why urban transit people target electric cars to counter the "electric cars will save the world!&q
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by tomasien 8y ago
correct
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by tomasien 8y ago
I said the multiple is based on the margin of the revenue, aka, how profitable the revenue is. Revenue is the proper starting point as it is the thing that can or can not be optimized and grown. Profitability of the revenue (now vs. future)
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by tomasien 8y ago
It depends on the margin of the revenue and the growth rate primarily
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by tomasien 8y ago
revenue * multiple let's say $10m in ARR * a 23x multiple The way you get to the multiple is a combination of how fast the revenue is growing, how long you think that will keep up, and the margin of the revenue. Craftsman Tools, for ex
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by tomasien 8y ago
Great - and as I understand it the original ban was for efficiency reasons that don't apply here
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by tomasien 8y ago
Why are these illegal?
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by tomasien 8y ago
This is actually accelerating and there's no real reason it should stop. I think it's going to happen slowly and then all at once.
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by tomasien 8y ago
Finally, a "leaving NYC for the South" post I can relate to! Every leaving NYC post I've read is so whiny and negative. I look forward to leaving NYC someday and going back to the South but I'm not going to pretend like
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by tomasien 8y ago
it has decades to grow before that becomes an issue
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by tomasien 8y ago
Demanding a bright line definition and rejecting any argument where one isn't provided is useless and unhelpful.
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by tomasien 8y ago
First of all, the idea that companies exist only to create profits does not mean that companies need to seek profits above all else. PEOPLE run and form companies and get to make decisions about how they run and form companies based on thei
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by tomasien 8y ago
Exactly! It's not about "tainted" vs. "untainted", it's about setting some limits and trying to be a part of the solution. Doing so puts in progress something that WILL start to shift things. You don't hav
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by tomasien 8y ago
Good points but "where do you draw the line? It's not clear" is fair observation but not a conclusion. You DO have to draw the line and just because where to draw it isn't clear doesn't absolve you (or anyone!) from
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by tomasien 8y ago
The commentator is specifically asking where you draw the line and is making that the point that this case seems very different but has some of the same characteristics of the ostensibly more clear-cut cases. OP is specifically saying this
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by tomasien 8y ago
Creating a successful business is DEFINITELY not the only viable career path for you or anyone. I'm not sure where you're getting that idea but, luckily for you, it's super super wrong.
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by tomasien 8y ago
That's a smart move by Mailgun, I'm sure Sendgrid will get there. That's the kind of thing people don't think about with enterprise customers. - Compliance - Support - Security (not keeping things secure - offering custo

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