wiwillia

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by wiwillia 9mo ago
Really interested in how accuracy improves with the scale of the data set. Non-invasive thought-to-action would be a whole new interaction paradigm.
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by wiwillia 7y ago
Founding and being the CEO of Shopify, a $48bn company and one of the best-performing stocks of the last few years, isn't "the top"? Different people have different styles that work for them. Some people love to work 60+ hour
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by wiwillia 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree that quality isn't a major driver of success. Two counterpoints: - Shopify came in and dominated Magento and others via a much better quality product (later they built network effects with app store, but origi
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by wiwillia 8y ago
Welp let me be your first counterexample. I work downtown and I LOVE the dockless scooters. I usually walk or take Muni, but I've found myself using these pretty frequently to go all or part of the way. I've also found them super
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by wiwillia 10y ago
Unfortunately this wouldn't really work. If you're selling insurance, you're going to have a strong incentive to play it safe. If you run a business, you're going to be furious if legitimate customers are rejected (which
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Lattice (YC W16) launches to help startups be productive through goal setting(techcrunch.com)
27 points by wiwillia 10y ago|9 comments
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by wiwillia 11y ago
Yep you're totally right, sorry.
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by wiwillia 11y ago
My fault. I totally misunderstood. Sorry.
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by wiwillia 11y ago
That's a pretty uninformed opinion. YC is a collection of smart people trying to build things... That "fancy apartment" is the cheapest place you can find in Mountain View with 4 people stuffed in, half sleeping on the floor.
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by wiwillia 11y ago
I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure I agree with the argument that this approach is not in their interest (I also use an ad blocker by the way, not preaching just being practical). I would bet that ~50%+ of people are choo
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by wiwillia 11y ago
Really interesting, thank you for sharing. Discovered resdet which is something I've been searching for a long time!
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Teespring (YC W13) is looking for Engineers to Help Scale Growth
1 points by wiwillia 12y ago
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by wiwillia 12y ago
Have you considered trying another way to monetize? Selling merchandise, especially if you have an engaged audience, tends to have a higher effective CPM ($20-100+ in our experience) and can be run simultaneously with ads. Teespring (discla
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by wiwillia 12y ago
Purely a donation
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by wiwillia 12y ago
Just wanted to say that we're excited to be a part of the non-profit side of YCombinator. It's been humbling to have Watsi working with us in our office and watching the amazing things they achieve on a daily basis. I have no doub
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by wiwillia 12y ago
It's always amazing to see people travel the world and make an impact. It's easy to be hyper-focused on growth metrics and silicon valley that you can lose sight of the bigger picture.
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by wiwillia 12y ago
I see what you're trying to say, but money is often not the issue - it's the connections and expertise that are so valuable. In my humble, and admittedly limited, opinion the network and community and shared experience/expert
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by wiwillia 12y ago
Hi Nawitus. I completely understand that line of thinking, and it should have been especially true for us given that we'd been running for about 1 year and had $1m in sales at the point where we joined YC. What I can tell you is that w
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by wiwillia 12y ago
Thanks for posting this Sam! If anyone thinking about YC has any follow up questions, happy to answer them here. It truly was an amazing experience for us.
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by wiwillia 13y ago
Exciting stuff - love watching Stripe evolve.
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by wiwillia 13y ago
I refer to myself as the non-technical co-founder all the time. I'm a male, and the CEO of our company. In my personal experience, I've never heard anyone equate "non-technical co-founder" to a term used only by female f
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Teespring is looking for Ruby and JS hackers to help us reinvent ecommerce(teespring.com)
1 points by wiwillia 13y ago
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by wiwillia 13y ago
I agree the penalty is brutal, If they had dropped 5 ranking vs. 5 pages I think the punishment would suit the crime (provided that Google didn't look at their links and find that their were other egregious violations). I think part of
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by wiwillia 13y ago
Also re: your P.s., it doesn't matter if they were only retweeting blogs they interested in or supported. They were asking people to add links (for SEO) that had zero relation to the article, in exchange for a tweet (which they wanted
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by wiwillia 13y ago
Come on man, this whole thread/article is pretty ridiculous. I'm a fan of RapGenius as well, but the whole underlying theory of Google is that the more people that organically link to something, the more valuable that content will
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by wiwillia 13y ago
Kitten cotton (sustainably sourced of course) sounds like a billion dollar idea if I've ever heard one
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by wiwillia 13y ago
About a year! I wrote about the first nine months at http://wiwillia.com/post/41810471731/our-path-to-1m-in-sales
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by wiwillia 13y ago
Walker from Teespring here. Wanted to jump in and say I was also confused by this, and Evan is on a well-deserved vacation right now so he's not around to clarify. This was a real-time interview, and I was the one who edited for gramma
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by wiwillia 13y ago
Really cool.
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by wiwillia 13y ago
Don't tempt us

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