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Hi Tim, glad to see you here. In other places where I've posted this, I've also added the following bit "We've added the "early days" only on some of them, let us know if you find it valuable and we can cover the rest as well."

Wasn't sure whether people would want it. Glad to read your comment and to learn that people do want it.

@Buffer — For MySQL or Monzo, for instance, we've added how it wasn't the seed. I understand what you're saying — I guess if someone does believe that they would... assume... by themselves that they're all "seed stage pitches"?

The headline of the website is "helping founder craft successful VC pitches". Emotions and controversies aside, Theranos did raise capital.

No, I don't think it's nice to do what they've done (or smart, for that matter). But you want to see both ends of a spectrum, otherwise we'll fall prey to the survivorship bias. Hence, we've put up the "failed" category and didn't really want to give Theranos a category in itself called "fraud".

Again, controversy aside, I think there are lessons to be learned from them. People can misinterpret what I'm saying here and say I'm pushing them to commit fraud, but from my end it's more of a "This is how you should not do it"

We need to know both ends of an interval

Sad to hear the mark was missed - I'm looking at it from the founder/s' perspective since this is a place where founders hang (less so investors)

They made a $84.2B company and started with that investment. Yes, the story is longer, multiple investment rounds were gathered but in a nutshell, we can look at it from this angle

It's like half isn't it? Heard ONLY good things about Lost and Founder — is it that good of a book you reckon? What stood out for you?

Hi all,

We’ve needed this for ourselves since we saw these pitch decks pop up on LinkedIn every few weeks. We wanted a library with all these pitches curated, but what we found was either: not going deep enough or a 404 return of a now-defunct website.

Personally, that's what I find the most interesting: the early days. Not how big companies look like today and what decisions they take now — but rather what decisions got them there from the early days. Because when we start, we're in that position.

I hope it will inspire you but, more importantly, I hope you’ll do something with it.

Wish you nothing but the best. Made an aggregator website in literally 10 clicks as I was on the toilet. Will share it on my story

Just my $0.02 — $9/mo and it's a done deal... Later.com offers that linkin.bio which starts from their $19.90/mo plan (I use Buffer though for my agency's marketing contracts)

This one's super lightweight, can probably be optimised (if it isn't already) to be even more lightweight. Fantastic. Join us at Reddit.com/r/saas (I'm a moderator there) and tell us the story — anything u need, let me know

Saw it as well as I follow the subreddit. Not sure whether people here will like it but I did — definitely it's about the little things since designers geek over these small details.

Nonetheless I loved the typography as well (and the show)

I understand your POV, at the same time it was free to sign up, no time investment, no yearly costs for you etc. I know how it is to be banned overnight for something that you didn't expect (and without being malevolent).

I myself write my articles on my blog and then copy them over to Medium. A bit more work but might pay off in an event like this one

First year just copy whatever you like. Do that for 12 months and you'll be set. You'll be stepping in the shoes of those who've created what you like.

Either that or pay thousands for a course, but honestly just go for #1

Take it for someone who designs for a living

While I love the idea, I feel like it'd take away from HN's basic/clean slate idea

I smiled the other day when I saw an iPhone 3G and remembered I keep a 2G in some box for collection purposes

that's nice of you to talk nicely to people who break the rules — it's something rare these days for mods and I think we need more people like you.

I think there'll be a lot of backlash for this (if it isn't already) but it might go for the good of the internet

true! any other blog designs you've got that you like? For some reason I pile them up in bookmarks and have developed a hobby around that

sweet! for anyone reading this from the future: hello

very sweet design for your blog post, if OP is the owner — even leaner than Medium!

oh damn, it makes sense now. thanks for pointing it! I'd delete the question if I could, but I suppose that's not what "hide" does?

I trust and like Cloudflare a lot — a bit sad to have just bought 3 years of Nord VPN a month ago but hey, looking forward to the next renewal

One at a time, let's hope

right, that makes sense. Again, I'm sure not all of them do that but since it looks like everyone is shaking hands with both Bezos and Zuckerberg on a daily, maybe some of them do that. thx

Edit: I love opencagedata — hope you guys are doing well

I'm really really hoping TransferWise will take over all this stuff PayPal does

How about infinite scroll?

That goes without saying, yes.

Dude asked for the leanest version, that'd be it — I'd go sole trader and have it legal, all while seeing whether the SaaS lifts itself off the ground or not

I'm from the UK as well and it's very very relevant that you've mentioned that.

UK is the perfect place for you in this situation. US people might give you advice based on their legislation so be careful who you listen to

1. Set up as a sole trader with the HMRC (the equivalent of IRS for US readers that are curious) 2. Declare your profits 3. You'll pay taxes (and everything is legal as well) on the following brackets: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-person...

Scroll down to the chart to see what I'm talking about but here is the highlight:

Any profits between £0 and £12,500 are untaxed — you have to declare them though.

So I'd say yes, don't form a company yet. Godspeed

I know it's not something you'd want to hear but building yourself as a proper LinkedIn authority?

I'm from the UK as well and have connected with various people like you (my agency works with SaaS companies and I write for this audience) — either by reaching out or by attracting them through my writing.

It's more of a long shot as well but maybe consider writing/building something that's relevant for VCs — I'm aware this second answer I'm proposing is pretty much telling you "become richer by not being poorer" but time and time again it has been proven to me that it's the topmost option for building connections

Happy to see here brits as well

Niki's wiki, right?

So weird to see "remnants" of old products, years after they're shut down. I can't remember exactly which product like this I was looking at and it was depicting kinda the zeitgeist of those 2008-2009 years — wish I'd have a name but it doesn't come to me now

Probably we'll look at this article the same in 10-20 years

They offer education discount as well for $50/yr plus the $69/yr renewal someone else mentioned. So it’s definitely not a clear $100M mark but I’d say they’re doing good

Right, hate was not the best word, my bad. Changed it to "opposition" — what I meant was I understand now that the website is a library of what big big corporations abuse.