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justinY

169 karma · joined October 26, 2009

Justin Yoshimura is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently CEO of CSC Generation, which is enabling consumers to lease or finance any product with a residual value.

Formerly, he was SVP at Merkle (acquired by Dentsu for $2B) via the acquisition of his company 500friends, a provider of SaaS loyalty marketing solutions backed by $12M+ from Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, and YCombinator. He is also an investor in Mobovida (Series A), Hipmunk (acquired by Concur), Bounce Exchange (seed, Series A), Dropoff (seed), First Opinion (seed, former member of the BOD), Firebase (acquired by Google), and Zencoder (acquired by Brightcove).

Prior to 500friends, he dropped out of high school to found two e-commerce marketplace companies, both of which were acquired after reaching $10M+ in revenues.

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Stop hunting unicorns

linkedin.com·3 pts·justinY·
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A great product is important, but it's not enough

linkedin.com·1 pts·justinY·
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The Hidden Reason for Exploding Startup Costs

linkedin.com·1 pts·justinY·
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Help us scale our ruby app to 10B requests/month

jobscore.com·2 pts·justinY·
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Being a hustler (or banker) does not qualify you for "biz dev"

forbes.com·1 pts·justinY·
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CEOs - are you doing the "right" job?

pandodaily.com·1 pts·justinY·
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500friends (YC W10) raises $5M Series B

forbes.com·5 pts·justinY·
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When revenue growth can be bad for start-ups

pandodaily.com·4 pts·justinY·
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Amazon makes almost $120k in revenue per minute

blog.500friends.com·6 pts·justinY·
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The story of 500friends (w2010)

blog.500friends.com·6 pts·justinY·
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Are 20 year olds really the most successful entrepreneurs?

forbes.com·4 pts·justinY·
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A 23-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is his company's lead headhunter

inc.com·9 pts·justinY·
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Innovation is easier "one thing at a time"

sulia.com·4 pts·justinY·
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What people in 1899 thought would happen to travel technology

tnooz.com·18 pts·justinY·
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Ask HN: why are some (political in nature) posts censored while others are not?

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What makes red meat unhealthy?

articles.latimes.com·9 pts·justinY·
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A "relatively close" alien planet that may be habitable

news.yahoo.com·2 pts·justinY·
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Facebook recruiters, please stop the spam

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Virality (referrals) is overrated. Unless you're fb or eventbrite.

blog.500friends.com·3 pts·justinY·
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Why Facebook works for some companies and not others

blog.500friends.com·4 pts·justinY·
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An open letter to prospective team members

blog.500friends.com·10 pts·justinY·
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Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your developers

venturebeat.com·12 pts·justinY·
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Chances of winning the $500+ mega lottery

forbes.com·4 pts·justinY·
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500Friends (YC W10) Raises $4.5M Series A For Its Social Loyalty Platform

techcrunch.com·6 pts·justinY·
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