I don't understand why either.
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The fact that wealth-builders, and innovative startup founders that seek to create new frontiers can't legally find a way of staying in this country is preposterous.
Crazy traffic and a nice collection of emails so far.
We're not a payments processor. What we are is very simple selling (payments included; part of the simplicity) that enables you to sell across any number of different platforms, like Facebook, WordPress blogs, Twitter, Craigslist (with checkout implementation), emails, etc etc. The only reason we deal with payments is that it's a crappy experience for the end-user to handle payment gateways and merchant accounts on their own. We get you up and running in seconds/minutes, not hours/weeks. There's not a lot of ways to sell cross-platform with ease, elegance and simplicity.
Does that make sense?
Woke up to a really nice surprise here, especially having made this page two months ago. Submitting it to HN wasn't my plan; someone else randomly found the page and did that. Yes, indeed, it's Kout.me...if you care more, here's a short description:
Kout is a dead-simple eCommerce platform that enables anyone, anywhere to be a merchant across any platform with ease, elegance and simplicity. We make it fast & easy to both sell items and collect money online and do this by generating a simple one-page checkout that corresponds to a unique URL. We're also doing really cool things with dynamic pricing, payments, as well as social & mobile commerce.
Ah. I love HN.
It's extremely worth it and mentions a lot of the same points he makes in the two AMAs.
I haven't yet had a chance to work with them, but my opinion of them is constantly increasing.
Intern or Full-Time (NYC, SF Bay Area)
Kout was a part of the latest AngelPad class. Our investors include six ex-Googlers and two top Silicon Valley VC firms, in addition to a nice seed round we're about to close.
We're looking to hire our first employee. Offering a real equity stake, competitive salary, and a chance to revolutionize eCommerce.
Kout is a dead-simple eCommerce platform that enables anyone, anywhere to be a merchant across any platform with ease, elegance and simplicity. We make it fast & easy to both sell items and collect money online and do this by generating a simple one-page checkout that corresponds to a unique URL. We're also doing really cool things with dynamic pricing, payments, as well as social & mobile commerce.
We're simplifying eCommerce and removing the barriers to entry, enabling anyone to be a merchant. We'd love to do that with you; let's talk about the details.
Contact hany@kout.me. Mention you're from HN :)
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This is like the relative of a famous celebrity (or scientist) not getting into an elite school and admitting some part of their application - essay, scores, whatever - wasn't as well as it should have been.
Am I the only one insulted by this article? If anything, it's also irresponsible of SF Chronicle of sticking both of these girls in the limelight. Imagine if she wasn't Zuck's sister; should your rejection somewhere be published in a major newspaper?
Any ideas?
Awesome! THanks.
I'm a 21-year-old who just took a leave of absence to concentrate on Kout.me ; how is it that I'm even a target of these people yet?
My issue with this view is that the viewer makes himself seem like this victim. Let's put ourselves in this scenario again. You, the viewer, are on my website. You're using my server bandwidth while using my website functions, which probably had a lot of investment go into them whether they were services or content. Multiply you by a 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 and now we have a problem.
This you take for granted. This you don't pay for.
It's my website. I choose how to monetize it. If you like that, great; otherwise, stop using my website. Until we generate some automatic way of blocking you from ever using my website while you're on AdBlock, then what you're doing is stealing. No one forces you to use my website.
A lot of examples in the real world apply here. There are adverts on highways, buses, buildings. Removing that clutter-creating huge banner ad from the middle of the mall; how's that different from removing a leader-board from a blog?
How can removing ads completely and automatically - from websites that earn their entire existence from adverts - while still accessing the website's content and using their server bandwidth anything less than a cowardly immoral act of theft? And to hide behind that as some sort of hero for having the mental capability of installing AdBlock is just downright delusional.
Blocking advertisements from people that live off of them while still using their resources is theft. Plain and simple.
It's my view that religion often isn't the thing that impairs scientific learning. Rather it's men's interpretation of those events.
Just needed to make that subtle correction :)
The "prophet" was a sheikh/imam in Iraq (?) that said math and Satan were connected. Islam had - up until that time - managed to have some pretty amazing feats.
That said, it's interesting how we blindly take advice from men with authority. Whether that's religious figures, famous people, or politicians.
It was definitely interesting.
The exercise of condensing our entire pitch down to 120 seconds was worthwhile. We could very quickly explain what we do, where we're going, and how we'redoing. Elevator pitches were a snap.
The best aspect of it was that it gave us more time to speak to investors afterwards. Most stayed in the room and we had an opportunity to have amazing conversations (and collect business cards) from those that might be a better fit...rather than broadcast to everybody.
That said, having never been through a 7m presentation, I can't compare against that directly. Just providing my own perspective.
When we first heard of the two minute rule, we were in disbelief. But at the end, somehow it miraculously worked.