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Cool product, but how big is the market?

That sucks. They shouldn't have such a "policy" in the first place, and not to publish it is ethically untenable.

Looking forward to reading this!

I've been on the lookout for "The Great American Internet Novel" for many years. Eggers' The Circle was crap.

The key point is that it's an _unauthorized_ integration.

I hope I never have to use ADP, but that said, their response makes Zenefits sound like a bunch of crybaby Valleyholes.

http://www.adp.com/zenefits/downloads/The-Facts-About-ADP-an...

Congrats on your launch. Too bad about the tweet button.

Are there any video courses for getting started with sails.js?

The industry is big enough for multiple players.

Ummmm, salary data source???

I love how this is the most important comment on hacker news and gets the least upvotes.

This guy also has these ridiculously generic datasets and the geekerati goes nuts because he's a vc.

But how do you know that Boulder real estate won't get more expensive if Google moves in? Seems like they'd be adding at least a couple percentage points to the higher income working population, which would have that effect.

A customer service rotation for everyone in the company is more important.

It's not an apples to apples comparison. As a Flatiron grad myself I can tell you that most my classmates already had college degrees. They do have a program that serves as a substitute for college, but it's not clear that the main program has been filtered from the data.

That said, I thought Flatiron was an exceptional investment, much higher ROI on my salary than college, but also served a fundamentally different purpose and role in my education than college.

Voice of reason, thank god. Are we working at P&G here? This is startupland, nothing is scientific in the academic sense, least of all marketing or customer behavior. "Peer reviewed?" Please....

Wow, I applaud you for defending marketing on HN. Bravo, brave soul. I wholeheartedly agree as well.

What? He's saying worked for them. It's all good advice and he gives many caveats about how it may not work for everyone.

Great work and congrats! I'm a user and love the product, surprise, surprise :)

Great advice on getting focused and measuring the hell out of everything.

+1 opting into this constraint is like putting rocket fuel into my productivity.

I agree. I think it really depends on expectations. If you go into the event with a desire to learn a new piece of tech or to try and experiment with a concept, then it's a great fun framework to build something with a well defined, externally set stopping point. And it's fun, esp with other smart people around.

However if you're trying to win, or worse forced to attend, then yeah that's a set up for a stressful, low value event.

So true. Just like when Adwords changed its quality score algo.

I appreciate this perspective. If you're opting in to receive posts from a brand, why should Facebook throttle that brand's posts. But as a counter argument consider how many friends users have, how many pages they like, etc... there are so many posts coming from all these friends and likes, that it would take constant attention to see them all, information overload. Facebook has to optimize the stream for usability.

I agree. Platform risk is real. This business should have diversified its acquisition channels, incorporating both paid and earned media.

Absolutely. There are plenty of talented people who would leap at an opportunity like this to take over the day to day and grow the business. You'll still need to be involved but can scale way, way back once you get the right person up and running.

The challenge for you will be power sharing and letting this new leader take the reigns. But it can be done. I would recommend tapping the advice of other founders who have handed the reigns.

And yeah asking a current team member if they're interested is a great idea, provided you believe in them.

Like the name and branding a lot. Kudos to you guys for going with a forward-thinking approach.

Amen.

Good news, and yes please wear helmets. A similar incident happened to a friend of mine. Literally the day before his boss insisted he wear a helmet "to protect his investment." Invasive managers aside, if it were possible for companies to incentive employees to wear helmets, I would support it.

$2000 per person per year is probably pegged to the current gdp per capita of $1800. By doubling, the policymakers may hope to put an attainable goal on growth.

Isn't this basically kitchensurfing.com?

Not too cool how Nivi compares Boston to Estonia (I mean, really, isn't that a bit childish?) but appreciated the article overall.