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Correction you can also hire them for weeks at a time. Onus for workers comp, etc is on the agency.

Speaking from the experience of someone who has hired general heavy labor and skilled trades... This has literally existed since the gold rush, chances are 60-80% of the labor involved in building your house came from an organization like this. They are a unique niche of staffing agencies that only staff same day labor. Many of organizations are nation-wide. Also, lots of skilled workers ask to be paid in cash, so they wouldn’t want a paper trail anyway... you pay 50% upfront and 50% when the job is done to spec. Just doing a few jobs on Craigslist and hiring some laborors won’t make you in any way even close to expert enough to tackle this field.

Can we be friends?

That's the biggest problem I have with flight search as well- redirection.

Quick note- your survey assumes that each startup has only two co-founders, therefore, your results may be skewed by responses like the one I just submitted. I met my non-tech cofounder ("cofounder2") in first grade, but our tech cofounder ("cofounder3") I've known for less than a year. However, cofounder2 has known cofounder3 for a few years... I hope you post your findings, I'd love to see what everybody responds.

"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield (good read if you want to learn how to quit procrastinating!)

"The Greatest Salesman on Earth" by Og Mandino

"The Zahir" by Paolo Coelho is about challenging tradition, highly recommend.

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

When I was in high school- "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho

Hard work, resourcefulness and imagination...

What ARE the best condoms in the world? Does anyone know of a country with more superior condoms?

"What did Spence learn from Collins? “You’re only as young as the new things you do,” he writes, “the number of ‘firsts’ in your days and weeks.” Ask any educator and they’ll agree: We learn the most when we encounter people who are the least like us. Then ask yourself: Don’t you spend most of your time with people who are exactly like you? Colleagues from the same company, peers from the same industry, friends from the same profession and neighborhood?

It takes a real sense of personal commitment, especially after you’ve arrived at a position of power and responsibility, to push yourself to grow and challenge conventional wisdom. Which is why two of the most important questions leaders face are as simple as they are profound: Are you learning, as an organization and as an individual, as fast as the world is changing? Are you as determined to stay interested as to be interesting? Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts."

Major points for dropping rap lines. I like you.

I love Bukowski's "Pulled Down Shade"

"what I like about you she told me is that you're crude -- look at you sitting there a beercan in your hand and a cigar in your mouth and look at your dirty hairy belly sticking out from under your shirt. you've got your shoes off and you've got a hole in your right stocking with the big toe sticking out. you haven't shaved in 4 or 5 days. your teeth are yellow and your eyebrows hang down all twisted and you've got enough scars to scare the shit out of anybody. there's always a ring in your bathtub your telephone is covered with grease and half the crap in your refrigerator is rotten. you never wash your car. you've got newspapers a week old on the floor. you read dirty magazines and you don't have a tv but you order deliveries from the liquor store and you tip good. and best of all you don't push a woman to go to bed with you. you seem hardly interested and when I talk to you you don't say anything you just look around the room or scratch your neck like you don't hear me. you've got an old wet towel in the sink and a photo of Mussolini on the wall and you never complain about anything and you never ask questions and I've known you for 6 months but I have no idea who you are. you're like some pulled down shade but that's what I like about you: your crudeness: a woman can drop out of your life and forget you real fast. a woman can't go anywhere but UP after leaving you, honey. you've got to be the best thing that ever happened to a girl who's between one guy and the next and has nothing to do at the moment. this fucking Scotch is great. let's play Scrabble."

Favourite poets: Rumi, Neruda, Herrick, Byron, Keats, Frost...

This is amazing. Whoever did this is now on my list of total heroes...

I'm confused, my photo/facebook info and name pop up next to my comment when I go to comment... I thought this was anonymous?

Yes!!!

SO MAD I MISSED THIS!!!

Anything we can do to help, you guys have a great product! I'll be sure to utilize the downloads- maybe one of those brief tutorials when you download the app (like on Snapchat when you first download) could help to explain app features like long-pressing.

I just tweeted Gimlet to see if it encourages a response, but I'm nobody special on Twitter so don't get your hopes up. ;)

Hey! I don't have mental illness and I can barely land a date let alone lock someone down and start a family with a supportive spouse.

It sounds like you are doing pretty okay to me!

There are jerks in every industry. Just gotta work hard and be glad you're not one of them.

I'd like to believe the industry attracts just as many people who are trying to make the world suck less... like every person who was just disgusted by this story.

Whenever I give a talk, I show up wearing fancy lingerie underneath my business clothes. That way I get the feeling that I know something absolutely nobody else in the room knows... and that little fact gives me confidence.

If you're a guy and/or not into wearing lingerie you can always wear a ridiculous shirt underneath your presentation clothes that has something outrageous on it. Or (if you're crazy enough) put a printout of something random, like a banana or a hamster or Oscar the Grouch in your pocket. Just thinking in the first ten seconds that you did something so nonsensical make you kind of wonder if you are losing your mind- in which case you may have a little chuckle to yourself, causing the tension to dissolve. Also, you will know something the audience absolutely doesn't.

I realize this is exceptionally unorthodox advice, but it works so don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Another tip is to pretend that you are talking to a room full of friends, that you have been accepted by all of the audience members already and they support you. Takes the edge off...

jsonne is absolutely right the lead up is always worse and after 10 to 20 seconds it starts to feel normal.

Knock 'em dead, you're gonna kill it.

Hey! I've worked in business development for nearly a decade, as a consultant and in the corporate world. I've also started my own startup so I'd love to help in any way I can- I've learned a lot through the process.

In order to help you out, I need to know a little more about your business. What are you building and how have you determined demand?

(This will help me get a general idea of the path you need to take and how to get there)

In terms of books- I've never really read one that can replace experience. Unfortunately the times I've learned most have been times I've tried and failed.

What I highly recommend, though, is a business plan. Check out any old business plan template on the internet- I've written many and I recommend that you do a brief plan (1-10 pages) and focus on your financial statement. It will help you sniff out all the hidden costs you wouldn't typically think about (electricity, depreciation, office space- even if it's in your house) so that you can get a clear idea of how much you need to make in order see growth.

Feel free to get in touch on HN or email p@libertyfeminine.com and good luck!

-p

You are not your mistakes, and there is a natural human margin of error. Mistakes make us human and it's what every single one of us has in common.

You seem to be a super bright guy who experienced a momentary lapse in judgement fuelled by emotion. We all do this, it's just not always public.

Also- I don't know how old you were at the time this story occurred but according to neuroscience, the frontal lobe doesn't develop until we are 25-27 years old (males develop later than females) and this is exactly the type of mistake the frontal lobe prevents us from making.

I hope you've recovered from this incident and have learned to not take these mistakes too personally...

Even calculators make mistakes.

It would be interesting to examine the type of startups this attracts

Okay, so far the feedback I've heard is as follows, everything in quotations is from a friend:

What we love:

-Love the way podcasts play and the little circle on the bottom right hand corner for play/pause -The flow of new podcasts for the week -The general layout -"I like the concept. The idea is great to see what new podcasts are there instead of just relying on iTunes top 10 list" -"I like that you can fast forward or rewind the podcast with your finger instead of that 10 sec but they have on podcast" -(Note: my friend preferred this, but I like the 10 second fwd/back)

What can use some improvement:

-"The app is very glitchy. I'm "following" you but you don't appear as one of my "friends" and I can't read what it says below your name (I'm assuming you connected through Twitter)" -"It would also be nice to have a page where you could see a list of everyone who is following you and who you are following" -"Also I can't go into your profile to see who you're following!" -(Likewise, I was not notified that my friend had started following me. I don't know where to find my friends?) -"I can't go into a podcast to see who liked it..." -I'm not sure if I just can't find it but I typically prefer to download podcasts in order to save on data. They help me get through my 3hr commute. -"I don't like how they make you sign up with connecting FB or Twitter No other option to just sign up independently of the other apps" (I agree with this)

Overall the consensus was that we can't wait to make this our number one podcasting app and are genuinely excited for how this all develops! I'm not sure if you've talked to the guys over at Gimlet about your app, or if they are hard to reach... I did notice you have Gimlet shows on the screens on your website, but you are both part of the podcast revolution.

My other two podcast friends are at a wedding for the weekend, but I will follow up with them when they get back.

Love your app!! It's like Instagram for Podcasts!

Sometimes you need to check and make sure you're not losing it. $57,800. Wow.

Hey! I just downloaded your app and I love the design, I'm at work so I haven't had a chance to use it. I've recommended it to four other friends so hopefully we can get you some feedback.

One thing I've noticed immediately is that I can't import my podcasts from the podcast app... is this not a possibility?

Love the idea, let me know when you launch an iOS version.

Does anyone else have more detail on this? What's the deal? Does 30% for $75k sound crazy or is my judgement just skewed by YC's (and in some part TechStars') fundamentals?

I actually bet he reads through that Twitter account and rolls his eyes because he has already secretly invented half of it.

I think these articles are written mostly so that the scientific community can officially hear about who is up to what- not for the average person out there wondering where we came from. Science is an industry just like any other, more often than not they are financially motivated. They distribute press releases, aim to be cited in other papers, apply for grants, get paid to give talks, work towards launching theories (read: book deals).

As a species, I don't think we're even ready for the answers to any of the scientific and philosophical questions we've been asking since the beginning of time anyway.

vishalchandra- I'm super basic for now, thanks so much for the link!