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By VirtualPC, do you mean this site: www.virtualpc.com? (I think not, but I'm a novice).

I see. Thanks.

If VPS = Virtual Private Server, which one can you recommend?

Thanks. Any pointers / links for where I can go from here?

I see. Just Wikipedia'ed it. Any particular one you can suggest which has easy setup instructions?

replax, I bow to thee. How the heck did you figure that out!

Somewhat, but not quite...Real Estate brokers get a cash commission, not a piece of the home value. But the analogy comparing AngelList to an MLS makes sense.

Do your two friends agree with you 100%?

Which Shopify app? (Just curious)

Where are you based? (Your earlier post indicates that you are not in US or Europe)

Signed up; how do I parse the text in the Body of the email? Is there a tutorial?

Key parts:

Imagine this pitch (a VC pitching a founder):

"Hello, we’re Founder Friendly Capital. We

• Give you a quick and clear answer. 3 meetings, 2 weeks, yes or no. • Sign up to a plain-English, Founder-Friendly Termsheet. We pay our own legal costs. • 1x Liquidation Preference, no veto on Arms Length transactions. Four weeks to decide. No one-way NDAs. • We’ll always do our pro-rata in the future or sell you back our stake. • Will never bring in an outside CEO without at least 50% Founder consent. • You’ll get access to the following resources. X hours of our recruiter time. Access to Y network. Office hours with your Partner. • Board Seat above $X, Board Observer below that, no Board Control • No Option Pool Shuffle – the Pre-Money is the true Pre-Money • Minimum investment amount is $__; Minimum ownership percentage is __% • Choose your Partner – don’t be embarrassed to ask • 10% of the Round can be used for Founder Liquidity …"

Well said, Naval.

Works very well for me (Chrome, Windows)

Hey Vu,

I'm impressed. Would like some words of advice from you, as I am attempting something similar but less ambitious. Ok to contact you via email?

And one more thing: Don't wait for the 30th day. Do it tomorrow.

Correct. Except that in the case of Life insurance, Health insurance, Auto insurance etc., there may be more at risk, so the case for having some protection may be greater.

No it's not zero percent, and no one will tell you what it actually is. I was simply suggesting that package Insurance is a HUGE profit center. And the only way for it to be a profit center is if in reality packages don't get lost / damaged.

There's no need for purchasing shipping insurance, unless it's a one time shipment of a relatively very high value. Packages do not get lost or damaged, contrary to what insurance providers might want to make you believe.

If you ship a lot of high value items, just save some of your profits for such a rare eventuality (also called "self-insurance").

Hey Fakeer,

Do you have an idea (or know someone who does) as to

1. How is the Shipping Label (with tracking# if that's feasible) generated?

2. Which are the major couriers picking up the packages from the small ecommerce shop locations and delivering them?

3. Is the Indian Post Office a major player at all (in the US, the USPS is the largest ecommerce delivery company...bigger than UPS, FedEx and DHL combined)

Universe = everything. Including new universes.

You lost me at your opening question. It's YOUR job to tell me about your company first and get me excited about foregoing the potential of the stuff I am working on. Only then should you ask me why I want to work for you.

I doubt you will get great developers that way.

What's the tech stack?

The awesomeness is in your video...explains your idea so beautifully. Did you do entire the video yourself, or outsourced a part of it?

What tech stack is Rakasheets built on?

Hey Imran, if PG could see the sorry state that his old company is languishing in today, he would be saddened.

Yahoo stores, once the pioneer that unleashed ecommerce in US, is a joke in ecommerce inner circles. It could have dominated ecommerce, had it not been for Yahoo management's complete and utter neglect of the platform after acquisition.

The main reason Yahoo Stores is in business today is because it's difficult to move your ecommerce platforms, once you are beginning to grow. Despite that stickiness, there is a daily bloodletting of Yahoo Stores defecting to the new, nimbler and customer-centric enablers such as Shopify. Users are frustrated at the zero innovation at Yahoo Stores.

Marissa Meyer has never brought up Yahoo Stores as one of Yahoo's key properties. I suspect it's because Yahoo Stores is so small today that it just doesn't register at her level. That should not be. There are probably only 40,000 Yahoo stores today (the business started 18 years ago). Compare that with Shopify (started 9 years ago), which is slated to sail past 80,000 stores this year.

Re Shopstream, seems like a terrific idea. How are you planning to market it? Suggest you integrate with the Shopify platform first, as they really care about and market the apps in their app store: http://apps.shopify.com

Anyone have a story or experience of the difference between the Two Buck Chuck (Charles Shaw wine) vs a high end vintage?

Just tried it...awesome! You might consider hiding the email address appearing in the url.

Brian, whenever we bill the monthly subscription fee to our users for our saas app, we send them an email with their username and the amount. I get a copy of each such email in my gmail inbox. Is there a way I can use Zapier to parse the amounts into a google spreadsheet so I know the total amount billed for the day? (Currently I have to do this manually by opening each email and copying the username and amount inot a google spreadsheet).

I should have our dev build this report, but don't get me started on that rant :-)

You mean "Signs that you're the world's greatest programmer but don't have a life".