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There is a great documentary on regenerative farming. https://farmersfootprint.us/watch/ - 6 minutes in. Worth watching the full 20 minutes.

Farmers Footprint is also worth checking out. They have a similar mission. - https://farmersfootprint.us/

They have shown conventional soil will return to normal after 1 growing season, which is pretty wild.

They even reimburse farmers that make the switch, but don't see the same yields.

I believe, Shopify ultimately uses Stripe for the payment gateway.

I see this differently. This is a government document, but one that investors will read now and refer back to in the future. Why make it plain boring text when you can spin this document into a reason to invest?

This is an opportunity to tell the world who you are. Interested parties read these for a reason. It might as well look how you want it to look, as long as the same necessary content is listed.

Insanely low. Strangest part of the article.

Potentially it wasn't a successful exit? Dirty term sheet or multiple down rounds and $200m wasn't a successful exit?

I've been to Cafe X multiple times. This makes a GREAT cup of coffee, matcha, or espresso. It's high quality.

This is not just vending machine coffee.

The underrated aspect of this is on-demand app ordering.

Example - You're walking to work or your next meeting in SF. Cafe X is on the way. Two blocks ahead, you order your drink. As you walk by, you punch in your code and go on with your day.

The interaction is seamless and simple.

Great product!

This seems to be the non-login / paywall version - https://startupcollection.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/negotiati...

I read this article back in 05 and it changed the way I looked at negotiation - https://classic.esquire.com/article/2005/2/1/haggling-for-ho...

Great find. No bias at all...

Plenty of articles say that organic is not worth it due to no nutritional value. That is not the reason I've ever heard anybody say they purchase organic fruits and veggies. It's the chemicals.

I don't want to eat food that has been sprayed with chemicals over and over again to kill the various predators to that plant. I also don't want those chemicals to be in the water supply or ground.

It's more than just nutrition.

They can sell my location but somehow can't figure out how to share that information with emergency services.

Few questions that you may or may not want to answer on here.

Who is their telephony provider? Is this a landline or mobile?

What type of business? Could they afford to shutdown their phone number for a few days if they notified their customers? Could they change the number on their website for a brief period of time(Directing calls to a new number)? All depends on where they get their leads from. Maybe setup a quick IVR to deflect the robo calls? Press 1 for sales, press 2 for support, etc. could filter out the robots?

Unfortunately, anti-spam in telecom is limited, especially if they are spoofing the number and changing them up. A service like nomorobo.com might be helpful, but again, depends on their existing infrastructure.

Happy to help the situation. I've been in telecom on the engineering side and sales side for 10+ years. Email in profile.

I invest with Groundfloor.us. So far it's been a great experience and have had ~10% returns. They are for residential only and have varying levels of risk based on previous success of those looking for the money. I'd recommend looking into them as well. They only are able to collect money from certain states.

Provide value to others without expecting much in return. Work for cheap / free while you don't have many expenses.

Build up that network by helping new startups with tasks they are working on. If you help...10 startups over the next 5 years, you will build a larger network and be more valuable than just meeting people at networking events.

One of those company's may turn into something and you can get in early. If not, you will have advocates in your corner that will make introduction to others.

Get out there and do the work, make friends that are working on interesting project, provide value, they won't forget it when it comes time to ask for something in return.

The rating system seems odd. Per Capita seems like a better way to go here. http://www.realclear.com/living/2017/01/16/which_us_cities_h...

Portland, ME Boulder, CO Asheville, NC

Tony's Pizza in North Beach - tonyspizzanapoletana.com

Nopa - nopasf.com

Blue Bottle Coffee

Hike the Lands End Trail

Just explore. Walk the streets and stumble into places.

http://www.Yesware.com. I believe the free version only gives you so many though.

Great interface! Very clean and I like the career path aspect to it.

WebRTC

Try asking for a referral from the people you already worked with. See if they know anybody else that needs similar work done. Assuming you did a good job, they should have no problem making that intro.

Coming from a sales role, that is the easiest business to earn.

There was an interesting take on TechCrunch this morning on the same topic. I think it applies well to this situation, even though the numbers are different. What is your target market? SMB, consumer, enterprise? I'm guessing SMB or consumer based on average deal size.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/26/back-to-the-future-in-enter...

If your average deal size is $10.00 per month. Any way to increase the average deal size? 1000 customers is great. Can you get $20.00 per month out of them upselling or crosselling? More?

If it's an SMB product. I would say you need to hire in the right spots. You mentioned not wanting to raise money but also are looking to take it to the next level. You don't need to raise much, but $500k - $1m at good terms would be enough runway to hire 2-3 sales and 1 support person. From there, you can make the sales commission structure friendly so when they make money, you make money.

If it's consumer, I'm not an expert here. I would focus on marketing vs sales people.

My hope that this finally signals Zynga's pivot back into the gambling world.

Found 2 typos while setting up a contest.

Beginning - Price for this costest is $ 25.00. Are you offering a better reward?

End of contest - Conteatulations, you are just a step to submit the contest. Just confirm and click submit!

I submitted a contest to fly from RDU (Raleigh) to SFO (San Francisco). RDU is a tough place to fly out of because there are a limited number of direct flights. During the winter, there is only 1 direct flight a day and in the summer there are 2 to SFO. However, I submitted a contest more to see how it works than anything else.

Either way, I like the concept!

EDIT: I submitted the contest, but it sits at the Loading something awesome screen and never goes anywhere.

Keep in mind it's an hour show with 5-10 minutes devoted to each company(TV Time). The time spent asking the real questions, getting to know the founders, and learning the product takes a lot longer. It's just edited for TV. That stuff is edited since it's network TV and the general population would be lost.

Is it real or staged?

MC: It’s all real. There’s nothing fixed and nothing staged. Literally those deals go from 30 minutes for just stupid-ass ones to 2.5 hours for some people.

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-what-shark-tank-is...

Thanks for this! The sales side of startups is not discussed enough on here. As much as I love HN, I get lost in the coding side of it being a sales person myself.

100% agree. Fly to SF, knock down every door, connect with every twitter employee possible on Linkedin, and find out who you need to talk to.

Having sold two different SaaS products over the last few years, I would do a couple of things.

Make it clear on the website. $20.00/user per month. To most people, that is clear that they will be charged each month that price.

In addition to that, in your terms & conditions, you can explain the exact details of the terms.

Depending on the price of the product, I wouldn't waste too much space on the website explaining that they will be auto-renewed as it should be self explanatory and it could cause confusion.

Also, do you have a sales team or do you rely on people to just sign up on the website?

http://www.univision.com has all the games in Spanish. Usually it's more exciting to watch because the announcers get really into it.

There is a lot going on in Raleigh and Durham. RTP is just a corporate zone with a lot of businesses. If you want life outside of work, head 15 minutes in either direction to Raleigh or Durham. Both great places to be on the cheap!

I've taken it and really does help me sleep better. It helps me fall asleep easier if I wake up in the middle of the night. I was taking about 1/3 of a 3mg tablet.

I did stop taking it though because I felt depressed after about 2 weeks of taking it every day.

I will probably take it again periodically if I am traveling.