> we closed a $1.7M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins [...] in a little over 8 weeks
This is fast and it's hard to believe that it was a terrible experience. How would have been your post if you needed 8 months or didn't raise at all after one year?
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This is fast and it's hard to believe that it was a terrible experience. How would have been your post if you needed 8 months or didn't raise at all after one year?
If you want to buy a notebook with a US keyboard (which some devs prefer) and when it's hard to get them in your home country.
eBay.com offers a Global Shipping Program where the US seller just send their stuff to this shipping program and eBay takes care of everything else. Even customs will be paid by eBay and the buyer just pays once and benefits from fast processing. It's a buttersmooth way of international shipping.
I got my last notebook within just one week and it was still cheaper than the local version in my home country. I know that some notebooks offer US keyboards in any country (ThinkPads and Macbooks) but then you usually wait also min 1-2 weeks because they are custom builds or they come directly from China.
Don't know of any other entity than eBay offering this.
The probability that you create a company as a first-time founder that generates $500k/yr or $42k/month is...
- in 12 months ultra low
- in 24 months super low
- in 36 months low
And being a founder lacking success over a period of many months or years might be much worse than what you experience now. You would learn a lot though. But I doubt that your mental health would be better.
Created a site in pure AMP. All competitors didn't use AMP then (1 yr ago). My site was the fastest, didn't have any ads, was the lightest, the most beautiful, had the best UX flow.
SEO-wise my site still doesn't list on the keywords which are in H1 and the page title but all the crappy, non-AMP, megabytes big slow-loading, ads-heavy competitor sites are still in the top ten SERP.
Guess that even Google stopped giving AMP sites any special rank power except they are news sites (then you will see them probably in the carousel but only if they are accepted with Google News).
> don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.
It depends on your situation. If you cashed out and don't have to worry about paying rent and feeding your family (like Paul) then it's easy to spend more time with your family.
If not: You are constantly torn between spending time with your family and getting your startup/career/job right to be able to finance the next vacation/school/flat. It's actually even worse. Every minute you spend with your family you face opportunity costs losing money you could invest into your family. If you work only your kids won't remember you.
Try to cash out before you hit 25, not later than 30.
- At the beginning I remember it was super hard not to check FB
- So I just stopped posting first
- Then I realized that it significantly helped to avoid FB in the morning
- Later, I installed the Chrome Extension Eradicator which lets the FB feed disappear; I never used a FB mobile app
- More and more I could stay away from FB the entire day just checking it in the evening
- Still for 1 or 2 years it was kind of tempting to check FB even if it was in the evening
Now, I rarely use FB anymore, maybe once a week or even less and if I see all the same people posting non-stop self-adulations and all the likers liking every little thing because xy posted it, I command-w FB faster than I opened it. I pity those posting people, too lonely, too little attention, on a desperate hunt for some friends on a addictive Skinner Box network.
TBH it was a bit like quitting smoking: initially super, super hard and when looking back FB's feed feels just useless.
Why do we need an alternative or FB at all?
On my bike.
Listening to Gorillaz on my Powerbeats 3.
They shut down after 5 minutes every time.
Surprisingly this is not true with Blockchain topics. Upvoted Blockchain stories feel ok but not that relevant or often random. Comments, discussions are sometimes constuctive (like this one) but often anti-blockchain or of low quality.
Candy Japan, the master of upvoted stories on HN, burned $14K on Youtube to have another story for HN which brings attention, traffic and new subs. Still: The thread is full of super important infos, so all good.
- Employees suffer from one single dependency which can make their live miserable—their manager; just compare: Entrepreneurs should be independent and build as many options as possible (e.g. not just one client but many)
- A job locks you in, means all side activities are forbidden or made complicated (because of IP, time, etc.) which again harms you because you are not able to build options outside the company
- The urge to stay employable + get high compensations, means: seamless job transitions with no gaps, min 2 years at one job, steady growth re titles, headcount, responsibilities—all to show that you are a good hire and it doesn't matter if your current employer is a pile of s* and you just have 7 months and need stay some more months
Getting jobs and being an employee has opportunities, it's easy for many in our industry to get 200K+ salaries but the price is high: reducing your options until you hit a depression.
My shot: Once I had a family with wonderful little kids I understood what 'quality time' really is. As much I enjoyed being with my friends or even ex-girl-friends: If I think back of what we did together (getting wasted, so-so vacations, mediocre dinner parties, boring talks at coffee shops) it's so much better now.
It's funny: I am very often invited to dinner parties (private and business ones). Every single time, I just don't want to go. Not because I am anti-social, not at all, it's just that I enjoy time with my family so much more—they are my friends.
Why didn't he then just live with his parents for the 3 months? He still could have go there to get that 'invaluable knowledge'. Nice outcome but the story feels a bit like click-bait...
Once the certificates got renewed the secrets are not working anymore because they must be immutable.
They think you can get a buddy, find friends, be not lonely anymore with a single click. FB, Instagram, Tinder and today's Show HN seem to be simple fixes to break out of loneliness.
They are all like sweets—they are tempting, tasty and shortly after consumed you are hungry again. Hungry for social encounters. So you consume them again and the vicious cycles starts.
Building real-life relationships is not easy. There are many ways to get there. A pure online play is not the answer.
So, this is a misunderstanding and again your aggressive tone is for somebody who is representing YC just sad.
Besides, thanks that you gave my profile more gravity when posting comments. Now my comments drop so quickly (first seconds after posting) and people with 0 karma move above me.
Great way to deal with different opinions, Dang.
FYI, we tested a while different pics, female, male, average looking, good looking and we just got the best conversion rates with the above mentioned.
They won't do fine. Don't want to go into details but their actual products/required architectures for their products just can't be GDPR compliant. And they didn't prepare anything. You confuse them with Google--they prepared GDPR but FB?
Btw, one of GDPR's key motivation was to take FB down.
IDK how FB will ever be compliant with GDPR and survive that huge upcoming fines in the long term or in the worst case the withdrawal from these markets.
Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are often just anti crypto.
Following 30-50 crypto influencers on Twitter provides a good mix.
But seeing this on #1 feels a bit off on HN. Is there a slight possibility that the feed is sometimes curated (eg through different voting powers)?
If someone had the plan to the goldmine why should he disclose it?