adamseabrook
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CEO of https://www.betterteam.com - a recruitment platform for small businesses.
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Comment · 2 years ago
I think you have to bid on their auctions. It is more of a wholesale thing for people buying tons of it. https://pure-product.com/products/whey-protein-isolate-20kg-... they are reselling one for $709 USD
Comment · 2 years ago
Unflavoured whey protein isolate isn't hugely popular but you can get it online.
US: https://nutricost.com/collections/protein/products/nutricost...
AU: https://www.bulknutrients.com.au/products/whey-protein-isola...
edit - I should add, you can get a bit of an idea of the quality of the protein powder by just looking at the percentage of protein in it. Nutricost is 85% and Bulk Nutrients is 87%. Doesn't leave much room to shove other ingredients in with protein levels that high.
You can also go buy 20kg bags of WPI from NZ (which is where I think most of these retail products get their WPI from) https://www.nzmp.com/global/en/products/ingredients/types/pr...
Comment · 10 years ago
They also have flat fares in Chicago for $3.12 with uberPool, Monday to Friday 6am to 10pm. All trips must begin and end south of Irving Park, north of 71st Street, and east of Western Avenue. https://www.uber.com/info/chi-uberpool-312/
Comment · 10 years ago
We use pin.net.au for https://meanpath.com as the hosted payment pages they offer allow us to capture payment without needing to do any advanced programming. Their fraud protection is impressive and blocks 90% of the payment attempts we get from people dipping stolen cards.
For https://www.betterteam.com we chose Stripe as our developers are more familiar with the API. Braintree do have some features Stripe does not but the documentation of their API is not as straightforward as Stripe.
Comment · 10 years ago
You can self sponsor with this https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/189- bit of mucking about to get but once you have it you can work for any company. Otherwise company will need a company to sponsor you on https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/457- which is not hard to get but does limit the companies you can work for as not all will know how to do it.
Comment · 10 years ago
https://czds.icann.org/en It has been largely automated now so you can request access to the files with one click vs having to sign and email hundreds of forms. Approval seems to be automatic for most of them.
Comment · 10 years ago
http://meanpath.com/freedirectory.html
Feel free to grab a copy of our domain list. The "All domains with NS records" is the one you want. Has 191 million in it.
Comment · 11 years ago
No need to build your entire startup on Slack but a solid integration can drive serious initial revenue for your startup especially if you do not get a lot of direct traffic. "One click install" is what helped Woocommerce and others get massive growth on the back of Wordpress through top exposure in the plugin directory.
Slack is still very much at the bottom of the growth curve. I have seen electrical contractors who need a way to chat with onsite workers at various projects switch from using WhatsApp/SMS to Slack. If one click job scheduling apps start appearing in the Slack App Store they will be quickly adopted by these businesses. I would be surprised if Slack or something like it has not completely wiped out internal email in 5 years.
Comment · 11 years ago
There is always more the government can do but there are two major government assistance programs I was not aware of till I founded a startup here. https://www.austrade.gov.au/Australian/Export/Export-Grants/... will reimburse 50% of your sales and marketing costs. So you can go spend $100k on Google Adwords and get $50k back effectively meaning you can outbid all your competitors for the same keywords. https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Research-and-development-tax... is more well known. What is less well known is that if you make a loss in the year you make the R&D claim they will credit the offset into your bank account vs carrying the offset forward to next year. I am not sure what the equivalent of these two grants is in the US but I know Singapore is even more generous with tax holidays and 500%? of R&D spend grants.
Edit - forgot to add there are R&D consultants who will even advance you a percentage of your claim amount in advance to help with cashflow so you don't have to wait 12 months to get the money back.
Comment · 11 years ago
meanpath.com - REMOTE (Any Country) - Full Time - Many Positions
We are a 100% distributed company with staff in Australia, United States and the Philippines. Our tech stack is all Haskell with a very minimal amount of front end that we are hoping to expand with the help of the following new hires.
Currently hiring for:
* Front end developer
* Product manager
* Content writers
* Designers
Most of our customers consume this information via our API but we are going to start work on creating a front end so non-technical users can access the information easily. We are entirely bootstrapped and profitable. CTO is based in Ann Arbor, MI and CEO (me) is based in Sydney, Australia. We have a huge team of researchers in Manila who compile and enhance the reports.
Visas?:
We have both US and Australian corporate entities so can sponsor or transfer visas in both countries. If you do not already have a H1B we cannot help with the application process for that as we need to fill these roles now.
Interested?
Email [email protected]
Comment · 11 years ago
Speaking as a hiring manager I always look for achievements like this when parsing a resume or interviewing a candidate. The best candidates always have a few standout achievements that really grab your attention.
If you had to summarise your time at your current employer to just a few dot points this one will immediately get noticed: - In my own time I developed a system that helped semi-automate the work of 80 analysts. Overall cost savings in year one were X and time to delivery reduced to Y.
You could also look to launch a business around what you have built but it sounds like it may be too small of a niche to just drop into any business without extensive customisation.
Comment · 11 years ago
I find the business model fascinating and it is amazing to watch them scale. My family business used to spend over $20k per year on YellowPages ads which drove about 8-12 calls per day at a very high close rate. As YellowPages has died off the money has been invested in an online presence but the skill required to design the site, keep it updated, and to manage all the online advertising spend is well beyond a normal person.
The fragmentation impact of having your customers looking for your services in dozens of different ways vs opening the phone book is costly and complex to overcome.
Once you pay a designer, hosting provider, and then pour the rest into Adwords it is very hard to get the same 8-12 calls per day with $20k of annual spend.
Thumbtack are helping solve that problem and syphoning all the money these businesses used to spend on YellowPages or are wasting on poor Adwords bidding strategies. Paying per lead is not that much different from paying $20k to YellowPages who give you no guarantee you will ever get a phone call.
Comment · 11 years ago
meanpath.com can do around 200 million pages per day using 13 fairly average dedicated servers. We only crawl the front page (mile wide, inch deep) so the limiting factor is actually DNS. Looking at the network traffic the bandwidth is split evenly between DNS and HTTP. Google public DNS will quickly rate limit you so you need to use your own resolvers (we use Unbound).
Unlike Blekko we are just capturing the source and dumping it into a DB without doing any analysis. As soon as you start trying to parse anything in the crawl data your hardware requirements go through the roof. parallel with wget or curl is enough to crawl millions of pages per day. I often use http://puf.sourceforge.net/ when I need to do a quick crawl
"puf -nR -Tc 5 -Tl 5 -Td 20 -t 1 -lc 200 -dc 5 -i listofthingstodownload" will easily do 10-20 million pages per day if you are spreading your requests across a lot of hosts.