corkill
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Shareholders benefit from the profits via a rising stock price even if they don't pay out a dividend.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do they pay for other software to solve this problem?
What are the painful problems of the people with purchasing power in that market?
At the initial stage I would be looking for them to pay you anything or agree to pay and optimize the pricing model later.
Comment · 8 years ago
Follow Up Boss | followupboss.com | Senior Product Manager | Remote
We’re a SaaS solution that accelerates sales for real estate teams, self funded, profitable and growing company. Customer-centric https://www.facebook.com/followupboss/reviews
Check out our video on how we work: https://www.followupboss.com/about/
Our eng team is a super talented bunch and we need a PM to help us deliver more value to our customers.
Comment · 10 years ago
In the cart tipping is the default so I assume that may reduce their costs and from the below quora thread sounds like what shoppers rely on.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-tipping-etiquette-for-delivery...
Comment · 10 years ago
That was my initial reaction though looks like a bit more info coming out that there may be other reasons and the letter may have been written in response to a pending firing. This made the front page of reddit which seems to have turned up some deleted posts.
https://archive.is/AR4XX/image < bourbon delivered to work http://imgur.com/5WJFUAF < "watch me get fired for this"
Comment · 11 years ago
Follow Up Boss | Full-time | San Francisco or REMOTE
We are seeking outstanding developers to join our small productive team building software used every day by sales teams. We practice Scrum with 1-week sprint cycles for faster development and feedback, chat in Slack constantly and meet in person on regular company retreats. Our roadmap is packed with UX improvements and new features with the goal of making the best product in its class.
We're profitable, customer first and growing.
Director of Engineering (Hands-on) http://grnh.se/2qweks
Senior Front-end Engineer (React, Backbone) http://grnh.se/ka153c
Senior Full Stack Engineer (PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch) http://grnh.se/kxyj0i
Senior iOS Engineer (iOS client for SaaS product) http://grnh.se/1hkbef
Product Manager https://boards.greenhouse.io/followupboss/jobs/142368#.Voam0...
Comment · 11 years ago
People with problems and money to solve those problems aka business owners.
Comment · 11 years ago
Internet stocks were trading at all-time highs in 1999. Housing was doing great in 2006. Any asset being at all-time highs doesn't mean there are negligible risks only that the majority of the market currently thinks there is (they might be right and they might be wrong).
Comment · 11 years ago
I think you answered your own question that they will make more money this way, which I'm sure all of their investors and employees holding stock will appreciate.
I believe they are quoted somewhere as saying the ASX doesn't understand tech stories like Atlassian though can't dig up the quote right now.
Comment · 11 years ago
Remote or San Francisco - www.followupboss.com - Director of engineering, Fullstack and front end devs
We are seeking outstanding developers to join our small productive team building software used every day by sales teams.
We practice Scrum with 1-week sprint cycles for faster development and feedback, chat in Slack constantly and meet in person on regular company retreats. Our roadmap is packed with UX improvements and new features with the goal of making the best product in its class.
We're profitable, customer first and growing.
Comment · 11 years ago
"Can you make me dinner reservations?" would lead to a response like "Any preferences on the type of food and location?"
Over time they learn your preferences so they don't need to ask location for example next time.
Your right though people aren't likely asking such generic things in the first place, but rather something like "can you book me a great mexican place for dinner tonight, 2 people, has parking and casual attire somewhere with great yelp reviews"
Then they send you the best options they found (and the benefits of each one and price range) then you reply back option 1 and they book it.
Comment · 11 years ago
"I felt like I didn’t want to just be writing software to other people’s specs — I wanted to write software that I wanted to use and enjoy."
Do you use this software and enjoy it? if so you have actually succeeded at your original goal.
If you want to build a business, then your going to need to build software that other people want to pay for. Discovering who these people are and what they need is called customer development. The easiest way to do this is just call people when they are most interested (e.g. right after they signup or inquire on your site).
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validatin...
"Yes, the books said just tweet about it to your thousands of followers and they will come flocking."
Please burn these books and instead see http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ (free) thefoundation.com (paid but lots of free content)
Lots of people never generate any revenue their first year attempting something new, but I'm sure if you change your approach and learn from people that have done it before you can turn things around a lot. I'm sure you can already tackle any of the technical challenges, time to learn about the business ones (if you want a business).
The difference with Ramp is they are connected to your business bank account and can automatically increase your limit as you grow vs traditional companies like AMEX that require you to manually submit your financials and go through review etc. Also just in general better UI/UX and support etc.
We moved to Ramp as AMEX was unable to scale our limit fast enough.