jasonmcalacanis

When I was a kid I saw a movie or TV show about a guy who had won one of these in a contest, but then threw a party and never completed the build out of the house... so the kit was left in parts all over the plot of land he won.

I've never been able to find this movie.

Is this a function of less folks applying or less high-quality/YC ready folks applying? or maybe the funding environment being harder for graduates?

oh, hey

this one was special... only person I know who worked for Bezos and Zuck -- really great episode.

This might be one of the biggest issues in America today. We have a seemingly large number of folks, or perhaps a small number of highly vocal ones on social media, that believe the system is so rigged against them and that they have no chance of improving their lot in life.

At the same time as this pessimism has permeated America, a global, friction-free marketplace for services and products has emerged that anyone can tap into: the internet and mobile phones.

This network is not only available to all, it also hosts the keys to the kingdom, with every single skill and clever strategy for building these products and services unlocked, for free, for everyone, on YouTube, Coursera, etc.

That's the disconnect I'm concerned about... so many people in America are giving up on the American dream, while other countries are copying it (i.e. China).

that is correct.

a little caution can also let the steam out of a really hot market like we have seen with Facebook's stock today.

NYT and Netflix are an exceptional value at $10 a month, but those are large scale consumer content. In the B2B content space, any content that saves folks a couple of hours a week is worth a LOT of money.

in this case, $10-25 a month is nothing... really, it's like zero dollars in the context of a business executive making six figures.

I hear people say this from time to time, but I think once you get to college and into the workforce you start to center your life around TXT and email.

I view each email address as an LTV of $10-50 and every phone number as 2x that. Owning emails and phone numbers is the great asset any startup can have -- but so many founders miss this!

We built our own CMS after realizing there is nothing out there. Our CMS has the email-based paywall system, plus manages all the opens and pre-subscriptions (i.e. you can subscribe to new newsletters before we launch them).

We just added a secret new feature: inside.com/alerts, which allows us to send news to people by SMS if they can't wait for the emails.

In terms of paid newsletters, there will be 2-3 in each of 1,000 vertical with over $100-250,000 in revenue each based on what I can see.