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Printed Circuit Board Assembly. i.e. a PCB with all the components mounted.

It’s around $4-5k USD to set up a exempted company and get a bank account for said company in the Caymans, with annual costs being in the $2-3k USD range. Can be cheaper or more expensive, depending on the service provider. Not uncommon for more savvy investors.

> Good luck booking a hotel suite (w/ kitchen, common room, etc) without paying insane rates north of 1k a night.

Isn't this the domain of extended stay hotels, like Residence Inn (Marriott), Staybridge Suites (IHG), and Homewood Suites (Hilton), and serviced apartments? They don't tend to be in the $1k/night range.

Ah! Acmella oleracea — also known as a Szechuan Button. Chandelier Bar at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas famously does an off-menu cocktail with Jambú called The Verbena.

Nubank’s mobile apps are built using Flutter. They’re the largest neobank in LATAM (>50MM customers).

Partner at other VC firms = General Partner at a16z. Pretty much everyone, including associates and principals, have the title of "Partner" at a16z.

Love this. We ran into a lot of these pain points while we were building and growing Flex @ Twilio. We ended up creating a "shadow" support org in the early days that provided 1:1 (product-led!) support to our early customers via Slack. That did not scale.

You are aware of and are trying to address many the issues we ran into as we grew our customer base (e.g. pass to tickets, getting new team members up to speed, etc.).

I am very interested in how you are planning on addressing the tooling issue, from the _end-customer_ POV. We settled on shared Slack channels because the majority of our early customers used Slack for their own internal comms. Using shared channels was very low friction for onboarding folks and provided a solid experience (vs. having to push them into another tool to get support).

Heat pumps don’t work particularly well below 25F. Our heat pump switched to auxiliary heat (electric resistance heating) with how cold it’s been in Texas.

We’ve had a lot more success with avoiding no-shows by giving things away and selling things on Nextdoor.