nihaar
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Founded a web recommendation engine (YC S08). Now product @ doordash
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Comment · 9 years ago
product manager
Comment · 9 years ago
> Our burn rate was closer to $22k per month.
Seems like this should have been mistake #1. That is an awfully high burn rate for a startup still trying to find product market fit.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'd be curious about what this also means for Instacart given their strategic partnership with Whole Foods and their direct competition with Amazon Fresh.
Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
Agreed seems a bit low. Here's the TC article http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/11/confirmed-yahoo-acquires-br...
Comment · 12 years ago
When my co-founders and I were applying to accelerators in 2008, we had been accepted into a Philadelphia based accelerator called DreamIt shortly before our YC interviews. Not knowing if we would get into YC, we accepted with DreamIt as it was an exploding offer. A few weeks later we found that we got accepted by YC. After deliberating it for sometime, we went back to the DreamIt team and told them that we wished to rescind our acceptance. This started a shitstorm with the DreamIt team as they seemed to take this very personally. It was the first year of doing the accelerator and they went as far as threatening to take legal action. Not knowing what to do, we turned to PG and Jessica for help, a bit hesitantly, as we were afraid of what they would say. PG expressed his extreme disappointment with how DreamIt had reacted to this and was supportive of our situation. He send them an email telling them to back off and that this was not an acceptable way to be treating founders.
Just one anecdote out of many of how YC has gone to many lengths to protect founders.
Since that experience, I've realized that it really doesn't do accelerators any good to introduce these conditions in their funding offers. It creates a bad reputation amongst founders in the increasingly competitive field of accelerators. And founders ultimately need to pick based on what they think will have the most impact to their business. Compete on benefits you can offer to founders, not legalese.
Comment · 12 years ago
Paper (iOs app)
Comment · 12 years ago
Yup, one password that they need to use to login, along with the email address that you've whitelisted for them. So its possible that someone could guess the password and their email address to get unauthorized access. I've debated a lot on this one and from the many parents I spoke to, this seemed to be a good middle ground between having some security and keeping it simple for family members to use.
The links in the emails have a special link that unique to each subscribers. These links at the moment do not expire but thats something I'm changing soon. All the images in the emails expire after a week.
I wrote a blog post on how I handle security on the app: http://blog.getbabydigest.com/post/88405261016/privacy-and-s...
Comment · 12 years ago
1. Yes, its usable without Facebook. Sign up on the site and you can upload media directly (or email them in).
2. No limit on how much you can upload at the moment. This might bite me in the ass later but if anything changes, there'll be a grandfathering in of older accounts.
3. You set up a password for your timeline. This is then shared automatically with "subscribers" that you add to your account. They will get notified (via email) when you post anything and can click through this email and never
4. Great question. Currently the plan is making money on prints (a PicPlum like service - printing of photos and mailing to family members). I may also introduce a premium version with more storage.
Would love to get your thoughts on the revenue ideas. And great questions - I should spell some of this out on the landing page more.
Comment · 12 years ago
Clickable link: https://www.getbabydigest.com