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I thoroughly enjoyed this read

This is one of my all-time favorite HN quotes: "Pick the weights up, put them down, eat food. It just not that complicated." Sincerely brought a smile to my face.

the most amazing part about EPB is they have absolutely phenomenal customer service. it really is surprising.

What is most incredible is somehow Daryl Morey is involved with this.

this is really slick Fredrik. the site and purity of message is awesome.

These are very cool. Especially the ones that appear to be natural features.

Unfortunately, my first though upon seeing military installations camouflaged as cabins, barns, homes - that gives an invading enemy a good excuse to target civilian structures...

"Enterprise software is boring"

I got really into this idea a few years ago.

It still gets floated from time to time (I recently saw high speed rail maps making the rounds).

IF/ when ATL > Chattanooga > Nashville are connected by a leg, it will absolutely change the region.

I have "heard" - completely so-and-so said - that much of the needed infrastructure exists. The key is repurposing existing rail lines and getting right of way.

I think there was a study commissioned that laid out the whole plan for a (3-5 stop) between downtown ATL and Nashville with a stop in Chattanooga.

just did the math here, $4,200 for 5 years.

I'm forwarding this thread to some local leaders to see if we can get a similar relocation package here (Chattanooga, TN)

You could have this today basically in any home in Chattanooga, TN.

I think the most recent price is $68.99/ mo. 10gig is $299

It's a big county. You can live downtown. Suburban. Or quite rural all within access to the 'smart grid' / gig.

I agree.

While its easy to point at Facebook and say "they are so creepy" - this sounds like the type of challenge every marketing department faces. "What is the attribution of X,Y,Z ad campaigns?"

Connecting purchase + email + 'where the ad happened' via social solves that.

the plan part is a really interesting idea.

this is the right response.

if you see an early stage company using "AI", then assume they are manually doing most of the work right now.

They may have a clever way of making it smart in the future

Every founding team / management team should be doing this or something like this. Even early on. Pre-CFO. Angel stage, seed stage. Whatever.

When the "easy" money stops - which at some point it will - and raising "the next round" gets hard, cash flow is going to matter.

The concept that burn rate ticks down toward or "months until death" march to the next fundraise will not be an effective plan in that environment.

I like this comment.

Your comment just made my day. This was a perfect description.

Nice Kyle!

congrats and good luck!

I am fairly sure Marketo was not part of Techstars ?

I have been inaccurately predicting this for a few years (with a variety of big box stores/ many location stores).

I think what I was most wrong about is AMZN thinks a lot about the geographic overlap of their customers and where they will shop. That is why the Whole Foods purchase was so brilliant. Both the overlap of wallets shopping in at both AMZN (prime) and WF.

I wonder how well Sear's store footprint fits with the AMZN customer base.

I would like to nominate myself to be an outside Board Observer.

JKan and Seibel are two of the best dudes in SV. Adding Marc and Anthony to the mix will make for incredibly fun board meetings.

I will take notes if that role isn't already covered.

Excited for Randall. Good on FB.

congrats to you and the team

an upvote was not enough recognition for this comment.

"I hope Trump does as much damage as possible." - I have heard almost this exact quote.

Its difficult to empathize with the sentiment, but it is potent and its real.

Archer.

This is a great point I did in fact miss.

Granting stock (not options) with no vesting schedule is probably one of my biggest regrets.

It is uncomfortable to talk about.

Typically during the initial phase (and forever forward) visible contribution changes.

My experience is the following:

IF you are starting a company with others, decide week 1 what the split of equity is and who (of any persons included) are cofounders or part of the "founding team".

IF you are starting a company with other cofounders, week 1 split the equity evenly and assign functional roles (not necessarily titles - those can evolve).

I have seen multiple companies explode, friendships deteriorate, businesses die a slow death, or waste hundreds of hours (and dollars) working through the emotional debt built up from not splitting equity evenly.

- Edit - changed day 1 to week 1 because typically there is a process of "should we start a company", "should we do it together", then "how" that takes some time. But once the "we are going to do this phase starts, you're in week 1

these are great stats.

I live in Chattanooga.

I know 3 residential users of gigabit fiber. (I'm not 1. 100 is perfect).

Don't get me wrong. The "gig" here has made a major impact. My company is based here and the change in volume/quality of startups from 7 years ago to now is staggering.

But... I'm not sure why Boulder needs this.

I was really interested in this.

The first intriguing thing I found was this product is owned by Dropbox.

Slack eating into Dropbox's territory with (decent) file sharing / searching and Dropbox countering with a alternative chat/ threading app is a nice battle.

Going through YC in 2014 and every single VC asked (and were perplexed) when we told them we were not moving our company to SF/ SV.

That strategy was effectively read as our team signaling we weren't "going for it".

It was joked about how we would have to do board meetings in SF because people wouldn't fly.

I wonder if times have changed or rents just finally got too expensive for the younger tier of VCs.

this is a great comment.