Why do you like them? Why are they awesome?
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The other thing to do would be just to have a gentleman's agreement where they sign something (TBH I wouldn't worry with a legal contract initially, if you work with honest customers the gentleman's agreement is OK, and worst case if it was a big deal you could take to court and likely win)
So the agreement would be something like: I'll come up with a name for you, I won't make you pay upfront, but if I come up with one you like and you haven't already thought of it [make them list all the ones they are currently considering upfront], then you'll pay me $500. Reply to this email with your full name if you agree. And then just make sure you follow them on twitter and connect on linkedin or such so that they feel that you would notice if they screwed you over, but like I say I think most people are nice and worrying about getting screwed over is likely premature optimization :-)
I'd suggest buying the former (at least at first).
marketplaces have strong network effects
Would be good to get more info of how much you can make as a developer and how much projects are likely to cost, though.
If that's a correct interpretation, then no, absolutely not. Most engineers (you see this if you sift through linkedin) make far less optimal (I believe) choices than they would by simply picking a Series A/B company backed by a tier one firm like Sequoia/A16Z/Greylock/Benchmark.
And surprisingly, people take very little time to think about what they want, what they care about, what they believe the world needs, what they enjoy, and so on. Doesn't seem like a good idea given they'll/you'll spend 50%+ of your waking hours at work.
(And to be clear -- this is for me to put the 'tool' in front of you, and see why you would/wouldn't use it)
This is great, though.
ray tonsing of caffeinated capital, too
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Even cooler: Print Products!
http://www.apple.com/osx/print-products/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342945)
A 20 page hardcover photo book costs $29.99. This is awesome.
The first paragraph concludes with:
> We have also released two factor authentication and we strongly encourage all users to enable this security feature.
Also, the title of the post is:
> March 2015 Security Incident and the Launch of Two Factor Authentication
They are not pending 2FA anymore.
PSA: If you're starting a company and you haven't watched the YC startup class videos, you should.
I enjoyed reading it, fwiw.
cmd-f: "You'll make more money and have more impact"
A friend and I have been playing around with this chat bot for a bit, and wondered if it would have broader appeal to teams that run on slack.
We are thinking about things like moving 1-1s to slack, weekly goal updates, etc.
If you're on a team and would want to use it, put in an email and one of us will contact you and get you set up ASAP.
As I said at the top, apologies for the barren-ness of the launch page. I was lazy with the launch page.
Feel free to add questions here.
I think it's a cool little bot that is also an interesting concept. Do you agree?
To job seekers, Andy Rachleff (Benchmark), Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook/Asana), and Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) suggest choosing a company on a breakout trajectory. [My addition: whose mission & team you strongly align with. [1]]
If you join a company, my general advice is to join a company on a breakout trajectory. There are a usually a handful of these at a time, and they are usually identifiable to a smart young person. They are a very good risk/reward tradeoff. Such a company is almost certainly going to be successful, but the rest of the world isn’t quite as convinced of it as they should be.
- Sam Altman
Just goes to show that this is definitely a great time to raise money!
Personally, I think Slack is smart to take the cash, although obviously it's going to require some serious discipline from them to make sure that it only helps them rather than hinders them.
I'm not an employee/investor/etc but I've been convincing freinds to apply to work at slack recently, I think if you are obsessed with productivity tools or communication tools, Slack, Asana or Quip are all companies worth looking at.
There's a compiled set of info on working at slack [1]. Disclaimer: I compiled it!
Back to my first point - now they have a ton of cash to hire a ton of people - very curious to see @slack in 6-12 months.
Create an awesome framework that people want to use (Meteor started out as a travel guide site, I believe, and other YC batchmates wanted to use their web framework)
Step number two:
Keep building the web framework
Step number three:
Raise money to keep building that framework, with a partner who believes for the long term
Step number four:
Keep being awesome, and become the tool that a ton of devs want to use
Step number five:
Monetize with your own enterprise support and hosting