jasonlbaptiste

You should def give Algolia and Typesense a try. You can get 10k in free Algolia credits for the first year too via Secret (startup deals site).

Yes. You will now have a blank Check for the rest of your life:

1- you won’t need to work again. This lets you work on what you want next.

2- you’re very likely to get funded 2m for the next thing. This sale gives you a big stamp.

In short, this game is never about just one company. Get the 14m, stay hungry, and go for the 400m sale on the next.

Play the fucking long game and play it on your terms.

Bleecker Street Pizza is my favorite.

i literally LOL'd at this :)

good group of companies. See the need for a CDN that can handle television volume audiences. Symple makes a lot of sense. Basically, bill.com that doesn't suck/feel dated.

Terrible analogy. Star Wars fans everywhere loved it to the tune of 2 billion dollars + and 90%+ on rotten tomatoes. As for the next one, Rogue One, earned over a billion dollars, making it the second largest opening this year. Episode VIII will do very well.

Yes, there were issues with Ep VII. No, those issues did not make it not awesome.

Insurance billing. These need to be exact in order to correlate to a) rates negotiated b) data collected for future underwriting c) exact repayment. Medical billing is a crazy world.

Bingo.

This has an even better "turn" on money. Basically, it's not getting money today that would take 30 days, it's really getting money today that might take another 5 days. That means there can be 73 turns per year vs. the 12 turns.

This is still much better than a payday loan btw.

Wrong. This is true for long term rentals, but not for vacation rentals. I.e. - anyone can manage a vacation rental, but you need to be a broker to manage an apartment that is leased for 12 months.

Morsel | NYC and ONSITE

To apply, go here: https://angel.co/morselclub/jobs/121420-senior-full-stack-en...

Come help us build the "Nike of Food". We're working to improve the well-being of the world through better nutrition. We're not just a software company, but a vertically integrated company that makes all of the food ourselves. Software is the secret sauce that lets us do this efficiently.

This is a senior role in the company and you'll be one of the early employees, reporting directly to the CEO.

What We're Looking For

- Javascript, HTML, CSS on the front-end - Your choice of back-end language: RoR, Python, Node, etc. - Experience working with Amazon AWS - Experience working with a database of your choice - Experience working with a startup before and helping lead teams - A desire to get it done right instead of getting it done as fast as possible - Ability to communicate with the rest of the team - An appreciation for design and UX

What You'll Be Building

- External facing products that interact directly with the consumer - Internal systems that help make the kitchen run more efficiently - Artificial intelligence systems that help guide and inform the decisions that the team makes internally

That was announced after this post.

This x1000. I can't tell you how much better traveling internationally is with T-Mobile. I always have service and it's useful for maps, trip advisor, foursquare, google, email access, etc. It's not super fast as it's 2G, but it totally gets the job done. I'm surprised none of the others have tried to match this.

Overall, the service/connectivity is great as well in the US. They were also the first with wifi calling. Highly recommend to anyone.

Totally, but even if it was say a 500k contract, you chalk it up as a loss and don't release it.

Why? This doesn't make logical sense. It's a large company with enough resources. I get that the Mac is a lower priority, but why put your name on anything this bad. It's pretty clear how you should approach this:

a) We're going to do this and we'll do it right. It might be a smaller audience, but if we release this product under our name it will be awesome.

b) This isn't a priority, so we're not going to ship something half baked and outsource it. Here's a link to TweetDeck and TweetBot.

Hey, you should talk to Andres Barreto, I'll intro - j@jasonlbaptiste.com He runs a small seed fund and connects Colombian engineers with US startups. It's a great program and I've hired from it before.

Ps- ignore any discouraging comments. Fight hard and you can get what you want. Best of luck

Not true at all - HuffPo has grown, Adapt.tv is a big win, 5Min was the foundation for video (they're top 3 now), Weblogs Inc setup content division, etc. I'm sure there are some bad deals done, but they've had a great track record on buying+integrating.

Snapchat will be a brand advertising play. Go ask any large brand advertiser whether teens are an important market.

Facebook and Instagram usage would say otherwise - they're still there. Yes, apps can get dropped, but how ingrained it is in their life is not to be understated.

No, if they wanted to cash out, they could sell more. Go search home screen on Twitter, you'll see it's installed by as many young kids as Facebook (in some cases more). Monetization isn't easy here, but it is totally feasible with an audience like this.

What are the best resources to learn more about mesh networking? I've been fascinated with it and trying to soak up as much information as possible.

I'm trying to understand what advances there have been in reduction of speed over multi hop networks. That's the biggest issue I see, is that people want high speeds, but mesh networks at a large scale might make that difficult. Multi-frequency radios can only go so far.

Thank you Armando. We would have been nothing without you and I owe you a ton of gratitude for joining us so early on. Miss you man.

+1 to this. as much as i despise IAB sized advertising, it is the standard and you'll get more adoption.

This is great. You should work to get publishers to donate x% of ad inventory to charity of their choosing. They can then write off the inventory's value for tax purposes too.

This is a really good article. There's no exact path, though startup media likes to make you think there is. Raise tons of money? Raise no money? Ad supported? SaaS? Is this trend over? None of it really matters. Go for what you will commit yourself to, put a plan to it, and make sure that you're happy with what it can produce. That's the biggest issue. Many founders will start lifestyle businesses, want to turn them into VC backed ones, and start to mutate what they're working on. During that mutation things go very awry. Know who you are and embrace it.

The propublica article opened my eyes to many things. It's a 134 billion dollar a year market that's highly fragmented - top 4 largest only account for 11% of the market. Sounds like a problem for software.

Taskrabbit is for tasks, which are great, but not in as much demand as weekly, monthly, or even daily stints. Think the local starbucks, a small business around the holiday hours, or even accounting (Robert Half is big on this).

Overall, it has the potential for a very large impact and massive business. Look at the jobs report today. If you could more efficiently help employ 1 million people the economy is improved. You're also looking at one of the largest workforces and businesses in the country.

btw, sounds like you know Andres and I. Can't tell who this is by your username. Feel free to drop me a line - j@jasonlbaptiste.com

this would be for physical work and less for odesk/elance type of jobs that can be virtual. think accountants, on site employees in retail, etc.

Temp agencies employ 2.6 million people a year in the US. It's fragmented and inefficient in a way that is mildly predatory to workers. My guess is that software could replace the temp agency middleman and help "employ" 1 million+ folks.

this is very nice. im literally in the middle of booking a few weeks in greece with my girlfriend. trying to figure out the hotels on the different islands is a pain in the ass. will give you more feedback after using it a bit more.

It's a high ask, but there's a fundamental difference between iAd talked about in this article and the million dollar commitment iAd they started off as. The original vision for iAd was branding campaigns ie-tv and magazine like campaigns. A million dollars minimum and from Apple isn't crazy at first glance. What they're focused on now, especially in this article, is CPI app installs. Totally different markets.

Yep, but I think that's due to the print nature.

Google is a mix of paid and free.