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Avalara just went public and is benefitting from the ruling: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/avalara-stock-soars-following-...

I’ve been through M&A twice from the selling side and once from the buying side. You need an LOI before you turn anything over you wouldn’t tell a potential investor. NDA should have been the first thing done before talking in detail. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk confidentially through the process.

Edit: if they are keeping the product/tech you should have them value it based on future expectations of value. It’s less of an acquihire in that case. Don’t take an acquihire price if they’re going to immediately realize more value than they’re paying you to take a job.

I can't speak to alternatives (I don't know of any with a comparable feature set unfortunately) but I do want to clarify that this was not due to the acquisition. You'll have to take my word for it, but the planning for this deprecation was underway more than a year before we started talking to buyers. This product was just not commercially viable despite being very useful.

I used this exact same method.

I really like how this looks and I bought one to try out. I wish it were standalone and Z-wave (or similar protocol) with Wink (or similar) support. I hate having a different app for every device.

Great. We had to roll our own receipt emails using the old subscriptions to get this feature (along with card expiring/expired call outs).

Good explanation of why that's not practical from a long-time goalie: https://deadspin.com/1824202533

If anyone has any questions, let me know.

I think this is the result of the Bitium acquisition.

Zapier is doing amazing, but it would be a few more years to IPO. They announced 35M in ARR in January. Probably need to get that over 200 to IPO.

APIs

Just keep their current pricing as-is until the next time they need to change plans.

It happens. Option grants require board approval or are sometimes waiting on new 409a valuations. It would be nice to turn them all around quickly but it’s not always feasible. The advice quoted is good advice.

Get a car with CarPlay or Android Auto

It does a lot of the heavy lifting for credit cards, but is nowhere near a full billing system for SaaS. It’s why things like Churnbuster and BareMetrics exist. About 20% of our customers need to pay with something other than a CC, which complicates billing even further.

Email is in the profile if you ever want to chat

There might be, but our experiences running our original product[0] are contrary to that. Happy to chat about it if you’d like.

[0]: https://www.runscope.com/docs/debugging

Since there are people from NYT here, can you point me in a direction to help figure out why my streaks have been all messed up the past few months? Not sure if it's an app bug or something on the backend, but puzzles are retroactively being marked as being completed perfectly when they're not. Email in bio if you'd like to discuss more.

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I'm a little busy running around today getting situated at CA, but I'll check in on the comments throughout the day in case anyone has any questions.

I personally don’t miss MagSafe like I thought I would. I’d rather have charging ports on both sides like the current MBP.

You can remove Siri in preferences.

Agreed. But please keep the Touch ID button.

Powered by Twilio: https://twitter.com/jeffiel/status/912775401084035072

Might be limited to Route 53: https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Good luck!

Looks like it is using https://www.npmjs.com/package/swagpi

Neither does this episode.

MaxMind works great for us.