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jzd131

16 karma · joined September 9, 2011

Co-Founder & CMO of SaleMove
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jzd131··on Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage
I find it interesting when employees ask for this without reducing pay. They then think it’s a 20% reduction as it’s 20% less work. But then you factor the overhead including normal overhead like benefits, HR, office space and additional overhead like management (a manager can only many so many people so now we need two managers for a group) and your at around a 40% reduction in pay to support one less day of output.
jzd131··on Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae
I get sick every time I eat fake eggs made from Algae- this makes a lot of senseto me.
jzd131··on Ask HN: How to become a vegan?
I became vegan for heath reasons at the same time I started my company (around 5 years ago). I believe it has allowed my body to stay young and my alertness to go up.

Starting out you just think of it as one meal at a time... this meal I won't eat anything with animal protein. Then one week at a time and before you know it you will pass the 90-day mark which is when you stop being hungry all the time and/or craving meat at all.

Another thing to note is I never really think of myself as a "vegan", just someone that is extremely picky and won't eat anything with animal protein :)

Do take b12 supplements, though- I found my eye to be drooping when I became tired because I was deficient. After taking the b12 I was back to normal.

jzd131··on Webcam spying without turning on the LED
This is from 2013, I would bet it is not possible in 2016. Anyone find anything that proves otherwise?
jzd131··on API Documentation and the Communication Illusion
Check out http://apifortress.com/ I believe they do the exact testing your looking for.
jzd131··on Become Estonia’s e-resident
Most of the team of my startup SaleMove is in Tartu! This is yet another example of how great Estonia is for tech. If you want to develop for a great startup there reach out on our website!
jzd131··on Show HN: Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it
They should list the price on the website
jzd131··on The Hacking Business Model
Its an interesting concept. However, it may never work for one simple reason "risk". When my partners and I started our company the risk that we took was astronomical, leaving our high-paid jobs, masters, phd's to start a company. This risk needs to be rewarded and it is via equity. Building a company that is there only for its employees does not provide the founders with enough reward to warrant the risk.

This does not include the stress it takes to start and run a company, that stress should be equally as rewarded.

jzd131··on How We Found All Of Optimizley’s Clients
How do you do that?
jzd131··on How We Found All Of Optimizley’s Clients
Really cool stuff - though I wish the result limit was moved up to 100 cause a lot of the first page results are repeats
jzd131··on Screw live chat, I'm calling customer service
This is exactly why we are building our company SaleMove for sales not customer service
jzd131··on InstallMonetizer quietly starts editing website, privacy policy
Sounds like spam software to me...
jzd131··on Patent Trolls Eat Startups First. Here’s What You Can Do About It
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-patent-trolls...
jzd131··on Ask HN: How many of you have flexible work hours?
I have flexible hours, I am a founder so the only thing that can flex is the number of hours I can sleep. All other hours goes towards the company
jzd131··on Launch Early, Launch Simple, and Test
I think it is different when you are selling to enterprises, they will only be so forgiving. What do you think?
jzd131··on Car Dealers Sue Tesla, Citing State Franchise Laws
This law is sure to go away. The fact is that the future of car sales is the internet.

Here is an excerpt from my blog: "According to a Polk and Autotrader.com study, 70% of new and used car buyers use the internet while shopping for their vehicle, with 58% of all buyers listing the internet as the most influential element in their car buying process. But the online car buying process doesn’t stop there. In fact, eBay Motors has sold 4.62 million passenger vehicles solely online since its inception."

See the post here:http://salemove.com/buying-a-car-on-the-internet/

jzd131··on Buying a car on the Internet
Carwoo seems like a really interesting concept and the website looks great! In spending time with dealers, they are constantly worried about driving prices down below what a customer would actually think is a fair profit for the dealership. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts about the commoditization of cars?
jzd131··on How do you stop online students cheating?
I think it comes down to one statement: Life is open Google, so school should be also.
jzd131··on The Startup Hustler
I am curious of their business model. Do you pay hourly for the "hustlers" or do you only have to pay when they bring on customers. I think for this to work, Elastic Sales would have to vet their customers to make sure that they had real business models with sellable products.
jzd131··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Non-Programmers?
haha, love the comment. I was a Management consultant and I felt the exact same way, the only way out for me was to start my own company - SaleMove. It is a lot harder, but yet much more rewording
jzd131··on CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3
Any news on when the beta version will be released?
jzd131··on Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds
The boarding pass should never be shown at the gate, instead you should show your ID. The agent would then check it to make sure its real and then scan it to see if your in the database to fly that day. It is a simple solution, Someone needs to build a device that can read 90% of IDs.