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Came to post the exact same thing. With 20-30% going to insurance/benefits, taxes, misc costs - that's an amazingly low number....even more so considering they're in SF.

The number of shooting stars amazes me.

> You can't have a PR team and a customer service department that makes sure everybody gets a nice reply.

Do you really need a PR/CS team to ensure people get a nice reply? Shouldn't that just be something that a /very nice guy/ would accomplish naturally?

Building something doesn't teach you much about quality if you don't have someone to review/assist every now and then.

Isn't a dozen a small percentage of total YC companies?

Interesting that TS would fund 2 companies basically doing the same thing: https://www.usingmiles.com/ & https://gomiles.com/

There's quite a few airports around the world where you'll run into this sort of scam. In Guadalajara, I've had to pay a "fee" to board a flight that I already had a seat on. In Bangalore I had to pay another fee so that my luggage would not go missing or be damaged.

I didn't get that feeling from the article at all. My brother actually has multiple myeloma as well; he's checked every 3 months to see if the blood levels have spiked and a skeletal survey is done every 6 months. It's almost a certainty that the cancer to start eating away at your bones and you not know it between the skeletal surveys.

I always thought there was a decent community in Dallas, or maybe Alex Muse just convinced me of that.

I'm not sure someone that was going to perform short term contracting during YC would get accepted.

I've seen lots of BI tools used for creating dashboards in Fortune 500s given that most of the data is secure in random databases, mainframes, etc - the most popular of late is QlikView.

That's a pretty steep management fee.

I always assumed it was Matt Maroon punking us.

Images of my old home office, it's relocated and had some additional hardware since:

http://i.imgur.com/o78Ix.jpg

But it still features the belt:

http://i.imgur.com/rK2Bb.jpg

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I've had a 15-30 second delay after clicking onto the comments thread for a few days now.

CheddarGetter.com

Wasn't balsamiq (Peldi) a single founder? I've founded a few startups as a single founder, but they'd most likely be classified as Micro-ISV's instead of startups. But I'm okay with that.

Chargify, CheddarGetter, Spreedly, Zuora, Aria Systems and now Recurly. Seems the space will get crowded quickly.

Any chance that those remote hobby farms actually have high speed internet available in those rural areas?

Health care and the complications of the US tax code.

Hopefully they'll just have video recordings posted online with the slides like previous years.

The realtor themselves don't make that much as it's a pyramid scheme. A realtor splits the commission 50/50 with the broker, and then pays fees (advertising, listing, business expenses, etc) out of their 50%. Take out taxes as well, and real estate, in most markets, ends up being a minimum wage job.

The Lame Ducks will be defending our title this year, after winning last year with MeetInBetween.Us. Bring it.

Team 'The Lame Ducks', previously known as Great Lakes Geeks, will be competing again this year, defending our 2008 win (http://meetinbetween.us). Who else from the HN community will be competing this year?

Personally, having my family to take care of as well as house/car payments makes me think about revenue much earlier in the game, and that's helped tremendously.