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- This has changed - at least for me, in the US, Airbnb shows all-in pricing.
- You’re spot on. Bootstrapping a reputation is really hard (and expensive), and the very painful accreditation process makes it much harder (need students to get accredited, can’t offer degree to students without accreditation).
Two good colleges who’ve overcome the challenges recently are Olin (engineering school in Boston) and Minerva (globally distributed college).
- I bought an M2 iMac for my parents. It’ll last at least five years for them - likely closer to 10. At that point, I’m happy to recycle or donate it and get them a new iMac - likely with some major updates (form factor? Display? Etc?) that wouldn’t get with a RAM / CPU upgrade.
Spending ~$150-$300/year for them to have an easy to use & fast computer feels very worth it for me.
All that said - I would love for the machine to be upgradeable as well! Just explaining why it’s not a dealbreaker.
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- Congrats on the launch! Curious how you fit into the landscape of award travel tolls like point.me and seats.aero. What are you doing differently & who’s your target user?
- This is Coase's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
- Have heard similar things from friends, who were then able to get access via AWS
- The chili & other crockpot recipes were still going strong in S12 ("crockpots scale linearly with number of startups") - but pg was no longer cooking.
Batch dinners are catered these days and have been for a while.
- If you back up the iPad locally, will it back up Procreate data? I would expect it to...
- I remember loving the "Wishbone" shows on PBS as a kid... this reminds me of that but 100x better (kids are reading along with the movie, not having the movie replace the book). Love it!
- This podcast is wonderful – I'd recommend starting with the Paul Graham espisode.
- All sorts of things. Therapy. Psilocibin. A girlfriend (now wife) with a wildly different worldview than my own. Retreats. Meditation. ‘Conscious community”. Workshops. Yoga.
- The best part is you can. Not saying it’s easy (and certainly far easier for some people than others), but how you react to events is one of the very few things that’s actually under your control.
Some of the most useful self-work I’ve done, for sure.
- For Harvard, that's not true – financial aid covers the cost of room and board.
(There is a student contribution of ~$3,000/year, which is fairly easily met through on campus jobs).
- Making an app you spend significant time in every day more useful & powerful can be a path to PMF (see Slack vs Hipchat, for example)
I’d argue Superhuman does have PMF - just in a smaller market of email power users.
- Your argument is a “unique insight” isn’t enough to provide an enduring competitive advantage (or “moat”). But that’s not what the OP is talking about.
A unique insight (and great timing / market) is often enough to get to early PMF (and - like you mention - to Series A).
- I’ve seen sim swaps to get desirable instagram handles. I have to believe it’s easier to extract money from a PayPal account takeover than insta.
- FB engineer explained they always rolled features out to New Zealand first - similar user behavior as the US but outside the eye of the tech press & smaller market (so less risk).
- <nit> The philosophy behind hospice is that you are *not* hooked up to all sorts of medical equipment. Rather, you only receive the minimal treatment needed to make yourself comfortable as you let your illness run its course. </nit>
- It’s not that bad. It’s normal to have your car window broken overnight or to see people shoplifting openly at the pharmacy or grocery store. In certain parts of the city there’s fairly open drug dealing & use. And the homelessness is heartbreaking.
Violent crime / theft happens - but not at a noticeably different rate than other large cities.
Still the most beautiful city in the US (imo) and the natural beauty 30 min outside the city in any direction is insane.
- That looks like holdings for their public equities fund. The article is about their venture fund, a separate vehicle.
- At Clever we include this in our privacy policy. It caused no problems when we sold our company last year:
> In the event of a change of control: If we sell, divest or transfer our business, we will not transfer personal information of our customers unless the new owner intends to maintain and provide the Service as a going concern, and provided that the new owner has agreed to data privacy standards no less stringent than our own. In such case we will provide you with notice and an opportunity to opt-out of the transfer of personally identifiable Student Data.
- This might be the individuals clicking to request edit access on the Doc: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6239515?hl=en&co=GENI...
- Gas powered leaf blowers are horrible - noise and air pollution. Electric ones aren't bad.
- I think you missed the “wasn’t” in this sentence:
> it wasn't based on my answers to soft questions
- Congratulations, Zach! Codecademy was a huge inspiration for me and a whole generation of edtech founders. It’s been amazing watching the company transition from a wildly viral consumer company to an enterprise powerhouse.
- “Here’s the link to my calendly. If you don’t see anything that works in the next week or so, just send me over a few times that would work for you & I can reshuffle things to make one of them work.”
I'd document that mobile Opera with Javascript disabled is an unsupported config, and ask a team to make a help center doc asking mobile Opera users to enable JS.