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It depends if you plan on working in big Companies or small to medium size Companies/startups. Large public Companies (assuming we are talking about a case against a public Company…

What made competing with Coinbase so hard? the fact that Coinbase was so well funded?

I did a blog post about that: http://2pasc.com/2012/05/18/the-power-law-of-startup-employe... Overall - it depends when you get in, and its valuation potential at exit. Companies w…

You should contact GrubMarket and apply to work for them - they are YC + funded + in the same space as PearMarket. cs@grubmarket.com

First of all - nobody has been serious about monetizing messaging yet in the US apart from Tango. Kik, Snapchat and FB Messenger have barely started doing anything. Second of all, …

How can a partner know you are not going to compete with him/her? I mean a lot of the recent services you guys launched (Essentials, Alchohol, Flowers) show some kind of vertical i…

This is human nature. You have these guys in NYC, in DC, in LA, in Connecticut - everywhere where there is money. Even among investors at second or third tier firms, you have folks…

What you are talking about is a new phenomenon. Silicon Valley in 2008 was different - rents were lower, and $120K with 2 kids and one income was OK. There has been a dramatic incr…

What you are talking about is a new phenomenon. Silicon Valley in 2008 was different - rents were lower, and $120K with 2 kids and one income was OK. There has been a dramatic incr…

1/ They mention drivers making $1000/week. 2/ Smarter drivers are driving very gas efficient cars with much lower gas costs 3/ Wages are way better if you drive during peak hours. …

Quite honestly - do you believe that making more than $50,000 per year for a HS grad is a bad thing? I am not saying that they should not make more, but for most non college educat…

Quite honestly - do you believe that making more than $50,000 per year for a HS grad is a bad thing? I am not saying that they should not make more, but for most non college educat…

I actually disagree. It seems crazy - yes. But, in Europe you have many families that have a maid that does a little bit of everything. These maids are super expensive here - only …

There is a big difference between - delivering food you have in your trunk in under 10 minutes, and what Postmates or Caviar does. It seems UberFresh is closer to a Sprig/Spoonrock…

That is for sure. But it is also assuming that stores know how to generate demand for their restaurant. The way they have out-executed Postmates is really crazy.

It's incredible how fast Uber executes: they launched in the same month: 1/moving in Atlanta 2/convenience store in DC 3/lunch in LA 4/ride-sharing in SF The one thing I am not sur…

Could you contact me? (plg at name of my company in my hn profile) thx

Theoretically, you are right. But SMBs have heard of Foursquare and this is invaluable for them as this is how they are going to make money in the end. As for consumers - you are r…

that's true and they are impressive - and I know that because one of my previous Companies got a term sheet from them and they made their decision super fast.

Sure. But YC was started in 2005 or something. this was a very different market. Sequoia benefitted from he YC deal flow early on from founders who might have not even considered t…

Ask them about it: https://www.facebook.com/LollyWollyDoodle

It's worth noting that Sequoia invested in YC early on, which gave them a preferential portfolio access I assume. The beauty of the model is not that YC has a portfolio worth $1B o…

Actually, you forgot one step: 4. GSX vans pick up the goods and deliver to GSX warehouse 5. GSX van #2 pick up at warehouse and delivers to consumers. GSX vans have to do 5 delive…