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I think that’s part of it but it’s also the natural consequence of having several people on one side of the table trying to find out everything they can from the founders in a very…

Honestly there aren’t a lot of products that were funded this way so I can’t point you to specific resources. In our case the funding came prepaid with no strings attached. Can’t s…

Cool. We got the first 120k from I think around 12 companies. It followed close to a power law distribution, very long tail. Our strategy was to encourage developers to talk to the…

It’s not too far off. Here’s how I’d look at it: $180k base salary is appropriate but most of those people are expecting stock options as well (compare to Levels) so the fully load…

Cofounder here again. I just wanted to say that while we’re sad to shut down and definitely didn’t accomplish everything we wanted to we are deeply grateful for having had the chan…

You’re welcome! Hope you’re doing well! (For those who don’t know, all the partners in a YC interview ask questions of everyone simultaneously— this is complicated at the best of t…

Happy to — it’s a great question! I want all software to be open source but we really haven’t figured out how to fund many types of open source projects yet. - Database appliances …

Interesting question. I think there are two angles: 1. Having already shut down and the team gone separate ways and onto new projects how much would you need to get back on the hor…

Cofounder here. We’re surprised and flattered at the interest and discussion. For those wondering why we shut down here’s a brief summary: We created Flynn to be Heroku that you co…