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eskimoroll

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About eskimoroll

entrepreneur, kayaker.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #6785332

    "We expected and encouraged teams to take advantage of existing APIs and services they’ve written to create a great mobile app. " That line upsets me. They absolutely did not encou…

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    Comment #6782516

    Wow, that's messed up. My team and I could have tacked on Salesforce to our existing product (like several of the top teams), but we read over the rules several times and made the …

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    Comment #6072822

    This is a major bummer. I wanted to push out some more TestFlight builds yesterday and have been in limbo ever since.

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    Comment #4655668

    They don't read books at HBS. Instead students go through about 600 cases over the course of two years. The cases are interesting but the bulk of the learning comes from how the pr…

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    Comment #4655647

    Actually that's a fair statement as living expenses are equal to tuition in places like Boston. Add to that the opportunity costs of two years of deferred salary (on average close …

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    Comment #4653925

    Will lots of people pay you lots of money for it? If not, will lots of people pay you a little money for it? If not, will a few people pay you a lot of money for it? Any of the abo…

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    Comment #4653901

    The author lost me at "much of the actual content of the program focus on corporate skills and how to network to get a job." He has obviously never been near a real MBA program. Af…

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    Ask HN: What is the best way to train new users on software?

    I'm a grad student who is currently building a software startup with a couple co-founders. While our end goal is to build software that helps people share files/relationships/email…

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    Comment #4653817

    So is your value add that you are actively steering traffic to the test sites (Google Consumer Surveys, Amazon Mechanical Turk, etc.) or simply creating basic landing pages and rel…

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    Comment #4649982

    VCs are needed as an asset class because there is a market opportunity to service a small segment of the population that are trying to create high risk, capital light, and high gro…

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    Comment #4649941

    Interesting. So it's a cheaper and lighter weight version of Unbounce. It definitely could be of use for super early stage startups.