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iseff

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About iseff

Ian Sefferman

http://www.iseff.com http://twitter.com/iseff iseff@iseff.com

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    Goodbill | Full Stack Engineer | Anywhere in the US | Remote | Full-time Goodbill saves people money on hospital bills by identifying billing errors and inflated charges. We're a s…

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    Goodbill | Full Stack Engineer | Anywhere in the US | Remote | Full-time Goodbill saves people money on hospital bills by identifying billing errors and inflated charges. We're a s…

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    Ask HN: Are you a book lover? Give us feedback

    Are you a book lover? My co-founder and I built this tiny app over the last few days because we often find books on Twitter, but forget them. It's a work in progress, but the workf…

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    There's almost no clearer indication that the speed of business is quickening at an amazing pace. In the scooter world, the land grab is on, and everyone is looking at ride sharing…

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    Speed is one of the most underemphasized traits of a great VC for founders. While fundraising, a quick yes is the best answer, but a quick no is the second best. Investors who foll…

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    This is correct. The vast majority of funds have at least 1% committed by GPs. This is what Fred means when he writes, "The partners at USV make up a sizeable portion of our funds.…

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    Comment #5680219

    We do a lot of crawling various data sources. We spent over 3 years building a really great infrastructure to do this well. This is how we can present rank tracking for you and you…

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    Comment #5680146

    I'm a founder and CEO at MobileDevHQ[1], a startup focused on App Store optimization. We have been doing this work for almost a year and a half now and have built powerful tools fo…

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    Comment #5670514

    Great point. Engineers sometimes like to see the broken in the world. Leaders need to have the tendency to see the possibilities. Emotional Intelligence is so, so hard (and somethi…

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    Totally true. In our case, it was after our seed round, once we were able to start selling and we felt as though we have proved the initial idea as being worthwhile to customers. W…

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    Comment #5408147

    Is it just me, or is half the craziness of this that Jeff Bezos took off 3 weeks to be at sea?

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