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jasonlbaptiste

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About jasonlbaptiste

Living: NYC

Helping publishers optimize and monetize their content for the tablet web. Personal Site: http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com

Email me about anything j [at] jasonlbaptiste DOT com (except Viagra and for claiming $50m from a king in Nigeria)

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    You should def give Algolia and Typesense a try. You can get 10k in free Algolia credits for the first year too via Secret (startup deals site).

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    Comment #15315521

    Yes. You will now have a blank Check for the rest of your life: 1- you won’t need to work again. This lets you work on what you want next. 2- you’re very likely to get funded 2m fo…

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    Comment #14841798

    can you make this for hot dogs please? id like to know if the pic has a hot dog or a not hot dog.

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    Comment #14470149

    Bleecker Street Pizza is my favorite.

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    Comment #13923823

    i literally LOL'd at this :)

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    Comment #13646359

    good group of companies. See the need for a CDN that can handle television volume audiences. Symple makes a lot of sense. Basically, bill.com that doesn't suck/feel dated.

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    Comment #13523219

    Terrible analogy. Star Wars fans everywhere loved it to the tune of 2 billion dollars + and 90%+ on rotten tomatoes. As for the next one, Rogue One, earned over a billion dollars, …

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    Comment #12783710

    Insurance billing. These need to be exact in order to correlate to a) rates negotiated b) data collected for future underwriting c) exact repayment. Medical billing is a crazy worl…

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    Comment #12536785

    Bingo. This has an even better "turn" on money. Basically, it's not getting money today that would take 30 days, it's really getting money today that might take another 5 days. Tha…

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    Comment #12493864

    Wrong. This is true for long term rentals, but not for vacation rentals. I.e. - anyone can manage a vacation rental, but you need to be a broker to manage an apartment that is leas…

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    Comment #11612832

    Morsel | NYC and ONSITE To apply, go here: https://angel.co/morselclub/jobs/121420-senior-full-stack-en... Come help us build the "Nike of Food". We're working to improve the well-…

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    Comment #10910143

    That was announced after this post.

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    Comment #10827028

    This x1000. I can't tell you how much better traveling internationally is with T-Mobile. I always have service and it's useful for maps, trip advisor, foursquare, google, email acc…

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    Comment #10815518

    Totally, but even if it was say a 500k contract, you chalk it up as a loss and don't release it.

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    Comment #10815479

    Why? This doesn't make logical sense. It's a large company with enough resources. I get that the Mac is a lower priority, but why put your name on anything this bad. It's pretty cl…

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    Hey, you should talk to Andres Barreto, I'll intro - j@jasonlbaptiste.com He runs a small seed fund and connects Colombian engineers with US startups. It's a great program and I've…

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    Comment #9532520

    Not true at all - HuffPo has grown, Adapt.tv is a big win, 5Min was the foundation for video (they're top 3 now), Weblogs Inc setup content division, etc. I'm sure there are some b…

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