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The why and what of any business capability is also a translation. From market needs and signals to requirements and features.

There were definitely bad actors in the pandemic PPE procurement rush. It's mostly cleaned up now (prices/availability are more reasonable) but we would start to see all the lawsui…

Cheqout (YC W21) | San Francisco, CA We're an in-person ordering & payments platform for restaurants and hiring for engineering & sales. We've raised enough that we are doubling ou…

Cheqout (YC W21) | Elixir / React | San Francisco, US | Full-Time We're an in-person ordering & payments platform for restaurants, just finished YC and have raised a few million $ …

Cheqout YC W21 | Elixir Engineer | Full-time | San Francisco | https://cheqout.com Cheqout provides in-person ordering and payment for local businesses starting with restaurants. W…

Cheqout YC W21 | Sales & Engineering | San Francisco Bay Area / New York | https://www.cheqout.co Cheqout is an in-person ordering & payments platform. Our first vertical helps the…

Cheqout.co (YC W21 (current batch)) | https://cheqout.co | San Francisco Bay Area, will consider same time zone remote In-person dining ordering & payments platform. Post-revenue. …

Been helping a 501c3 charity buy PPE for donation send to individual healthcare workers. https://www.humankindnow.org (work is still ongoing. After starting with hospitals/critical…

No need if you can have the drive unit changed just off the highway in a well mapped/instrumented yard. eg. highway (fully automated truck) yard (switch out container/trailer from …

Starting up: expect lots of discomfort. There's so much bigCo support you have to re-build and it is hard to hire. It might be better to spend 6mths - 1yr at A/B stage co first the…

Grab | Senior Engineers + Other Opportunities | Seattle, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines | ONSITE Help drive Southeast Asia forward. We've raised $8 Billion to…

200 coming in cold is too high without a solid record / examples / focused vertical. Have paid 200/hr easily and was happy for a 2 month project with a specific scope ( needed a so…

In the spirit of hacking to make things better(while waiting for Slack to launch their feature...) I bolted on message threading onto Slack. It consists of a two part effort. First…

This "They'd need to solve payment collection;" is an intriguing problem if it is still present. The spate of startups (doordash/postmates/et.al) solves the problem (and more) but …

I'ld add that drone delivery for takeout would be a nice win, given that most restaurants that deliver are already limited to nearby locations and speed is desired. With a proviso …

yeah.. the beauty of the rocket cost asymmetry means they only need to do it 'sometimes' and not all the time to drastically reduce launch costs. (75% of cost is in the first stage…

We have a prototype threading implementation for Slack. Drop a line to @gmail.com if interested to test.

+1. Having something that can use the existing rail infrastructure in off periods would be great as a transitional adoption method. That way you have time to address the institutio…

In the 4 minute / 40 people scenario, you're only talking about 10 people every minute. 10 pods stationed at that stop solves it. Now, everyone doesn't wait 3-4 minutes. They just …

This has a great (and updated) set of links for all PRT efforts http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick.htm

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