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kapitti

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    Comment #2875775

    Came to post the exact same thing. With 20-30% going to insurance/benefits, taxes, misc costs - that's an amazingly low number....even more so considering they're in SF.

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    Comment #2270672

    The number of shooting stars amazes me.

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    Comment #2152466

    > You can't have a PR team and a customer service department that makes sure everybody gets a nice reply. Do you really need a PR/CS team to ensure people get a nice reply? Shouldn…

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    Comment #2069956

    Building something doesn't teach you much about quality if you don't have someone to review/assist every now and then.

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    Comment #1976396

    Isn't a dozen a small percentage of total YC companies?

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    Comment #1896125

    Interesting that TS would fund 2 companies basically doing the same thing: https://www.usingmiles.com/ & https://gomiles.com/

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    Comment #1824222

    There's quite a few airports around the world where you'll run into this sort of scam. In Guadalajara, I've had to pay a "fee" to board a flight that I already had a seat on. In Ba…

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    Comment #1778930

    I didn't get that feeling from the article at all. My brother actually has multiple myeloma as well; he's checked every 3 months to see if the blood levels have spiked and a skelet…

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    Comment #1738091

    I always thought there was a decent community in Dallas, or maybe Alex Muse just convinced me of that.

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    Comment #1714671

    I'm not sure someone that was going to perform short term contracting during YC would get accepted.

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    Comment #1632042

    I've seen lots of BI tools used for creating dashboards in Fortune 500s given that most of the data is secure in random databases, mainframes, etc - the most popular of late is Qli…

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    Comment #1465504

    https://squadedit.com/

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    Comment #1368307

    http://pick.im/

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    Comment #1368207

    That's a pretty steep management fee.

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    Comment #1345627

    I always assumed it was Matt Maroon punking us.

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    Comment #1313034

    Images of my old home office, it's relocated and had some additional hardware since: http://i.imgur.com/o78Ix.jpg But it still features the belt: http://i.imgur.com/rK2Bb.jpg

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    Comment #1283382

    I've had a 15-30 second delay after clicking onto the comments thread for a few days now.

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    Comment #1279706

    http://www.bradcolbow.com/archive.php/?p=225

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    Comment #1266638

    https://squadedit.com/

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    Comment #1206998

    CheddarGetter.com

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    Comment #1045771

    Wasn't balsamiq (Peldi) a single founder? I've founded a few startups as a single founder, but they'd most likely be classified as Micro-ISV's instead of startups. But I'm okay wit…

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    Comment #947406

    Chargify, CheddarGetter, Spreedly, Zuora, Aria Systems and now Recurly. Seems the space will get crowded quickly.

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    Comment #918567

    Any chance that those remote hobby farms actually have high speed internet available in those rural areas?

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    Comment #914038

    Health care and the complications of the US tax code.