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I've seen a few friends go down this path, happy to introduce you if you're interested. Contact info is in my profile.

When you buy a qualifying print-edition book from Amazon you can get the Kindle edition on Matchbook for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.* * Applies to past, present, and future purch…

If you're interested in a front-end position at SurveyMonkey, feel free to get in touch--we're hiring right now and, having joined recently, I can say it's an awesome place to work…

For what it's worth, this isn't the case at SurveyMonkey.

I'd say 90% of us are out of there by 5:30.

We've been getting a lot of great press recently (we were featured on The View a few weeks ago) and are growing quickly. Too quickly, in fact, for our current team to handle...so w…

We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-bu…

We did Y Combinator in the summer of 2009 and have since raised $12M+ and over the last 2 years have become the leading innovator in the online autos space. We are looking for an a…

Bay Area, CA. Come hack the auto industry at CarWoo! (YCS09) ----------------------------------------------- We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the onlin…

We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-bu…

Consistency of (beautiful) hardware design. Existing ergonomic keyboards are just plain ugly and it's a shame to pair them with Apple devices.

Agreed. An ergonomic mouse would be great too. Apple's mouse is beautiful, but it's one of the worst possible designs in terms of ergonomics.

I think it's a mistake to categorize all web startups as belonging to the "web startup" industry. Even though we (CarWoo! YCS09) are a web startup, we see ourselves primarily as a …

It's not classic, but it is a diversified portfolio. YC invests in startups across all industries--automotive, mobile, health, financial, entertainment, etc.--which presumably is l…

This isn't generally the case anymore--funding rounds these days tend to assign a 1X liquidation preference to both common and preferred shares, so assuming that a company gets acq…

We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-bu…

Thanks for the shout-out Sachin! Minor detail, but important: CarWoo! doesn't handle CPO yet, only new (current model-year) cars.

You're already ahead of the pack just by realizing that, though. Good luck to you. Feel free to reach out if you want any help.

Very little risk has been taken out until you've found product/market fit. Unfortunately, ideation and fundraising don't eliminate risk, they're the easy parts.