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thirru

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About thirru

Hardware Entrepreneur & Co-Founder, Shape (YCS15)

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    Comment #18592411

    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com/careers/ ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | 3D Computer Vision ▪ Sr EE ▪ Sr Data Scientist ▪ Sr ME ▪ and more | $120…

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    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com/careers/ ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | 3D Computer Vision ▪ Senior EE ▪ Senior Data Scientist ▪ Technical Recru…

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    Comment #17664916

    Shape (YC S15 | StartX F17) ( https://shapescale.com/careers/ ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Embedded Firmware (Linux) Engineer | $120K-200K + substantial equity Shap…

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    Comment #16971063

    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com/careers/ ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Embedded Firmware (Linux) Engineer | $120K-200…

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    Comment #16748932

    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Embedded Firmware (Linux) Engineer | $120K-200K + subst…

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    Comment #15829115

    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Senior Mechanical Engineer | $80K-130K + substantial equity Shape is the company …

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    Comment #15606415

    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Mechanical Engineer | $80K-180K + substantial equity Sh…

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    Comment #15388756

    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Mechanical Engineer | $80K-150K + substantial equity Sh…

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    Comment #15194169

    Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) ( https://shapescale.com ) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Mechanical Engineer | $80K-150K + substantial equity Sh…

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    Comment #11710436

    As a founder the biggest turn off for me is the fact that you cannot take on more than 500 non accredited investors. As soon you exceed that number and rake up $25M in assets you w…

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    Comment #11710424

    You are discounting the power of small investors. There is a good chance that your unaccredited investors altogether will cast a larger network than your VCs. Also if done right th…

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    Comment #11710417

    Any day better than what you get on Kickstarter. It's a start and a full-audit costs 25-50k which would literary defeat the purpose of this.

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    Comment #11291829

    What are some good strategies you guys used to narrow and improve your messaging for your crowdfunding campaigns? Did you rely on qualitative feedback (by real people or usertestin…

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    Comment #11291724

    For those of you that did Kickstarter and not Indiegogo or a selfstarter (Celery/Tilt/Shopify) campaign: How happy were you with the experience so far? There are a few up and downs…

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    Comment #11291682

    Interesting on the "FB group spamming", that's a great idea to expand reach! Did you have any PR coverage pre-launch then to collect more emails?

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    Comment #11291671

    Interesting. 1- Was there a reason why you chose not to use a promo video? 2- What has been main driver in sales so far? Like what was the split between PR, Email List and Ads? Any…

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    Comment #11291636

    Hey Khalil, What was the main reason for you going with a selfstarter (your own website) over IGG/KS? Would you do it again?

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    Comment #11291617

    Hey Martin from ShapeScale (S15) here. Did any of you attempt any influencer marketing? (celebrities or connectors on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat) If so, how well did it…

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    Comment #11291551

    What was the best way for you guys to grow your email list (aside from paid ads)? Did you use Queue?

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    Comment #11291530

    I have a question for Hykso: You guys had a progress bar of units sold. Did you see that this was creating urgency? Also did you find it hard to create traffic to your own site? Wh…

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    Shape (YC S15) | San Francisco Bay Area (currently Mountain View, may change) | ONSITE | FULL TIME | Computer Vision and 3D Imaging Engineer (potentially co-founder) | http://www.s…

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    Comment #10061491

    Wow, that's some great research there. We are actually building a scale for consumers that will allow for body scans in 3D. We hope then to also later integrate morphing algorithms…

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