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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by JoblessWonder »

jball037 wrote: post #68
cornellwright wrote: post #24

Looks like the domain was registered on Oct 8th and I can't find "Fly Maids" or similar names on the Delaware Division of Corporations. (Maybe it takes longer for it to show up?) Either way super weird and creepy.

Any C-corp created in Delaware shows up their Entity Search (link below) almost instantly, e.g. within a few minutes of the company's creation. That said, I looked on the Fly Maids webpage and they don't give the name of their corporation at all, they just show "© 2015 Fly Maids. All rights reserved." That means that "Fly Maids" could be a trademark, a fictitious name, owned by a corporation with a different name, or…

As mentioned above, they don't exist or are lying. Likely the former. Their privacy page claims to give you exactly what to search for:

> In the USA/rest of the world (excluding the European Union), we are Fly Maids, Inc. (doing business as Fly Maids), a Delaware corporation with our head office at 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808.

http://www.flymaids.com/privacy

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by ajeet_dhaliwal »

xmly wrote: post #84

Very low, very low. Do not understand how investors chose these founders.

I am actually finding this intriguing and genuinely curious to know what is going on. One of the cofounders was a panelist at an event just one month before they announced their closure speaking about their growth and it didn't seem like anything was wrong (its on YouTube) so im curious to know what's up.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by ascorbic »

TaylorGood wrote: post #66

Digging into trademarks, incorporations and S-1's is a weird little obsession of mine.. That said, my initial findings are that Flymaids is directly related to Homejoy. Under Privacy link of Flymaids it states "In the European Union, we are Fly Maids Europe Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 8883585) with its registered office address at 14 Whittonditch Road, Ramsbury, Marlborou…

That's the head office of Nortons accountants, who I'd imagine are handling the liquidation. Changing the registered address is normal. http://www.nortonsgroup.com/uk/global-offices

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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TaylorGood wrote: post #66

Digging into trademarks, incorporations and S-1's is a weird little obsession of mine.. That said, my initial findings are that Flymaids is directly related to Homejoy. Under Privacy link of Flymaids it states "In the European Union, we are Fly Maids Europe Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 8883585) with its registered office address at 14 Whittonditch Road, Ramsbury, Marlborou…

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Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by Encosia »

gkoberger wrote: post #74
thaumaturgy wrote: post #28

What's the big deal? Homejoy is just hacking startup downfunding... (/s) I'd like to see some kind of stronger YC influence on ethics in the companies they fund. I realize that YC doesn't have any direct control over the companies, but it could be as simple as including good ethics in the traits they look for in startup founders. A while back I started compiling a list of YC companies that spammed or otherwise behave…

YC makes it very clear they will disavow any company or founder that acts unethically. YC is strict about very few things, but this was made clear in no uncertain terms (especially by Jessica). When things go bad, YC always gets involved – even if you don't read about it online. Don't blame YC just yet. We don't know what happened here. Maybe Homejoy went into debt, had their assets seized, and lost control (like wit…

Did YC ever disavow InstallMonetizer? (honest question)

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by cortesoft »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #28

What's the big deal? Homejoy is just hacking startup downfunding... (/s) I'd like to see some kind of stronger YC influence on ethics in the companies they fund. I realize that YC doesn't have any direct control over the companies, but it could be as simple as including good ethics in the traits they look for in startup founders. A while back I started compiling a list of YC companies that spammed or otherwise behave…

Well, given that the YC official stance on founders is that they should 'be a little naughty' and that they expect founds to not care 'about observing proprieties', I am not surprised that the founders would be a little shady when things aren't going well.

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by ericsidelis »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #28

What's the big deal? Homejoy is just hacking startup downfunding... (/s) I'd like to see some kind of stronger YC influence on ethics in the companies they fund. I realize that YC doesn't have any direct control over the companies, but it could be as simple as including good ethics in the traits they look for in startup founders. A while back I started compiling a list of YC companies that spammed or otherwise behave…

I doubt that spam or cold emails are considered a major breach of ethics. We might as well start filing lawsuits against the thousands of startups that spam the crap out of my inbox everyday. To fix all of that I just have a really good spam filter.
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