I was a little excited to read about Akron and Sandusky on Hacker News and then, of course, they're used for the backdrop of how "miserable" winters are here in Ohio.
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#72I'm probably being petulant or don't understand American culture, but: > To avoid spending money, we'd been subsisting on a diet consisting largely of soup. [...] But now, we'd gradually started to feel like we might be able to afford to eat at restaurants again. No middle ground?
I also wondered about this fast-food-soup or restaurant dichotomy. You can eat quite cheap and fast while healthy - f.x. full-wheat bread with avocado and onion.
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#73I loved AgileZen when it was first launched and I was a huge champion of it at Quickoffice. Definitely helped keep us organized and on track. Thanks for the write up and behind the scenes details - can't wait for part 2.
How does AgileZen compare to Trello? Looks like a very similar kanban-based product.
Yeah, we did kanban before it was cool. :)
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#74I was a little excited to read about Akron and Sandusky on Hacker News and then, of course, they're used for the backdrop of how "miserable" winters are here in Ohio.
Well, if it looks like a duck ;-)... (Born and raised in Columbus here).
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#75Just out of curiosity, can you share a ballpark figure about the buyout price. 5,10,20 Million?
Given their size and stage at the time it was likely south of 7 figures or very low 7 figures. Considering their acquirer IPO'd soon after, though, the stock portion probably grew in value significantly.
(No inside knowledge of course, but people's perceptions of acquisition windfalls tend to be skewed higher than reality)
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#76I was a little excited to read about Akron and Sandusky on Hacker News and then, of course, they're used for the backdrop of how "miserable" winters are here in Ohio.
Well, if it looks like a duck ;-)... (Born and raised in Columbus here).
Weather seems like a commonly-stated reason for leaving Ohio. I'm from here, so I obviously take note of it, but I do wonder if people commonly talk about leaving places like Boston and NYC for warmer climates. Those areas seem to have equally miserable winter weather.
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#77What made you not want to move to Colorado?
If you're trying to escape the cold, Colorado is not the place to go.
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#78Hi Nate, thanks for sharing your story. I think it's interesting because my co-founder is also my wife. And it's an interesting dynamic to say the least. If you don't mind me asking, what are the roles that you play individually? Just curious ;) For myself, I'm the backend engineer and devops, while my wife does the design and front-end engineering.
Roughly speaking, with Zen (and now again with our new startup TaskTorch), I was in charge of the technical side of the business, and she was in charge of anything non-technical (finance, marketing, support, etc.) Niki is an industrial-organizational psychologist, so her viewpoint is completely different from mine as a software engineer. As a developer it can be hard for me to see past the software sometimes, and Nik…
So basically, you've build the entire app yourself, right?
What kind of lang/framework did you use?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, if it looks like a duck ;-)... (Born and raised in Columbus here).
Weather seems like a commonly-stated reason for leaving Ohio. I'm from here, so I obviously take note of it, but I do wonder if people commonly talk about leaving places like Boston and NYC for warmer climates. Those areas seem to have equally miserable winter weather.
This was posted on HN a few days ago, which largely discusses how the weather in LA is luring New Yorkers...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/style/los-angeles-and-its-...