The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv

Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by pjhyett on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @02:23PM (#1491829)

"Lunch gets delivered to the office every day at noon. We asked our former office manager to order lunch every day, because I didn't want to worry about it. I just wanted food to show up. He did it for a year before starting his own business, which now provides this service for us and for other start-ups in the area, too."

Anyone have the name of this service?

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by arram on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @03:13PM (#1492027)

Hey PJ - that's me, the service is called ZeroCater.com Yeah, it was pretty cool to be almost mentioned in Inc.

Feel free to get in touch with me: [email protected]

Thanks!

Arram

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by sachinag on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:13PM (#1492207)

I'd be hesitant to use your service without a referral. Your site doesn't list your restaurants, your fees, or your happy clients. It's just a Google Doc lead gen form. Why?

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by grasshoper on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:33PM (#1492270)

There's almost no selling going on on the website, so probably most of their business spreads through word-of-mouth, with visitors to the site already having been referred by happy clients. They also probably need to control how many new clients they adopt to ensure they have adequate capacity before scaling.

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by arram on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @06:38PM (#1492646)

Spot on. Almost anyone who sees the site has already met me or been referred by one of my customers.

That said, clearly there's a lot of work to be done on the site.

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by alabut on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:14AM (#1493600)

Hey, I remember you from poker! Glad to see you're doing well. I'm assuming zerocater's just for companies in SF at the moment, not someplace nearby like Burlingame?

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by hooande on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:48PM (#1492330)

ZeroCater is an amazing service. I recommend it for any startup.

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by rumpelstiltskin on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @05:34PM (#1492460)

Do you guys do new york as well?

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by arram on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @06:41PM (#1492656)

Not yet. Check back in 6 months!

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by alexyim on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @02:30PM (#1491855)

ZeroCater

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by abstractbill on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @02:42PM (#1491914)

Clickable: http://zerocater.com/

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by ergo98 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @03:21PM (#1492055)

Upside down: /ɯoɔ˙ɹǝʇɐɔoɹǝz//:dʇʇɥ

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by adammichaelc on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:44PM (#1492319)

How did you do that?

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by m_myers on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @06:35PM (#1492639)

He held the keyboard upside down.

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by mkramlich on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @01:36AM (#1493413)

ouch. i think you just held my brain upside down.

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Re:The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv by mhd on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:57PM (#1492357)

http://www.fliptext.org/ would be one approach. (or something like http://pypi.python.org/pypi/upsidedown for the semi-hardcore)

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