My startup grosper.com is looking for a hacker who can code in PHP. We require someone with experience in building affiliate programs and anti-fraud practices. The hacker should be able to write clean and simple code. Where could I find quality applicants for this position?
My startup Grosper.com is looking for a part time hacker to come in and work with our team. The work will mostly involve making changes and doing QA for the existing code. As we are a small team, you will get the opportunity to ship the code that you have written and see how people interact with it. The position is location agnostic as long as you have a good internet connection, work well...
I am looking to host my startup in the cloud. I've looked at various options, I was just wondering if the guys here had experiences good/bad with certain providers. Also, would you recommend any one?
My startup, Grosper.com does group buying for home rentals. The way we make money is by taking commissions from users and landlords for every deal that goes through us. However, in terms of scalability, it is a very labour intensive process and thus, we have been looking at different types of business models that are more web friendly and less labour intensive. I was wondering if the hackers...
Hi, I was wondering if Y Combinator sends rejection letters to all startups who are not called up for an interview, including those who applied after deadline?
My startup Grosper.com is basically a groupon for home rentals. We tie up with real estate landlords and developers, to get users bulk pricing on home rentals. So if multiple rent at the same time, the price is lower than market price.Would the readers here ever use such a service? If yes, why? If not, why? Comments please.
Strong idea about trade resources though. We have started our own blog. We hope to get some sort of following for that.
A lot of startups have the chicken and egg problem that PG describes. For example, a dating site is not great unless you have a lot of people registered as the point is to have many people there.My startup, Grosper.com suffers from the same problem. We do group buying for real estate in the Middle East and the as the description suggests, we need a lot of early users so that deals go through....
Over the years, I've been lucky enough to find mentors in various fields, Warren Buffet and Joel Greenblatt for Stocks, 37 Signals for Company and App building, Michael Lewis for spending money (Money Ball). Zappos for Customer Service. I haven't found great books on Sales and Marketing, I was wondering if there are any great mentors out there that you guys know of or any great books?
Grosper.com is a group buying website for user initiated deals. We concentrate on big ticket items such homes and wheels. We allow an individual user to 'Make a Demand' to rent a home. Once enough users are interested, we contact landlord that own buildings and ask them for the best price for a group (min. 3). Landlords have been willing to give at minimum 15% discount up until now.<p>I...
I recently co-founded a startup called Grosper.com. The basic idea is that instead of building up a huge salesforce, why not let users initiate deals? This has been done by Loopt with their U-Deals product however, dont know how their doing though.<p>My startup calls it Make A Demand, and you're only allowed to do it for Real Estate and Travel.<p>But is there a genuine market here?...
Looking for a Co-Founder for a startup. I have no programming knowledge, so looking for a coder. No, you dont have to be a 'Ninja' Or 'Rockstar', if you're interested, would love to speak about different applications you've hacked on, web applications you love and more about my startup.Email is mohammed.hingora [at] grosper.com