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Fivestars (YC W11) is hiring an accountant
Fivestars (YC W11) is hiring a PM leader to make commerce human
Fivestars was founded seven years ago as a loyalty program. We replaced the punch card. That product has done well for us - today 35 million consumers check in 1.2 million times every week. Our mission, however, transcends loyalty. Our mission is to turn transactions into relationships.In a world ten years from now, when we can get anything we want delivered to our bedsides, I believe we’ll get...
FiveStars is hiring an email growth marketer
Are you a talented and creative email marketing manager who loves crafting deeply personalized, automated and scaled email marketing programs? As we continue to experience merchant and consumer growth, it's important for us to engage with prospects and customers at the right time, and educate them about local business marketing and FiveStars’ product. You’ll be surrounded by a team of strong...
VP of People to Scale to 500 FTEs in 24 Months (FiveStars, YC W11)
FiveStars (YC'11) Is Hiring a Head of UX Design
Director of Design
http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oSfoZfwe&s=Hacker_News
FiveStars is seeking a Director of UX Design with a passion for leading successful and innovative design teams. The Director of UX will define the creative process from start to finish, help cross-functional teams have empathy for the user, and coach design and engineering to build usable, useful, and delightful experiences that will create the future of relational commerce.Requirements: •...
Re:Sam Altman for President
on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:53PM (#7280649)
Congrats buddy... you gave instrumental advice during every funding round we've raised, and we're better for it.
FiveStars seeking Head of Product
Come join one of the fastest growing companies in YC history -- in just 2 years, we've grown from 2 people in a garage to a family of 90, and are finally looking for our very first product person! (Yes, the engineers have been doing everything for a long time).Responsibilities:- Be our first Product Manager, and single handedly drive forward the entire company’s 6-month product roadmap- Manage...
User Growth Manager Extraordinaire — FiveStars
FiveStars needs a User Growth Manager/Growth Hacker, who is passionate about using product and marketing strategies to drive FiveStars member growth. Basically you will help people like us more.You will be responsible for understanding and owning the overall company’s member growth objectives and will actively collaborate with engineering, marketing, sales, and ops to achieve these goals. You...
Five Stars (YC W'11) Emerging As A Quiet Giant In Customer Loyalty
Re:Hackers vs. Consultants: How not to find an idea (Part 1 of 3)
on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:24PM (#2997321)
The fear of being an entrepreneur if you don't have a great idea is our biggest handicap. Everyone thinks they need to have everything ironed out before they can leave their "career". If more people just started viewing entrepreneurship as a career path of its own (as it is), a lot more cool products and business models would be invented.
I definitely agree with the notion "Team first, Idea second". Good ideas are easy; execution is the hard part. Put together a good team, and good ideas will come -- the support for this is the existence of many serial entrepreneurs.
Re:UseTheSource: a job board for hackers
on Thursday June 16, 2011 @04:32PM (#2663112)
Direct link: http://jobs.usethesource.com/jobs
Job board for hackers Direct link.
YC W11 startup with $2M in fresh capital and sick office looking for key devs
About us:- Focus on SMB loyalty (the other half of Groupon)- >$2M in funding from Tier I VCs and Angels – approached 9 VCs, received 9 term sheets- Very promising early traction, already generating material revenue- Already received acquisition offer 4 months in (easy no; we are looking to build something massive, apply if you are the type to really swing for the fences)- Competitive salary,...
Re:Like.fm (YC W11) Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs
on Monday March 07, 2011 @11:55PM (#2299882)
congrats on the launch Chris! looks awesome!
Re:Why Caltech Is in a Class by Itself
on Monday January 10, 2011 @09:26PM (#2090596)
I get the point you're trying to make but that's not exactly true. For every legacy candidate they admit, they must reject exactly 1 qualified candidate as a result.
For every candidate they accept in general, they must reject 8 others.
Re:Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar
on Friday November 12, 2010 @06:47PM (#1899743)
This argument makes sense, but aren't many large PE shops and Hedge Funds (which either acquire large companies whole, or make many small investments in thousands of companies) a counter example to this? Many have $5B+ valuations, often limited intentionally by a desire not to expand beyond 40-50 investment professionals.
Seems like there is no inherent law preventing a portfolio manager from becoming bigger than any single item in his portfolio.
Web Shames Magazine for Plagiarizing Blogger’s Article
Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck
on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @05:46AM (#1786643)
Sorry to disappoint, but this is not from Mint - it's actually my team's presentation for the Stanford West Coast Venture Case Competition when I was an undergrad at Berkeley (I am Victor, listed on the first slide).
It's a funny story but we won the competition with this presentation, in part because Shasta Ventures, one of the judges there, happened to actually be funding the company (which they announced 3 days after we pitched it). For the questions regarding the financials, I don't know how closely they match reality but we were told by the judges that we won in part because the numbers were conservative/realistic and were in the same ballpark as their own figures.
Re:The Turn (1993)
on Saturday July 10, 2010 @06:42PM (#1504476)
That was an amazing article. I've always been intrigued by flight but I think I have a newfound appreciation.
Diamond Bullet Could Achieve Nuclear Fusion
Re:300 actions a minute? Truly mastering StarCraft
on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:03PM (#1495077)
If I weren't addicted to Starcraft myself, I would be linking to the "How to lose time and money" discussion.
Maybe it's more relevant for me because I'm addicted and not competitive.
Re:AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card
on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:46AM (#1493652)
The TC article is a bit childish, but I laughed pretty hard when they reproduced the entire AP oil spill article.
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Re:Ruby on Rails v. Django
on Monday June 28, 2010 @09:15PM (#1470035)
That's a good point. Here is the California only version, which is a bit cleaner: