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Re:Visa Buys Plaid on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:18PM (#22039351)
Have you tried AutoEntry? Might be the solution you are looking for. https://www.autoentry.com/
Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:09PM (#21020198)
Patrick, how do you approach reconciliation at Stripe?
Re:Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @05:16PM (#18711107)
Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller
Re:Number of hedge fund startups lowest in nearly two decades on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:55AM (#17960256)
There's data that disputes the couple of hundred million to break even story.

Source: https://www.hedgeweek.com/2017/07/11/253832/emerging-hedge-f...

“The key finding of the survey is that these managers can be profitable at a small size. One third of managers surveyed said they were profitable with less than USD50 million. We therefore dispute the claim that you need USD200 million or more to break even. We think there is tight evidence that you can do it at a lower AUM number,” asserts Capstick.

Breaking it down by strategy, the survey found that global macro funds need the most assets to break even: USD132 million, followed by event-driven (USD108 million) and multi-strategy funds (USD98 million).

Re:iPhone 7 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:14PM (#12448359)
Genius move by apple. Nothing said 'I'm cool' like the white headphone cables, same effect with new wireless Airpods
A bit like the problem dating apps have, the more successful you are, the more churn you create.

Once a group of friends come together they'll get a house share of their own instead of sharing with strangers. Probably be cheaper too. Have they modeled for high churn rates in their already thin margins?

A premium service leaves your very vulnerable to the tide going out on disposable income. The co-living space will be left with higher long term leases they can no longer service. I really want to figure out a way to short services like WeWork at a 16b valuation.

Re:Baremetrics for Buffer on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @02:34PM (#7669056)
This is a great partnership and I can't wait to see what comes next.

I've watched and enjoyed reading the Buffer story since the early days. In fact it probably played a small part in my path towards quitting work last summer and starting my own thing.

I'm considering doing an 'Open blog' for our enterprise start-up http://www.fundrecs.com like the guys did with Buffer.

Trying to weigh up whether it would limit us or enable us to do more. My gut is saying go for it but my co-founders aren't convinced.

Re:Started a stupid company. Failed. on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @04:53AM (#6807327)
Alas, what could have been an interesting discussion reduced to over analysis of some guy calling some other guy a cock.
Re:Yahoo: Kicking off 30 days of change on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:02AM (#6172853)
Yahoo: Kicking off 30 days of rejected logos
Re:What is A/B Testing? on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:22AM (#5994245)
Really nice work Kushagra - I'm looking forward to your blog post.
Re:Introducing Trello Business Class on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @12:35PM (#5633212)
ThetaBoard looks great, well done!

The model that seems to be working for social collaboration software and what Trello has announced, is the majority of user features are free while admin/control features fall into the paid version. Yammer's business model is not too different with admin/control features at the core of the paid version.

Organizations are willing to pay for control while users are less willing to pay for features.

If you can get widespread adoption by free users there's increased pressure on Management to signup for the control features. Someone else coined this as "Enterprise sales by the backdoor".

We're looking at a simliar model with http://www.taskmessenger.com

* edit for spelling

Re:How we added Google Drive to Task Messenger on Sunday March 31, 2013 @03:57PM (#5469974)
should be ok now?

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