dougludlow

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

Posted by dougludlow on Monday October 17, 2016 @02:50PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/projectinclude/peter-thiel-yc-and-hard-decisions-2b91bab83764#.i5u3cgjst

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Re:Refer the 10,000th Hipster user, win a Hipster T-Shirt and private ... on Thursday January 13, 2011 @08:57PM (#2102192)

For those of you following the Hipster story here at Hacker News, we've almost picked up 10,000 early invites in 48 hours! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093662

To speed things up, I thought it would be fun to have a little prize for the person who refers the 10,000th user.

Is Naming Your Startup “Hipster” Genius Or Terrible?

Posted by dougludlow on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @09:17PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/hipster/

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Thank You HN: 100 early invitation requests in 2 hours

Posted by dougludlow on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:56PM
from the self-post dept.

Thank you! 100 early invites in two hours for useHipster.com? Not bad in my book.I posted this 2 hours ago:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093662Since then, I've gotten over 100 early invites to useHipster.com. I just wanted to say that the Hacker News Community is unlike any community out there - it really supports the efforts of its community members.Thanks again!

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Re:Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available. on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @06:10PM (#2094025)

Thanks for the shout out. Just doing what I can!

Re:Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available. on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:12PM (#2093797)

I'm afraid we can't say too much. We've applied for the Launch Conference, and have agreed not to talk about what the company does. You'll just have to wait until Feb 23rd (if we get in) to find out!

Re:Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available. on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:08PM (#2093776)

We're still underground, for the time being. We'll be expanding the alpha test soon to new cities, so we wanted to make sure there are interested users for each new city.

Re:Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available. on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:04PM (#2093758)

Its going to be awesome. Thanks for signing up!

Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available.

Posted by dougludlow on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @04:41PM
from the self-post dept.

www.useHipster.comWe can't say much about the company publicly, but I'd be happy to answer any questions you email to me at [email protected]

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Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested? on Thursday December 09, 2010 @01:05PM (#1988373)

Very cool concept - count me in!

Twitter May Raise Another $200 Million

Posted by dougludlow on Sunday October 24, 2010 @02:37PM
from the sfgate.com dept.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/10/23/businessinsider-twitter-may-raise-another-200-million-2010-10.DTL

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Re:Ask HN: Tips and Tricks to Save Money While Running a Startup on Saturday July 17, 2010 @01:59PM (#1524273)

While I agree that salary is a huge expense, rent is usually a small fraction of the salaries being paid.

In my experience, teams who work from home for an extended period of time can start to lose focus and productivity. This means it takes longer to build your product, and you end up paying a lot more in salary.

By having an office (usually only a few hundred, to a few thousand dollars a month in expense), you are able to save a lot in salary (tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a month), because your team will be more focused and productive.