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Re:Gobble (YC W14) Promises to Help Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @07:20PM (#8358939)
Smart idea. I like the idea of cooking "in theory" but dislike the shopping and prep. This seems like the right balance to me.

Poll: What's the most Valuable feature of LinkedIn?

Posted by emreas on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @03:04PM
from the you-decide dept.

LinkedIn has become a running joke among engineers, mostly due to the recruiting spam mails, poorly created 'endorsements' feature and low quality content. I wonder how to improve it so I made this poll asking "What do you find most valuable about Linkedin?"

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Seeking Lead Android Engineer for 4M+ Mobile Social Network Circle

Posted by emreas on Saturday August 17, 2013 @03:24PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We are Circle, "The Local Network" - a scrappy team of 8, funded by Andreessen-Horowitz, Ron Conway, Ashton, Pincus... that has over 4 Million users of our mobile application. (It is currently in the top 20 in Social applications in both the Android and iOS market and top 10 overall in numerous social-networking loving countries like South Korea).The concept of Circle is to show you what's...

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Join Exec as a Junior Product Manager of Growth

Posted by emreas on Saturday August 17, 2013 @03:20PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Exec is hiring talented team members to help define the future of work. Join our small team of experienced entrepreneurs and work directly on the problems that matter. We believe in building great tools, using software to automate everything, and moving as quickly as possible. What you see today is only the beginning. The future is up to you.About The JobExec is looking for a junior product...

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Re:Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms on Saturday July 27, 2013 @05:30PM (#6114516)
yes. I re-read them at least once a year and still glean insights from them. Some of it is silly, some is extremely powerful.
Re:Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms on Saturday July 27, 2013 @05:26PM (#6114501)
thx.
Re:Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms on Saturday July 27, 2013 @05:21PM (#6114475)
Yes, I do it every four months or so now and usually try to bring new people with me. Every single one has said it has been life-changing. I make sure the surroundings are perfect and somebody is in the right mindset before doing it with them which is critical.

Seeking Office & Community Manager for 10 person VC funded startup

Posted by emreas on Monday November 12, 2012 @09:40PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Circle (www.discoverCircle.com) is looking for somebody who is an expert life-hacker to keep everything running smoothly at all times. You are in charge of keeping the team happy and the community happy. You can get any task done in an effective and fast manner from making a furiously unhappy user happy to figuring out how to get a meeting with an unreachable reporter.You should be extremely...

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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to LikeALittle (lal.com)? on Monday August 06, 2012 @03:17PM (#4346744)
Thanks for the question. We stopped focusing resources on Likealittle about 6 months ago to focus on our mobile app (what is now Circle www.discoverCircle.com). We believe that in order to give ourselves the greatest chance of being successful, we need to fully focus on one product so that we are thinking about it day and night and not diluting our resources. We think of Circle as a product in the same general space as Likealittle was (location based interaction), but with a much broader appeal and larger possible end game. I knew I was going to spend the same amount of time stressing, worrying and working hard no matter what startup I had so I want to do the idea that I am most passionate about and think has the biggest chance of changing the way the world works. Likealittle felt like sugar water to me... We learned an incredible amount about community management, viral marketing, and communication with our users through Likealittle and use those learnings on a daily basis as we develop Circle further. Btw, on a side note, I do think there is a market for anonymous location based chatting & flirting and if the community is well managed, somebody could run a successful site doing that. If somebody is extraordinarily interested in it, I'd be happy to let them know the "recipe" to get the initial takeoff on a college campus and may be willing to hand over our code if of interest.

Engineers for A16Z Startup Circle/Work with ACM World Finalists

Posted by emreas on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @02:17AM
from the now-hiring dept.

Circle (www.discoverCircle.com) is a mobile social network startup with $7M+ by Andreessen-Horowitz and a slew of top angels including Scott Cook (Founder of Intuit), Mark Pincus (Founder of Zynga), David Sacks (Founder of PayPal and Yammer), Mike Arrington, Ashton Kutcher, Joshua Schacter and many more.Circle tells you who is around you, anywhere in the world including people you know and...

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Re:Circle (YC W11) โ€“ If Highlight And Path Had A Beautiful Ambient Lo... on Friday May 11, 2012 @08:19PM (#3962132)
Both elements are necessary. The time is an unknown variable, but the great thing about startups is as long as you have the will and keep pushing (and learning), something will work.

Meet Other Hacker News Readers In Real Life

Posted by emreas on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @04:09AM
from the self-post dept.

Hey All, We just released our app Circle which tells you when people from your networks or your friends are nearby. We were trying to think of different online communities of people that we thought it would be interesting to meet in real life and Hacker News was one of the first that came to mind. (I've personally met numerous awesome people through Hacker News... one of which I just saw...

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Re:Hacking the system: how to land meetings with anyone you want on Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:08PM (#2663798)
Correct. It took numerous years (although did substantially outperform the market).
Re:LikeALittle's Ridiculous Hacker House on Thursday May 05, 2011 @02:23PM (#2518379)
stay tuned ;)
Re:Startups Open Sourced, 1 Week Later: $10,000+ in Revenue on Sunday May 01, 2011 @07:59PM (#2504438)
One of the people I most admire is Vinod Khosla. He got Sun Microsystems one of their first contracts by camping out in the lobby of a customer (they wouldn't take his meeting) and meeting them on their way out daily to tell them why they should do business with him. He did the same thing to get into Business School at Stanford. He was rejected but just came anyway and after hanging around for two weeks, somebody dropped out and they let him in. Persistence pays.. but yes, the trick is to do it in a respectful manner.

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