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Re:‘Meme stock’ rally rescues AMC theaters from $600M debt on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:20AM (#25997681)
Because it never traded at $200+

Ask HN: How to get “first 10 champion users” for career app?

I've been working on PathBase (AI Chief Learning Officer that helps young professionals navigate & build dream careers).Recently launched on PH and got decent userbase (~150k), and invaluable feedback on shortcomings (i.e. onboarding, UI/UX, bugs). Although qualitative feedback was good ("love where this is going!"), retention sucked (and I get it - the app isn't there yet).I'm struggling...

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Re:Ask HN: Transition to full-time while on H1B? on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:03PM (#17657103)
Thanks! That makes sense - and it's what I've been doing thus far (prove product-market fit and everything else will solve itself), but wanted to get a better sense of how that usually works out.

Specifically, I was wondering if there were avenues available if you're able to secure funding (i.e. At the end of an accelerator), not necessarily in the form of an H1B.

Ask HN: Transition to full-time while on H1B?

I'm a solo-founder who's been working on an idea (optimize career-building for students & professionals, wherever they are) for quite some time, while in a demanding full-time job to maintain my H1B status (mainly to stay close to my target market).However, It's been challenging keeping up the pace with the limited time & mental stamina, while being short-handed (this is having already...

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B2B Pilot program payments with personal bank account?

Hi, I'm an international founder who is in the process of validating his startup, while in a full-time gig (trying to get validation to get into an accelerator like Techstars or YC).It's a B2B model, where I'd be selling a product for universities to enhance their students' career-building experience.Since I can't form a company & set-up a business account yet, I was wondering whether it...

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