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Microsoft/Google are heavily invested on large enterprises. These big giants can pull off a product like Slack and sell to all the big clients. Microsoft already sells communicator to large corps. They can switch that to Microsoft-Slack version and bundle it with their office products taking the large (90% revenue) out of Slack pocket.
Slack has to go really big to hit enterprises hard or they will be just serving small medium businesses which will have churn burn and less LTV.
I'm not able to understand why he has to make this comment. He sits in Facebook board and recently TRAI had declined Facebook's Free Basics which violates Net Neutrality. Does this have anything to do with his comment?
India has been growing great in recent years and it's headed for enormous growth in next few decades. India has the largest youth population in the whole world and it can transform itself into a great super-power if it's run by great politicians and put India back in track.
- The British East India Company was the original Free Basics. We all know how that ended.
Marc Andreessen just offended 1B Indians with a single tweet
The Power Law of App Store Capitalism Which Broke Pareto Principle
Square reportedly files for IPO at 6B
An average Uber driver in Bangalore earns 110000 INR per month where as an entry level software engineer in GOOG/AMZN in India earns 80000 INR/month.
I was shocked that one of my friends who drove Uber in Bangalore told me that he made 180000 INR two months back.
It would be interesting to know Uber's customer acquistion cost and driver acquisition cost.
USCIS Completes Data Entry of Fiscal Year 2016 H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions
This is Radhakrishnan working as Software engineer at Zenefits, San Francisco USA. We are building a kickass engineering team in SF to work on hard and totally new kind of technical problems. We are disrupting the whole Heath Insurance industry which is taking off in US now by providing free software.
We have penetrated only 0.6% of the market. This is without considering international growth and upselling to big companies.
We are looking for engineers who can take a concept from inception to market. The process is extremely autonomous, with little to no, management. You are the PM, tester & developer, building full-stack, who coordinates with our in-house designers. Our revenue model is one of the best in the world and we have seen the hyper growth like no other company in the world.
More info: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/14/zenefits-financials/
Startup of the year 2014: http://onforb.es/1IoK3aU
Our Tech Stack: Website running on Django/redis/RabbitMQ/Celery. Backend: Python/AWS
We're hiring for engineering offices in San Francisco, CA, USA and Vancouver, Canada
For more info: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=zenefits
To apply for job: www.zenefits.com/jobs To learn about the company and challenges: [email protected]
Ask HN: What do you use to store application level config in Django?
We are using Django for our website as well as in the backend. Whenever we want to change some application level config like `connection_timeout`, we had to change the constant in the source code and re-deploy. Deploying takes around 1 hour for us.What i'm looking for is a key value store framework already built for Django and which provides an UI which we can use to override the config when...
Hottest startup of the year 2014. http://onforb.es/1IoK3aU
Zenefits was founded ~2 years ago with the mission of re-defining the HR software space and giving it away for free. We have seen the hyper-growth like no one has ever seen in the industry. David Sacks (one of the paypal mafia and founder of Yammer) who saw the hyper-growth joined us as COO 3 months back. Even with this hyper-growth, We have penetrated only 0.1% of the market and so our journey is 0.1% finished.
Who are we? We are a group of 50 kick ass software engineers which includes Engineers from Facebook, Google and founders of various startups, solving problems which no one has ever dare to look into. We are looking to more than triple our engineers this year and we're looking for highly passionate engineers who can own the product from Day 1 and ship it to the world. We rapidly iterate and roll out new code every day.
We offer highly competitive salary and meaningful equity which is going to be worth a lot.
If you would like to talk with us, please apply online here: http://grnh.se/71a8xs
Press: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=zenefits Investors: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zenefits Some random posts from medium: https://medium.com/@stephenjcho/how-zenefits-gets-to-ipo-in-...
Ask HN: Anyone moved away from GitHub to Phabricator?
I'd like to know the experience of engineers who moved away from github to phabricator. Phabricator is really good but it has no third party app support like github. We use circle CI to run all the tests after send a pull request in github. I couldn't find a support for CI in phabricator.
Slack going to raise $160M at 2.6B valuation
Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?
We use Django heavily and we have all the requirements in requirements.txt and we do pip install on it. Lot of times, some requirements are not installed properly and we have to do pip install when we see an error message for particular package.The issue we are facing is whenever we run `python manage.py migrate` after cloning the repo/pulling the repo, it takes around 30-50 mins.
Pinterest Raises $367M at $11B valuation
Ask HN: What's the biggest problem your startup face today?
I'm looking around to know the pattern of problems which multiple startups face today and try to help solving it. It would be nice if you share your top problems and problems which you have faced and solved. EX: How hard it was to hire employees? How hard it is to do sales?
SpaceVR: Explore Space with Oculus Rift
Ask HN: Personal Assistant as a service recommendation
I'm fed up with my monthly chores like paying credit card bills on time, gas, electric, car loans, mortgage all these bills. I miss to pay some time and it affects my credit score.Do you guys know any trusted startup who provides personal assistant as a service. I don't want them to manage my calendar but pay all my bills and expenses and generate expense report monthly.I'm ready to pay...