is spacex a space company? I thought they were an internet provider that wants to use their strategic advantages to get into AI including AI infra like data centers.
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I (Jake) joined in February and love the people, the mission, and the challenges of the market. Mortgage servicing is one of those remaining businesses that hasn't been disrupted by software yet; Valon is (finally) the first to build new end-to-end software.
Valon’s mission is to champion homeowners as the partner they trust with their home and future. Our ultimate goal is to guide homeowners through every step of their financial journey, no matter what life puts on their path. Mortgage servicing is a a-cyclical business and gets paid a recurring revenue based on mortgage loans outstanding (which doesn't really change even when mortgage originations slow). Our revenue grew to $30 million in 2023 as we 5x'd our loan count.
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He worked his arse off for years and had a huge following before this album launched. This was his biggest song before The Heist was released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWhx-CtPmBU (story about addiction and his struggle to overcome it). When The Heist launched he emailed/tweeted/blogged his fans and got enough of a response to hit #1 on iTunes in <24 hrs. I saw him perform about 3 years ago in Bellingham, Washington so this overnight success story involved a lot of hard work to accomplish.
How would this actually work? Unless a bond has to be posted the troll would just make sure the trolling entity (almost always a separate company shielding liability from true owner) has zero assets to pay the legal bills. Or did I misunderstand something?
The two problems we see with getting all the photos your friends took with you are 1) you have to remember to share and whom you want to share with and 2) its a pain to share them all with just a couple people (and have their photos added as well). We think all that work is what prevents us from getting all the photos our friends took with us.
With shared photo albums on iOS6 it will be really easy to share a set of photos on your phone. It will not remind you to share and it will not consolidate everyone's photos into a single album.
With Flock you just use any camera app as you normally would and when you leave the event Flock gives you a 1-touch page (not automatic, users still have control) of what to share and with whom.
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We are most looking for an Android lead, but are always interested in great iPhone and backend people as well. Full job descriptions and application instructions are at http://bu.mp/jobs (mention HN if submitting). Feel free to email me with questions: jake (at) bu (dot) mp.
Have you tried Settings -> Notifications -> Treehouse to turn off push notifications? You probably can stay signed in but not receive push notifications.
I partially agree with your caveat. In our case we went to almost zero events, all of our meetings were face-to-face with a single firm. After that we stayed in touch and gave updates on our progress. This also let them get comfortable with our ability to work together and execute on a product. We were also able to show more and more traction over time.
Investors will get tired of you if you are raising money for a long time. Once you decide you are raising, get all your meetings done as quick as possible, hopefully in only a couple of weeks.
It may not need to be a year. We started these discussions in June and started raising in September. They key is just before you need money.
You also want the strongest introduction to a partner that you can get, and I think other entrepreneurs and investors can make stronger introductions than most associates.
It's not just what you suggest, that it makes it harder to get money. The other impact is that you don't have time optimize for best person, you have to optimize for getting cash fast. Also, it is much easier to get to know a person when you aren't asking for money. We had a similar approach as Posterous and are really happy we took the time to get to know VCs before raising money.
Bump does not allow users to share paid apps for free. All we do is share a link to the App Market so your friend can find the app (and hopefully purchase it) easier.
The key part of this post is: "(I haven't tried actually sending the paid app, so maybe it fails at
that point - can anyone confirm? I hope to be proven wrong here)"
You could very well be correct, I am trying to remember something I heard second hand a couple of years ago. But I emailed my relative who went through all this to find out exactly what happened. And I am pretty sure they have both Hashimoto's and Lupus, it was just that Hashimoto's made it more difficult to detect Lupus.
I am wracking my brain to try to remember these conversations from a couple years ago, but I am pretty sure you can't test for Lupus if you have Hashimoto's (and it's pretty hard to test for Lupus anyways). They just eliminated so many other things that they started treating them for Lupus and it helped enough they decided that is what it was. I will try to get more info from the source soon.