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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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If you have someone to delegate to, delegation is great. And yep something like yourflipflops.com is a mediocre website, but its a website thats up and sells a product. Too many people can't say that …
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Yep, and that's why I think it's still a great idea to partner with people who are good at those skills. But if you are stuck at the finding a partner phase because you don't have friends with those s…
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I hear ya. I'm on the fence when it comes to Jason Fried's advice about dropping out of college. He's a big fan of convincing people to quit and start working, at least in the software industry. I wen…
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Right, as long as you have the money to hire someone to do enterprise sales, great. I'm all for hiring people smarter than me and to do things I don't want to do. But most people starting a new projec…
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Yep. And I'm not advising people take an air of knowing it all when doing something like this. Sharing an opinion doesn't mean preaching an opinion. This was an interesting article to find above this …
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What about it? Most of us don't work in the military. And the companies that are run like militaries aren't that pleasant or creative to be in. I'm not promoting a habit of taking your problems to yo…
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This is awesome. Dr. Drew picked this up http://twitter.com/drdrew . Adam wants a phone call from him to discuss it! :)
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Here's a great post on doing the math for this stuff http://blog.asmartbear.com/easy-statistics-for-adwords-ab-te... But yes, the bad news is it's going to take too long at your rate right now. I r…
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Well that's a bit out of context and a bit summarized and so I can see is misleading. The concept of Y Combinator means people need to travel to where Y Combinator is. So us founders had to pack up ba…
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If you need a private group, we built http://tgethr.com to be an alternative for us to use instead of a private Google group. We have things like code formatting http://support.tgethr.com/faqs/how…
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I've often felt for us at least that any "belongs_to" relationship should get pulled out of mass assignment by default. 95% of the time I imagine in the world, a belongs_to field on a child record is…