I participated in a top incubator and totally agree with this comment. cofounder breakups are such a nasty affair and I've part of one. we tried to resolve the issue but by the time it got to that point, it was a bit too late. I sometimes wonder if we would have addressed our issues sooner through counseling if this would have impacted the outcome of that company. I do think it could have resolved some issues faster. The problem with this incubator was the MD was also an investor, so it was very difficult to talk to him about our issues. I'm happy to be involved in a new company at a senior level, but like a long lost love, you kind of never forget.
Storefront is the world's largest marketplace connecting the best merchants with the best short term physical space. The press likes to call us the Airbnb for Retail, but we like to think of ourselves as making retail accessible.
Hiring:
UX, software engineers (Stack = Rails, AngularJS) and other non technical roles.
Traction:
To date we have successfully launched over 1,000 retail experiences. Our customers are entrepreneurs and we are humbled by the opportunity to work with this dynamic group of people.
Funding:
We recently completed a $7.3m round led by Spark Capital, investors of Warby Parker, Twitter, Tumblr, OMGPop and others. Other notable investors include Troy Carter (Lady Gaga's former manager), NAS, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tom Glocer (former CEO of Thompson Reuters) and Vikram Pandit (former CEO of Citigroup).
Storefronters:
Storefront has alumni from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, Berkeley, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Google, Trulia, Yelp and other awesome institutions. We are looking for YOU to join this dynamic group of individuals.
Technology and Company:
Our stack is AngularJS, Rails and Bootstrap. We solve difficult problems in matching, build processes for offline + online, we are building a large transaction platform (deals can be $100k+) and we have the opportunity to work with our customers who are hungry, hustling entrepreneurs. If you are looking to work with an incredible team disrupting a $100bn+ market, apply. Please put [hacker news] in the Subject line of the Application so we can pay special attention.
About you:
We are looking for candidates with the following characteristics:
* great communicators
* initiative
* ownership
* passion
We give a lot of freedom and responsibility to our employees.
About Me:
My name is Ron Lai and I am the VP of Product. I enjoy mentoring my team and providing people opportunities to grow. Pls learn more about me @ https://linkedin.com/in/ronaldlai
brian -- i've been trying to contact coinbase as well. i sold a decent size of coins (5 figures in USD) and i waited, waited and never received the balance in my bank account although it seems to claim to have completed. i've been waiting for days and contacted your group using support same problem. waiting and waiting... what's going on? it's a large amount of money and i have no idea how to get in contact.
some more details: coins initiated to be sold on Dec 6 -- never received in my bank account although it looks like it "completed" on Dec 12. putting me in a weird financial situation.
this is awesome.. i'm a student in the social sciences and name disambiguation for ethnicities is something I deal with quite often. i've just checked it out. thanks for this brilliant piece of work!
yeah definitely! it's like academia... the ideas being tested are often very obvious but when empirically tested and validated that's when you start developing the capacity for deeper thought/theorems and business frameworks. cool stuff austin_e! keep mining that data.
Right. It turns out a lot of the work comes from gluing the various services together. For ex, when a user signs up with an email account, and then forgets and signs in with Facebook next time.
This takes care of deduping accounts, and flattening the social data, etc.
Nice article. Def just do it and see how people react. Another way to help with assessing price is to build a simple model. For a recent project, I built an excel model which is essentially a few assumptions (read: probabilities and guesstimates) which contribute to "revenue - cost = profit". Now guess what? Divide each of these by estimated quantity sold. This equals... Price to sell for - cost per item. The trick is for that equation to >0. Back to my project... It turns out I calculated cost per item to be $1.70. This gave me plenty of ammo to tell my partners.. Hey, we should sell it for more than $1...
Wow. Feeling like this will be a predictable cycle.. I remember how difficult it was for me to convince my friends to install an app on Facebook due to the FarmVille Fatigue. Led to me and others writing "we will never post on your wall without your permission". This definitely feels loose and ripe for manipulation/privacy backlash. Well, let the "viral coefficient" loose...
Totally agree. Some people are just not normal Joe users. It totally makes sense to give a bit of a pop to those in your VIP list. Also gives something for these extra Joes to inspire to. This dynamic totally exists in the real world so its nice to see it starting to happen in internet land too.
awesome! thanks for your comment. pls share with others that are also looking to apply for incubators. we are definitely trying to expand the offering, but one step at a time. focused on these 30+ incubators, but easily found over 200! when are you looking to apply?
