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Always wanted to get a held of that book! Will definitely read it

Thanks man!

From the buyer perspective we have made a special one-on-on online coaching session, where they can ask us anything for feedbacks on how to improve their shops. We gave a lot of suggestions to them but most just didn't take any action afterwards.

We do have a reputation service. We verified each and every store by taking in their personal government ID. We show case their customer testimonials in their own shop page.

Two crucial thing that we can't play with, price and quality of product :) Which is two of the most important thing needed for someone to make a purchase.

I would have to disagree with the goal of any business is to be a monopoly.

There are lots of examples of successful business out there who did not monopoly the market.

I'd also have to disagree that startups sell mostly crap they don't need or want. Uber & AirBnB definitely provides something valuable that most humans would appreciate of.

If you're talking about products such as Snapchat or Instagram, that's a different genre of product. It's a vitamin type of product not a pain killer.

Interesting analysis, how about news aggregation :)

I wrote about some challenges in doing growth hacking in my other medium post :)

Yes, so what you're saying is college student who sells aren't qualify as a part of my market since they can't fix this supply chain issue.

Which I also mentioned the way to solve it is to cut down the market size, so that only first hand suppliers are the ones majority selling

The one I wrote was an over simplification. There are of course more than that.

The value proposition to the seller were clear, we wanted to give them more exposure outside of Instagram, make their store be discovered by style/trends.

The value proposition to the buyer is what I think is lacking. We tried to generate sort of a board as a form of style inspirations, but it seemed the market doesn't really care about the mix and match of outfits. I guess what i realized too late is developing country markets are prioritizing price over style way more than developed countries

So any successful aggregators out there? I think the closest one seemed to be pinterest

We did raise funding it was around $100k-$500k (not going to disclose the real amount). We realized that we needed some boost to test the market overall, but after 1.5 year of using that money and got to 30-40k UV per day, the path of profitability from that point seems far away, numbers just don't add up.

It gets worse as I stated in the article that new startups in the same area are raising behemoth amount of funding. The funds were used to attract and subsidized sellers and buyers.

I hope I am not... we still see new marketplaces coming up every day

Apart from the rough time it needs a very long time to get the ball rollin.. it's even tougher to do in a market where the people are not ready yet

The point of having an aggregator is not to have a headache with stock keepings and shippings, on the other hand doing an aggregator leads you to have less control over the products and customer service. Each has its own drawbacks

thanks, it's fixed.. my english is rusty

This definitely lifts off the cons I've had so far with Parse, adding logic to the backend instead of just a pure data storage. Awesome job to the Parse team

i completely agree with the fact that you should never take a job just solely because of the money...sometimes its hard because if you share your pay with other, they would say, but why?? only you yourself can feel good about it

I've been using Parse to build one my apps votespot. As the others said, it's one of the easiest framework to integrate with your project. The team are very helpful and listen to users problems, they even answer emails on weekends. Again kudos to the team. Sorry if I've been bugging you guys with questions and non-sense issues =)

Don't really understand on how much potential money you can get from this? You're saying a max of 250 k per class and each group will just get 2500 - 5000 max?

In Parse you can authorize/de-authorize client permission to get, find, update, create, and delete for each table

I think if you want to join a startup, the best time would be really straight after college. At that point in time you usually will find individuals who are motivated, fresh, and very well driven, which are very important in startups. Big company names in resumes are never bad, but there are many other ways to compensate that in life (side-projects, brilliant hacks, contribution to open source projects). I guess it's just a matter of choice/preference, but it's never wrong to go one over the other. If you want to have a safe/no risk life, go with the large companies.. if you want to take some risk, add more flavors to your life, startup is the way to go. No one is born the same way, so either way is perfectly acceptable. I just feel like the author emphasizes that if you join a startup straight after you graduate then you're doomed for the rest of your life, which absolutely is not true.

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

VoteSpot is an easy way to create and vote polls around you. Think of localmind for polling. It is still currently in private beta and we are looking for a few more beta testers for the app with a TestFlight account.

If you are interested please register at the site. We are also open to any suggestions/feedbacks.

does anyone know the acceptance rate for last year? and how many applied?

would like to get a confirmation whether this is valid or not?

lovin Parse more and more, excited to upgrade my SDK now

I plan to create an iOS app from this. If there's any designer or dev who wants to help, shoot me. Otherwise I'll be working on this during my free time by my self.

I think Parse is the best thing that has came to me this year as an iOS developer. The learning curve to use it is very low, it's very easy to use the native iOS SDK if you're familiar with objective-C.

Someone should probably do a startup that solves the problem of "overpriced" conferences. This has always been a problem for me when wanting to attend a conferences, first comes the plane ticket, then hotel, and then the conference ticket itself (which sometimes is ridiculously high).

http://geeksforgeeks.org/ http://codeeval.com/

I am just in the process of applying to find a FT job in a startup and I think that this is the best way that every startup/company should copy in order to interview potential candidates. It makes no sense for me as a candidate to solve top coder/ACM puzzles in a whiteboard as that doesn't correlates with the day to day job that they will be performing. I actually disagree with sites as Interview Street, where they ask tough and challenging problems (Project Euler kind of questions) to candidates. You can't simply judge someone from that kind of stuff. You hire someone to be able to get the job done in a company and not to be a possible candidate for participant of a topcoder/ACM challenge. Kudos to you Jean for starting the initiative! Now I know better the philosophy of the Pulse team and I admire it even more. To other startups, please consider doing the same thing!

Define step. 1 and how to be that 'good techie'?