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I'm not sure that applies to startups in growth mode, but as a general savings principal - I like it.

I haven't worked in non profits but I imagine these techniques work in most industries, as they're based on scarcity which influences most of us.

You're right and H1B transfers are easy and would only scare off an inexperienced employer. I moved jobs twice on a H1B without incident, even though one of my employers tried to make it an issue. I'd suggest the generally precarious immigration status of visa holders in the US contributes to this myth.

It looks like the paper says they were given 3mg/kg THC per day for 5 consecutive days. So it does seem the dose is specified.

It's pre clinical and far from surprising but 3mg/kg is a lot of THC, the equivalent of using ~1g of strong stuff by yourself (assuming no THC is lost during consumption).

We see this use case a lot, inbound lead gen via text is very effective.

We also offer voice on SendHub, so you can get calls on the number too. I believe we're unique in offering both those services on toll free numbers too.

I also like keeping my personal and professional lives separate. However, there's a lot of times where texting is more efficient than email in the workplace and we've found that businesses communicating with a lot of people - like on demand companies - need more powerful tools.

The gap between 'yes' and money in the bank, is why so many people have trouble with this, imo.

Good call, adding to the list.

I agree, we've never closed 100% of yeses. However, dragging it out with one of those investors, assuming they refuse to say no is worse for them imo as it creates a clear paper trail of bad behavior which hurts their reputation.

But a longer a timeframe where? I think waiting on signing docs after agreeing to them is far from ideal, same goes for waiting on wiring the money, unless agreed in advance.

Yes. I've convinced myself so many times that fixing a bug or shipping a new feature was more important than closing the round.

Figuring out the business model was tough. We started off with a freemium model and pricing that was a hunch. Now we're doing 30 day free trials and it's much easier to spend time on the right kind of customers.

In Europe and a lot of developing countries, where missed calls aren't charged for - this kind of 'nudge' communication is pretty common. I have no idea if it'll work in the US but it's certainly valuable when both parties already have known context, e.g. 'I'll missed call you when I'm outside'

We've found that people who come back after 3 days, are very likely to be there in 30 days, assuming the product solves their problem. In general, we treat them as steps in the funnel - complete signup to become MAU, come back in 3 days to be HEU. We look at where in the funnel we're currently failing and spend time on that piece.

I often feel the same way. I did suggest 3 'better' metrics in the article. The problem is we're brought up on generalized metrics and when in reality we need most likely need to create our own to really understand how our business is working, imo. Although the created metrics can/should be derivatives of the most often used metrics.

We use Hackpad as our wiki at SendHub and it's awesome. Great job guys and congrats on the well deserved coverage.

We used to offer a $10 plan but we found the margins were very low. $25 allows us to provide great support and very few users need more than the limits on the plan.

Thanks Chris.

Yep, pretty close. We used to offer individual accounts - those folks were hard to convert, hence the large number of free users.

MMS is coming soon but the network operators aren't always easy to deal with. Right now, we put a link in the sms, that way you can send any file type.

Thanks Omar - waiting on hearing your news too.

Thanks Josh.

Thanks Jan.

We're upfront about the probationary period with all candidates, they start knowing they'll receive a lot of feedback in the first few weeks, they'll get an opportunity to see if it's a fit from their side and also from the team's side.

I think getting hiring right is a process, we were certainly a lot more hit & miss right after demo day, than we are now.

Agreed, it's a key advantage for YC companies.

This is a critical part of our high availability infrastructure.

We followed up directly on this and it seems to be working fine now.

This is false.

At cuil we were told by mgmt of the launch date and our very talented PR team kicked into gear and generated a ton of buzz via a nationwide press tour.

Despite popular opinion, the ops team kept the site up during the massive traffic surge. A combination of poor mgmt, initial deference to user testing, last minute commits and a nasty indexing bug were the reasons the relevance sucked on day 1.

It wasn't just Anna, there were many former archive staffers at cuil. I suspect that's how the data ended up being transferred.