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Darn, I was eagerly awaiting them to go out of business so I could pick up one of their vans (all Fords btw) at auction for pennies on the dollar. Their drivers in SF are absolutely clueless and honestly should not be alowed on the road.
BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring for engineering and business roles.
BuildZoom is a marketplace for remodeling and home improvement projects built on a huge amount of data.
If you are interested in helping to solve real-world problems and shipping products that touch millions of people, we'd love to hear from you.
Logo looks familiar...http://www.cisurfboards.com/
Where does the data come from? We collect and publish building permit data at the property level which might be a good add-on for investors looking to for info on the the condition of the structure. If you're interested in adding building permit records to your reports I'd love to discuss. You can email me direclty at chris [at] buildzoom.com
I created http://picmint.io just as a place to keep photos I have taken that may come in handy for projects and as a way to tinker with IFTT. Free for anyone to use if you see something you like.
If a company doesn't treat you properly and refuses to help, cut your losses and move on.
Switch to athenahealth. By far the best company in the space (my wife works there so I'm biased), but you can dig in to their financials (NSDQ: ATHN) and see for yourself.
Medical billing is an incredibly broken process, so I applaud anyone trying to fix the problem. There is never an excuse for treating customers poorly, however. If you do, you will no longer have a business.
This is a tech-heavy community, but the interest of foreign buyers cannot be overlooked in this current market. San Francisco is a world-class city and if you look at overall macro trends of comparable cities (London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, etc), SF is still downright cheap. There will always be a wave or renters in great locations, so if you have the cash SF real estate is a good place to park it.
The problem with the VC model is that they look for a large liquidity event in the short term, and so push companies aggressively to reach this goal. With the number of IPOs so low these days, these liquidity events are much more infrequent than they used to be, yet the VC model remains the same. It angers me that nobody is doing anything to innovate in this space, as funding is hands down the most limiting factor for a new venture's growth. I found this slideshare presentation which includes some of the freshest thinking I've seen on the subject. Any thoughts? http://cli.gs/g3BA9v