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Why, Arizona

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www.reuters.com 6y ago

LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

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www.reuters.com 6y ago

LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

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www.eff.org 6y ago

Victory Ruling in HiQ vs. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Russia’s Citizens Can’t Escape Their Largest Tech Company

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www.popsci.com 8y ago

China's hypersonic aircraft would fly from Beijing to New York in two hours

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

CES 2018 Keynote by Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich

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www.slashgear.com 8y ago

Amazon buys Blink wire-free connected camera startup

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medium.com 8y ago

12 Startup Beliefs That Are Complete Bullshit

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Dear United: Autonomous cars will pull you out of your seat

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ilyasemin.com 9y ago

Do You Really Need to Raise Another Round?

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Teslab is the companion app Tesla owners have been waiting for

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ilyasemin.com 10y ago

One easy way to boost your productivity

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

LinkedIn Problems Run Deeper Than Valuation

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Auro Robotics (YC S15) Is Testing a Driverless Shuttle System

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Hillary Clinton Plans to Campaign Against Uber’s Contractor Economy

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

To Bootstrap or Not?

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

On Managing Developers

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ilyasemin.com 11y ago

My Immigration Story

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singularityhub.com 11y ago

Hyperloop Is Coming

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

The SaaS Adventure

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www.datanyze.com 11y ago

Show HN: Find anyone's email address on any website with this browser extension

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singularityhub.com 11y ago

Can DNA Nanobots Successfully Treat Cancer Patients? First Human Trial Soon

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How Cold Emails Led This 29-Year-Old to Get Funded by Mark Cuban and Google

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Datanyze Acquires LeadLedger, a Sales Tool That Tracks Tech Product Marketshare

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www.huffingtonpost.com 11y ago

Hiker Discovers an Abandoned Town Inside Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains

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singularityhub.com 12y ago

WANT A CHEAP 2,000X MICROSCOPE? JUST FOLD THIS $0.50 PIECE OF PAPER

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Paul Graham Hands Over The Reins At Hacker News

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blogmaverick.com 12y ago

The Back to the Future Arbitrage of Silicon Valley

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Is Search Changing?

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I know it's just an anecdote, but my biggest problem with Google's Bard/Gemini is that the moment I tried to ask a question about something - I started getting ads all over the internet and social media related to that.

Doing this with ChatGPT 4.0 for months and months did not cause this type of behavior.

I was about to comment on the trademark issue but then I saw this top comment. I think you're making a mistake with your approach of 'crossing that bridge'. Trademark violation is no joke and it's so much easier to change the name early on rather than when you have some brand recognition and thousands of users. Learn from other people's mistake, don't make your own.

Personal story time. Back in 2005 I came to the US for the first time through the Work and Travel program. I was working as a lifeguard and had a lot of free time while nobody was in the pool. I decided to take a Zend Certified Engineer certification - back then it was PHP 4 - thinking it might help me get a CS internship in the US next summer. I passed it and 3 months later Zend offered me to take a PHP 5 certification for free. I was already back in my home country and of course I agreed. After passing the exam it turned out I was #8 overall and #1 in my country to pass it. I put it on my resume.

6 months later I found a job and moved to Boston. After working at that company for a few months me and my boss went out for drinks and I asked him why he decided to hire me. He said that my certification was basically a deal-maker. He thought it was a sign that I was at the top of my profession. I thought it was funny, but, hey, it worked.

Super fast forward - a few years later I Fat FIREd at the age of 33 and I'm absolutely sure that the initial certification set a certain chain of reaction that led to it. So even though I think in most cases the certifications are absolutely useless, I'm absolutely sure that when you have to stand out from the crowd, especially at the junior level - they are super useful.

> soon after Halcourt’s toddler entered the SUV through the open back door and crawled into the driver’s seat, he first pressed the brake pedal then shifted the gear selector to Drive

How is it even possible for a 2 year old? The whole story is just really hard to believe

Well that's the beauty about Tesla - it's the most fun car to drive. I feel like 99% of people who don't like Tesla have never takes a test drive - it's just very different from all the other cars out there. Software is just the icing on the cake (but also a strong competitive advantage in the future).

Not just older cities. I live in San Diego and we have exactly the same problem here. Can't swim or surf after the rain. Not exactly sure why it was done this way - maybe because it rains very rarely and they just did not design the sewage system to handle rare (but sometimes heavy) rains.

Scenario A - it's a startup: I strongly discourage you from taking "I have another offer" approach first if you really like your current job. I've been on the other side of the table so many times and I can tell you that by doing this you immediately destroy all emotional capital and sense of loyalty with your employer. If you really like your job - I'd simply talk to your manager and say something like "I really enjoy working here and I've done X, Y and Z since my last raise. I think my current salary is below the market. What can I do to get a raise?".

If you're valued there - you'll get a raise. If not - time to start looking for a new job.

Scenario B - it's a big company: Just find another job. In most cases they have BS rules like "3% salary increase per year maximum", but it depends on the company.

> I think the biggest difference between today and 20 years ago when I first go into Silicon Valley is that most founders are generally already planning their exit. There are a lot of startups whose mentality is "get big quick enough so that we can get bought out by Google/Facebook/Amazon/etc".

Exactly the same mentality 20 years ago, except back then it was mostly about the IPO.

This.

For the past 10 months I've been travelling constantly staying at hotels, AirBnb's etc and in a lot of cases not having the permanent physical address is very inconvenient. I've tried multiple solutions but none of them work well. Yes, there are companies that offer "virtual mailboxes", but I can't ship any packages to them.

I'll share my story.

Solo technical founder. Hired my first sales employee long after I established a product-market fit, got a few paying customers and $300K in annual revenue. I gave him a co-founder title, but we were never equal. It was one of the best decision that I have made. The company would not have been able to survive if 2 of us were equal - we would have gone out of business. Instead, 1 year after I pushed him out we had a moderately successful exit (8 figure).

I think that having a solo founder is beneficial AS LONG AS that one person is great. Otherwise you, as a VC, kind of bet that at least 1 of them will be great and it will all work out.

I'll share my personal story - maybe it will help.

I'm a technical guy, always wanted to start my own company. 6 years ago I finally got my green card and started looking for a "business" co-founder. Months went by, nothing happened. As many commented, it's usually not a good idea to found a company with somebody who you have not known for at least a few years.

Finally I decided to just go for it and learn "sales" myself. After achieving some moderate success these business people started to knock on my door. Finally I brought a "co-founder" for less than 10% equity. It really helped long term to make sure we had a tie-breaker during disagreements.

6 years later it's a 60 person, multi-million-a-year SaaS company.

It's funny how with all the job sites and modern tools we still live in the world where employees and employers can't find each other. I'm the CEO of a US based startup, but we're hiring everywhere. We actually have a few digital nomads at the company. Somehow we still have troubles finding more talent.

There are a few job boards dedicated to digital nomads, but the volume there is surprisingly low.

Datanyze | Head of Growth | Remote

About us Datanyze is a small, profitable startup and we’re looking for A+ talent. Our mission is to empower modern sales and marketing professionals to make smarter data-driven decisions. We choose to be great, not big. We want to grow through making our customers successful, not by raising another round of funding.

About you You love growth and you love hacking it. You are results-oriented. You have an arsenal of tools to 10x anybody’s lead gen efforts. You are efficient and effective. You love working with smart individuals like yourself. You prefer to be flexible with your location and spend time having fun instead of staying in traffic.

Location Anywhere in the world!

Responsibilities - Grow new recurring revenue and generate upsells - Define strategy and tactics across multiple teams and align them around a growth strategy. - Drive a strong focus on performance and goal attainment. - Be a part of the senior core executive team and work closely with the CEO. - Be biased towards action. You will know the data, and be in the details. - Collaborate with other teams to drive demand and adoption

Must-haves - Previous experience working in a distributed team. - Experience working on SaaS / B2B web applications. - Data-oriented mentality - Great product intuition and deep experience with marketing, sales and customer success concepts. - Experience with Salesforce.com and Marketing Automation platforms (we use Marketo)

https://angel.co/datanyze/jobs/349112-head-of-growth