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Let me ask you a question: Do you view Upcall as a stop-gap solution?

Bcs your answer above reads that way.

To be honest, this idea is really going betting against the current sales model (which is dangerous). Upcall team -- pay attention to this: almost every sales leader I know (in SaaS) wants their SDRs/BDRs to be phoning/emailing. It's absolutely crucial to becoming a great seller. Outsourcing this stuff is a horrendous idea bcs it robs sales reps of cold selling (which is immensely important to their growth).

I could go on and on about this, you've chose a rough path.

Disclosure: I've dealt with almost 250+ SaaS sales leaders in the past 24 months.

I've noticed a lot of effort over the past year to get more startups interested in YC (deal flow). I'll say what I hear a lot of startup founders saying now -- YC is just not the same anymore. It's lost its appeal and exclusiveness factor. People are just turned off from it.

I hope some of the YC team reads this comment and takes heed.

not sure if this was a successful exit. LinkedIn shows the employee count being cut in half over the last little while. Also 2 of the other cofounders left?

InboxSDK (from Streak) is the best API to use for Gmail.

Waterloo is far better then Toronto in terms of startups and tech talent. Toronto is riding our coat tails :)

Worth mentioning that Waterloo has the world's largest startup incubator/accelerator (physical space wise) via Velocity.

Had this installed for almost a year now. Great tool.

absolutely amazing talk. This needs to be watched several times. My favorite takeaway: Get your users to their 'magical' moment with your product as fast as possible.

Thanks for the correction :) Interesting.

Question: How does Box end up being the largest vendor of collaborative Radiology tech now? Do they already have assets that do similar?

Not really. It happens to be that most 'image viewing' tech like this is bundled with the hardware hospitals buy. Example: If you buy a GE/Fuji/etc PACS your usually stuck with their image viewer.

Admirable case study. Seriously, this takes a lot of courage and discipline to pull off. Kudos to the management team!

However I'm really beginning to doubt the legitimacy of the claim that Email is the root of the productivity drain. People complain to me about SMS and phone calls the same way they do about email. I highly doubt the solution is to shun the medium/tech. The best way is to simply tweak the people who use them :)

I never knew HubSpot had such a stellar line of investors (Sequoia, General Catalyst Partners, Matrix etc).

What's wrong with getters and setters?

It's just redundant code. Most of the time developers don't actually need to override the basic get/set operation on a variable. Yet you have to write the get/set methods over and over.

How do other languages address this issue?

Scala does a good job. You don't need to actually write a get/set method. But if you wanted to modify getFoo() you would simply implement the method with your custom getter

It would probably only take one innovation in email, something that Gmail could probably pull off, to make email lovable again.

I really think that if Google could help alleviate people's concerns with email (volume, spam etc), people would be quite happy with email again :)

He's enjoying time with his kids (source: Twitter). My fav tweet - "If there is anything in the world better than being spontaneously hugged by a 2 year old, I haven't found it in 49 years."

This is totally worth the cost. I started manually trying to post to all those sites and it's just not worth it for me. Too time consuming. 50$ is pretty cheap. Great job