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They are great! We have been using them for a couple years now. Highly recommend.

ConferenceBadge landing page is one of the best I've seen. Nice work!

Encrypted Search is listed as "Killed" because Google started redirecting encrypted.google.com to the homepage... now all queries are encrypted by default, instead of only those originating from that subdomain [1].

I'd say that's an upgrade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search#Dedicated_encryp...

Streamable (https://streamable.com) | Full-Time | Remote

Streamable is the world's easiest way to upload and embed video. We reach over 50M monthly unique visitors and are ranked as a Top 500 website in the world by Alexa.

We are currently looking for web engineers with experience in React / Python. Bonus points if you are comfortable working with AWS but not required. We offer competitive salary and full benefits, plus you can work from wherever you want!

Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

Streamable | New York | Full Time | Onsite

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Streamable (https://streamable.com) is the world's easiest way to create and share video.

- Small engineering team pushing daily to tens of millions of users

- Backed by some of the best consumer internet VCs in the world

- Competitive salary, great benefits, and generous equity grants

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're currently looking for web and mobile engineers. Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

Streamable | New York | Full Time | Onsite

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Streamable (https://streamable.com) makes it super easy for anyone to upload and share video. No ads, no comments, no nonsense.

- Tight-knit engineering team pushing daily to millions of users

- Backed by some of the best consumer internet VCs in the world

- Competitive salary, full benefits, and generous equity grants

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're currently looking for Android and iOS engineers. Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

I'll save you a right-click — they're using Brandon Grotesque.

Streamable | New York | Full Time | Onsite

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Streamable (https://streamable.com) makes it super easy for anyone to upload and share videos. No ads, no comments, no nonsense.

- Tight-knit engineering team pushing daily to millions of users

- Backed by some of the best consumer internet VCs in the world

- Competitive salary, full benefits, and generous equity grants

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're looking for mobile and web software engineers that are comfortable working in a modern stack and have a good eye for product.

Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

The public markets [1] would disagree.

[1] https://www.google.com/?q=GRPN

Streamable - Brooklyn, New York - Full Time - Onsite

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Streamable (https://streamable.com) is a popular new video platform that makes it super easy to upload and share videos. No intrusive ads, no comments, and no signup required.

- Small, tight-knit team pushing daily to millions of users

- Backed by some of the best consumer internet VCs in the world

- Competitive salary, full benefits, and generous equity grants

- Awesome location in the center of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're looking for software engineers that are comfortable working in a modern stack (Python/Backbone/Redis/Postgres/Nginx) and have a good eye for product design.

Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

Streamable - New York

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Streamable (https://streamable.com) is a new video platform that makes it super easy to upload and share videos. No intrusive ads, no comments, and no signup required. Some perks:

- Small, tight-knit team pushing daily to millions of users

- Competitive salary, full benefits, and generous equity grants

- Awesome location in the center of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're looking for a software engineer that is comfortable working in a modern stack (Python/Backbone/Redis/Postgres/Nginx). Bonus points if you have prior experience with FFmpeg.

Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

Deck: $2.1B in revenue by 2011

Reality: $500M in revenue in 2014

Moral: Even the most successful startups don't hit their seed-stage revenue projections :)

I don't blame them when the Unsubscribe link is buried at the bottom of a 8MB marketing newsletter in 4px font.

Streamable - NYC

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Streamable (https://streamable.com) is a new video platform that makes it super easy to upload and share videos. No intrusive ads, no comments, and no signup required. Some perks:

- Small, tight-knit team pushing daily to millions of users

- Competitive salary, full benefits, and generous equity grants

- Awesome location in the center of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're looking for a software engineer that is comfortable working in a modern stack (Python/Backbone/Redis/Postgres/Nginx). Bonus points if you have prior experience with FFmpeg.

Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

Streamable - NYC

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Streamable (https://streamable.com) is a new video platform that makes it super easy to upload and share videos. No intrusive ads, no comments, and no signup required. Some perks:

- Small, tight-knit team pushing daily to millions of users

- Competitive salary, full benefits, and generous equity grants

- Awesome location in the center of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're looking for a software engineer that is comfortable working in a modern stack (Python/Backbone/Redis/Nginx). Bonus points if you have prior experience with FFmpeg.

Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

I wonder how much of the company the Lyft founders still own. They have raised over $1B at relatively (compared to Uber) low valuations.

They have a lower-priced version (that's not Swiss made) with all of the same features: http://withings.com/us/en/products/activite-pop

The author mentions the Withings Activite as a viable, albeit less "smart" alternative to the iWatch, and I just had to chime in -- the Activite is one of the best devices I've ever owned. It's beautiful, useful, and inconspicuous. And no, I don't work for Withings.

Those of you in the market for a smartwatch (or any watch really) should check it out: http://withings.com/us/en/products/activite

Streamable - https://streamable.com

Brooklyn, NY

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Streamable is a new video platform that makes it super easy to upload and share videos. No intrusive ads, no comments, and no signup required -- we're focused on putting content first and foremost. Some perks:

- Small, tight-knit team pushing daily to millions of users

- Competitive salary, full benefits, and generous equity grants

- Awesome location in the center of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

- Higher engineer-to-user ratio than any of the major social networks

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We're looking for a software engineer who will own the video upload and encoding product. Bonus points if you can recite FFmpeg commands in your sleep. Please contact me directly at armen@streamable.com.

http://www.canistream.it

Lots of non-technology companies.

Out of tech companies -- Craigslist, Atlassian, 37Signals, possibly MailChimp.

Fringe examples -- Indeed sold for $1B and only took a small amount of later-stage funding [1] from USV. WhatsApp took $8M from Sequoia but apparently didn't spend any of it [2].

[1] http://avc.com/2012/09/indeed/

[2] http://forbesindia.com/article/the-worlds-billionaires/the-$...

From what I can tell, Instagram is eating Twitter's lunch:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=instagram%2C%20twitte...

We permanently delete all expired files from S3 every 30 minutes. Check your link -- the text will change from "expired" to "deleted".

Thanks for the feedback! I've just been focused on getting it out the door. Will add PNG output shortly.

Better Place failed because swappable batteries don't make sense. The technology is too complex and it would have required a massive leap of faith amongst automakers to adopt the standard from an startup, even one as well-funded as Better Place.

I worked in the electric vehicle industry for 4 years, and it was clear early on that the market was moving towards permanent battery storage (not unlike smartphones) with intermittent charging taking place at public locations. Today, the vast majority of EV charging takes place at home.

Better Place management did not to listen to the market and the company suffered greatly as a result. If they would have pivoted to building recharge stations or charging networks they just may have had a chance to succeed.

This is meant do to one thing -- let the founders retain control while allowing for large stock acquisitions. It's possible Google was muscled out of the Whatsapp deal simply because they couldn't pony up the money. $20B is almost half of their cash on hand. Note that the Nest and Waze acquisitions (small in comparison) were paid for almost entirely in cash.

This is why I love software companies:

Revenue per employee. The beauty of software businesses is their leverage. Google's market cap is 40% larger than Walmart but it has only 2% the size of Walmart's employee count.

Without providing an easy way to pay they are losing lots of potential customers. If they just added a simple Stripe form, their conversions would double overnight.

I wonder what percentage of AWS traffic is from Netflix. Single digits?

Those who enjoy this review will also enjoy Philip's review [1] of "Straight from the Gut" by Jack Welch (former CEO of GE):

If you want to learn the names of every person who ever worked at GE during Jack Welch's 40 years there, you'll find this book invaluable. If you want to learn something about what made GE successful, however, good luck picking out the few saplings of wisdom from the thick forest of names. Golf and tennis fans will also find the book fascinating for its endless catalog of golf and tennis resorts nationwide. Apparently being anywhere near the top at GE requires moving to Fairfield, Connecticut and aping the Lifestyles of the Bland and WASPy.

One interesting thing I learned is that GE went from 0 percent employee ownership to 31 percent during Jack Welch's tenure as CEO, primarily through granting of stock options to top managers such as Jack himself. Jack doesn't talk about this except to say that he's proud of the number. He doesn't get into the question of whether the investors from 1980 are happy now that they own less than 70 percent of the company. Nor does he talk about what would have happened to GE's earnings if they'd accounted for all of these stock options at time of issue.

The useful and interesting content in this book could have been presented in 75 pages if the editors and ghostwriter had been doing their jobs. But they weren't doing their jobs. So the readers all have to "give 110 percent" or "give 1000 percent". Maybe this is what Jack Welch wanted because he uses these expressions numerous times throughout Straight from the Gut.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Straight-Gut-Welch/dp/0446690686