The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later

[lionhearted]

Boomerang for Gmail is a really nice product - I recommend trying it if you haven't yet.

It give you a "Send Later" option in email, which helps if you want to write a reply but don't want it to go out yet - for instance, if you want to say "The blog post is live now," but the post won't be live for another three hours.

It's pretty cool. You wouldn't even realize how useful it is until you try it. Check it out.

Edit: http://www.boomeranggmail.com

[bostonvaulter2]

Wow, I've wanted something nearly exactly like this for a long time. But for me "Send Later" is one of the lowest value functions (I think gmail already has a lab that does this). Instead I like an email re-appearing in my inbox if no-one has responded to it in a few days so that I can then follow up on it. Their email game seems pretty nice too, although I wish it had keyboard shortcuts as well.

[iamelgringo]

I love what Dave has been doing from an investment perspective, and the accelerator program that 500 startups has set up is top notch.

I haven't heard a bad thing about him from any of the startups that he's invested in... aside from the fact that he's really, really hard to get a hold of.

For all the talk of the Silicon Valley Bubble in the NYT, and the Economist, etc..... the majority of "silly" fundings you read about in the main stream press end up having a back story like this... revenue, serious traction, founders that have been working their asses off eating ramen noodles for years, etc...

[acangiano]

What's wrong with East Coast VCs? Do they lack money, vision, or both? It's not the first time I hear people with great ideas complaining about their inability to get funded, only to receive decent investments the moment they move to Silicon Valley.

[acgourley]

To be fair, without proof that those investments have paid off you could use those datapoints to ask whats wrong with SV VC's

[kloncks]

Faced similar situation.

My thoughts (based on my very limited experience) are that East Coast VCs seem to be more risk-averse.

Which makes sense. It's easier to be more risky when you know investors down the street who have made 1000x with the who's who of the Internet.

[zackattack]

I suspect they lack vision and knowledge of how scrappy technology hacks can provide massive value. They have no idea how every most developers on Hacker News are capable of inventing "simple machines" with <5kloc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

[abbasmehdi]

My goodness!! I so need this!! I saw it's just $29 for a license. Just spoke with my boss and she said lets buy for the team. I’m looking for a group license (not every employee will use a CC for a license). By the way, she and I are both shocked by how cheap this is. We would have even paid you more than twice that much for each license. Also, we would want to pay once, and then use for many, for example, we would need 7 or 8 licenses and make it available to 6 people so they can, if they so choose, use the service.

This is corporate America speaking btw.

[mathattack]

Good to see he hasn't let it get to his head. Still eating ramen suggests they're scrappy, and his post is about customers rather than an exit.

[trocker]

Its really pretty unbelievable that life takes such turns.These happen every once in a while. Steve Jobs says - you cant connect the dots looking forward,it is only possible looking backwards.What if a person just believed in his destiny and went off with only one belief that dots are going to connect for sure someday, and then they don't? Many must have tried to connect the dots but were unsuccessful. For all the entrepreneurs in the world,I think,it all boils down to this: 'Is it worth it, if the dots don't connect? Will they not complain that they should've taken the safe route?'. If the answer for both the questions are 'yes' for once,never think again - its only going to waste valuable time.

[bryanallen22]

Site text can be read here: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://baydin.com/blog/2011/...

[rbritton]

Server seems a bit overloaded. Cache: http://baydin.com.nyud.net/blog/2011/09/the-100k-taxi-rideon...

[kapilkale]

Withdrawn. That was the old article.

[kylek]

A for effort! But this one is timing out for me too :/

Edit: working now!

[moah]

It's resolved now. Thanks for posting the cached links guys.

[happyfeet]

Fantastic product. Along with rapportive, I find this to be the best product that compliments gmail. Thanks mate.

[gmazzotti]

You have a really good product!

[iag]

Congrats baydin team!