andrewgioia's comments

These types of companies are really interesting to me, I had no idea they've raised close to $1B over 5 rounds/7 years though[1]! Curious what they've needed that for, I would presume they've sold quite a few of these plus the whole subscription model.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/peloton-interactive

TeachBoost (Brooklyn, NY) - http://teachboost.com - Local preferred, remote negotiable

We're a growing education technology startup in NYC looking for a full time developer. We need someone (preferably a few years experience but we're open to all backgrounds) who can develop new features and small projects, handle bug fixes, and work with and learn from our lead programmer. Right now we need help with front end development, mysql/database tuning, and back end/application development--if you can handle any two we'd love to meet you!

Because we're in education and love working with schools, teachers, and principals, it's important that you have a passion for it as well or are comfortable working with schools and institutional users (and going heads up against large institutional competitors). There's 5 of us right now spanning dev, sales, support, and ops: 3 in NYC, 1 in Philly, and 1 in Seattle. We're open to a remote developer but have a preference for being NYC or Brooklyn-based. We're early stage and bootstrapped and you'll have the opportunity to not only help make better teachers but get meaningful equity, own projects from the beginning, work in a casual environment with a small group of friendly people, and help build a company.

A little bit about us, you, and what you'd be doing:

  * We're a web-based app with a stack built on: PHP, MySQL, javascript, 
    mongodb, nginx; our frameworks include jQuery, CodeIgniter, and Trunk

  * Ideally you have 1+ years experience working on web apps or startup 
    experience, know how to use mercurial/version control, and have 
    demonstrated knowledge of HTML, CSS, javascript, and modern 
    standards-compliance

  * You should learn new languages and technologies quickly, be 
    innovative, enjoy challenges, and have a great work ethic

  * Projects will include new feature development, bug fixes, cross-
    compatibility testing, iPad and tablet optimization, database 
    optimization and load balancing, and larger independent projects 
    you'd like to work on and dream up

Drop us a line at [email protected]!

TeachBoost (Brooklyn, NY) - http://teachboost.com - Local preferred, remote negotiable

We're a growing education technology startup in NYC looking for a full time developer. We need someone (preferably a few years experience but we're open to all backgrounds) who can develop new features and small projects, handle bug fixes, and work with and learn from our lead programmer. Right now we need help with front end development, mysql/database tuning, and back end/application development--if you can handle any two we'd love to meet you!

Because we're in education and love working with schools, teachers, and principals, it's important that you have a passion for it as well or are comfortable working with schools and institutional users (and going heads up against large institutional competitors).

There's 5 of us right now spanning dev, sales, support, and ops: 3 in NYC, 1 in Philly, and 1 in Seattle. We're open to a remote developer but have a preference for being NYC or Brooklyn-based. We're early stage and bootstrapped and you'll have the opportunity to not only help make better teachers but get meaningful equity, own projects from the beginning, work in a casual environment with a small group of friendly people, and help build a company.

A little bit about us, you, and what you'd be doing:

* We're a web-based app with a stack built on: PHP, MySQL, javascript, mongodb, nginx; our frameworks include jQuery, CodeIgniter, and Trunk

* Ideally you have 1+ years experience working on web apps or startup experience, know how to use mercurial/version control, and have demonstrated knowledge of HTML, CSS, javascript, and modern standards-compliance

* You should learn new languages and technologies quickly, be innovative, enjoy challenges, and have a great work ethic

* Projects will include new feature development, bug fixes, cross-compatibility testing, iPad and tablet optimization, database optimization and load balancing, and larger independent projects you'd like to work on and dream up

Drop us a line at [email protected]!

A lot of households still use personal computers to do their taxes and manage other financial/important docs, create things for school which is often in MS apps, or archive photos and video, etc. A lot of these functions would just be far too cumbersome on a tablet and I really can't see any of them being replaced in the reasonable future.

The article title is pretty misleading here. It starts off citing a 62% drop in uniques and 90% drop in pageviews and how disastrous it's been, but concludes that they're actually netting $600,000 more per month from the subscription revenue than they would if they kept it free with ads. Assuming those CPM figures are accurate, that sounds like a pretty good business decision, especially with a more focused user base that actually places value in the paper's content.

I never realized that Google Dashboard existed until reading this (https://www.google.com/dashboard/). It's nice to be able to access all of the services/settings in one page, and a little frightening to see how much I really use Google and how much information I have stored there...

It's really odd that Paul Allen is doing this, he certainly doesn't need the money or the hassle. Is it possible that he's suing these high profile companies to spark some kind of legislative reform re: software patents?