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Jopwell | New York, NY | Full-time | Onsite

Jopwell is a career advancement platform helping Black, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American students and professionals connect with meaningful job opportunities.

Our backend stack includes Python, Django, Celery, Elasticsearch, Redis, Postgres and Protocol Buffers. We're hiring for a Junior Backend Engineer.

https://www.jopwell.com/jobs/6657

I'm the engineer hiring for this role, and not a recruiter, so keep that in mind if you have questions for me or are interested in the job.

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First of all, being less depressed will help you with women. IMHO you need to fix your own depression before you can proceed. It's also good to learn how to interact with women while not drinking (cue Raj from The Big Bang Theory). Women pick up on a man that is confident in his own skin.

I can't speak for LA, but when I was living in SF I would usually get on OkCupid or Tinder and arrange meetup dates at local coffeeshops. It was an easy first date. If there were no red flags at the coffeeshop, I would ask the woman to a second activity date doing something we both enjoyed.

Hope this helps, Good Luck!

This is in addition to the Libor interest rates rigging

they listed w3schools as a reference? not sure if I can take this seriously anymore.

The message: these are the kinds of employees we want to hire.

If you follow these guidelines there is a good chance we would hire you.

Universities: make sure you are teaching students these skills if you want us to hire your students.

"Rather, the most educated one-third of young adults are increasingly likely to live in the densest urban neighborhoods. [...] urban neighborhoods have become more desirable for those who can afford them."

That is one problem I have with these "sharing" platforms, there currently are very poor systems for vetting sharers. AirBnB could really do a better job of investigating the backgrounds of potential renters and restrict rental access to only the people on the original AirBnB rental agreement.

Are there better ways to vet temporary renters online?

Go Mobile or Go Home

A missing point:

It is very common for management fees to follow an 2 and 20 Fee Structure.

Meaning they charge a flat 2% to keeps the lights on and pay outrageous salaries. Then above a certain threshold an additional 20% of any profits earned.

Why does this matter?

IHMO this motivates funds managers to accumulate large AUM (Assets Under Management) to make that 2% larger. The fund manager is less motivated to make good returns since he knows he will still collect that 2%. So it might be better to remove the 2% flat fee and simple charge a percentage on the profits earned. This motivates the fund manager to actually generate returns before he makes a buck. Even if the market is going down he will still be motivated to outperform.

Thanks Sama.

This is something I've always been curious since VCs are an investment structure and measuring performance is critical when selecting the right VC.

Honest question on how profitable Y Combinator really is.

What is Y Combinator's average portfolio return before management fees and carry?

As many people have pointed out, many VCs want a fast ramp up. Also be aware that taking money from VCs will introduce a new level of complexity to your operations. Some VCs will even try to essentially make decisions for you and the future of your business.

VC money always comes with "strings attached".

While I'm not against taking money from VCs, seriously consider if it will benefit your company's growth and business models by taking money from them. There are ways to bootstrap and grow a business without external funding like VCs. This is something a lot of people seem to have forgotten in this current startup 2.0 mindset.

To the founders of HippyVM don't let Y Combinator's rejection stop you!

I can confirm that Akamai is a pain to deal with. Defense.Net as well. Cloudflare is what I would chose but they are siding with the Chinese gov't at this point.

Keep up the good work, FairBlocker is giving content creators a fair cut and users everywhere an ad-free experience.

I think I'll setup some "pixel patterns where you would normally see an ad" on my own site and maybe people will start donating bitcoins to my site.

I'll get back to ya'll with the results of the experiment.

How much of that revenue did Google take? Is it a 80/20 revenue split or what?

My point is the middle-man must be paid but if there is no middle-man you keep 100% of the profit.

YouTube is experimenting with it. However the margin they pay at is still lower compared to say Vimeo for example where the revenue split is 90/10. YouTube is having their content talent being poached and move to other platforms as individual content providers wake up to this reality.

You are 100% correct, in fact the margin keeps shrinking. A good example would be YouTube where content providers make $6 for every 1000 views. Your cut as a content provider will keep shrinking.

Should Google be collecting this revenue for the content providers? Or could the individual content providers not collect this revenue themselves without having Google take a cut.

How hard is it for a site to setup a simple paywall linked to a low-cost payment processor?

Why work with the record label when you could be producing your own work and keep 100% of the profit?