kapitti's comments

kapitti | 14 years ago | on: How much money should my company raise?

Came to post the exact same thing. With 20-30% going to insurance/benefits, taxes, misc costs - that's an amazingly low number....even more so considering they're in SF.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe

The number of shooting stars amazes me.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Should Tumblr care? David Karp tells users who complain to "go away"

> You can't have a PR team and a customer service department that makes sure everybody gets a nice reply.

Do you really need a PR/CS team to ensure people get a nice reply? Shouldn't that just be something that a /very nice guy/ would accomplish naturally?

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to step up my coding skills?

Building something doesn't teach you much about quality if you don't have someone to review/assist every now and then.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Founder Control

Isn't a dozen a small percentage of total YC companies?

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: TechStars Launches Ten New Startups In Seattle

Interesting that TS would fund 2 companies basically doing the same thing: https://www.usingmiles.com/ & https://gomiles.com/

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Tell us your naughty stories

There's quite a few airports around the world where you'll run into this sort of scam. In Guadalajara, I've had to pay a "fee" to board a flight that I already had a seat on. In Bangalore I had to pay another fee so that my luggage would not go missing or be damaged.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: A sick CEO's full disclosure

I didn't get that feeling from the article at all. My brother actually has multiple myeloma as well; he's checked every 3 months to see if the blood levels have spiked and a skeletal survey is done every 6 months. It's almost a certainty that the cancer to start eating away at your bones and you not know it between the skeletal surveys.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Yes, PHL/BOS/CHI/SEA/NYC/BLT/XYZ does Web startups

I always thought there was a decent community in Dallas, or maybe Alex Muse just convinced me of that.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Doing Y Combinator in your 30s

I'm not sure someone that was going to perform short term contracting during YC would get accepted.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Leftronic (YC S10) Dashboards Optimize Your Data Displays

I've seen lots of BI tools used for creating dashboards in Fortune 500s given that most of the data is secure in random databases, mainframes, etc - the most popular of late is QlikView.

kapitti | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best web text editor?

https://squadedit.com/

kapitti | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you go about finding designers?

http://pick.im/

kapitti | 16 years ago | on: YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund

That's a pretty steep management fee.

kapitti | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

I always assumed it was Matt Maroon punking us.

kapitti | 16 years ago | on: HN Members' Workspaces

Images of my old home office, it's relocated and had some additional hardware since:

http://i.imgur.com/o78Ix.jpg

But it still features the belt: