rafe33 | 9 years ago | on: Uber CEO Plays with Fire
Further proof it's a pure commodity service and customer satisfaction is the most important metric for them to measure.
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rafe33 | 9 years ago | on: Uber CEO Plays with Fire
Yes. And why didn't he explain how he turned the table on his high school bullies. Odd to include that psycho analysis and then leave out any details there.
rafe33 | 9 years ago | on: Uber CEO Plays with Fire
If you read the article, it helped ensure that no drivers were scamming them by creating repeat fake customer accounts to increase the payout bonus.
rafe33 | 11 years ago | on: How to Hire and Build a Remote Team
I'm not sure why any venture backed startup, in an area that has local talent, would want to deliberately go the remote workforce route. It hampers your ability to scale, hurts your future acquisition chances, creates and will lead to communication redudancy, and culture distractions. It rarely works out positively.
In short, while I am sure that there are some instances where it works well (eg Basecamp / 37signals), I'd expect that they are the exception to the norm.
Note: I did build a remote startup with incredibly talented people and after a lot of soul searching and time required them all to come join us locally (or helped them find a new job elsewhere). Hardest decision we made at the company and certainly the right one.
NOTE 2: the best remote recruiting tool we had was to handpick whole invited to work with us. We hung out on mailing lists and read potential employees blog posts to see what kind of amazing open source projects they were sharing with the world, before trying to individually recruit them.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: The Next Mission
No. He doesn't just think it. He donated a substantial amount of money to force his views on others.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: Mozilla CEO Eich says gay-marriage firestorm could hurt Firefox
Just curious. What about when he was CTO? I agree his beliefs and actions are gross, but why were their no calls for him to resign sooner?
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version
No no guys Instagram also released direct messaging.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: Virtual Reality is going to change the world
I'm disappointed for oculus that anyone bought them. They had a chance to lead the next generation of companies in revolutionising media... To BE the next Sony. Kudos to Facebook for snatching them up.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
There is a theory that the rapid ascent to 45,000 feet was done to deprive the passengers of oxygen and incapacitate them.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: I Hired My Mom
I hope it works out. My personal rule to live by:
Never hire someone you can't fire.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: The problem is with the product
It's also a massively profitable industry. It would do for the car industry what android previously has done for them in mobile.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: Why Twitter's IPO is Bad for Startups
Uh, "Path is worth $550 million" ?!
What crack is he smoking?
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: A detective story's famous author is unmasked
That's actually a great point. The cynic in me wants to believe this.
rafe33 | 12 years ago | on: My Startup has 30 Days to Live
Maybe I missed it, but WHY does your startup have 30 days to live? You ran out of money and have no raise potential? How could your employee and cofounder not know this already?
rafe33 | 13 years ago | on: Payroll on Auto Pilot, done in 0 seconds
Yes, and on top of that, you want a payroll service brand to speak to its professionalism and reliability. Not edgy "hipness" (especially if you are failing hard at that aspect).
rafe33 | 14 years ago | on: On startup transparency
How can you share stats when you aren't doing well though? Won't that just hurt your startup?
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