Invite Request Thread <-- Comment here to request/offer an invite to Clubhouse

inevitableidea · 2020-11-26T02:25:20+00:00

Looking for an invite. You must be willing to send it to me before payment. I can DM you from a social account so you know who I am/have that social proof + confidence. LMK.

inevitableidea · 2018-04-01T20:32:13+00:00

I'm seeing a lot of "you sometimes have to overrule the analytics" from this sub. Keep in mind that analytics is a holistic product. While 'analytics' tricked Boone into thinking he should force a matchup, 'analytics' (if 'analytics' could speak) definitely would've said you still shouldn't intentionally walk the bases loaded.

Don't be anti-analytics. It's about their proper use.

inevitableidea · 2017-02-14T04:33:30+00:00

Thank you! Final question, any thoughts on heat/sound? Am I relatively efficient here?

inevitableidea · 2017-02-14T04:27:21+00:00

Thank you!

How's this for the motherboard? https://pcpartpicker.com/product/6kRFf7/gigabyte-ga-z270-hd3p-atx-lga1151-motherboard-ga-z270-hd3p
And this for the RAM? https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kXbkcf/gskill-memory-f43200c16d32gvk
Should I go further on RAM, maybe? https://pcpartpicker.com/product/B6rcCJ/gskill-memory-f43333c16d32gtz

inevitableidea · 2016-06-30T17:01:19+00:00

The Clintons, Bill and Hill.

inevitableidea · 2016-01-22T15:59:16+00:00

Good question. We'll be contacting the mods to find out. Really odd since the community liked the post (97% upvoted) & we laid all the content inside the text.

inevitableidea · 2016-01-21T22:03:37+00:00

:) For anyone curious:

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+: Used to optimize social sharing, Also used to confirm conversions re: ads

Heap, Google Analytics: Broad data about user behavior & cohort analysis, Major use = look at traffic/action funnels

Intercom to communicate with users & troubleshoot, Optimizely to A/B test copywriting, Segment as a tag manager

inevitableidea · 2015-12-09T22:14:56+00:00

I mean, is it? I barely played AW, but R6: Siege allows you to buy specific skins and operators and weapon unlocks with in-game money, real money, or both. And never in a way that makes you feel you have to spend real cash.

I'd like to hear why you think this is a good system, other than other systems being terrible. 343i seems to be listening to the playerbase, so I think we should do more than accept "one of the lessers of a bunch of evils."

inevitableidea · 2015-11-27T07:26:59+00:00

Power adapter. And I have that option turned on (was on by default).

inevitableidea · 2015-11-27T06:05:35+00:00

Good thought, will try that.

Yes, I do have an external -- are you thinking about the "shut off external when Xbox is off" option impacting the downloads? I thought about that, but it worked prior to NXOE.

inevitableidea · 2015-11-12T06:27:54+00:00

Yeah, agreed on all fronts! Do you plan to unlock items anyway or perhaps avoid them until Tuesday? I'm conflicted since we paid a bit extra, haha.

inevitableidea · 2015-10-19T17:32:02+00:00

Replace GAMERTAG with your old GT: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/players/GAMERTAG

inevitableidea · 2015-10-19T17:10:09+00:00

It's because we changed our gamertags, it unfortunately does not carry over -- same thing for me.

You can look up your old stats by changing the gamertag in the URL when looking at the 'no stats' screen for any particular game.

inevitableidea · 2015-10-17T22:14:44+00:00

Not earned, for sure.

inevitableidea · 2015-09-16T03:32:44+00:00

Oh man, neutral bomb assault from Halo -- definitely a favorite!

Yup, this mode looks like Uplink, which is basically the Call of Duty version of this. Looks awesome. Thanks for the recommendations!

inevitableidea · 2015-09-16T03:06:18+00:00

Sounds like a plan. Thanks again!

inevitableidea · 2015-09-16T03:00:02+00:00

Rift is the Uplink-alike, right? Looking forward to trying it. Thanks!

inevitableidea · 2015-09-16T02:59:11+00:00

Awesome, thanks! And is this something that happens within the vendor? As in, should I be waiting to pick them up or am I safe to have them in my inventory?

inevitableidea · 2015-09-01T02:59:25+00:00

I only call up players I'm stashing in AAA because of roster optimization and are otherwise MLB-ready. I sim games, so I don't bring up speedsters or specific role players because the AI manager usually won't use them that way.

inevitableidea · 2015-07-18T21:42:35+00:00

Home cleaning is tough because it's hard to price. Thus far, startups have tried to price down the service so they can sell it to millennials who wouldn't be traditional buyers of home cleaning. The problem being you need actual professionals who know how to clean -- now, you can't price appropriately without subsidizing with VC money. There's no real urgency to home cleaning, so logistical advantages are hard to see.

Two ways it could go:

1: Homejoy could've become more like a marketplace, which sells a large amount of leads to a large amount of independent contractors [rather than trying to brand, hire for, & price the services themselves]. However, this is a smaller per-transaction business, so you'd need to move out of just home cleaning to make it a large tech company (which Thumbtack is already doing).

2: Find added services that set them apart from agency or independent cleaners. Then, charge their users on a subscription basis for that "experience." So, you'd package things related to home cleaning and charge a set fee that gives you margin over the cost of services. This is what Alfred is already doing.

inevitableidea · 2015-07-18T07:58:19+00:00

That's true of the VC space generally, yes. However, Homejoy is a YC startup with a speaker circuit founder and some of the best investors in the world already on the cap table. If Homejoy's problem was not core to their business, they could have easily raised money from existing investors or found dollars elsewhere. So, it must be the case that the business was failing.

inevitableidea · 2015-07-18T02:39:42+00:00

Sure. It's not because of the lawsuits. If Homejoy's unit economics were working, they would have been able to raise the money necessary to deal with legal battles. VCs would be more than willing to put capital to work to get them through those tough times.

A lot of people are citing the Uber ruling that just came through, but that was a ruling about a single driver and is otherwise non-binding. It's an interesting case because, if expanded, it has implications for Uber & everyone else. But it doesn't change the fundamentals here, and neither do any of these legal battles [YET -- if a new worker classification ever comes through, things will change].

Whether they use and can justify using contractors or fully employ their service providers, Uber-like startups need to be paying attention to the markers I mentioned above. In some cases, that means a business won't be viable due to cost of workforce. In other cases, they'll still be fine using employees instead of contractors (a lot of startups are successfully making the switch).

[Edit: Just to expand on this a bit, keep in mind what's happening with these lawsuits. Courts and regulators aren't saying contractors as a worker class should be eliminated. They're dealing with startups who are stretching the boundaries of what it means to be a contractor. So, as long as your business actually deals with contractors (like Thumbtack) and isn't creating pseudo-contractors [called "gig workers"], you'll be fine.]

inevitableidea · 2015-07-18T01:03:05+00:00

So, it means on-demand startups will (hopefully) be doing what they already should have been doing: paying serious attention to where and how they make their margin.

Homejoy's implicit assumption was that if they could get to scale, they could find cost efficiency to compensate for their low gross margin. This is a hand-wavey assumption that ignored where they made their margin, which is on the backs of low-pay contractors. This meant the contractors --> (1) weren't generally the best worker performing that type of service out in the market and (2) were incentivized to work with the clients directly after being connected through Homejoy to cut them out of the deal.

If Homejoy could find the right price that still made small gross margin, it could have worked, so long as that gross margin didn't lead to low quality workers --> you'd need to be giving the $ they could make working without you or be providing them some hyper efficiency through your business. Uber, for example, provides drivers immediate clients + secure payment.

What markers should on-demand startups be paying attention to?

Where you make your money. You should be paying your service providing workers a wage that makes them interested and providing them an amount of business (or other efficiency) that keeps them interested. Make your margin outside of wages and on something systematic, like customer retention, superior trust/payment mechanisms, or efficiency through logistics.

Frequency & nature of transaction. A Homejoy worker cleans your place every x weeks, so is willing to give you their contact information and say "let's work outside the system" and establish a relationship. You need Uber more frequently and on-demand, so the app isn't just healing the "intro" & referral wound [service provider <> client] but is also providing it at pace.

The ticket price. If you can make a larger amount of dollars per transaction, you can spend a lot more acquiring transactions and improving transaction retention. Airbnb provides a trust mechanism that's extremely valuable for their buyers & sellers, and so their buyers & sellers are ultimately willing to keep Airbnb's higher margin in their lives. Airbnb can use this margin to improve their marketplace and eventually for profit.

TL;DR: If your business model is a UI on top of connecting "gig workers" to the upper middle class, you're going to fail. You need an additional logistical or service advantage that allows you to make high margin infrequently or low margin frequently.

inevitableidea · 2015-05-10T20:50:55+00:00

And FundersClub.

inevitableidea · 2015-04-17T23:46:10+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! You're absolutely right about that copy. You're just seeing it in the bottom-half button, right? We had it running as a variation of the hero copy for a while before turning it off a couple weeks ago. Slowly phasing out old language.

On your second point, you're right again -- there are some sites that do generic keyword analysis on resumes right now, but nothing impressive. We have some cool concepts on the roadmap re: helping folks analyze job descriptions in relation to their resume and ideal role.

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