I hired someone who found our job listing on the "who's hiring" post and it worked out really well....

Neither, I really like Mailgun for their receiving email API. Their dev tools make everything really easy to set up and use. For outgoing email, Amazon SES works for me and is cheap.

Equityzen made a infographic showing some of the previous investments and investors for Shopify. You can see it here: https://equityzen.com/path-to-ipo/shopify/

Equityzen made a infographic showing some of the previous investments and investors for Shopify. You can see it here: https://equityzen.com/path-to-ipo/shopify/

This is great. I use a simple IFTTT recipe to blink my hue's at the start of the Yankees games but the ESPN api hook is always off by 10 minutes or more.

If anyone is interested in the funding history/investor returns in Etsy, we made a cool infographic about it: https://equityzen.com/blog/etsy-path-to-ipo/

I don't know of anyone personally who got an exit like that but I do know companies are staying private longer nowadays. This can increase the risk for employees. EquityZen (where I work) is trying to make it easier for employees to exit before their company has an liquidity event. This blog post explores Fab and Aereo and how a big exit is not always guaranteed: https://equityzen.com/blog/learning-from-fab-and-aereo-liqui...

Do you guys have any data on what Series A -> Exit dilution looks like for regular employees>

It really depends on the company and the terms of the investments they take on. This is a little case study of what you equity might look like if you joined Uber in 2012: https://equityzen.com/blog/uber-employee-shareholder-value-a... . It's a little outdated but it goes over some of the math you would need to figure out what your shares would be worth.

If anyone is interested in part one of this post here is the link https://equityzen.com/blog/considerations-for-your-startup-e...

If anyone is interested in how much the VC's or the CEO made on their investments in Box check out EquityZen's Infographic here: https://equityzen.com/path-to-ipo/box/?utm_source=hackernews...

Love the data. Don't like the &utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=box part of the URL. Is commenting really a campaign and worth tracking?

In Firefox, you can automatically strip utm[0], but even more fun - there's a utm poisoner for Chrome[1] that replaces the values with garbage.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/au-revoir-utm...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/utm-mangler/ngddln...

I like tracking everything. Just curious, why does it bother you?

Curious: How many clicks did you get?

can't this be tracked by referer links?

The referrers get stripped when you come from an https site like HN, so you actually can't

I love the "eclipse" section on the infographic (showing investment and return). First time I've seen that presentation style, and I think it's very clear.

Is return proportional to area? Diameter? Some other quantity? These are the same flaws Tufte identified years ago.

Presumably Levie has a lockup period...