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@shl What if you add a "Dynamic regional tipping suggestion feature" that adjust suggested tip percentages based on user location or add an "round up" option for clean final total?

We launched tipping on Gumroad last year! Here's what we learned about global tipping habits: 🇺🇸 Americans lead the way - tipping 2.4% on average 🇮🇳 India is in last place – tipping 0.7% on average 🇦🇺 Aussies are feeling generous, tipping 2% (second highest in our data!) 🇳🇱 Dutch are the most frugal Western nation, tipping 0.9% The difference between the highest tipper (US: 2.4%) and lowest (India: 0.7%) is over 3x! 🤯

@euacchq @adriaanmol I imagine that this is how you feel trying to get the EU bureacracy moving

@adriaanmol You are absolutely on 🎯 Unite, speak up. We’re here to change this.

In over 20 years of entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, I’ve never spoken to anyone from the government, let alone the prime minister. The same goes for many fellow founders here. How do we expect to compete in a fast-changing world when there isn’t even a proper feedback loop in place?

@lemonsqueezy x.com/Mike_Andreuzza…

@software25939 I’ll feed, bath and take care of ‘em. (for free!)

@software25939 I’d handbuild a datacenter in your basement and sleep in a rack for all I care, just need to get asap to the US and finish building my startup.

@euacchq @DenisPayre I’m trying to move to either the US or UAE. Whoever approved my visa application first.. I can’t take it anymore

@DenisPayre Adding more taxes and yet getting more deficit, debt and inflation..

Les américains trouvent qu’ils ont trop de bureaucratie avec une dépense publique à 37% du PIB, chez nous il n’y a pas encore une majorité pour la dénoncer à 57% du PIB, juste 20 points de PIB au dessus et record du monde (libre).

I'm German. 16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck. Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined. Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide 🧵:

@parker_lackey ensuring my clients don't unnecessarily overspend on payroll, assets, tools etc; with a holistic view on the current state of affairs - niche: petro

@7hdmz Interesting. Could you go into more detail? I don't know anything about that problem

What are some of the biggest enterprise issues companies are facing today? What problems are there that need solving in enterprise in your industry? For my current industry, payments, I think its batch file management. Every day TONS of files are scp onto different boxes for batch runs complicated batch processing. Its a nightmare to keep it all secure and working properly.

@yacineMTB i've seen a thread where people were complaining about 50k Siemens CAD licenses being pirated by chinese manufacturers, they truly do not care

"oh yes here you see this license means that you have to pay-" YOINK thanks for all the software, westoid

dream life

@thomasschulzz best of luck

I have some hard news We’re closing the doors to Solaris In the last two years, we’ve helped hundreds move to Hayes Valley, opened a thriving office for early stage co’s, and our early members achieved a collective $1B valuation But sadly, we couldn’t turn it into a growing business When I started Solaris, the ambition was to turn a square mile of SF into a campus for people to build things That meant thousands of builders living next to one another and lots of places to live & work I believed the path to doing this successfully in SF would be to start an office for AI startups (core economy in SF) & housing directory, then use the demand from these to raise a real estate fund to open up many more spaces This didn’t pan out as expected. 1/ There’s limited demand for early stage startup working space at any given time 2/ Once we had demand for office space the margins were razor thin and we had constant turnover (people moving cities, startup growing, joining other startups, etc) 3/ Homeowners aren’t willing to pay for placing tenants, there’s tons of demand to move to Hayes These two paths (residential and commercial real estate) not working made a real estate business (and thus raising a fund) nonsensical. I feel grateful to have taken a stab at something ambitious and more importantly something that has made a solid impact on many founders’ trajectories at building something wonderful. Hearing people’s stories reminded me why I even wanted this for myself: to live in an environment that breeds greatness within yourself. Where you choose to live and who that’s around could mean all the difference. I’m immensely grateful to all of my investors, customers, and friends that’ve believed in me over the years. You all have meant the world to me. I’m also grateful to my co-founder @jacobshamberger who has done incredible work and none of this would’ve been possible without. Same with @neallseth who built directorysf with me. As for what’s next I’m going to take some time and evaluate my assumptions, learn from others working on Network State adjacent things, and try again. The way we live today is still too far isolated & filled with garbage to simply let go of because the first attempt didn’t pan out. Moreover, my shower thoughts constantly bring me to imagining what life will be like when AGI & ASI is here—a world full of people doing what they love enabled by labor value going to 0 will change everything. In the meantime We’ll be moving out of our office space on Jan 1, so if you are looking for a great deal on office space lmk. Here are some details: - $17K/mo for 10K sqft - $8.5k/mo for 5k sqft - Right across the street from Hayes Valley - Available Jan 2 - 1yr lease - Fully furnished Appreciate you all. Until next time 🫡

european vc’s after “investing” 50 euros and a snickers bar for 25% of your startup

cc : @euacchq @EUCouncil @EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EnricoLetta @Pinhopau Does Europe need to head into a recession, brain drain and talent fleeing before you guys wake up? Companies are already not looking to invest here due to our stringent laws and redtapes. Wake up!

While they're seeing record economic growth, an unseen technological advancement and will experience the "golden age" in the United States.. We in Europe are busy with... *check notes* governing bottle caps and more taxes.

@startupmillyair 20K USD = 18.7k EUR = 8551 NET "Why is the tech scene in Europe doing so bad?"

@7hdmz what am i supposed to do with $20,000 2 months of an aws bill?

US vs EU average seed-phase investment.

cc : @euacchq @EUCouncil @EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EnricoLetta @Pinhopau

Imagine the money European companies could receive from Europeans investing if they dared to actually innovate and build something! Instead all the European money escapes to the US right now I've divested completely from Europe because the ROI is so bad here