Nick Abouzeid, EA
@nickabouzeid
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Cofounder @RivetTax. Prev Growth @tryRamp. Enrolled Agent. Book time for next tax seasonπ
Woodbury, CT
Joined November 2011
Changing one's last name when you get married is dumb . You're giving up years of SEO cred.
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QR Code menus at restaurants mean that prices can now dynamically change per table, per time of day, per meal, per size of party, per. anything. How would you know what the table next to you pays?.
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The Bachelor, but itβs 30 middle aged dads competing to make one (1) new friend.
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Your family when you told them about bitcoin a year ago:.βΆ πββββββββ 00:00 . Your family asking about bitcoin now: .βΆ πββββββββ 9:50:40.
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Product Managers that use Android π©π©π©π©π©π©π©π©π©π©π©.
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People are converting Bird/Lime scooters into personal vehicles for $32. π΄. 1. Steal a Bird off the street (easy).2. Buy a $32 kit on eBay.3. Rip out Bird's board, replace with yours.4. Profit.
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@anothercohen Thankfully you can now use Google Pixelβs Magic Eraser to erase that memory from your mind!.
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Can nearly guarantee theyβve tested a βhereβs the real priceβ version. *and* unclear pricing converted better.
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How this make literally any sense?. Hours of Operations. for the IRS website?
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Anne Hathaway rides an electric scooter around SF in Princess Diaries. IN 2001 . and here I was thinking I was original
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Apple's marketing department was truly inspired by their new campus
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I'm convinced most of twitter is just people with 100K followers stealing tweets from someone with 10K followers who stole it from a group chat.
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s/o to all the associates who just got a βChrome Extension Market Deep Diveβ meeting dropped onto their calendar for tomorrow at 7:45am.
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2011: "Please stop using our computers to make sketchy internet money.". 2017: "Please donate internet money to our university."
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Meet Pippy, a robot someone left in dtwn SF that you can drive & speak through via Twitch. sounds fun, except now it's in some dude's house, and he's asleep .
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Surprised I need to say this. You should ~never~ pay anybody to hunt you on @ProductHunt . I will do it for free, it really makes no difference who hunts you, if they're charging you, it's predatory π.
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Hello, we are hiring for everything. DM me and I will route you to the right person.
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10/10 ad copy that's making me question my entire budget
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Yessssssss. A location-based alarm clock for people who want to sleep on the train: π΄
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The Medium Partner Program is. surprisingly good. This was my first article published, got $560 (!) in less than a month. A win for writers when we can skip pitching every story to an editor & just write.
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Looks like UberEats has *officially* launched ghost restaurants π» . 1. Uber identifies underserved cuisine - eg. pizza in SoMa.2. Works w/ local restaurant to build "UberEats pizza restaurant" available only in-app.3. Uber & restaurant increase orders π€.
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Dad: "What do you want for Christmas?". Me: "Uhm. so there are cats on the blockchain. ".
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Puppies as an employment benefit. Some startup will end up offering this, I guarantee it.
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This is a real Bank of America ad. $323B company π€¦ββοΈ
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@educationpalmer @altschool This is shitty, it's not your place or kind to dunk on a team that spent years trying to fix a massively important part of all of our lives.
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Who admins the βStealth Startupβ LinkedIn Company Page?. and if youβre reading this: how much to sponsor the page for a week? βΊοΈ.
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Not scooter news: it's personal news!. I've joined @EmergenceCap to lead the fight against jargon-addicted enterprise tech content everywhere.
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TFW you accidentally quit Chrome & all of your tabs close
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I have never NOT wanted to paste . Why does this notification exist?
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Calling it now: Uber / Lime acquisition imminent. - sexy acq for Uber pre-IPO.- Lime struggling to raise more $.- VCs pushing for a quick exit.
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Peloton should sell $500 "shoutouts" from a favorite instructor during class, giftable to your loved ones. "Joey in Los Angeles βΒ your wife Amanda wanted us to let you know that you're killing it! Keep it up!".
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AngelList just launched 9 companies at once.
Announcing: AngelList Stack. Effortlessly create a fundraising-ready startup. Weβve already made it simple to start & manage a fund. Now, we are doing the same for startups. Includes: Incorporation, Banking, Equity Management, Fundraising, and Hiring.
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I regret to inform you that our most recent Viral Marketing Stunt has completely failed. This was the backside of the monolith, but none of the news articles took a picture of the back π€¦ββοΈ
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Β―\_(γ)_/Β―.
We are thrilled to announce that @NickAbouzeid has joined Shrug!. Nick brings a wealth of ValueAdd experiences to portfolio companies, and helps scale our consumer deal-flow services to LPs & friends from TV. He will be given the title of βPartnerβ as standard in the industry.
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My idiot friend @patrickcines sends me to his Google AI phone screening service instead of answering his phone like a human
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Time to let you in on a UPS Shipping Secret π¦. UPS will give you 20-40% off their retail rates if you buy through your PayPal dashboard (for free). It's slick. They offer the same rates offered to Shopify sellers. You print the label out directly at home. And save $!
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.@EarnDotCom is the bomb dot com. π₯π . Just broke $200 by answering 44 quick surveys:
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@vikushavas the 26 year old version of this is realizing all the βfun stuffβ is 1/2 the price and 2x better ~outside of the city. welcome!.
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lmao, why is there a scooter.
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Tired: IPOs are inefficient because a small group of lucky investors can flip the stock for 100%+ returns. Wired: IPOs are sneaker drops, but for finance.
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"Wtf, that's fucking wild". $21K, 10 minutes of work, yep, it is π€
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There's nothing worse than watching a friend attempt to become a LinkedIn Influencer. #sales #tech #marketing #growth #networking #personaladvice.
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Taking my first @ridecabin tonight from SF to LA:. π 10:30pm --> 7am in LA.π΄ Personal sleeping pod.π Beverages, wifi, and a bathroom .πΈ $120 for one-way (same as an airplane ticket). Fingers crossed!.
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Hello, weβre hiring for everything . DM me if you have qβs and Iβll route you to the right person β¨.
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The optimal time to arrive to the airport is 15 minutes before boarding. No other opinions are correct
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San Francisco: The shared economy will revolutionize travel. Also San Francisco:
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A fintech startup you might have heard of grew from $3M --> $13M in ARR in 3 months using this growth tactic, that I'm now finally allowed to share publicly. Time for a thread πππ.
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Request for Product:. Data tool to analyze whose tweets I interact with most/least. Would be helpful in trimming following lists + data-driven record of interests. π¦.
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OH in SF: "When something goes up 10X in four months, something is wrong". Same person: "I just sold my Lexus to buy ethereum".
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If you received a large, incorrect amount of USD ($20) by finding it on the street of Manhattan where I left it:. Please return it to my Venmo. Keep 10% as a white-hat. Otherwise, it's being reported as income to the IRS, and most of you are doxxed.
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My fatherβs first Brooklyn lease. Yes, thatβs ~yearly~ rent
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My worst fear is becoming Michael Scott and not knowing it.
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My dad: "Is everything OK between us?".Me: "Yeah of course. did I say something?". Him: "Well. your newsletter. ". π
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Elizabeth Holmes was "the next Steve Jobs" less than three years ago.
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@soychotic They're profit centers for Walgreens. They sell the ad space on the screen. They're not optimizing for you or their employees experience .
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So they're. just cars?
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Uber's Credit Card is bankrupting restaurants. and it's all your fault. Credit cards, big data, and points: my first post in a while π
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Are. brands faking mental illness for publicity? Like, what?.
I canβt do this anymore.
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Bird is starting a decentralized repair program for broken scooters. Already signed up, will report back as to how it'll work. π΄π§
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~Some personal news~. (Packy scooped my new gig).
I've written over 100 Not Boring newsletters at this point, but I've never done what I got to do today: . Give readers free money. @nickabouzeid and the MainStreet team are just taking money from the government and giving it to startups.
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"I can't wait to steal a Bird and do this!". Don't do this. It's literally theft. Just because you don't like a company doesn't mean you can vandalize/steal property π€.
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What subreddit taught you the most?. Me: /r/churning, /r/SkincareAddiction, /r/dogecoin, /r/legaladvice, and /r/frugal.
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@ankurnagpal Not just Stripe - any payment processing platform . βCan we issue you store credit?β is a good business decision π.
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This explains where (some) of the "disappeared" scooters are disappearing to - they're not being parted, they're being refurbished/resold. TBH, surprised it took this long. Another cost of using non-proprietary hardware.
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.@RobinhoodApp is taking on Coinbase. Finally. It's unrealistic and risky to let one exchange control the retail cryptocurrency investor market in the US. Good for the industry.
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I had *really* high hopes for the Apple Card. They absolutely blew it.
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