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Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen(coldstart.com)
2 points by JaakkoP 5y ago|0 comments
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by JaakkoP 5y ago
I too find his explanation on each click soothing. Except when he got challenged to open a “difficult” bike lock in under 2 minutes by another locksmith he was dead silent the entire time and opened it in like 20 seconds.
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by JaakkoP 5y ago
If anything, based on these numbers the email increased their sales. I highly doubt there’s an actual causation, but personally speaking having a CEO take a stance I agree with would have made me check out their product.
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by JaakkoP 5y ago
I was surprised to see Expensify's revenue growth was only 8% YoY from 2019 to 2020. For comparison, Asana and GitLab had ~85% year-over-year growth on their S-1. Granted, Expensify grew 60% over the last twelve months, but by their ow
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Finland lobbied EU to declare nuclear power sustainable(yle.fi)
253 points by JaakkoP 5y ago|191 comments
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by JaakkoP 5y ago
This is a shrewd move by Ireland. Multinational companies chose Ireland largely because: 1) Low tax basis 2) English speaking EU country 3) Part of the Euro zone (less important than #1 and #2 to be sure). Given the OECD tax agreement there
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Robinhood traders will soon be able to buy pre-IPO shares(protocol.com)
1 points by JaakkoP 5y ago|0 comments
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Subaru’s first electric vehicle is called the Solterra and it’s due out in 2022(techcrunch.com)
1 points by JaakkoP 5y ago|1 comments
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by JaakkoP 5y ago
Let me ask my coach if she's taking new clients at the moment and I'll get back to you. You can reach me at {HN Username}iipponen@gmail.com
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by JaakkoP 5y ago
I'm a non-native English speaker, and I've been working with an accent coach to improve my pronunciation. The IPA chart has been instrumental teaching tool, and after about two years it's finally starting to sink in. It'
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
You can pair two HomePods to play stereo sound, although you’re right it wasn’t an option from the get-go.
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
They did do an inspection and sealed the containers right after. The "swap" to painted rocks happened only after the inspection. Supposedly, they also had an insurance until it turned out 6 out of 7 of their insurance contracts we
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
In many cases you should try to bill everyone out of the same billing system. For example, you can still invoice customers out of Stripe - you just disable the option to pay with a credit card. Or are you saying you do that already and it s
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
I had exactly the same experience driving from Baltimore to Seattle this June. There were a good amount of masks in Pennsylvania, but in Ohio and Indiana it was as if pandemic didn't exist. Hotel employees didn't understand my rel
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
This may have been true in 2016, but since then, I’ve seen CEOs raising multimillion dollar rounds using Google Sheets, financial modeling software, and Excel alike. There’s certainly still some preference towards Excel in 2020, but in no w
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
Agree with your method of boiling the water for a longer period of time, but this doesn’t have much to do with handling milk. You generally don’t want to bring milk to a boil as it creates a film on top and modifies the taste. Instead, you
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
When I looked at his example more closely, the numbers didn't make sense to me either. I always assumed he had calculated them correctly, but looks like his projection of $2.7MM ARR in 12 months might be a typo ($625k starting ARR with
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
Great to hear! Feel free to shoot me any questions here or on Twitter. @JaakkoPiipponen
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
It's all dummy data which makes the metrics sometimes look a little wacky, but I tried to model everything based on real-world examples I've seen. The Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is high, but so is the ARPC (Average Revenue pe
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
Author of the model here. First time on the front page with my content - thanks for sharing! This is the same model I used to service several dozens of SaaS companies a month when we didn't have any software to help us. The idea was th
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
Since I don't sleep with the watch it's not too big of a burden to charge it each night. I just wish there was a better charging mat so I don't need to connect it to a charger.
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
They came up with a new Apple Watch (Series 6) that measures blood oxygen content! If that actually works as advertised, this feels like enough of a reason to upgrade. My wife has Series 3 and I have Series 5, but I haven't seen a majo
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
Yup, the valuation doesn't have to be driven solely by what Apple is doing as a company. In fact, Apple doesn't need to do anything at all if all other stocks and asset classes suddenly become less attractive.
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
It's going to be extremely interesting to see how Apple will take advantage of their sky-high valuation. Not to mention the pile of cash they're sitting on.
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
Agree if they were to continue run Toyota as is. That said said, if Apple bought them for accelerating their self-driving car development, the historical profit margins are irrelevant. The the valuation would still be all about the future o
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
That's not what's most relevant when talking about a company valuation though. A better question would be whether the expected value of all future cash flows has doubled. Evidently, a lot of people seem to think so. (Whether these
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The Billing Customer Portal(stripe.com)
1 points by JaakkoP 6y ago|0 comments
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
I think it's Gmail having issues since our login emails sent to Gmail and GSuite arrived late as well. It's been like 7-10min delay, even though our mail delivery system said that the email was delivered.
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
We are trying an approach where for every new hire we must get a diverse set of qualified candidates for the last round of interviews. The idea is that we don't want our employees to feel they were hired because of their looks, but bec
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by JaakkoP 6y ago
Agree 100%. Very different needs with the two lots.

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