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by alexbrower 3y ago
All calls to LLM service take place on the server. Prompts are more or less predefined by an internal team. Users click useful buttons that alters functions to sanitized JSON. Users cannot free-form requests. This is how we’re starting any
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by alexbrower 4y ago
I do at least 2 of these calls per day. Interacting with end users is the only way to maintain PMF. IMO anyone too big, cool, or fast-growing… sadly mistaken.
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by alexbrower 4y ago
Same. API Gateway and Lambda consoles are throwing "service error". Started just around 10am.
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by alexbrower 4y ago
As a startup, there are two reasons why you’d ever consider filling out one of these RFPs: 1) you can paste bullet points from your pricing page directly into it and you’re not being dishonest by doing so 2) you have developed a champion in
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by alexbrower 5y ago
Hope there was still time to amend the college applications with a link to this post.
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by alexbrower 5y ago
Understanding fully that this is meant to serve just as a reference, this type of article risks positioning hiring as an end — not as a means to an end. Better to take external advice on typical team sizes / talent needed to achieve sp
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Why companies don't treat sales as a science(blog.qflow.ai)
2 points by alexbrower 5y ago|0 comments
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by alexbrower 6y ago
Most Reddit readers worth real advertising $ use ad blockers of one kind or another. I’m happy for the Reddit team, and hope they’re able to make a responsible revenue stream out of the fundraise.
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A better way to track marketing spend(blog.qflow.ai)
1 points by alexbrower 6y ago|0 comments
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by alexbrower 6y ago
Is there a news story here that I'm not seeing as I scroll through the comments? (Have been using / recommending Hemingway App for a few years. Great product.)
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by alexbrower 6y ago
There is an insidious and perhaps even more blatant pay-for-review industry in B2B software: Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustPilot, etc. They all promise "unbiased reviews" but aggressively offer a company's "confirmed users&quo
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Seven Basic Tips for Managers(blog.qflow.ai)
1 points by alexbrower 6y ago|0 comments
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by alexbrower 6y ago
Curious, in what context are you all still using VBA?
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by alexbrower 6y ago
Forgot to mention: there's nothing inherently wrong with storing data in CSV files. One does have to think about consumption and processing. A Postgres database seems pretty reasonable to track information like this, but I wouldn'
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by alexbrower 6y ago
This is clearly a case of someone not knowing the limits of a technology / how to select or use a technology. Yes, more modern versions of Excel support many more rows than 65k. As a "power" excel user in the early 2000s, it&
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Multi-Touch Marketing Attribution Models Are BS. Multi-Touch Attribution Is Not(blog.qflow.ai)
1 points by alexbrower 6y ago|0 comments
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ML “Recipes” & Analytics for B2B Sales and Marketing(blog.qflow.ai)
5 points by alexbrower 6y ago|0 comments
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by alexbrower 6y ago
Another reminder of the importance of taking the periodic, thoughtful moment to document the type of imprint each of us would like to have left on this world once we're gone.
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by alexbrower 6y ago
Can anyone describe the business benefits of an algolia implementation (vs Elasticsearch?) for a company that doesn't heavily rely on content searches? It seems expensive and something that I'd build on my own. (Disclaimer: long-t
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by alexbrower 6y ago
Having built many these models, it's now my opinion that if you are at the stage where you're needing a template for a business plan, you better have a product that fits a real need and that delivers a product with margins. Too of
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by alexbrower 6y ago
True, there are liquidations of physical assets. But the biggest benefit to the last remaining employees and board members (particularly those who are Directors or Officers) is reduction in liability around the details of shutting down a bu
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Python is the language of data science, not R(cloudacademy.com)
1 points by alexbrower 8y ago|0 comments
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Multi-Cloud and Kubernetes: Cloud Academy Data Report(cloudacademy.com)
3 points by alexbrower 8y ago|0 comments
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by alexbrower 8y ago
I have a home office in San Francisco. With a remote team including direct reports nine hours ahead of me, it’s important to me that it’s a specific room that’s mostly dedicated for work. When I’ve had guests in town who take the room, I wo
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by alexbrower 10y ago
Stating the obvious here - but more official launches to come, too.
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by alexbrower 10y ago
"Although I know rationally that the size of the team is not something to celebrate, I feel that I slipped into that harmful mindset quite a bit over the last year. Not everyone is familiar with growth metrics like monthly recurring re