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by ares2012 9y ago
Investors will see it as an issue because it limits the room on the cap table for future hires. Startup companies take a long time to build so that 10% will make it tough to hire and build a team over 7 years because there is only so much e
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by ares2012 9y ago
It's a great video, but one of the most impractical ideas I've ever seen. It would be cheaper to buy more buses and install congestion charges (fees to drive in cities during peak times).
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by ares2012 10y ago
Ha, no, until we can have universal standards for data collection and storage I think ETL will always exist. Segment and mParticle are making it easier, but there is little industry incentive to remove the ETL friction as there is so much m
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by ares2012 10y ago
Shockingly, YC companies are always at the top of the lists in the categories they service. Smells like a growth hack to me.
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by ares2012 10y ago
The biggest challenge in implementing this is handling scale. To be able to do feature flagging for the largest web products you need to be able to handle the scale of those products. Any of us could build this ourselves in a few minutes fo
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by ares2012 10y ago
The "End of Advertising" on the web is something I hear fairly often, and the argument that paying for content is the only solution follows soon after. Unfortunately, both history and all of our data suggests otherwise. For exampl
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by ares2012 11y ago
This is common in your first job, so don't feel bad for missing the signs! Until you have been in the professional world it's hard to know what environments are right for you. The good news is that now you'll know what to loo
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by ares2012 11y ago
If we are only ever allowed to talk about something once, then the world would be a pretty quiet place.
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Outside In(seanonstartups.co)
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by ares2012 11y ago
Agreed. Launch Darkly has some interesting Feature Flag SDKs that do local caching and other optimizations to reduce overhead. https://github.com/launchdarkly
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When Customers Attack(seanonstartups.co)
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The Three Most Important Words for Founders(seanonstartups.co)
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Backwards, Thinking(seanonstartups.co)
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Cheating is Allowed(seanonstartups.co)
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Selling Your Company(seanonstartups.co)
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The Myth of Software-as-a-Service(seanonstartups.co)
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The Renaissance Founder(seanonstartups.co)
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by ares2012 11y ago
Instead of answering the question, I'd like to point out how different the world of programming might look today WITHOUT Java. Java was the first maintstream GC language (no more malloc), fully object oriented and the first byte code b
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The Founder’s Schedule(seanonstartups.co)
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Startup Mentors: Coaches vs. Cheerleaders(seanonstartups.co)
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Effective Analytics for Start Ups [video](youtube.com)
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Effective Analytics for Start Ups(seanonstartups.co)
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by ares2012 12y ago
I remember the days when app revenue splits were 30/70 (driven by mobile carriers) so I find it hard to complain about Apple's revenue split policy. While onerous, it at least makes it possible to be profitable.
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The Last Startup Company(seanonstartups.co)
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by ares2012 12y ago
Awesome, congrats! Sounds like you are on to something.
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by ares2012 12y ago
I'm curious - why hold back? Are you really testing natural demand or are you testing how strong your personal social network is? I fear that many founders aren't willing to do whatever it takes to get to a meaningful number of cu
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by ares2012 12y ago
I was moved to write this after coming across so many founders that felt like paying for advertising meant they were failures. At the same time, I saw companies spending millions of dollars on advertising while claiming all their growth was
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The $0 Marketing Budget Lie(seanonstartups.co)
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What does your company remember?(seanonstartups.co)
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Deathmatch Motivation(seanonstartups.co)
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