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by awillen 6y ago
I've always thought about mental illness in this context - we define it as illness because of negative consequences, but it's really just the deviation from a norm. I think Elon Musk is the best example of this - even ignoring som
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by awillen 6y ago
Of course this message is brought to you by the British...
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by awillen 6y ago
I've always been a big believer that during review time, people should be able to choose others they've worked with to review. It need not be a full on performance review, but at least provide the opportunity to provide documented
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by awillen 6y ago
So like... San Francisco right now?
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by awillen 6y ago
My issue with this (and largely with the arguments that the market is up because money is cycling into bigger businesses) is that the collapse of small businesses is going to create substantial economic pain that's going to really hurt
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by awillen 6y ago
If you want to check out pricing on some low-revenue businesses, try Shopify's marketplace: https://exchangemarketplace.com/ . Much more ecommerce than SaaS, and there's some crap in it, but it'll give you an
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by awillen 6y ago
What kind of business did you buy? I've been looking into that, but it's tough for me to pull the trigger just due to fear of the unknown (e.g. if I buy an ecommerce business and the supplier immediately goes out of business, will
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by awillen 6y ago
I started a dog treat company very recently (a couple of months ago), and it was definitely a combination of circumstance and everything I'd learned that made me decide I was ready to go for it. On the circumstance side, I had actually
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by awillen 6y ago
Thank you!
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by awillen 6y ago
Or alternatively color commentator for the NFL or NBA. I'd really like to be just like Jeff Van Gundy... dude just goes off on wildly entertaining rants that are sometimes barely related to the actual game while getting to watch basket
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by awillen 6y ago
Dog trainer. Especially if I could do it for free to help challenging dogs at shelters become more adoptable. I've done a lot of training with my own dogs that would definitely allow me to handle the basics of training, but I'd wa
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by awillen 6y ago
There was definitely some failed startup that just published people's credit card purchases in a giant feed... maybe it was just an earlier iteration of Venmo? I've been Googling but can't find it.
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by awillen 6y ago
Isn't this what Clinkle did? Or some other failed startup I can't remember the name of?
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by awillen 6y ago
I suspect it's more a question of whether it was done evenhandedly - I agree with you, but if posts about Trump or whatever other national stuff stay up and BLM comes down, then it's an issue.
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by awillen 6y ago
Good for you! Several years back my team at work used to joke about my caffeine intake... it was just a compulsion that when my cup was empty I'd get more coffee. I found that the beneficial effects plateaued around cup four every day,
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by awillen 6y ago
That's fair - I definitely buy that during the pandemic people will go to open places that they can drive to, but his comments felt more like they were addressing the post-pandemic world.
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by awillen 6y ago
I just don't see a lot of reasoning for these claims. The reduction in business and travel, absolutely, but people suddenly having more diverse travel interests and desire to go to national parks because of the pandemic? I just don&#x2
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by awillen 6y ago
That's a fair point of view, but to your point, you're not going to work at a startup with the goal of making a bunch of money from shares, so you're probably not the target audience for this post.
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by awillen 6y ago
If things go well, your percentage ownership shrinks but the value of your equity grows.
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by awillen 6y ago
That's a situation that you should expect to end up in if you join an early stage startup - most people at the series A/B aren't there at the IPO. You can make the choice as to whether to take the risk, or you can seek out a
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by awillen 6y ago
Of course you're going to be diluted - that'll happen whether you're at the company or not. Obviously you'll get refresher grants if you stay, but in this case if you leave you can go somewhere else and get equity there,
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by awillen 6y ago
I think the issue about all of this going unspoken is the real problem, especially with first-time founders. As with any performance issue, none of this should come suddenly and unexpectedly. The CEO should be setting expectations around wh
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by awillen 6y ago
"Now you’re kicked to the curb with no/bad equity" - where did this come from? In this situation, in which you've done such a good job that the company has effectively outgrown your skillset, you almost certainly have eq
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by awillen 6y ago
No, I would and do. I have common sense. And I understand what I'm reading. Most people do. Based on your comments here, you should probably stay away from satire websites since it seems you're easily mislead, but most of the rest
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by awillen 6y ago
I don't believe any satire websites. Because I understand what satire is. The idea that satire is bad because people are lazy/dumb is much worse than satire itself, I assure you.
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by awillen 6y ago
Back in high school I was the copy editor for the paper (and the minutiae of AP style are still seared into my brain), and it's definitely been a useful skill. My first job was doing developer marketing, and we had a lot of devs that w
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by awillen 6y ago
Consider product management - a generalist, problem solving skillset is perfect, particularly at early stage startups. Being able to understand developers and communicate with them, even if you're not a good developer, is a really usef
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by awillen 6y ago
Sure, which is precisely why my point is that the solution here is transparency, not giving people money. If people are educated about what information they're providing and what it's being used for, then they do have that choice.
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by awillen 6y ago
What's wrong with that, though? That's the essence of a lot of business - I take something with a certain amount of value to you and find a way to make it more valuable to someone else, then I capture the value I added along the w
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by awillen 6y ago
I'm all for people controlling their data and being fully informed of how it's being used, but I just don't understand the idea that you should be paid for the data that you give to companies when you choose to use their prod

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