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by berkeshire 5y ago
I had the dot com boom pass me by, saw many become rich, while I worked on ATG Dynamo based e-Commerce sites. I had the Web 2.0 boom pass me by, I remained a cog in the wheel, again saw many folks get ahead. Was it distracting or mildly dis
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Product Market Fit dictates a startup's success. The code quality or the latest tech frameworks are not the key aspects. I know of companies with low-code / no-code approaches who have made it big. You like the food from a particu
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by berkeshire 5y ago
FAANG + Uber companies hire former founders - as long as they have credible work behind them - which you do. Each has hardware divisions, if you are so inclined. But bizdev is agnostic of domain, like you said. Source: I had started startup
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Anecdata from a sample size of 1 (me): 7 of 10 times the unsub functionality works. The other 3 times where I do end up confirming that I am a human on the other side, the "Mark as Spam" functionality of email providers - that kic
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Give more than you receive. Help your peers, help an adjacent team, help recruiting. Efforts and Time are within your control to dispense. The ability to care for a product / company beyond the work/pay trade, to be vested in the
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Or maybe I am thanking someone as a peer, acknowledging their quality of work. What has rank or social status or authority got to do with basic manners and courtesy?
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Housing as an asset class for the rich - it seems like a Monopoly board game - buy a set of properties across the globe in auctions, trade, flip, speculate, collect rent... And some of us spend decades writing code to pay off one mortgage.
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Benefits first, features later. A narrative rather than a list. How will your product help the buyer? Why is your vision superior to others'? Where do your ideas plug into the prospect's work? How would you make that difference in
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Paper notes with a pen. Hand writing the to-dos and tasks has a way of helping prioritize the items. It also slows you down to think through some aspects of each problem. Slowly you will find your way around optimizations - dates, urgency l
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by berkeshire 5y ago
Upskilling. Tech: GraphQL, Serverless, Azure cloud. Know my way around AWS, but it's a two player game now. Product: MVPs via No-Code platforms.
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by berkeshire 5y ago
“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft” [1] Amazon is the New York equivalent in the analogy. The NYT article in 2015 [2] changed a few things, b
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Ask HN: Please suggest uses for an old Mac
4 points by berkeshire 6y ago|2 comments