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by bkanber 9y ago
(First, you should know I'm playing devil's advocate. I run a startup, and of course I agree with you about sales and marketing. See [1] for my thoughts on this) > That a business is run by one person is irrelevant. I disagree
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AWS
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> However, in my opinion as a software development freelancer marketing and sales is a key part of your business. That is 100% your opinion. It is far from a rule that you should expect others to adhere to, especially given that there ar
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by bkanber 9y ago
Some people, consumers as well as producers and those middlemen that are unfortunately very common in all markets, seem to fundamentally misunderstand what an individual's relationship to global society is. Grocery shopping is not some
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Adding a data point: we're at 1.5% for 6 figure monthly revenue.
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For most gifs, I use licecap for the capture and save to a Dropbox folder. Works well if you're sharing with customers or users, in a one-on-one setting. Quicktime Player has a screen capture mode if you need higher quality videos. My
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by bkanber 9y ago
I keep slack open in the terminal in a tmux pane next to my email (mutt), for instance. I spend most of my time in tmux and the Electron Slack client is so heavy that I just prefer this CLI.
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Show HN: A command line Slack chat client(github.com)
11 points by bkanber 9y ago|3 comments
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Relativity of simultaneity. Different observers not agreeing on when things happen is a built-in trait of the universe. In our reference frame, those things only just got spaghettified.
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The quote explains exactly why: the higher the current round, the more risk that the next round will be a down round. Investment valuations are strongly related to the amount raised. Don't think of it as "this is how much we think
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NASA's focus is not so much the engineering of repeatable launches. NASA's focus is the deep science of next-gen space travel and utility, solar system exploration, etc. There was a Reddit AMA recently where a NASA director said t
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"Work chat"
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The chat room isn't what's worth a billion dollars. The fact that they basically own the productivity chat market is.
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What, they died or something? And now can't tell their story? That isn't survivorship bias at all. You can fail and still tell your story.
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The next article I have planned is neural networks -- but I have no idea when I'll actually be able to write it! Thanks for reading!
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Don't Overinvest in Engineering(burakkanber.com)
2 points by bkanber 9y ago|1 comments
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The strangest thing just happened to me. I was literally just writing in my notebook that "I should write in my notebook more, and I should do that by writing down 10 ideas a day". And then I saw this article. I wonder, is this
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Correct, it'll Google LLC now.
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Remember how after a few months you'd always have to clean those Nintendo cartridge connections otherwise the game wouldn't load? My point is that making those types of custom, physical connections are kind of a manufacturing nigh
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"Some kind of custom connection" is the real issue here.
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This was written in assembly and to do that you'd have to make a new register of all the references while randomizing. Your approach works great in modern, high level languages where there's no issue copying an array in memory an
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I'm a business executive making six figures ;) Still not sure I'd pay for it out of pocket (but who knows!), but I missed the B2B angle on the first read and was reacting to the price point as a news consumer. IMO neither the arti
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I was intrigued, so I just looked at the "Inside Premium" plan -- $10/mo for one newsletter?? You can get a digital subscription to Washington Post and NYT for basically half that!
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The article doesn't state this explicitly, but it sounds like SVM and LSU had two independent contracts at first, then LSU's was renewed to be an umbrella contract, then SVM's independent contract expired. I'd even bet t
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Worth it -- based on what metric? My wife did an online master's degree (at a legit university that also had an online program). You have to be very good at self-pacing, diligence, and learning autonomously. You have to be so good at i
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It's just a preliminary injunction used to maintain the status quo (ie, allowing scrapers) while the case is heard. A preliminary injunction is basically "ok everyone stop what you're doing, maintain business as usual until t
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Dilution as usual. The last investors, whom I believe invested at a higher valuation, have had their liquidation reduced. The founder shares are probably highly diluted; I can't imagine the founders owning more than 10% combined.
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The article alludes to $169.5M raised at a pre-money valuation of $150M. I'm not sure I've ever seen a round like this take over 50%. Who knows what the future of the company will be, but one thing is for sure: it's completel
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Who are the startups? I'm betting that $1B is still in the 25-50% ARR range.
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Unfortunately these days banks don't extend large enough lines of credit for most growth businesses. There's a funding gap in between credit/debt and venture capital. SaaStr has a good writeup about it[1], and I've exper

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