brettcvz

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Tips for kicking off a new product(productcraft.com)
1 points by brettcvz 5y ago|0 comments
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by brettcvz 5y ago
Like many others, I think this is super cool, and something that I think has been missing in the ecosystem for a long time. I feel like the thing that would really make this over-the-top powerful is deep integration with a component libra
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A16Z Survey on Remote Work(a16z.com)
1 points by brettcvz 5y ago|0 comments
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Clever (YC S12) Acquired by Kahoot(blog.clever.com)
8 points by brettcvz 5y ago|0 comments
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Outschool is the newest edtech unicorn(techcrunch.com)
3 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Challenging the Link Between Childhood TV Exposure and Later Attention Problems(psyarxiv.com)
1 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes Is Wiped Out in Days(bloomberg.com)
4 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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NASA discovers six-star system(exoplanets.nasa.gov)
6 points by brettcvz 6y ago|2 comments
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by brettcvz 6y ago
Likewise re. Jonathan - we sold filepicker.io (now Filestack) to Jonathan and Xenon Ventures in 2014 and it was a very positive experience. For companies with solid revenues but not venture-scale growth looking for a clean exit, I would hig
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New lines of business in established companies: stages of development(brettcvz.com)
1 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Creating new lines of business in established companies(brettcvz.com)
1 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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by brettcvz 6y ago
As PG recently shared, when an investor puts money into a company it is a calculated bet that the company is actually worth _more_ than the valuation they are investing at. No one invests $1 for a 10% chance of making $10. So if the valuat
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Treehouse(brettcvz.com)
1 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Create change within your locus of control(brettcvz.com)
1 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Oakland group sends proposal for first Black-owned team in NFL history(sfgate.com)
2 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Common patterns for organizing PED teams(brettcvz.com)
2 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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State your main point first(brettcvz.com)
4 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Avoid single-pronged decision making(brettcvz.com)
2 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Time, cost, quality: choose 2(brettcvz.com)
2 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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Advice for friends of struggling founders: make them feel loved(brettcvz.com)
1 points by brettcvz 6y ago|0 comments
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A Failure, but Not of Prediction(slatestarcodex.com)
5 points by brettcvz 7y ago|0 comments
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by brettcvz 7y ago
I write at http://brettcvz.com - I primarily write about “teachable points of view” I’ve learned about product management and startups, along with an occasional electronics project.
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Explaining tradeoffs in terms of business impact(brettcvz.com)
1 points by brettcvz 7y ago|0 comments
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by brettcvz 7y ago
I link to a few helpful sources in the “references” part of the project readme: https://github.com/brettcvz/upnext/blob/master/README.md#ref... Hope that helps!
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Agree, the waveshare modules are great. They’re also (surprisingly) available via Amazon Prime, which is nice when you’re excited about a project idea and don’t want to wait 2-3 weeks for a shipment from China. From my experience with this
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Thank you! I’m not a designer, so the advice of my designer friends was “pick exactly 2 fonts, use lots of white space, and left align edges.” The code for the site is open source, feel free to borrow/steal.
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by brettcvz 7y ago
This was a labor of love, so it’s definitely not that I don’t have time - more that no project of mine has ever been this popular, so normally no one asks for the tutorial! As others have commented, this project is mostly software and would
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by brettcvz 7y ago
You are correct - because I have a clock on the screen, UpNext does a full screen refresh about every 10 minutes. I thought this would bother me so did some explorations of a UI without the clock, but in practice I don’t notice the flashing
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by brettcvz 7y ago
I can provide some context here - from my experimentation, after 10 partial updates the contrast is notably worse, but doing a full screen refresh resets things sufficiently that the screen looks sharp again. To reduce degradations further,
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by brettcvz 7y ago
It’s this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075JLP2LP/

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