carriganisms

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by carriganisms 6y ago
The lack of corporate oversight is key to why the podcast is so popular. Spotify should be careful not to mess up what they just spent $100m on.
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by carriganisms 6y ago
Agreed, this claim feels totally baseless.
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by carriganisms 6y ago
I'm not sure remote first is actually cheaper when you factor in off-sites and WFH stipends. From the article: With that in mind, we decided to have office hubs in the major cities (starting with SF, NY, SLC, and Vancouver), where empl
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by carriganisms 6y ago
A service that does planning and execution of off-site meetups for remote companies is a great business idea. Essentially, travel agency/event planning for remote first companies. Once we're past COVID, a lot of companies are goin
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by carriganisms 6y ago
Do any of the major platforms really have a handle on how to deal with these challenges? I'm not excusing the lack of oversight. But most companies that grow this quickly are a complete cluster inside. Imagine having to battle well fun
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by carriganisms 6y ago
This is called due diligence, and it's on the investor to perform their own due diligence. For a product that isn't commercially available to consumers yet, due diligence should be enough. In the case of something like Theranos, I
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by carriganisms 6y ago
If you read to the end of the article it addresses the GM deal. GM will use its own battery tech. Nikola is basically just sales/marketing. The deal still makes absolutely no sense, but GM isn't dependent on Nikola having working
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by carriganisms 6y ago
"That makes it less of a sale and more of a glorified hosting deal. It lets Trump say he’s solved the problem but doesn’t do much else." This is exactly the first thing that popped into my mind when I read about the deal.
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by carriganisms 6y ago
I'd be looking for the long form as well. Not a timed debate where we just get canned answers. I'd actually rather him do 2 separate interviews, each an hour or two long. No debate, just each candidate shooting the shit for an hou
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by carriganisms 6y ago
I personally don't listen to the debates, find them mostly a waste of time. But as someone who occasionally listens to Rogan, I would probably listen to this debate...Might be a good way to get more people to take an interest in this e
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Canny Bootstrapped to $800K ARR(baremetrics.com)
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by carriganisms 6y ago
Best way to start on the path to building one of these businesses is to start building a following. Many of these 1 man companies are reliant on strong founder personalities that develop a following. Makes distribution way easier.