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by corry 3y ago
To rephrase your point with tongue-firmly-in-cheek: "many technical people look at products and think the hard part is wrangling systemic complexity in a good, sustainable and reliable way" but in reality, that's not the hard
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by corry 3y ago
For many (most?) startups, for many (most?) MVPs, in many (most?) domains -- yes, with a million caveats -- the "non-technical cofounder" can likely figure it out what's needed to hack together a simple product, get a handful
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by corry 3y ago
Agreed! It can be True and Trite at the same time. I've lived the startup CEO journey from 0 to successful exit, and "You have to care about everything more than anything" is almost poetic in terms of summarizing the constant
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by corry 3y ago
Does anyone remember a meta study that showed ANY even slightly reasonable restrictive diet works because they almost by definition dramatically reduced sugar and HFCS in the diet, and if you just controlled for that, the individual types o
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by corry 3y ago
It's a hard truth that capital garners the majority of the additional profits from labor efficiency increases. I struggle with this. Yes, it seems almost a law of nature that fitness begets more fitness. But surely we can structure soc
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by corry 3y ago
Awesome! Any chance of a Safari extension too?
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by corry 3y ago
“Pushing sales people to increase their amount of sales/quota is like asking meteorologists for sunshine”. Hmmm it doesn’t seem unreasonable in that context? You’re really asking people to work more effectively, to accomplish the same
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by corry 3y ago
Possibly - my instinct is to agree with you - however, I also think the 'time factor' is working hardest against the $10M business. In the $100M case, you raised VC and are trading money (someone else's money) for time - you
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by corry 3y ago
Good point for sure. It was also relatively common for founders to take a bit off the table at Series B (or even Series A's) along the $100M path too. Both of which skew again towards preferring those outcomes to the bootstrapping on
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by corry 3y ago
Throwing some #'s up - just picking up % that are probably on the low-side for the later 2 exit types: 1) 100% of a 10M exit = $10M 2) 10% of a $100M exit = $10M 3) 1% of a $1B exit = $10M Path is (very) arguably the easiest on the $10
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by corry 3y ago
Part 3 :) Ok so let's talk about your land itself. First time entrepreneurs just kind of randomly end up on a plot of land, due to their prior experience or friends or personal challenges they want to solve etc. Maybe that will happen
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by corry 3y ago
Just to continue my metaphor (because - why not?) - So you suspect you may have oil hiding deep in your property, and while you know your land REALLY well, you're not totally sure how to go about validating that its there; or even if y
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by corry 3y ago
This has so much backwards. You don't get to just 'decide' if your fledgling business is a potential unicorn or will just be a lifestyle SaaS business. It's a product of your idea/technology, the size of the market,
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by corry 3y ago
I agree - it always just sounds like a heavy psychedelic experience like 5-meo or high-doses of mushrooms etc. But then again, part of the beauty of the psychedelic realization of the 'flimsy nature of perceived reality' is also r
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by corry 3y ago
Maybe it's just hype marketing, but I liked two things: (1) The industry overview infographics. I'm not very familiar with the quickly-changing application layers of AI, so it's nice to see what are the noteworthy companies i
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by corry 3y ago
I don't disagree, but two reasons we don't see them (yet): (1) much harder to launch as some amorphous vertical AI - like, what would a 'Transportation AI' look like? Versus targeting a specific workflow within it - &quo
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by corry 3y ago
I say this as a Canadian (meaning - don't take my opinion on the US too seriously), but it's so strange to see what's happening to tech. US Tech in the past: "we dislike the military, the government, the military-industr
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by corry 3y ago
1) Love the JS-only angle, beautiful! 2) The combination of cows spreading out and your 3 axis of action (left/right + angle of gun + timing of shots) is really cool. 3) Consider levelling. Every x asteroids, there's a pause (the
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by corry 3y ago
"Hey Founder, great company - we're interested in investing - but can you explain this COS line where 20% of your Revenue disappears into something called SAFER? That is brutalizing your margins." "Well, in the early day
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by corry 3y ago
I know, I know, I know…. But HOW can Mac revenue be declining? The M2 machines are amazing, best machines I’ve ever used, UNREAL performance and battery life. So funny that we cheer for products we love, like it’s a sports team. Prior gener
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by corry 3y ago
Ehhh that seems a bit uncharitable and leading into a slippery-slope fallacy. "Well, because some misanthrope might misinterpret this as permission to be terrible means it's bad advice". Dealing with things directly, as close
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by corry 3y ago
Self replying with another thought: I always find it remarkable when really young founders (like college-age) are successful, because they lack so much understanding about the world, business, people, etc. BUT they likely have a great deal
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by corry 3y ago
Thought-provoking metaphor. Upon reflection, I think the article emphasizes the wrong aspect of this -- the drip part itself -- at the expense of the more interesting elements (the length and breadth of the horizontal line, the amount of pa
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by corry 3y ago
Hey, OpenAI - this is your moment. $5.5B + 20% premium to acquire the largest, best source of UGC community in history while it's distracted by squabbles over APIs, moderators, etc. Reverse the API bullshit, remove all the pressures ab
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by corry 3y ago
"Usually one understands a project poorly at the start and much better at the end" <--- this is 100% it, totally agree. It also happens at the product level - building features too early or too deeply for a poorly understood wo
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by corry 3y ago
Sure, it's the same general personality motif - lack of risk-aversion and perhaps lack of respect for authority. Or are you making the more subtle point that, currently, any use of psychedelics outside of an approved study makes one &q
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by corry 3y ago
Author is missing the forest for the trees. Risk-takers, innovators, short-cut-seekers, I'm-smarter-than-you's, I-can-out-hustle-you's, I-need-adventure-not-safey's, drop-out-of-school-to-code's etc are all going to
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by corry 3y ago
Could OpenAI acquire Reddit as an alternative to their IPO? Let's say it's worth $10B - quite a sum especially if OpenAI is 'only' worth $40B - $50B. But a world in which compute isn't a moat, LLMs aren't a moa
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by corry 3y ago
The article seems to pay scant attention to THE main reason modals make sense to me: they allow for a discrete bit of work to be completed within the greater context of the app, without losing state or position. Loading a new page, new tab,
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by corry 3y ago
Yes! I bet it was "Scrumy"? I've looked in vain for something similar (light design, simple colours, basic kanban features).

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