danjl

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by danjl 3y ago
The only management technique that works is not to have any. Keep companies small, below 50 people, and you don't need anyone with the title "manager". Instead of taking your best individual contributors and making them manag
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The quality of MV-HVEC (the spatial video format used by Vision Pro) is much better than 180º dual-eye video used widely in porn (and not natively supported by VisionOS). The history of porn indicates they will adopt MV-HVEC faster than any
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by danjl 3y ago
Their view is so biased by being VCs. They really believe they are there to help founders. And they do! At least for first-time founders. But they are completely unaware of the damage caused by VCs and have no understanding of WHY many expe
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by danjl 3y ago
Although excellent for vector databases, unfortunately this does not include postgres with pgvector.
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by danjl 3y ago
Great overview, but the final section doesn't address the obvious question about how to decide between using a "vector store", like Postgres+pgvector vs a "vector database", like Pinecone. I'd love to see anoth
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by danjl 3y ago
No VC investment activity happens between November 20th and January 5th every year! Nothing new.
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by danjl 3y ago
The biggest part of a smooth code review process are the human behaviors and best practices. There are a half dozen code review tools that work just fine. Both the submitter and reviewers have important roles which make the process work smo
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by danjl 3y ago
If you want to get rid of middle management, you need to have a flat structure as part of your company ethos. You can't just fire middle management and hope things keep working. Flat structures work, but they are not simply a hierarchi
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by danjl 3y ago
There's a great book called "Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (But Maybe Not Venture Capitalists)" by Basil Peters on this topic. The other option is, of course, to bootstrap instead of takin
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by danjl 3y ago
How do multiple people increase the chance of a sale? I was responding to "if you die in a car crash on the way home, there is someone left to continue on with." Which seems pretty clearly attached to survival.
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by danjl 3y ago
> But truthfully, you really do need at least 2 people as a bare minimum to sell a viable product. Not true. Fine to be a solo entrepreneur, especially for more senior founders. YC may want multiple founders, but they cater to first-time
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by danjl 3y ago
No need for the "Right now" qualifier. It implies a particular future and a desire to grow, which may not be the case. It is perfectly fine to be a solo entrepreneur and adding that prefix implicitly implies otherwise.
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Gaining confidence is a huge part of any startup. Customers, investors and employees dislike insecurity. Every presentation, new customer, investment, and discussion helps increase your confidence. The confidence you build as part of these
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by danjl 3y ago
Forget about unity and start playing with swift, swiftui and reality kit. It's going to take a couple years for everyone to figure out what kind of applications succeed in this new spatial design world.