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by fredsters_s 9y ago
(I wrote that answer) A few principles that may be useful: - have a regular cadence of communicating, usually monthly, usually he last day of the month - have a standard format and stick to it - numbers are better than words - preview the u
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by fredsters_s 10y ago
Much less. Not just localized salaries (GH didn't used to do this, they may do now) which are always cheaper than SF, but for employees outside of the US no benefits cost, health insurance etc.
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by fredsters_s 10y ago
It's opportunistic investment from investors who predict continued growth. The hook for the founders? Who knows. My guesses: - assumption that eventually the enterprise play will win the majority of the $ in the market - that there is
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by fredsters_s 10y ago
I'm the guy talking in the video. Sales is hard. It's the number one thing b2b startups fuck up. I have a pretty pragmatic approach which is hard-learned. Happy to answer any specific questions if you got 'em.
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Lessons from the frontline on how to figure out startup sales(heavybit.com)
2 points by fredsters_s 10y ago|1 comments
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by fredsters_s 11y ago
hey everyone, one of the founders here. lmk if you have any questions. big up hn
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by fredsters_s 11y ago
Fred here, interviewer on this podcast. AMA
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by fredsters_s 11y ago
...and welcome to the coastal American attitude to service. This is not acceptable. No matter what you do, be a professional and strive for excellence.
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by fredsters_s 11y ago
A+++ totally correct. All I can say is never ever come to America with your bicycle.
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by fredsters_s 11y ago
hilarious and true.
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Rainforest (YC S12) is hiring a senior front-end engineer(rainforestqa.com)
1 points by fredsters_s 11y ago
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Rainforest (YC S12) is hiring a first junior engineer(rainforestqa.com)
1 points by fredsters_s 11y ago
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Be Our First CSM and Our Future VP Customer Success – Rainforest QA (YC S12)(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by fredsters_s 11y ago
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by fredsters_s 11y ago
Yup. Agreed. This was war. Putting young humans whose brains and morality are still in flux into such insane situations = a loss of humanity. It's more surprising to me the naiveté (which is hard to see as anything other than a put-on
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by fredsters_s 11y ago
"At least in ski resorts the bystanders can immediately rescue the person" - someone who has never been in or experienced an actual avalanche. No they can't.
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
this is clearly not b2b
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
Note this is not an example of "no network effects". This is the opposite. Both services benefit from the shared network effects. The real question is whether the future market for ridesharing is zero-sum, which seems unlikely loo
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Hiten Shah on growth hacking for dev tools(heavybit.com)
5 points by fredsters_s 12y ago|0 comments
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
"don't waste 90% of their time doing nothing" that's an assumption
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
those people are evil
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
As did we at Rainforest! It's a nice little detail and a pretty easy hack: https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2014-04-24-howto-gmail-action-...
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Should you self-host CI?(blog.rainforestqa.com)
6 points by fredsters_s 12y ago|0 comments
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Unified HTTP exception handling for Ruby(blog.rainforestqa.com)
33 points by fredsters_s 12y ago|9 comments
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Environment setup for web applications(blog.rainforestqa.com)
1 points by fredsters_s 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Fourchette – isolated testing environments on Heroku for pull requests(blog.rainforestqa.com)
4 points by fredsters_s 12y ago|0 comments
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
"I’ve come to realize that “technically true” is a terrible ethical measure for a (non-technical) statement. I should have held myself to a higher standard. I’ve also learned the importance of overwhelming honest" So true. There i
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
"brainwashed to love by the programming hegemony" I don't know what this means but I think I love you.
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
Like with all these things it's a trade-off. If security is important to you above everything else, then yeah, host it yourself and spend the extra time. But this is true for only a tiny % of startups. Also, you're assuming that y
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by fredsters_s 12y ago
This is why having a solid CI setup is crucial.
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Supporting your colorblind users(blog.rainforestqa.com)
5 points by fredsters_s 12y ago|0 comments

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