garrickvanburen

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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
I would rather not have a surgeon considering failure rates ahead of any operation they're about to conduct.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
My current hypothesis: the more familiar you are with a topic the worse the results from any LLM.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
Ha! Sometimes you don’t know what you’re getting even with a demo of a working product.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
radically different? I mean, aside from being comfortable with longer sales cycles and taking the time to build more advocates on the enterprise side, I haven't seen a substantial difference across this spectrum (<1K is very differe
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
I don't care if they 'like' it, I care if they'll fight me when I take it from them.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
Don't build until you have received payment from customers. Otherwise you absolutely won't know what to build.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
It's likely because they're both indirect and comparatively expensive. Direct & laser-focused is far more cost-effective in the early days.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
I originally read The Cold Start when I was inside a startup studio with an abundance of marketplace ideas. This book helped clarify for me that no successful marketplace starts out as a marketplace - simply because you need to start out wi
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
I'm always conflicted about this because it's like saying the sky is blue. Stepping outside of the VC startup bubble, we see small self-funded businesses are the norm. It's the neighborhood businesses all around us. 82% of al
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
I'm also very big fan of cal.com. Their URL design is great, the flexibility of their free plan is great. And my no-show rate went from >50% to maybe 1 a month compared Calendly.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
it can be as simple as, the messiness of figuring out what to do is completely taken care of - I'll deliver you the recommendations next week.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Even this can be an over investment as it presumes potential customer find the landing page. Pro tip: just go find the potential customers.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
All three of those examples strategically traded profitability for marketshare, and at a time when money was very cheap. This is what is meant by "prioritize growth over everything else." That is not today's environment. When
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
My rule of thumb is $250K/yr employee all in (benefits, the opportunity cost of an actual job, etc). I'm always surprised by multi-person founding teams with no path (aka pricing model) to covering their own lifestyle. https:&#x2
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Should I offer a free pilot?(forstarters.substack.com)
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
How much time is appropriate? Who decides? What _should_ they doing instead? Who decides? Where does the kids agency during their discretionary time end?
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
So? There was a time when all the phone-based activities were separate objects and devices. But today, conveniently they’re all in a single device. Aggregate screen time is a useless measure and discrete screen time only matters to help dia
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
It’s not necessarily about the parent being excluded. It’s about the kid, the kids friends, and the kids friends parents all knowing that a) bad behavior will get back to the parent and b) screenshots are forever. It’s an entire community.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Social media within Wikipedia's Media Panic article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_panic#Social_networking_...
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
VR/AR won't take off. It'll get better, if only in that our moral panic about it will evaporate as it did for comic books and video games. Kids prefer being IRL with other kids w/ or w/o screens.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
You're presuming a great deal here.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
once moral panic is subtracted out, it's not actually that complex.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
I've 4 kids, the youngest is 11. The rule in the house is; 1) no social media accounts until 13 and 2) one of your parents will be your 'friend' on that account. This is actually a pretty great expression of "kids keep y
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
In my experience, it's a coin toss on whether having the last bit increases or decreases a chance of the appointment being made. Some people require it. Ultimately the only thing that matters is: you have a phrase that you can say comf
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
“Hey it’s been forever, grab a coffee and share what we’re both working on and how we might help each other?”
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
This is the answer
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
I use phone call quality as my prime example of why most people don't actually care about quality.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Quick reminder that FAANG is not small/mid. My guess is, you’re selling to the individual devs at the smaller places. Talk to them and their managers. If they want to buy, they’ll buy with what you have already.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Who do you expect to buy it? How many face-to-face conversation with them about why they’d use this tool? Customer don’t exist in hn, ph, twitter, they exist in their own offices, on Zoom, and your local coffee shops.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
This. Build only after customers have thrown money at you. As it’s at that point you have enough clarity and specificity to build.

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