garrickvanburen

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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Theoretically, if I as an investor, believe strongly in a given thesis, it would be prudent to place bets that address it from multiple angles.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
What's behind your move away from dead tree paper?
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
The siblings metaphore is apt. War Plan Red by Kevin Lippert suggests relations between the two countries is also similar to mutually annoyed suburban neighbors.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
“If you’re going to quantify product-market fit I vote for: ‘how much time are sales people spending apologizing for downtime to evermore hungry customers?’” https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-15-when-can-
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Price first!! Yes. Price is a key feature!
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
This is my preferred method of understanding price sensitivity, and I use it frequently in my work helping clients find the right price. Be advised, a prerequisite is having trusted camaraderie with the prospective customer. By which I mean
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
I agree. The prices don’t seem to reflect how valuable we’re told this data is
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
My math is closer to 18 years. At the time I was selling UX services, and the 'prototyping tools' of that generation were what drove me learn PHP, Ruby, and Javascript - for all the reasons you state. I was baffled by all the time
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
It happens so often for me, I just assumed it was a key feature of how Screen Time worked e.g. 1-click to unpause isn't really a deterrent, but what if unpausing took a random number of clicks to unpause - now that's a deterrent t
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Plz elaborate on long-term implications.
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
Exactly. How many people needed to green light this - even at the concept stage? 20? 50? How much time was taken to create it? 3 months? 6 months? At least one of them had to raise this as an issue across all that time, yet it was their bes
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Questions I Ask Every Pitch Deck(forstarters.substack.com)
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by garrickvanburen 2y ago
There was a time when SXSW released one track from each featured artist on a massive torrent. That kept me going on new music for nearly the entire year. Repeat.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
Fully agree. Early in my career, I ran these sessions.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
define weird?
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
^ fully agree. I blinked an my youngest was suddenly 10yrs old. The kids all being in double digits is really awesome and far less labor intensive than the early months.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
Some people have only experienced ZIRP. This is the post-ZIRP transition process.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
this is the best reason to eliminate them - their crazy borders (esp in Pacific Ocean) betray that they're totally artificial and not actually necessary.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
Toy around, 100%. Just don’t be surprised when it’s not a commercial success.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
Laptops in my household are a mix of Macs and Chromebooks. All are >5yrs old. Love the resilience and useful life of both.
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For Starters #21: Swag Is for Paying Customers(forstarters.substack.com)
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What's Your Resistance to Getting in the Middle of It?(forstarters.substack.com)
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
You can still set this project down. Even right now. It does not seem to be providing any kind of satisfying outcome for you. May be set it down. And tell yourself you will consider revisiting it in 6 months or a year.
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For Starters #19: There Is a Less Expensive Answer(forstarters.substack.com)
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
I’ve found Rokus to be the sweet spot of price and usability and quality.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
The installment #1 of my “For Starters” substack was about how failure is inevitable https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-1-the-end-is...
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
What’s the problem you’re trying to solve w/ Pomodoro? As I understand, Pomodoro’s purpose is to incrementally train you to stay on task for longer and longer durations. Is that not working for you or do you have a different goal? “The
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
This ^
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
To clarify, by ‘breakfast’ I mean ‘coffee’.
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by garrickvanburen 3y ago
Yes, thank you for distinguishing between profitability and growth.

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