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by hackitup7 3y ago
Not self promoting at all, I love your posts! I'll go check it out, I've been a big fan for years. Your post on what companies need in a VP of PM was very impactful on my career.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
At least for our blog we've been posted a few times so we're hardly a secret, but yeah this no-context post really reads like they're fishing for training data.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Always down to share since it seems that HN has enjoyed our content, although this feels like someone is trying to jumpstart training of their LLM: https://staysaasy.com/
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I was literally just thinking about Rich Mironov and how I hadn't read anything by him recently (I admit I hadn't had my eyes out for it). Great to see new and relevant-as-ever content, his tips helped me a lot on the journey of s
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Yeah, they're one of the strongest private software companies right now. I'd say easily top 10.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
(Author here) There are a lot of reasons that people like this might be looking for roles at your company. Not everyone wants to start a business or be an exec at every given moment, if you want evidence look at how former business operator
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Author here, thanks for reading and very glad you found it helpful. I know that we didn't talk as much about hiring specifically in this post so that could be an interesting topic for the future.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I downloaded One Sec a few days ago based upon an HN rec, and it's been really great for this class of problem
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I have a particularly savage team member who does this all the time. It pisses some people off a lot, but she's an extremely high performer and other high performers love her – on balance I think it's not a bad practice.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
That's a really interesting take that you don't hear much. My view from knowing a fair amount of PE folks: PE firms are run by very smart and practical people who understand incentives and finance really well. In many cases their
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I think you nailed it. These products are about feeling good and honestly I think they do more for humanity than people who sell guns or ads or coal. There are of course good points above in that the iPhone has significantly more functional
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by hackitup7 3y ago
The brand and the value are interlinked for these luxury retailers. Like part of the value of having a Louis Vuitton bag is the fact that people see me with a Louis Vuitton bag. (The same is actually true of an iPhone as well but there are
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by hackitup7 3y ago
These luxury goods companies, particularly the beauty/cosmetics brands such as Sephora, behave much more like software companies than many realize. High upfront capital requirements but extremely high gross margins and recurring busine
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Louis Vuitton (the handbag company that composes the L and V in LVMH) runs a 100,000 sq ft factory in Texas: https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/louis-vuitton-ope...
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Fwiw it was meant to be neutral / descriptive, not positive or negative. I've been close to quality businesses built both with and without VC money, there are pros and cons to both. I just hate seeing the "venture capital is
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Some markets require outsized upfront investment in order to fund investments for the purposes of land grabs or standing out from the market. It tends to look like upfront R&D (pharma, biotech, but also SaaS companies like Snowflake) or
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by hackitup7 3y ago
We've had the same experience, Twitter has led to almost no incremental readers. Even our most popular posts don't get much of an audience there.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
- Their valuation is high because they raised during the recent bubble - If you raise more money at a lower valuation than your last fundraise, it's highly dilutive. Investors paid $10 for 10% of a $100 valued company last round during
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I lived in two of those areas for several years, and still saw more scary things happening on the street than I have in significantly longer time periods in other major metro areas. (The biggest difference fwiw was whether I lived on a very
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Great video, and A+ branding on that instrument
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I'm not making the claim that MBTI is useful, but anecdotally people who are familiar with it seem to be able to guess close acquaintances' types with above chance accuracy. Leads me to suspect that it's getting at something
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by hackitup7 4y ago
This is cool but sending me a cover letter is sort of like having an @aol.com email address – it tells me that you aren't really with the times.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I've always enjoyed this chart for the humor, but there's a kernel of truth that the structures that allow for more ownership (FB, Amazon, Apple even though it was a dictatorship) do seem to win out in the long run.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
These aren't all management consultants. There's a lot of outsourced call centers, somewhat low-skill workers, systems integrators, etc. The vast majority do "real work" as opposed to just producing slideware. That said
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Don't worry, with no customer service the customers will also be placed into a void too.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I usually call this a rogue wave in startups, because it isn't really any one factor that does it but in conjunction many factors like the dunbar number, customer growth, overhead, renewals (especially in B2B SaaS), burnout from multip
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by hackitup7 4y ago
No, I actually need a new framework to wrap React so that React can call document.getElementByID. I've never gotten any element by ID personally in my life, that's the stick shift of JavaScript.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I sympathize with the birds on this one.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Tangentially related: Does anyone know the reason that both species have that frightening red hourglass / gang tattoo situation? Really adds to the general horror show of the situation.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I've seen 3 major benefits: - It has helped me to clarify my thinking on many leadership, management, and product strategy topics - I now have a library of reference materials that I draw from fairly regularly (at least 1-2x per month)

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