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by hackitup7 4y ago
I've put my reading list here: https://staysaasy.com/startups/2020/09/24/startup-book-readi...
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I completely agree, which is why frontend frameworks give me existential dread
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There are some jobs (for example as referenced elsewhere hedge funds) where employees have knowledge that could be directly damaging to their former employer if it were taken to a competitor. For example, other Fund X has a huge short posit
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A friend of mine was a bike messenger in early 2000s NYC over the summer, and quit before the summer was out because he'd been hit by cars twice. It's such a shame as NYC's density, weather ~9mo out of the year, and elevation
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Seriously... IBM, even in its completely decrepit and uncompetitive state, still kicks off $1-3 billion in free cash flow per quarter.
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They're fundamentally B2C because the hardest part is getting the consumer virality engine running. Once the consumers are there, the B2B part (eg the ads engine) is relatively easy. I won't say trivial, but I would guess literall
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My coauthor and I run staysaasy.com which is entirely unmonetized (technically negative since we pay for some hosting and assorted services), although we've met some investing / advising opportunities through it.
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Yeah we're definitely able to do those things, it just seems weird to have the content living in two places and I'm not sure if that will present some sort of other issue for us down the line.
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Yeah, I'm always worried about the fact that Substack won't let you set up canonical URLs back to your blog, but we aren't really SEO optimized anyway so maybe it doesn't matter that much...
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Discoverability is a huge challenge... I've considered moving to Substack because of their discovery mechanisms, but I don't like incurring the platform risk having seen the way that applications like Medium have changed over time
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It seems completely crazy that they'd need to pay him $600m of equity at signing. Like why not close him with a package of (say) $200m? Even if he was making $5m annual TC at Google, that would still be 10x his comp in equity alone.
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The most interesting part of this article to me (from mid-2021) is the view of the world's most valuable startups: - ByteDance $140b - Stripe $95b - SpaceX $74b - Didi $62b - Instacart $39b - Klarna $31b - Epic Games $28.7b - Databrick
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What server-side language/framework do you recommend for toy projects in 2023?
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> They have a big appetite for adding complexity to systems For what its worth, one of the best engineers that I've ever worked with was incredible about not adding complexity to systems. I remember reading a lot of his code and alw
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I think that that's very possible, and I completely agree with you on the phenomenon. There are also few limitations on your ability to talk your own book in the private markets which further turbocharges the hype cycle.
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I think there is some truth to the statement, although many VCs that I've met are really sharp and thoughtful. Not at all the caricature of greasy tech illiterates that sometimes gets thrown around. You kind of can't generate good
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Wrote a blog post on this one about a year ago that has a list of what I've seen: https://staysaasy.com/product/2022/02/19/enterprise-selling-... Overall though I would heed the advice of others in
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Insubordinate and churlish of you to bring that up, A-a-ron.
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It's going to be even better, we'll get to see situations like Justice Jaxtyn leading the supreme court. Then again, names change over time. Only a matter of time before some poor kid is getting bullied because his parents named h
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by hackitup7 4y ago
For both entertainment and awareness purposes, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and Shark Week probably oughta switch time slots.
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Totally got robbed by the refs in the 65,000,000 BC championship
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This applies generally to all sorts of bad news that is likely to spread. It's unfortunate but if news is bad enough almost any way that you deliver it will have significant negative sentiment. As a result IMO the emphasis should gener
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Totally agreed here, although it's a bit scary that this is the state of the art solution.
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I have, and through many years of training (and more importantly, tons of hard work + raw talent on their part) have watched a few become very senior engineers / senior leaders in engineering management. This was years ago and they wer
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I was born with congenital RBF (Resting Bitch Face) and it's been a mild inconvenience in my work and relationships. I've actually tried to adjust my neutral face as a result just so that I don't freak out bystanders when I&#
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This isn't strictly about cognitive performance, but Diablo II taught me more about negotiation than anything I ever learned in school. You could also probably make the argument that it's one of the most stark examples of how dive
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I think it depends a bit on the job trajectory as well. Getting promoted several times in 10 years at a company that grows and successfully vs. a flat career trajectory at a company with flat growth tells a pretty different story.
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Early in my tenure running a Product team I decided that one of my goals would be for PM/Design and Engineering to be as close as possible. I would literally say that I wanted them to view one another as brothers/sisters, and trie
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Agreed with that. Somewhat related, the biggest issue that I'm currently struggling with is whether or not to move our content to Substack to take advantage of their discovery mechanisms. I don't love the idea of giving up that de
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by hackitup7 4y ago
That's correct as far as I know. Employees do need to exercise any relevant stock options to start the holding period, however.

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