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hayksaakian
6y ago
That's the power of monopolizing a distribution channel
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being young, broke, and healthy helped me get my first company going without being distracted by decision fatigue because often times the decision was made for me. having a handful of mentors who can tell you "you're asking the wr
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Ultimately a lot of the trivia doesn't really matter for your success or failure. High level thinking combined with effort and luck are what helps you "make it" in my eyes. If your tech startup should succeeds or fails in spi
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It seems like this is a feature designed to shrink the "used" market for Apple products -- and not a user benefiting feature.
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They can pre-empt being assigned in the first place to avoid the situation.
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6y ago
Right that's the theory and you can read about it in his various books. So instead of paying $260k per year for 10 engineers (2.6M), they might pay 451k for 3 "10x" engineers (1.3M). Costs are 50% lower overall, and if the en
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if you value not having to spend time driving to pick things up then a lot of those fails are tolerable IMO even a 20% failure rate could be tolerable for people who really value the delivery aspect.
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6y ago
I think his point was that NOT showing up fails equally well for everyone
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6y ago
this reads a little too much like a press release I'd appreciate some commentary from anyone with industry experience how does this compare to other options in the field of educational robotics?
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the flip side of this is to ensure you actually have all the things you paid for. if you paid for 6 loaves of bread, but you only have 4 in your cart that's also a problem.
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Imagine you sell 10M units of vodka per year. if your goal is to sell 20 million more bottles of vodka, you could use your existing unit economics and marketing campaigns to scale to 20M additional units OR you could manufacture 20M units w
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Sounds good, good luck. Assuming your name is relatively unique then this should be something that resolves within 4-6 weeks. If it takes longer you might need to do some high profile PR to get the name out there and linked to the right pl
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Were you (1) using example.github.io as a CNAME with another domain, or (2) were people going to example.github.io directly? I'm still not 100% clear on how the previous domain was configured with github pages if it's 1) then you
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When you say it was on github pages, do you mean it was on a github subdomain like example.github.io ?
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Do you still control the old domain? Don't rely on the "site move" tool to talk to the crawler. You need to 301 redirect your pages from the old domain to the new domain. I see this all the time with clients who skip some bas
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I'll vouch again for WooCommerce. I've built multiple sites with it for clients and it's ideal for a small business with tech-savvy operators.
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Right, I was just giving an example of how a smaller company can buy a larger company
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1 example: they could take on debt from a Bank to make the purchase for example. "Just Eat Takeaway was created this year through the $7.8 billion combination of two of the earliest participants in Europe’s food-delivery market, Just E
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6y ago
if all you need is counting a number of users, then you can use cloudflare analytics
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More context for the OP: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/29/poof/
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Sorry for over-sharing! i'll try to correct my note to clarify about domvm
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Later in the thread, the author links to this site as a real world example using domvm* -- even anecdotally it feels very fast! https://us.thermosoft.com/floor-heating/systems/thermotile-m... * Edit -- initially i
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I'm not sure you'll find something with such a specific requirement. The first thing that came to mind is server management tools like free alternatives to cpanel/webhostmanager https://froxlor.org/ You'
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I think you're missing the point of the OP If Zuckerberg undermines the leadership of his operators some of them will move on to other companies. It's not feasible to run an enterprise as large as Facebook as 1 person at the top,
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It doesn't sound right, but that's how it is most of the time.
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If you're using .anythingbesidescom (for example.io) then get the .com too Besides that it really doesn't matter unless you're a million dollar brand. There's better ways to spend $10 in your small business. If you have
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We record screencast videos demonstrating how to do a process. New people can watch those videos to learn how to do it. If we find a better way to do something then we make a new video. There's a team member who transcribes videos into
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They're weighing the cost of all this up front work vs the cost of making a "bad" hire, onboarding them, and then firing shortly after they start or being stuck with them in the long term. Google has so much "demand"
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Interesting idea though I didn't see any examples of what that looks like on your website or links to live sites doing this. Hard to think about it just in my mind with no visuals.
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what if Uber becomes an international holding company for ride sharing businesses? Is that a better or worse future?
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