jayparth

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by jayparth 7y ago
I'll share my experiences becoming a PM outside of a formal program like APM. I started out as an intern and now I'm a junior PM. You're slightly moving the goalpost with your comment, because it's not necessary to go th
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by jayparth 7y ago
I think it's interesting how this article painted middle management as the good guys. In my experience, "intricate layers" of middle management is not a good thing- most of these "layers" do not add value and it&#x2
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by jayparth 7y ago
IMO this article does not deliver on its title. I was expecting a list of systems that we should "pay attention to"- that hold promise in the coming years or now. Instead, this was an index of current literature from pretty much a
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Ask HN: How did you get your first 100 users?
3 points by jayparth 7y ago|2 comments
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by jayparth 7y ago
I assume would fire an employee that's underperforming. You haven't actually refuted the point of this article. You can do one thing better than two. If you believe in your startup, then you'll do it better working on it full
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by jayparth 7y ago
Whatever dude, I'm not going to argue with you here. The beginning of this article starts out by explaining what a stand up is. It's not written for tech workers it's a general piece. And just working at any large technology
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by jayparth 7y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. There are definitely different types of side projects, not all are "startups". Also, I don't think doing a start-up on the side is bad if you work at a job that is 9-5. But this guy is saying dedicate
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by jayparth 7y ago
The guy who wrote this piece is speaking from the perspective of an entrepreneur himself. Presumably, he would like dedication and focus from his employees. When I've worked at startups, that's what's been expected from me. T
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by jayparth 7y ago
In what way is Slack not elite? Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by. By almost any measure, that's elite. Is Berkeley not an elite school, because it's
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by jayparth 7y ago
I disagree with this article. Of course your messaging is going to be different when selling a pickup truck and a SUV. If anything I see commonalities between Model X and Cybertruck- both are unashamed with their design, even though it migh
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by jayparth 7y ago
How do I follow people?
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by jayparth 7y ago
Agree with your point but I'd say {decades in which you were a child}!
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by jayparth 7y ago
The answer you're looking for is: you get started incrementally. It's definitely possible to get this company started incrementally. It's an exercise in being resourceful. > If I walked into YC suggesting to build dorms, I
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by jayparth 7y ago
Perhaps founding the initiative....
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by jayparth 7y ago
Haha, I just realized the typo in the title. "What products have documentation?" -- most of them.
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by jayparth 7y ago
Thanks!
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Ask HN: What Products Have Documentation?
6 points by jayparth 7y ago|8 comments
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I'm in agreement with that sentiment. For any given opportunity, even if it's "obvious" that someone should have done it, doesn't mean it's been done before. If something seems like an opportunity you should pr
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by jayparth 7y ago
I think the key distinction is that there is a well-established infrastructure around software, such that the average SaaS founder (even 10 years ago) is/was not doing fundamentally new things with computers. If they were, they would p
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by jayparth 7y ago
Link for those who haven't read: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by jayparth 7y ago
Hey man, I still don't think you are understanding my point. This comment is actually pretty interesting: > if it had been unity or unreal engine, would you have changed your opinion? To me (again, to me. You could have a different
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by jayparth 7y ago
I agree with you, but why was the person above me commenting on risk? While it is true that those things happened with Unreal Engine, it was sideways from the discussion that was occurring, but presented as a refutation. Risk has nothing to
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by jayparth 7y ago
This comment doesn't really make sense to me. To me, (paraphrasing heavily), the comment two tiers above you is trying to say, "The upside is not high enough as typical moonshot companies to raise as much as they did. Plus, they c
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Ask HN: What are good resources to learn about distributed systems?
16 points by jayparth 7y ago|3 comments
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by jayparth 7y ago
He's just talking about a legal reorganization. "Uber Drivers LLC" contracts the employees which is wholly owned by Uber. I don't see how this would actually help them though. Under the new law, Amazon Flex drivers are a
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How we went from 0 to 1 on customer success at our SaaS company(medium.com)
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by jayparth 7y ago
Are you looking at applications outside of sales demos? Might be useful for customer success, etc.