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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Seriously! Quantity data is not a substitute for quality data. Give an engineer a qualitative data point and they'll find a way to invalidate it. But give them a million invalid data points...
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
> Although you may have been unsatisfied with iMovie, it is in fact the free tier of Final Cut Pro, much as GarageBand is the free tier of Logic. Are they though? I think of a free version as having the same interface and core functional
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
This is a great example of good strategy coming from better understanding and not a better template. Thanks for sharing!
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Speaking as someone who blends marketing/design/technical work I have a few thoughts on this. First, there's pressure on a lot of marketers to sell more this month or this quarter. Second, there's an expectation to prove
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Me too. I think we'll get there in the next 20 years. The limiting factor is building codes in the USA. But there are some really cool things all around the world in the building space, very little of which is publicized. The construct
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Building codes. What you described is rational but unconventional and building codes are designed to require following convention. Also, the cost of connectors goes up quickly, but the right connectors could change the game dramatically. On
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Ask HN: Tools for graphing Git CSV files?
2 points by jlbnjmn 6y ago|0 comments
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but the most relevant advice I got was to pay half the commission after month 1 and half after month 12. It helps weed out the less honest people, aligns sales with support, and protects cash flow.
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Thank you, I'm glad I asked.
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
I like the intro bit "we build real businesses for real customers who pay us real money" from the video you linked. The term master mind has been a bit off-putting to me, but it seems like scheduled social time is a solid step in
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why was the company started?
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
I think the same applies to careers, at least for me. The worst outcome is a moderately good job. A bad job you can quit, a great job you can retire from, but a moderately good job is slow speed entropy with a gradually narrowing window of
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Would I be simplifying too much to say the cause of failure was, in all cases, "a failure to economically supply demand"?
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Sorry, the title was vague. More specifically the question is "what were the specific, direct causes of failure?" "My car broke down" vs. "the alternator went out so my battery died and my car wouldn't start&qu
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
> serial entrepreneurs That is who I'm looking for. If the odds of success are less than 10%, then it would seem to follow that the thoughts on success by single or several failure individuals would suffer from a similar bias as the
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
The analogy comes from aircraft surviving combat, as opposed to general aviation, although I'm not sure that's enough to overcome the flaw you've pointed out. One thing I disagree on is the failure rate. Surely the failure ra
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this. It sounded a bit too familiar. I've spent the past 3 months developing daily fitness habits but I've got nothing and no ideas on social habits. As for work boundaries, I just started experimenting with
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing your experiences. Anecdotally, I've experienced the small business/enterprise dilemma from the inside. Working for some companies perpetually struggling to make payroll and others looking for useful ways to
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience! How much time do you think you would be willing to invest in a POC before getting your first customer? Yesterday I was thinking about the idea of automatically rejecting projects when the time spent surpa
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Ask HN: Crashed founders, what was the point of failure?
70 points by jlbnjmn 6y ago|54 comments
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
The second part of that whole "finding people willing and able to pay..." bit of business strategy seems to get ignored frequently.
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
> It's like Tony Robin's adapted for lifestyle startup founders. I...uh...just remembered somewhere I'm supposed to be...
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
> A common theme in technological optimists seems to be a total dismissal of global warming. It seems like the biggest impact a person has on the world is the way they treat people, especially people they don't agree with. There see
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
Redefining problems is good when flaws in the original definitions are found. AI has perhaps, maybe passed human intelligence in 0.005% of applications. It's 2020 and we still have steering wheels in cars. If we replaced the word &quot
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
There are several projects in the low cost, user maintainable, appropriate technology space that I'm currently estimating the feasibility of starting. I'm biased towards fascination with processes and markets, however, and value m
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
> I am keen to help others to adopt this approach, so everybody is most welcome to reach out to me with any questions. I'll take you up on this. How far have you gotten? What surprises have you uncovered? Are you blogging or tweetin
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
If you felt labeled by my post, I failed to communicate well and I apologise. > a car that cost $6500 used That's the smart financial decision. The math works better when buying used. By that same math, I had a '97 Suburban wit
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
I agree the Accord hybrid lacked the proper street cred to sell well. The pitch for a Prius was green points and fuel savings, but when you do the math the fuel savings is insubstantial and the green points were offset by the general feelin
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
> leaders are currently gaming the populous rather than leading them, and that this is so obvious to everybody that trust in leadership and institutions has gone out the window I agree with that assessment. My limited and probably wrong
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by jlbnjmn 6y ago
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