jwitchel

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by jwitchel 5y ago
Energy is fundamentally an economic problem so you're looking for places that reduce the incremental cost to deliver a kWh of renewable energy consistently over a long period of time. There is a shocking amount of soft costs (lawyers,
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by jwitchel 5y ago
Moved to renewables. Wanted to try and help with climate change and needed new challenges. Solar is a fantastic industry. Lots of room for improvement feels like internet did in thr mid 90s. Just a ton of enthusiasm and a sense you're
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by jwitchel 5y ago
Very nicely done. This is great research. Technical, creative, and substantive. Congrats to the whole team.
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by jwitchel 5y ago
Chargebee
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by jwitchel 6y ago
That's not quite right. It's not the support. It's the churn metrics. A guy who uses your system episodically can give the appearance of a high churn rate. This is very bad and if you're raising money can imply that yo
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by jwitchel 6y ago
Here are a bunch of promising software companies worth joining, competing with, partnering with: https://www.aurorasolar.com/ https://utilityapi.com/ https://www.folsomlabs.com/ https:&#x2
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by jwitchel 6y ago
Disaster mitigation products and services. Tools that enable better management of things that go bad. Nat disasters are obvious but also think ransomware, medical disasters, covid of course. Think insurance but also detection, contact ma
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by jwitchel 8y ago
Is it a waste of your time or your money when someone else picks up a can off the beach? Help. Don't help. But sneering at their effort is just mean. Bravo and +1 to all the engineers on this very excellent project.
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by jwitchel 12y ago
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/p... It's a very good gentle intro to syntax and the basics of functions, variables, etc. However, a word of warning. JS is a double edge sword as a
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by jwitchel 12y ago
1. Smaller commits. Break the project down into smaller tickets and have them check-in more frequently. 2. Rotate who reviews so everyone gets a chance to review everyone and put yourself in the rotation. 3. Lead by example. Write some co
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by jwitchel 12y ago
I am the co-founder of www.propser.com and the Panopticon was central to our early thinking about P2P lending. The original idea was simply that if everyone could see everyone's lending activity it would yield improved loan default rat
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by jwitchel 16y ago
Your train has already left the station. You're not going to persuade him not to outsource so don't try. Instead you should persuade him that maintaining control over your outsourcing is the critical requirement for success. And focus on
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by jwitchel 16y ago
"All this has happened before. All this will happen again" -- Pythia, BSG. The first thing I do is research the daylights out of every competitive product I can find and compile a super set of features of all of them, noting pricing, posit