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by kirso 5y ago
Aren't various boilerplates created for this which already route all the necessary libraries and tools like analytics, stripe etc?
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by kirso 5y ago
Had the same story, I joined a startup as the first sales employee. A week later Twitter acquires our competitor, few months later the team dissolves and we are the only other company doing remotely something similar. It seems like there is
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by kirso 5y ago
Does this mean then that all the mental models are basically useless because the outcome may be irrational?
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by kirso 5y ago
I think this is exactly the opposite of what Tsundoku is... I believe we all fell for the the new trend of minimalism and belief that owning too much stuff hurts us because a stoic philosopher wrote about it around 3rd century AD. But I mea
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by kirso 5y ago
This is a great advice, but sales actually make sense for distribution partnerships such as gyms. To actually take on the point that you made around sales. I am an introvert who used to be nervous about people. There are definitely some peo
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by kirso 5y ago
That is because a lot of people don't realize that we are not all based in the bay area and in fact in majority of the countries you have to scrape for 100 bucks after college with no skills and no name university. I am not being negat
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by kirso 5y ago
The interesting point in this that resonated is the elephant in the room that no one is every addressing which is background. For 99% of people FAANG is out of reach... I am talking about globally. In fact that most of the people don't
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by kirso 5y ago
This :) Basically start from the end of this submission and you will get there in no time...
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by kirso 5y ago
For user acquisition you are completely right, however for the incrementality of purchases and sales, this is highly questionable and needs to be measured on case by case basis.
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by kirso 6y ago
A webapp that helps you to decrease your digital footprint in this world, considering how many services do not even offer to delete your profile yet its legally binding. One thing is to unsubscribe from newsletter, another one is to complet
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by kirso 6y ago
I believe lunchclub.ai is solving for it (raised from a16z) - very tech focused though.
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by kirso 6y ago
This has been debunked many times in most jobs, lots of interview questions have nothing to do with job performance and CVs are outdated also in the non-tech world. I really feel the hate towards such approach. Personally I just decided not
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by kirso 6y ago
Yes, I feel like this over-ambition and risk has put me in a similar position. I still own around 300k worth of stock which is not liquid in one of the start-ups but it has been 8 years now. On the other hand I realize that with my backgrou
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by kirso 6y ago
Mark Manson actually wrote a great article on this: In defense of being average => https://markmanson.net/being-average
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What is the average value that an employee makes on a startup exit?
2 points by kirso 6y ago|0 comments
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by kirso 6y ago
Welcome to the reality of survivorship bias... At least we are talking REAL life decisions, the interesting part is that its probably the majority of people, still no liquidity after years of work. On a bright side, its going to be fine but
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by kirso 6y ago
I love bear and use Obsidian for my PKM and writing output with bi-directional links. Love it!
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by kirso 6y ago
This deserves to be a top comment. Once you hustled your life away and have your life full of regrets that you haven't spent it with your loved ones - you realise that location is a pretty useless qualifying factor for life unless your
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by kirso 6y ago
You are my god!
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by kirso 7y ago
Agreed, another one on this topic is here: https://medium.com/@dvassallo/only-intrinsic-motivation-last...
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by kirso 7y ago
I started my job search recently and realized its a trade-off between earning a good income and being terrible bored of a company mission. I can't believe in 2020 it's hard to find something awesome and exciting to work on whilst
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by kirso 7y ago
I feel you, unfortunately, your location matters in terms of your network/opportunities and even a spouse. Frankly, because I realized this I started searching for cool companies to work for that nobody knows and made a side project ar
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by kirso 7y ago
That's awesome! Where I can learn more? I am building a job marketplace and curator for cool "unknown" companies that people can explore and would love to feature this! A plus point for the impact part of it!
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Ask HN: Incentivising the smartest people to work on world's pressing problems
2 points by kirso 7y ago|1 comments
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by kirso 7y ago
Here it only depends on whether its a zero-sum (winner takes all) market, or whether you can improve an existing model and eat chunk of it (look how many alternatives of Mailchimp spun out, I love all of the incl. mailerlite and EmailOctopu
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by kirso 7y ago
What I see as a problem from the business perspective is that devs are usually thrown into the surrounding of other tech folks and generally this particular tech bubble world we live in. And as someone smart said, for the man with the hamme
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by kirso 7y ago
People are weird... don't take it personally and focus on the crowd that appreciates your writing!
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by kirso 7y ago
The point of the article is that majority of people are not given opportunity to become geniuses and frankly you don't even have to be one to make an impact. You don't just get born a genius its a process with lots of puzzle piece
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by kirso 7y ago
It feels to me that overall people are quitting their corporate jobs and searching for meaningful and impactful things to do professionally. There are some movements which are trying to do something like AI for good, but it seems like gener
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by kirso 7y ago
I think you missed the point that the opportunity is not equal, as a person if you grew up in rural Georgia and not knowing what to do with your life because you didn't get the memo kinda screws your future. It's about giving the

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