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Show HN: We built this free tool for IT teams to track app access rules(accessmatrix.stitchflow.io)
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Show HN: We built this free tool for IT teams to track SaaS contracts renewals(renewaltracker.stitchflow.io)
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Show HN: We built this free tool for IT teams to customize employee offboarding(offboarding.stitchflow.io)
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by lurkervizzle 3y ago
Waited for 2 years for the new long range Tesla Model X and sold it within 3 months for exactly this reason. The range was a total fabrication - actual range for city driving was closer to 180 miles, not the claimed 300+. Complete sham.
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by lurkervizzle 4y ago
Think this is a great reinforcement of also requiring a guiding mission to what you do - otherwise it won't feel authentic. So if your niche is for example custom IT security services for religious, well off business folks, if you don&
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by lurkervizzle 4y ago
Same exact experience - I finished my CS PhD in 2005 and thought I would go into academia, but decided not to given how much of academia seemed to be just writing grant proposals vs. actual research. FWIW, also decided not to go into academ
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by lurkervizzle 4y ago
100% and legitimately have nothing but respect for YC. Ponzi is definitely an overstatement which I used to make the point that in-network traction is potentially a risky signal of product-market-fit which was obfuscated when everyone was b
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by lurkervizzle 4y ago
Specific anecdote - SaaS companies selling to other SaaS companies is going to cause a mini-winter in that sector. My company (which we thankfully sold last year :praise) had several (though not exclusively) high-growth tech companies as cu
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by lurkervizzle 4y ago
100% this - a good chunk of initial traction for YC companies is other YC companies - which is great in some ways to bootstrap initial growth/credibility, but the uncharitable view is that it's a Ponzi scheme in a way.
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by lurkervizzle 5y ago
I've been lucky enough to have sold two companies (edit: in the very low $XXX M range to provide context on the rest of my comment), and 1 is the most important point by far in this list. The other thing that I almost think should be p
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by lurkervizzle 6y ago
My previous company was acquired by Google and I totally agree with assessment. Immense respect for Google's investing, corp dev and legal arms in as much as I interacted with them. They always treated us fairly and were ethical in the
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by lurkervizzle 10y ago
Regarding "Niles – Conversational wiki for business" The article says: "It’s a $27 b market and claims 700,000 teams signed up in one week." I believe this is a typo - they actually have 700 teams that signed up.
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by lurkervizzle 10y ago
I think this is more a result of the increase in acceptance of entrepreneurship as a career option. Adding to the list of predictors of a tech correction, when you have a bunch of investment bankers and management consultants coming into co