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by mikesabat 4y ago
A few years ago I designed a product like this, but more focused on sales calls. We called it DiscoveryCall.ai and and my friend built a proto-type. It was cool, but the sales cycle was something I didn't want to tackle. A few ideas &a
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by mikesabat 4y ago
Generally agree with the sentiment, but here is likely why we continue to talk about MRR. 1. It's likely inherited from how investors look at startups. They are just focused on growth more than profitability. 2. In the US there are tax
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by mikesabat 4y ago
The scientist behind the study has both a book and podcast called Lifespan. They are both focused on the epigenetic cause for aging and solutions to slow aging. There are several supplements that the researcher believes will slow aging. The
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by mikesabat 4y ago
On the All In podcast Chamath used a term 'Fraudulent Conveyance'. The idea is that if someone receives money from a fraudulent actor, the entity that received the money has to give it back. Madoff was mentioned somewhere in the c
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by mikesabat 4y ago
I agree with a lot of this comment, but honestly having kids is just another connection point with other people - another reason to form a friendship. A few months ago I organized a Dad's Drinks at a local bar. I walked there with a ne
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by mikesabat 4y ago
This is a great post. A few immediate thoughts. Friends become harder to make (mostly for men) as you get older and have children. It simply takes more effort and you'll have less time, but having friends that you see regularly is prob
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by mikesabat 4y ago
Kid related backstory: during the pandemic I started recording videos, telling the stories of Trump, the pandemic and other family stories. The idea is that my kids will watch them when they are 25 and see me while I'm young, telling t
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by mikesabat 4y ago
My take on this idea (take it or leave it) was a bookmark app for real life. Use cases: Pass a cool looking restaurant, bookmark it. Hear about a movie, book or new series, bookmark it. Concert or event coming to town, bookmark it. Functio
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by mikesabat 4y ago
Figuring out how to test and validate quickly and inexpensively is still valuable. Yes, trickier if it's not SaaS or software, but still possible. If you take the YC credo, "Build something people want", there are two assumpt
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by mikesabat 4y ago
I got a Pixel 6a a few days back and just pocket dialed someone for the first time in 5 years. My last phone was the 4a and the 6a seems worse in many ways. I haven't traded the 4a in yet because I might just move back. Are there any g
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by mikesabat 4y ago
Making a distinction between social networking and social media is important. We lost this distinction due to the advertising business model. In the social space a company that focuses on the social networking aspect - connecting people, to
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by mikesabat 4y ago
I disagree with the comment that more is needed. "User clicks a button - fire an event to Plunk - sends email" makes total sense to me.
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by mikesabat 5y ago
I've created my share of failed side projects. There's a few things that I've learned (am learning). 1. Test the market as early as possible. This doesn't need to be user conversations. Start testing the basic assumption
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by mikesabat 5y ago
I forgot about this stage of parenting. It only happens with the first child. If you have a second child the order, pace and progress will be completely different, but you'll already have the experience of the first to understand that
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by mikesabat 5y ago
It strikes me as strange that "Social Networks" assume or differentiate based on "social media". Social networks moved from connecting people to posting to create an inventory where ads could fit. It seems like removing
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by mikesabat 5y ago
Very relevant, even 12 years later. There seems to be many more spaces where we add to our identity today.
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by mikesabat 6y ago
Also in a very objective way, I don't understand this reasoning. I've never brought up the question before and hoping that HN can explain it in a logical way that I might understand. Let's say that a neighborhood is rated 3 o
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by mikesabat 6y ago
True that picking up trash is a direct action that doesn't take many resources. (reminds me to go sweep the alley after hitting reply). Cleaning up the trash on a block might be the most direct first action that anyone can take. I thin
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by mikesabat 6y ago
Here is a short overview of how a SaaS company should manage and track opportunities through the different stages in their pipeline. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sales-opportunity-stages-saas...
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by mikesabat 6y ago
I had this idea in 2006/2007. My thought was to make it a personalized, on-demand magazine (ha, remember those). An interesting take on this might be to roll up all of the saved articles for teams at a company. Whenever an article gets
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by mikesabat 6y ago
Amazing line in the case study about crypto tax consulting: "If a person didn’t make tens of thousands of dollars while doing 1,000 transactions in 2017 in cryptocurrencies then, bluntly, there is something wrong with that person’s abi
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by mikesabat 6y ago
I have a weird experience sometimes when waking up. It's not sleep paralysis, at least I don't think so, it feels more like a deep meditation. The only way to describe it is that I (my mind) is working at two different levels. At
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by mikesabat 7y ago
Sales/marketing guy here. I like the idea. If you want to get more signups, be clearer about what I get if I signup. There is a huge yellow banner on the trend page, telling me it's better to signup. Use some of that space to tell
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by mikesabat 7y ago
I took a job in the same space as my startup. My startup was bootstrapped, so having built a product and learned the market was interesting experience to my new employer. The work in the job seems much easier once you've been grinding
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by mikesabat 7y ago
I like this idea if it focuses on a specific subject, but I don't think it works as an aggregator. During the 2016 election there was a FB Messenger app called purple, which would send out 1 message per day with the news on the electio
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by mikesabat 7y ago
For use cases where one wants to track calls, length or connection, the better way to do this is the click-to-call approach. Have a button that says, "Call Me". If you have the user's number place a call to them and connect i
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by mikesabat 7y ago
This article is confusing. I think what they are reporting is, if you have a drink everyday for a year it will age your brain at the rate of 7 days per gram of daily alcohol. They forgot to mention the "every day for a year" in th
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by mikesabat 7y ago
Please expand on the logic here? Do you mean for low $$$ products, if users can onboard themselves they won't need to talk to sales?
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by mikesabat 7y ago
http://michaelsabat.org The concept of the picture was funny, but not sure about the execution.

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