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by rpkoven 8y ago
I believe he is discussing pranayama breathing
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Craftsmanship: The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset(indiehackers.com)
6 points by rpkoven 8y ago|0 comments
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What if Elon Musk went to Harvard?–Assesing the costs of the brain drain(hackernoon.com)
3 points by rpkoven 8y ago|0 comments
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by rpkoven 8y ago
Although I don’t know if the Harvard connection matters, I thought this was an interesting idea: Perhaps there is some intrinsic value of innovation and creativity that we can laud as being more valuable than creating the newest financial m
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by rpkoven 8y ago
I think you are right with respect to the need to hit the accelerator on growth through sales and marketing. Great products do not sell themselves. I think that having some notion of how to get a product to market and how to market that pro
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by rpkoven 9y ago
It seems I am one of those in the tarpit. I think the problem for us engineering types is that there is so much bullshit around marketing, that it's offputting to us. That's the case for me at least. If I spend time/money on
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A Stroll Through the Minefields-The Alchemy of Startups(hackernoon.com)
1 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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A Stroll Through the Minefields-Avoiding Startup Tarpits(hackernoon.com)
2 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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by rpkoven 9y ago
I found this in my own startup. We burned through most of our runway investing in feature development.
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by rpkoven 9y ago
"Developing features of your product without a commensurate push to grow your user base can set your startup on an inertialess path. This is what I learned when I was my previous company’s ramp up phase. We developed new features think
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by rpkoven 9y ago
I agree with this: "For an early stage company, the longer you can put off expanding your head count and endure the financial pain of not paying yourself anything close to a market rate salary, the more runway and resources you’ll have
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by rpkoven 9y ago
I am not sure if I believe this, but the author had an interesting point: "This dynamic seriously limits the pool of individuals who can successfully start companies to those who have higher risk profiles, can defer immediate financial
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A Stroll Through the Minefields – Surviving the Startup ‘Ramp Up’(hackernoon.com)
5 points by rpkoven 9y ago|3 comments
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by rpkoven 9y ago
‘I didn’t know how to do x, so I just had to figure it out.’ This is what I regularly hear from successful founders, whereas ‘I couldn’t find someone to do X, so I had to reconsider whether to pursue it at all’ is a common refrain from unsu
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by rpkoven 9y ago
"Startup graveyards are full of visionaries without expertise or the proper skills to execute, for no other reason then ideas are not self executing, but are rather made into being by intense engagement by skilled operators." As a
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Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset(hackernoon.com)
244 points by rpkoven 9y ago|83 comments
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by rpkoven 9y ago
If talking to your clients mostly gets you new feature requests, it either means your product isn't adequate yet or you're not asking the right questions. In a nutshell you want to get of feel of: - What was going on in your clien
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Avoiding Startup Tarpits(hackernoon.com)
4 points by rpkoven 9y ago|4 comments
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by rpkoven 9y ago
The product is adequate, because people are paying for it. It could be better, hence the feature requests. The most important thing I always want to know is how they found me — unfortunately, for all of them it was via a search for a specif
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by rpkoven 9y ago
It seems I am one of those in the tarpit. I think the problem for us engineering types is that there is so much bullshit around marketing, that it's offputting to us. That's the case for me at least. If I spend time/money on
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The Tunnel Vision Fallacy(hackernoon.com)
4 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding Startup Tarpits(hackernoon.com)
2 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding Startup Tarpits(hackernoon.com)
4 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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Scaling Memcache at Facebook (2013) [pdf](usenix.org)
3 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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The bowel and beyond: the enteric nervous system in neurological disorders(nature.com)
1 points by rpkoven 9y ago|1 comments
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The impact of circadian phenotype and time on diurnal performance in athletes(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
6 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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The Science of Sleep(jamesclear.com)
13 points by rpkoven 9y ago|0 comments
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by rpkoven 10y ago
I enjoyed this article. I thought this quote was spot on: Build an organization where everyone is out for themselves and you’ll build what Schopenhauer called a culture of individuals “fencing in the mirror.” When we are caught up in our ow
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Selflessness and Startups(dantawfik.com)
3 points by rpkoven 10y ago|1 comments

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