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"Don’t think of your life as a random walk"(smalter.org)
1 points by smalter 14y ago|0 comments
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Dilemmas and Sideways Thinking(smalter.org)
1 points by smalter 14y ago|0 comments
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by smalter 14y ago
In Good to Great, Jim Collins talks about how he was surprised to discover the opposite of the typical, gregarious CEO. He found that CEOs building great companies that last were quiet, modest, and humble and attributed company success to
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by smalter 14y ago
That's an interesting point, and it makes me wonder if our decline rate is higher than average because of it. Yours and the OP's points were well-made. I think it's ultimately empirical which works best for your product. We haven't quite
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by smalter 14y ago
That's awesome to hear. I suspect you're using the "personal" iDoneThis. With the business iDoneThis, we have the same evening email, and in the morning, we summarize yours and your team's achievements in an email digest. It hopefully has
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by smalter 14y ago
Definitely. Many of our members tell us that they read their morning email on their phones in bed, and it gives them a little boost to go out into the world and accomplish great things.
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by smalter 14y ago
Good point that we should mention this in the FAQ. You can export in plaintext and PDF easily. (And I know you can export your personal entries as CSV but I'm not actually 100% certain about companies -- but you definitely should be able t
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by smalter 14y ago
My dad is the most disciplined person that I know. He got his math PhD in 2.5 years. He said that when he was in grad school, he'd wake up every morning at 4am, work without interruption until 8am, take a 1 hr nap until 9am, work until 5p
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If You Were the Next Steve Jobs(blogs.hbr.org)
22 points by smalter 14y ago|11 comments
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An invitation to come and hack on Buffer(joel.is)
48 points by smalter 14y ago|13 comments
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by smalter 14y ago
I know many startups don't link back to the original article because they don't want to drive traffic away from their site. It's not for any particularly nefarious reason at all. When people see a link, they'll click on it, and they often
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by smalter 14y ago
Fair enough. I (the author of the post) actually changed the title some time after posting. I wasn't happy with the word choice myself, but I couldn't find the right words.
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Hacking the Customer Acquisition Game(blog.leetsoft.com)
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by smalter 14y ago
At iDoneThis, we have several shared email inboxes (Helpscout is fantastic for this: http://helpscout.net ). What ends up happening is that most of our emails are processed out of shared inboxes, which makes it easier to respond in batch
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by smalter 14y ago
I used to live in Eastern Market in Downtown and could get fresh food there all the time. Edit: You can buy fresh everything in Eastern Market every day of the week, not just during the market on Sundays.
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by smalter 14y ago
Yup, good point. I'm reminded of this: http://nowdothis.com/ (I believe this is a Jakob Lodwick creation.)
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Dalton Caldwell at Startup School 2010(justin.tv)
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by smalter 14y ago
Part of the power of YC is that it's in some way collective bargaining. There's a similar phenomenon at top law schools (I was a lawyer in a previous life). When law firms come to campus to interview students, the school's goal is to obscu
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Women Startup Leaders Name Their Modern Day Heroines(blog.idonethis.com)
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by smalter 14y ago
Heh, the cure sounds worse than the disease. "Make the bikes so unpleasant that no will want to steal them (or use them)." I agree that there is room for creativity here. There are so many things to try. For instance, I noticed that ViaC
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by smalter 14y ago
My dad is a math professor at a big state school with a strong engineering program. I was hanging out with him and some of his college classmates, many of whom are also math/science/engineering professors. One of them told me, "If everyon
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by smalter 14y ago
Do you use Gmail?
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by smalter 14y ago
Hey David, absolutely -- the Shopify guys are awesome. Glad to hear that you had a positive experience with them as well.
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Visit Your Musers(blog.idonethis.com)
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The Best Productivity App is You(blog.idonethis.com)
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by smalter 14y ago
I beta tested the app and got addicted pretty quickly. It's fun and gorgeous -- really a cut above most mobile games when it comes to craft and attention to detail.
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The Power of the Done List(blog.idonethis.com)
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by smalter 14y ago
I'm pretty sure I signed an NDA at the front desk as the cost of walking into Facebook.
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by smalter 14y ago
Awesome, best of luck to the ShopLocket team! I remember their post on HN awhile back about not getting into YC ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668469 ). It's fantastic to see them not only soldiering on, but thriving.
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by smalter 14y ago
We used Pipedrive at iDoneThis to manage our fundraising process. When we were actively fundraising, I kept my Pipedrive window open at all times. If you love Trello, you'll love Pipedrive -- it merges the functionality of CRM with the eas

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