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by trjordan 8y ago
At anything other than really-low-valuation-seed-stage, the cost to purchase is going to be material. Since 409(a) is basically just 1/5th of the last valuation, at $5mil valuation, 1.0% equity will cost you $10k to exercise. If you ca
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You probably shouldn't early exercise, which makes the question of 83b moot. You are investing a couple years of your life in this. That's probably investing a couple hundred thousand dollars of opportunity cost vs a job at large
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"A 2010 analysis of autism diagnoses in California did not find that autism clustered preferentially around areas rich in IT industry. Instead, it found that clusters tended to occur in areas where parents were older and educated to a
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Also: lightning is bright and fast. It's difficult to see the branches that aren't as bright as the brightest few.
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I disagree with the notion that the penalty for white-collar crime should be strictly proportional to how good you are at that brand of crime. In a world where people occasionally steal $100m, that implies a maximum sentence of ~1 year for
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by trjordan 8y ago
Comp is a big one, discussed elsewhere. The other professional problem that well-run startups have is that it's easy for early employees to feel like they're held to a different set of standards than the founders for professional
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Thinking about Github-as-resume as strictly positive or uselessly noisy probably means you have an overly simplistic model for evaluating candidates. I'll share a model that's worked for me in the past. Before you even write the j
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by trjordan 8y ago
Try Googling "diversity performance teams." "Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter" - HBR [1] "Diversity and Work Group Performance" - Stanford [2] "New Research: Diversity + Inclusion = Better Decision Making At
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White Americans includes hispanic and non-hispanic. In particular, though, the only over-represented group is asians: 35% vs 5%.
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Find a way to listen to what's happening around you without being overly distracting. Bias towards current projects. Here's a couple things I've done in the past: - Sit on customer calls - Read whatever approximates the &quot
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Salesforce, roughly speaking.
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Assumptions that apply to this author, but may not apply to your business: - The pricing is $15 / user a month. This is a small purchase for businesses. - The product is in a crowded market. Comparison shopping is the norm. - The targe
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Outlier detection also fixes this, without having to implement health checks that replicate the whole functionality (complexity) of the rest of the service. 10 500s in a row? Go to the timeout chair until you get better.
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by trjordan 9y ago
Jeez, no, but there's no way I'm fixing it now!
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It depends on your audience. If you're trying to build an audience based on pithy advice in a well-known space, there are a lot of posts like this that apply. Focus your ideas, write about one thing, make it relatable, bold a couple ra
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by trjordan 9y ago
One problem is the world has layered effects of bias. Imagine a simple system where people are only evaluated for credit cards and mortgages, and businesses can only offer one of these services. Some people are systematically denied credit
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by trjordan 9y ago
Consider a company that used to sell stuff by the unit. Boxed software, DVDs, whatever. There is a new world of their product, and even though it's 2018, they're not in it. It might feel like Spotify has won, Netflix has won, and
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by trjordan 9y ago
My experience with Zuora is that it's a feature-complete payments subscription that's an unholy pain to work with. We chose them over Stripe before Stripe has ACH. My favorite part is that 25% of their revenue is professional serv
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by trjordan 9y ago
The benefit enormously from marketing, but they don't benefit from high-visibility brand marketing. Trade shows, performance marketing, affiliates, content marketing, retargeting, account-based ads ... those all work well.
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by trjordan 9y ago
10 years ago, I learned about the idea of elastic infrastructure. Services with load balancers in front of them, hosts that come and go easily, a structured way to communicate between services. At the time, that was nginx + manual autoscali
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by trjordan 9y ago
This is cool! I've been thinking about this a lot in a similar domain (JSON / YAML for configuration), and I've come to the conclusion that anything approaching manual merge is pretty much the worst thing ever. The domain I&#
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by trjordan 9y ago
This is a great introduction to a lot of the problems Envoy is trying to solve. If you're interested in learning more, the rest of the Envoy blog [0] is great. Coincidentally, I also spent most of last week putting compiling [1] all th
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It does happen. For example, Game of Thrones.
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Another possibility is they're worried you'll go out of business. In that case, they don't need to see the code right now. You can set up a code escrow agreement in case you cease to exist.
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Just to flesh out the vendor comparison... Five weeks of, say, three engineers with $150k salaries ($200k fully loaded) is $60k. People say that the majority of software is after initial development. Let's say 20% is development [0]. T
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Other comments have good observations about big vs small. One of the main markers of a startup is there tends to be One Big Challenge to get the company to The Next Level (generally talked about as a funding round, but that's just a co
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I'll upvote, because we're all on a journey here. But that weird and offputting feeling a feeling that, more often than not, comes up when we're talking about women. Only women. And that's the problem. Here's a coun
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There was an excellent Twitter thread on why they didn't do this: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/928740488395608065 The salient bit: > A quick note to everybody who says 'calculate the hash loc
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by trjordan 9y ago
Kubernetes -> Envoy -> Istio. Yeah, yeah, it's not rockets to mars or whatever, but I think we've spend DECADES trying to figure out how to abstract away the lower parts of the stack. The last big leap was AWS, and it forced
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Tactically: spot instances, reserved instances, auto-scaling groups, deleting data that we didn't need. Strategically: I've only ever see it work by making it somebody's job to save money on Amazon, ahead of feature velocity.

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