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by zaidf 13y ago
the way you reduce time taken to ship a feature is to drastically cut scope That's such a great way of putting it! I think what makes this difficult is that it is hard to come up with a formula - so much of it is a "feel" t
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by zaidf 13y ago
Totally. Though I took stock of all my projects in the last 15 years, and almost every single one of the projects that I launched for the sake of shipping quickly failed. The ones that got traction are ones that I spent a lot more time(and
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by zaidf 13y ago
Has anyone else found themselves on the extreme end of focusing too much on shipping quickly? One of the realizations I had this year was that in the process of wanting to ship quickly, I'd started doing mediocre work. More recently I
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by zaidf 13y ago
What do you mean?
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by zaidf 13y ago
I will not complain if WhatsApp makes an attempt at killing all the shitty chat apps such as Skype that are riding on their initial success but suck as a product. It boggles my mind why skype randomly pops notifications on my iPhone for mes
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by zaidf 13y ago
Have now done this multiple times. I suppose a lot of us are waiting for GitHub's next big move.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Will amazons' customers be okay if UPS charged an additional fee to amazon's customers to receive their packages?
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by zaidf 13y ago
This might be obvious to those with more sales experience, but can you explain what exactly you're looking for in regards to "how many minutes they spend on the phone"? Our sales process is based on our reps cold calling bu
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by zaidf 13y ago
Ah, I thought the test was given during the in-person interview. We recently started putting sales candidates on the phone to cold call. The most critical thing we measure is how many minutes they spend on the phone. It's been a pretty
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by zaidf 13y ago
we interview people whose only prior work experience is "Line of Business .NET Developer" I'm assuming you are not interviewing every or even most.NET developers and trying your luck to find the one who can write that great
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by zaidf 13y ago
Also Tapjoy too, not YC but a YC alum :)
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by zaidf 13y ago
Did you consider left aligning the name? By centering the name, you're not letting the eyes get trained on where to look instinctively. Someone named "Jim" has a much different starting point than "Mohammed". Also,
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by zaidf 13y ago
Did you leave the startup that got into YC or did the whole start up(your cofounder(s)) also leave YC? Your writing hints at the former in which case it sounds like you left a start up that got into YC, not as much YC.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Many, I’ve had personal discussions with this week. Most were supportive, a few, not so much. Curious - what does an unsupportive investor look like in these moments? Do they throw a fit? Act passive/aggressively? Badmouth you? Hones
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by zaidf 13y ago
Awesome, thanks.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Ah. How did you get the motivation now? How long did it take to find these bugs?
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by zaidf 13y ago
I have a question for you! Roughly how many hours do you think you've spent looking for bugs on github before you found these stream of exploits?
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by zaidf 13y ago
Just because you have one person who makes the final call does not mean he isn't reliant on other members of his team. The way Gates describes his process resonates with me: In terms of deciding what programs are going to do, a fairly
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by zaidf 13y ago
Absolutely.
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I think ultimately it requires having a strong champion empowered to make big calls. In product development, what I have seen happen is that everyone has strong views about what must be included for a product to succeed. With no one with
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by zaidf 13y ago
It's not that they don't know about the flaws; it's usually bureaucracy and compromises that lead to obviously broken features in products. That will take more than a 12 year old to fix.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Timeline views were down nearly 7%, suggesting users were refreshing their feeds less often. (1) Twitter makes most of its revenues from timeline views (2) Timeline views are declining (3) When a recently IPO'd company's biggest
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by zaidf 13y ago
Facebook UI might seem like a hot mess to you, but I can promise you it is getting more engagement and growth for facebook than twitter's. At a time that twitter is struggling with those two things, they should do more to be like the g
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by zaidf 13y ago
I do already use facebook pretty much all day. But twitter has a different audience and has more conversations relevant to work. Except the UI sucks and makes me work my ass off to engage in those conversations. If facebook or linkedin ends
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by zaidf 13y ago
If you read the article, you should know the primary concern is not the profits or revenues but rather the decline in product engagement/growth. What is your response to that? Your comment doesn't even make a single mention of the
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by zaidf 13y ago
Has a social network at twitter's scale ever been able to undo a growth plateau? In this business you live and die by organic growth. I have so many problems with the twitter product I don't even know where to begin. I am working
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by zaidf 13y ago
"Ten years ago every programmer ran into resource limitations, so the older programmers are always thinking about those things." Interestingly this is why I believe VCs let founders of start-ups get do partial cashing out in later
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by zaidf 13y ago
One of the top complaints from employees at startups I've worked at has been the constant shuffling of priorities without clear justification. It manifests in this way typically: founder tells company on a Monday that the priority is x
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by zaidf 13y ago
I have a four letter twitter handle(zaid) and I probably average a half dozen forgot-password requests daily...many of them people in the middle east with the same name as me trying to take over my account. I've had two users offer to
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by zaidf 13y ago
Does anyone know what's the equivelent in rap? Can I assume most mainstream rappers(Kanye, Wiz, 50 Cent etc.) heavily contribute to their own lyrics? I'm particularly curious about Eminem.

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