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Looks cool. Will check it out :)

Hey, you should try their tech discord group. https://discord.com/invite/stripe That has helped me resolve issues in the past.

Thanks for the insights.

FWIW, building your own tools/workflows on top of a standard software typically dramatically increase the lock-in in my experience. It is typically non-trivial to port this functionality to a new system. So it would be in favor of existing SaaS vendors.

Comparing re-sale price of Tesla to Ford is absurd. Elon Musk alienated most of Tesla‘s potential customers. I would assume more of the price drop comes from that than from anything inherent about EVs.

You still do from operating the software. You see what problems users have using it, which types of problems they tackle with it. By the end of running the software for a month you will have typically learned a boat load.

Imho opinion, what you are describing are republicans of the past. As parent says, there used to be shared values. Two of the shared valued were peaceful transition of power and respect for the rule of law / division of power between executive, legislative and judiciary.

Imho the values of MAGA republicans are clearly distinct from GWB republicans (even if it may be precisely the same voters). Specifically the two values described above are no longer shared values.

I believe there are more, but for the two values above we have irrevocable proof.

If you are based in the US, you should protest this hard.

In Germany, they came for the communists first.

https://hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin...

Afaik that was already the rule 25-30 years ago when Armstrong was cycling. I can remember track and field athletes being banned when they didn‘t show up for surprise tests. So either cycling was more lenient or he got a bonus treatment because he was famous.

On a side note: much harder today to not be available/found than it was 30 odd years ago.

I sometimes sum this up as: Don‘t listen to your customer. Watch your customer.

Obviously needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but seeing how users behave is often more insightful than asking them what they want. You just need to setup the environment for watching in a way that you learn what you want to learn.

It is survivorship bias. Because the companies get to a point where unimportant things are important and you spend years in that second phase, the learnings are upside down. „If only we would have solved technical problem X from day 1 we would have so much less hassle in the years to come.“ Except that solving problem X on day 1 instead of shipping what the company did might have killed the company. I see this in a lot of second time founders, where startup 1 was successful - „this time I‘ll really avoid my mistake X.“

Why? Climate science works with quantative models and makes concrete predictions. So if the predictions don‘t come true the model is false. E.g. this random blog I found googling compares IPCC predictions with actual outcomes: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-1990-ipc... [the link is just supposed to show how climate science is falsifiable. I have no idea whether the numbers in this specific source are trustworthy]

Great article!

Such a great quote. Thanks for reminding me :)

My experience: Skip most of the talks (maybe only 1-2 per day). Spend time drinking coffee and bumping into random strangers. Then spend more time with people you found nice/interesting.

Thank you!

Thanks. Great post! How would you divide a seed and/or A round between angels and VCs? Is there a perfect mix in your opinion or something you would be opportunistic about, depending on who is interested?

A close relative is an architect. The way construction projects are managed is waterfall.

It is made worse by the fact that you typically have 1) a large number of different expert firms involved, creating huge dependencies (imagine instead of FE & BE, having 8 different types of engineers, that can only work in a certain pre-defined order and have very limited availability (so if you are late and miss a slot, they may only be available again a few weeks or months later) 2) communication is either physical meeting of principles (bosses/managers) - rarely actual workers, email or paper print outs. It is not uncommon for on premise workers to work with month old plans that have since been changed.

Buildings are one of the few purchasable objects that have gotten more expensive over the last decades (compared to pretty much every consumer goods item).

The dystopian use case of this is: See the name of someone + how they voted last time. Then you can „engage“ them to convince them of your „truth“.

In the case of food retailers you also need to consider the time on shelf. To take the coffee example. If any average shop buys 4 cases of coffee (24 bags) and on average sells 2 bags per week, then the last bags will sell after 12 weeks. On avg. it will be 6 weeks (42 days). Product will also spend 1-2 days in transit and might not be unpacked on the floor until 1-2 working days later (so maybe 2-3 days). We can assume payments take 1 day to process. So 46-48 days in total. So 50 day payment terms means they are more or less cash flow neutral. Numbers are made up, but roughly align with my experience of selling other durable food to grocery retailers.

For me the tweet is hidden behind a message that I need to change my settings to see sensitive content.

Fun fact(1): The German word Kekse is a Germanization of the term "cakes". Although a biscuit isn't exactly a cake :)

(1) - At least I think it's funny :)

It‘s called shadow accounts. This is an article explaining the basic gist: https://www.howtogeek.com/768652/what-are-facebook-shadow-pr...

I have switched industry before and you kind of start from 0.

What you are describing doesn't necessarily sound like an issue with the tech sector, but rather that you are a bit burnt out.

My suggestion: try to take some time off, either by not working or just working on some very unambitious projects that give you time to relax. Do this for at least 2-3 months. Sleep, eat, treat yourself well.

Then slowly start tinkering with whatever tickles your interest (only once you feel like it). This can be a a tech side project, playing the guitar or bartending.

This recipe has helped me re-discover my energy in the past.

It might lead you to something in tech or outside tech.

Just my 2 cents.

Looks great :)

You should read the onion pdf. It explains why the safe word would break the linguistic tool of parody. It is the initial/doubt in the readers the kind of „wait what???“-effect that is the essence of the parody.

Read the pdf by the onion. It has examples of the content, which is clearly parody e.g. his post suggested that the police is providing free abortions to teenagers in a mini van. I guess these days the line between parody and nut case is thin ;)

Source: https://www.sistrix.com/blog/why-almost-everything-you-knew-...

TLDR: on the second results page, each result gets <1% click through rate.

So it‘s not nobody, but statistically speaking not very many.

Check these peeps: https://www.climatiq.io/ They also have a case study specifically about servers.

I am neither a lawyer, nor tax advisor, but my layman understanding is: If you transfer them (as in, you already own them as a private person and give/sell them to your UG), you will generate a taxable event where you might have to pay personal income tax on the current market value of the options. You probably don‘t want this to happen. If you don‘t yet own them, then you might be able to set it up with your employer that shares are held my your holding. There are some explicit rules around being actively involved in the company and whether the 5% rule applies. I don‘t know the latest status quo of this and whether employee options would generally qualify for the 5% rule. You only pay 5% of the tax. So if the corporate tax rate is 20%, your effective tax rate is 1%.

There isn‘t really a correct answer for these type of questions. My best guess is that either this is chance and you just need more interviews or that you are applying for a different stage of company where processes are different. I have interviewed a fair amount of PMs for early stage startups. If you want to do a 20-30m mock-interview (with only that question) then I am happy to provide honest feedback. My email is in my bio.