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dataminded··on Ask HN: Sales Team Growth
More details would be helpful here. Are you B2B? B2C? What are your fulfillment constraints? How big are your deals? How long is your sales cycle?

Knowing only what you've shared, I'd want to know if you considered A) Hiring your 1st salesperson or B) Making your first marketing/growth hire

dataminded··on Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS
AWS enterprise support is amazing. Everything from calls and emails to multi-day workshops with the product team. You get more than you pay for with them.

I'm also a fan of the AWS certifications from the employee side. Not everybody is pulling X00K at a FAANG. If you want a cloud job at regular enterprise, it's a good way to get your foot in the door.

dataminded··on Ask HN: What are you using for non-tech, team documentation?
Markdown and Git should be very accessible to a non-technical audience and I've had good success with both.

Here's my favorite SAAS offering in the space - https://www.gitbook.com/

dataminded··on Ask HN: What is the best database to use for a self-hosted GIS application?
PostGIS?
dataminded··on Launch HN: Accord (YC W20) – Repeatable sales and onboarding for B2B startups
Yup, we're using documents and lots of training time with trainers.
dataminded··on Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
Have you looked at Open EdX?
dataminded··on Launch HN: Accord (YC W20) – Repeatable sales and onboarding for B2B startups
We homebrew on-boarding and documentation. The challenges of getting call-center employees up to speed, running the correct playbook and compliant with all of the relevant regulatory requirements is important.
dataminded··on Launch HN: Accord (YC W20) – Repeatable sales and onboarding for B2B startups
Nice! I love this. Is B2C on your roadmap? The training + onboarding challenges are very similar.
dataminded··on Customer Acquisition When Broke
[Huge grain of salt here, your data should trump my opinion.]

The header text on your page is: Office Essentials

Compare that to your competitors:

@Trello: Trello helps teams move work forward. @Slack: Slack is where the future works @lucidcharts: Where teams come together to see and build the future @zoom: In this together. Keeping you securely connected wherever you are. @zoho: Your Life's Work, Powered By Our Life's Work

I don't think you've positioned your product to be understood or inspiring.

I would do the following:

1. Really dig into my web analytics and work on optimizing the site 2. Raise prices to get AOV high enough that selling made sense 3. Dial/email for dollars and get a couple of deals under your belt 4. Write content 5. Make a sales hire

dataminded··on Ask HN: Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s
I would start with data jobs. Your existing skill set is already extremely valuable and a quick dip into Python and SQL is sufficient to qualify you for analytics engineering jobs. Once you are in, it won't be hard to migrate into data engineering jobs.
dataminded··on Ask HN: What is a life changing amount of money for you?
$9 million
dataminded··on Ask HN: What would you advise to a beginner investing into crypto
What would you buy?
dataminded··on Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech?
$525 for a Data Engineer w/ AWS Experience
dataminded··on Time to retire the CSV?
I've been moving my organization to Sqlite and Parquet depending on the use case.
dataminded··on Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6
Will do. Just saw that API access is gated to enterprise accounts so we may need your help.
dataminded··on Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6
Take my money!

Now to assign someone to give it a whirl and hope it works.

dataminded··on Ask HN: What's the quickest method/framework to set up a basic CRUD app?
The fastest is the framework you already know.

If you don't know any frameworks, no code away.

dataminded··on AWS acquires Wickr
A replacement for Chime?
dataminded··on Help HN: Insane Google Cloud Issues
Great opportunity to be a consultative partner to your client and get them out of GCP.

At a minimum get a paid support plan and leverage that. Show them what support will look like before they are too far in to move.

dataminded··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
Supernatural is my favorite and the one that I use most consistently.
dataminded··on Ask HN: As a developer, what type of courses do you prefer: text or video?
Both? Video does well for concepts, text for reference and details.
dataminded··on Ask HN: Is your team using story points to estimate work? Why or why not?
We use hours. Story points are hard to reason about and hard to plan for.
dataminded··on Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
Anyone have a review yet?
dataminded··on DMX has died at 50
This one hurts.
dataminded··on Ask HN: Marital Problems
See a couple's therapist. Also, check out the Gottman Institute[1].

[1]https://www.gottman.com/

dataminded··on Ask HN: Would you be interested in becoming an engineering mercenary?
Does retainer mean less than my full salary? If so, I don't see why I would plan to take a pay cut on-purpose. What's the upside here? Do I also lose benefits during that down time?
dataminded··on Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Thank you Adam. You saved me thousands, I was seriously considering a network upgrade.
dataminded··on Ask HN: Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction?
At least one book a week. Probably 80% fiction and 20% non-fiction.
dataminded··on How to price your SaaS product
For me, it's about submitting expense reports. No receipt is required for expenses under $50. I'm 1000x more likely to try a tool under $50 than a tool over $50. I want to spend as little time as possible on expense reports and not needing a receipt helps.
dataminded··on Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born
People are broke, government isn't helping. Surprised?
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