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by amoorthy 7d ago
Indeed! I bought a 13 mini off ebay about 18 months ago I think. Great phone but battery is poor... can't last a full day even as I don't use video. Sigh, great size.
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by amoorthy 15d ago
Side-bar: I once hired Ed for PR for my startup. He was very difficult to work with, not even willing to share how he pitched our startup to publications because he considered the pitch his IP. So it was hard to know what was resonating or
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by amoorthy 1mo ago
I just bought a Boost conversion kit from the UK and am excited to install it in a couple weeks. If anyone has installed this kit would appreciate a comment on the experience. (I'm in the US and have been unimpressed with the kits avai
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by amoorthy 1mo ago
Agree so much with this! In domains I know well I get much better results then someone who doesn't know the domain because I know where to challenge the LLM. LLMs need to be pushed because otherwise their answers are typically average.
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by amoorthy 1mo ago
Sorry, didn't see this reply till now. I think a lot of PMs are judged just on shipping software, not necessarily commercial success, or even just production adoption.
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by amoorthy 2mo ago
Mostly agree and would add that product managers should be responsible for the commercial success of their products. That means spending more time deciding what market to be in, how to differentiate, how to price, how to drive adoption. For
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by amoorthy 2mo ago
Two years ago, my then 81-yr old father, who had Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, was recommended to get back surgery to relieve chronic and debilitating pain. The neurosurgeon said it's routine surgery and he's done it on people m
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by amoorthy 4mo ago
With both my startups I made some mistakes when naming the company. Sharing 3 lessons so hopefully can save you time.
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by amoorthy 4mo ago
Ah ok; sorry, didn't realize that.
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by amoorthy 4mo ago
Immigrants to any country are a unique slice of the population because they chose to migrate for a better life. Hence immigrants in most countries tend to do well economically (sometimes after a generation). Uncertain that cultural differen
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by amoorthy 5mo ago
Wow, thanks for taking the time to share all this data with such clear points. Much appreciated, especially the personal anecdote to make all this be less academic.
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by amoorthy 5mo ago
"a pricing model based on seats, a product roadmap built around features rather than outcomes [is outdated]" I disagree with this. On pricing, I get that agents and tokens can scale in a way that's unrelated to # of users. Bu
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by amoorthy 5mo ago
Ha! Same for me: 286 in 9th grade (1990) for about $2k CAD. 286 was a bad call though as I think it was harder to expand compared with 386. I remember 1MB RAM but really only 640k usable. Had to change some BIOS settings to get to about ~70
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by amoorthy 6mo ago
This. I feel this all the time. I love 3Blue1Brown's videos and when I watch them I feel like I really get a concept. But I don't retain it as well as I do things I learned in school. It's possible my brain is not as elastic
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by amoorthy 7mo ago
Ah thank you! Sharing with my nephew who's there right now!
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by amoorthy 7mo ago
Yeah, much of LinkedIn is performative nonsense. However, with such a large B2B audience there, it offers a sizable opportunity for people who actually publish useful information and are honest rather than posing. We have an "influence
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by amoorthy 7mo ago
We built an editor for creating posts on LinkedIn where - to avoid the "all AI output is similar/boring" issue - it operates more like a muse than a writer. i.e. it asks questions, pushes you to have deeper insights, connects
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by amoorthy 7mo ago
So cool. Thanks for posting. I wish I was 1% the engineer this guy is.
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by amoorthy 8mo ago
Mine was a referral from the VP of sales (the coach was his dad and many of the reps in our team had been coached by him). Fwiw, his name is Rick Roberge. I think he still coaches. He's can be a bit antagonistic but he's very good
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by amoorthy 8mo ago
My coach has a max timeline of 6 months so you are forced to swim on your own. I felt like I had the hang of it after about 4 months so stopped about then. (sorry for delayed reply; I don't think HN notifies you of replies?)
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by amoorthy 8mo ago
Yes I think possible. 1. sales aptitude assessment tools like Objective Management Group (the one I took) help you identify core weaknesses that are critical to understand and work on. 2. Recording your sales calls (assuming you're on
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by amoorthy 8mo ago
As a co-founder (tech background but haven't coded in a while), I got comfortable with sales best when I hired a sales coach. There are so many things to learn in sales and a coach is often the fastest way to assess your inherent weakn
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by amoorthy 1y ago
Ah you might be right. But: 1. If they really have so many faulty cars on the road that's a serious hazard and any accidents where people die may end up destroying Volvo entirely because of negligence. 2. An economically reasonable ans
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by amoorthy 1y ago
Insane that Volvo doesn't just replace the car. The cost is trivial compared to the brand damage here. The complaint is so well documented and the customer is not being a jerk at all; not sure what Volvo's logic is.
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Agreed. Put another way: because software has low marginal cost and high up-front cost (even higher in very competitive markets) it makes sense to raise venture early to hire a great team and build an awesome product that then scales incred
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Oh cool! Thanks so much. (Btw, I didn't mean to suggest that the project should address an unanswered question. Ok to repeat known experiment if it's fun/insightful). The gravitational acceleration one is cool. I remember doi
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Ask HN: Any good science/hypothesis type projects with Arduino?
2 points by amoorthy 2y ago|2 comments
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Xpertly | Founding fullstack engineer | Remote (US), ideally Bay Area | $150k + 1% equity Seed-stage company, backed by top-tier investors. CTO is former YC co-founder. Founders previously built and sold startup so fewer dumb mistakes this
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Sorry for tangent but any recommendations for small smart phone (i.e. <6" screen)? I like my iPhone 12 mini with its 5" screen (though it is glitchier than one would hope) but now all phones seem to be 6"+ which is hard to
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by amoorthy 2y ago
I'm very curious if experienced staff is available and less expensive now. As a venture-backed startup founder myself I'm quite eager to hire such folks and don't have the money to compete with larger firms. Maybe silly quest

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