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by ares2012 4y ago
I agree, but I think there is a difference between metrics and having data to investigate. A metric is a value you are tracking over time, but when something changes you will likely need to do an investigation. That investigation might be t
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by ares2012 4y ago
Ha, and I bet there is a metric for that too!
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by ares2012 4y ago
Yeah, it's hard to generalize these kinds of things since companies can operate so differently. I've seen very large companies where everyone can use the same 5 metrics and others where each team needs their own set of 5. I think
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by ares2012 4y ago
But it's not always clear what is "green"? For example, New Users going up can be a good thing but New Users going up by a lot can represent a fraud attack. Metrics always require some interpretation to provide value which is
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by ares2012 4y ago
YMMV but this is based on my experience building some of the largest analytics platforms like Flurry and Outlier.ai which were used by hundreds of thousands of companies. The only dysfunctional company I worked at was Verizon and they... do
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by ares2012 4y ago
That would be true if you didn't assign a cost to each metric that you add. It was when the cost of tracking metrics plummeted that this started to become a problem, as there was no external friction in collecting more. If you assign a
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by ares2012 4y ago
YMMV but this was based on dozens of conversations with companies where they spent hours each week reviewing those dozens of dashboards. I was specifically talking about the metrics used by any given team, as you are right that different te
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by ares2012 4y ago
I've seen too many companies waste time on metrics theatre, tracking hundreds of metrics while knowing less and less about how the business is actually doing. The more metrics you have, the less you know.
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Success vs. Velocity Metrics(breakingpoint.substack.com)
3 points by ares2012 4y ago|1 comments
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by ares2012 4y ago
There are two types of metrics you need: Success and Velocity. One tells you where you are going and the other tells if you'll get there.
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by ares2012 7y ago
Hi! (Founder of Outlier.ai here) You are right, our platform is designed to produce the most important insights from massive amounts of data, without requiring human supervision/configuration. It is most useful in applications when the
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by ares2012 7y ago
This is a common solution to the problem of PII, but without any information on returning users I would argue that it's value as an analytics platform is limited. Few are the tools where you can grow the business without knowing the di
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by ares2012 7y ago
If you are not willing to mute/ignore IMs while focusing they can be distracting and reduce productivity. However, if you aren't willing to mute/ignore I think the problem is not with instant messaging but your personal focus
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by ares2012 7y ago
I'm disappointed they left QBE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_by_Example ) out of their history of SQL and relations. SQL vs QBE is one of the great examples of concise technology beating over-wrought UX.
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by ares2012 8y ago
While the post makes a few good points, the underlying proposition is flawed: homework assignments are not abuse. The candidate can refuse to do the assignment if they would like. There is no forcing function on the work that would make it
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by ares2012 9y ago
I just did, above. Let me know if you disagree.
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by ares2012 9y ago
Because the harassment itself becomes a limiting factor on women's ability to perform the role. You cannot have objective measurements of performance with the bias introduced by harassment.
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by ares2012 9y ago
"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for busin
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by ares2012 9y ago
No, that's an over simplification. Until the statistically high rate of sexual harassment and discrimination is addressed we cannot have a valid intellectual debate on whether sex influences someone's ability as a software enginee
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by ares2012 9y ago
No, I wasn't trying to end debate. Your position is, in contrast, an appeal to motive which is a logical fallacy. We cannot expect the people who have been discriminated against and oppressed to stand up on their own. That is not the a
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by ares2012 9y ago
That was the entire argument in the Damore essay. He made a logical jump from facts about men and women to the claim that women were less capable as software engineers.
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by ares2012 9y ago
This article is a great example about why there is a sexual harassment problem in technology. It's conflating two completely different things in the name of "free thinking": the facts about men and women and the severity of s
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by ares2012 9y ago
Business cycles are often a component of what is a composite function of the time series. So the time series itself might not have perfect cycles but the business cycle is usually one of the principal components of the time series, which is
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by ares2012 9y ago
You can grant employees shares regardless of how you raise outside capital. Whether or not you do so is a decision of the company leadership, not a result of how you raise money.
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by ares2012 9y ago
There is no way to know at the beginning if you'll be a $0M or $30M company and to make their portfolio math work they need as much upside as possible if you get to a higher valuation. The pie is fixed at 100% and everyone is fighting
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by ares2012 9y ago
No investor will do an uncapped note (unless it's a bridge round) because it's a very bad deal for them. A fixed discount on the round is not enough upside to account for their risk, especially when there are plenty of investments
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by ares2012 9y ago
While you can argue that SAFEs are roughly equivalent to equity (with the advantage of allowing rolling closes) they are very bad for startup employees. Many startup employees have no idea how much they really own of a company because their
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by ares2012 9y ago
If that happens, the Digg team is going to REALLY regret all of those missteps along the way.
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by ares2012 9y ago
For the first time ever, the comments on the article actually captured every thought I had - even the problem with contrast! I'm more impressed by the readers of that article than the article itself.
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by ares2012 9y ago
I don't want to jump into a debate on a clearly biased post, but I feel that a few things need to be clear: - Many employees prefer options to cash, as it provides the opportunity to make a lot of money. The chances that happens are ve

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