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by blrgeek 8mo ago
Dude, this is awesome! Last year I did it manually line by line, and of course that didn't carry over to this year. Tally rocks! Thank you.
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by blrgeek 7y ago
For public companies, growing > 40%, ARR > $100Mn, NDR>125$ revenue multiples are sky-high ATM. For private companies at around $1Mn-$3Mn ARR growing sub-20% YoY there are very few buyers in the first place.
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by blrgeek 7y ago
Carnap vs Popper Popper = create hypothesis and falsify Carnap = see instances and use induction to create hypothesis Everything else they say about the scientific method is the same. Herbert Simon, in thinking of sciences of the artificial
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by blrgeek 9y ago
For splitting Facebook into face babies, look at p&l lines, geographic lines, what could become api boundaries,different apps, and different apps within fb wall. So one and more of WhatsApp vs Instagram vs fb vs messenger FB video vs FB
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by blrgeek 9y ago
Actually both journalists and media are regulated. Perhaps you should address specifics of why regulation is not required in this case, rather than attack the messenger?
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by blrgeek 9y ago
Check out effectuation.org - built networks of people who trust you/you trust, and solve problems for them. Keep solving problems, and you'll find, in 6-12m one or more problems that are worth solving at scale, because they are ma
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Is your startup making one grilled fish, or a 40-item budget thali?(techinasia.com)
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by blrgeek 9y ago
I missed the /sarcasm tag. Writing off experience on the path to becoming an entrepreneur glorifies the unique challenges of being an entrepreneur, while underplaying the 99% of other work that makes a business successful in the real w
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by blrgeek 9y ago
Yes. Your post goes into the first point about serial entrepreneurs, but fails to see the value of learnable entrepreneurial skills, and the value of coming from a successful startup, or with deep domain expertise. If you're addressing
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by blrgeek 9y ago
Right, entrepreneurship is the only field of human endeavor where amateurs can become the best in the field without any study or training whatsoever. Welcome to the mythologizing of the startup world. For one counter narrative, you should
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by blrgeek 9y ago
Was in a very similar position a few years ago after two startups and 7years with zero returns. More actionably, dev+fin+products = pm in a fintech company or bank. Or fin+products = evangelist for fintech api startup Or dev+fin = dev at f
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by blrgeek 10y ago
Check out effectuation.org/learn The idea is to start with who you know, what you know, and who you are. Then through conversations with people you know, ask them their problems that they are ready to pay to solve. Find common things t
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by blrgeek 10y ago
Read about the four types of luck. By doing more & learning more & meeting more people, you essentially increase your luck surface area in 3 different ways, increasing the odds you'll get lucky. Many founders I've seen &#x
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by blrgeek 10y ago
I think the dichotomy is A. Go to customer/user conferences? YES YES YES! B. Go to startup or generic conferences? Not more than once or twice a year. Everyone in this thread seems to be mixing up the two. Now unless you're sellin
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Have you considered India? While a work visa is not likely to be easy, the current tech scene has huge demand for programmers of all kinds. Especially if you're expert in Unity/Full-stack. If it'll help, let me know here, and
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Didn't know that! Had -8.5 but never wore contacts. Friend of mine had a severe allergic reaction to contacts, and was advised to never wear them again, and I was scared off of them.
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Read about the four kinds of luck. And how to become 'more lucky'. Luck #1: Pure stochastic luck. Roll of a dice. Luck #2: Doing enough things that you get lucky. If you don't try, your chance of doing something = 0. If you t
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by blrgeek 11y ago
11 years ago. Good results. Halo-ing is present, although not a big problem. I do think my vision is deteriorating a bit now. Although not enough to need glasses yet.
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Uber has made Taxi operators better for Indian cab drivers. Pre-Uber (and Ola), operators used to pay drivers 60-90 days post. They would make arbitrary deductions, which the drivers could not protest. Post-Uber, most drivers choose to go t
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Amazon has an 'Andon cord' where any employee can report on any product and the retail manager will review and take appropriate action. Looks like in this case the interviewer pulled the cord and the seller/category was revie
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Was from Wikipedia + Google + back-of-the-envelope. Didn't find things in one place.
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by blrgeek 11y ago
There is a newly available 150 Million middle-class with smartphones and Internet. The huge market in each city (Bangalore alone has 1 Million IT folks, middle class is ~5 Million), the high density (10K/sqkm), high Internet penetratio
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Have been in your boat. It's not so bad after it ends, your life does NOT end :). I could get a job in a large company, at what I thought was an absurd salary, after I was done with my startups. At a time when I thought no one in their
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Very curious to know 1. Where you learnt PGMs 2. How you made it part of your 'personal everyday' toolkit Always interested in improving my thought processes...
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by blrgeek 11y ago
And one of the connections is Ramanujan's letters. Both the FIRST letter that he wrote to Hardy, and the LAST letter he wrote on his death-bed talking about 'mock-theta functions' that are now called mock-modular functions. &
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by blrgeek 11y ago
Brilliant. Thanks. This is really easy to say and hard to do, if you've been pushed, prodded, poked into some direction or the other, by well meaning adults/role-models. Being able to hear your inner motivations is very close to l
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Heisenbugs: When you test for them they don't appear anymore. (Add a printf, et voila the race condition is gone). - I've personally experienced this one. Race condition/deadlock between 3 different threads. One mutex was ins
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Coincidentally went to an effectual entrepreneurship workshop by Prof. Sarasvathy y'day. Her learnings from talking to 'expert entrepreneurs' are that 1. they do not believe the future can be predicted, esp in the early stage
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by blrgeek 12y ago
The original link needs to be replaced by this blog post. Wired has very little detail, has some details incorrect (traffic within the network is NOW more than outside the network? It always was :)
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by blrgeek 12y ago
If you've never thought about sleep that way, you should be scared! How do you know the person who woke up this morning is the same person who went to sleep last night?

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