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by dopeboy 7d ago
Apple sold ~230M iPhones the year the mini was discontinued. 2% is an unquestionable failure. -an iPhone mini fan
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Show HN: A better ChatGPT for NetSuite questions(trycadbury.com)
2 points by dopeboy 8d ago|0 comments
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The post mortem of my startup(dopeboy.github.io)
5 points by dopeboy 2y ago|0 comments
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by dopeboy 2y ago
I've known Ryan for those 10 years, back when we met at Morgan Stanley. He is one of the most persistent and hard working engineers I know. To people asking why he's giving it away for free: partially because it's content mar
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Which begs the question, is there a way to dethrone something like Facebook? Because those network effects are increasingly strong. Perhaps if the AVP reaches the masses, Apple will layer a social layer there and that will become our new so
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Volunteered for a non-profit [0], where we taught kids how to code. 0 - https://codenation.org/
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Understood and apologies for misunderstanding. Every single founder I know (and I know a lot of them) doesn't build a business for the specific reason to be acquired. Is it a thought that crosses their mind? Definitely. Is it something
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by dopeboy 3y ago
AirBnB, Uber, Cloudflare to name some. Those mid sized companies you refer to did fine for three reasons: * If they were competing against venture backed companies, they were likely playing in big markets. My bet is they are still alive tod
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by dopeboy 3y ago
A lot of big businesses don't start off as sustainable ones. So they buy time, through venture capital, to become sustainable ones. This kind of news hurts the chances of that category of companies from being created.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Temporarily-not-an-unicorn companies will need to raise more money to become a unicorn. If those investors don't see light at the end of the tunnel, these companies get squeezed.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
It's a worrying trend, especially for those of us in startup land. With the Figma deal following through and less companies going public, the assembly line funding model is showing some serious cracks. Hope it's just temporary.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Not OP but probably a waste of effort for an early stage startup.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
> We’re at the end of a grand experiment of “you can take VC money and deliver a tech with new values, one that people want.” This is an extreme position. More likely, we are seeing repricing occur. There are still worthy, venture backab
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Leaning venture backed.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Good points - social communities have less of an autopilot component than b2b SaaS.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Well now I have to ask - what was it like inside the cauldron? Any learnings you took into your next step?
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Typo - a year
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Hi Don - I don't know you but I feel like I do now. And your son as well. Thank you for sharing that tweet.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
I'm a recovering founder after winding down my startup a couple months ago. I've been thinking about getting back on the saddle and in service of that, meeting with folks who could be potential co-founders. One of the first ~5 que
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by dopeboy 3y ago
That's right - OnDeck was spending $500k/month on it.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
I believe the closest counter is a breakup fee. Not a perfect solve, though.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Speaks to the power of youtube as well. A generational innovation.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Bit of a strange take. There’s multiple economists expressing puzzlement around the resilience of consumer spending. Don’t think the NYT is expressing an opinion one way or the other here. (FD - I blocked NYT in 2016 and haven’t looked back
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Appreciate the response. Wife and I looked at SoFlo, specifically Miami, really closely. Even lived for a month. It was hard for us to pull the trigger, but cool to see it's working out for others. I wouldn't mind being there as o
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Which part of FL?
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Weather, taxes, and CoL.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Damn, I just discovered it 4 days ago. It is excellent, with zero cruft. Looks like I'll need to use Apple Podcasts.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Definitely disappointing. Only hope is they IPO.
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Does the solution lie in genuinely investing in a CUDA alternative?
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by dopeboy 3y ago
Well said. It sounds like NVIDIA went through the hard work of listening and building for years (decades!). I can imagine some top level execs looking at that success and looking to replicate the tech, studying the use cases that customers

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