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by enra 5mo ago
Vercel is a Linear customer, that's why Linear was mentioned here. Linear has not been breached, customer data remains secure, and Linear is not hosted on Vercel.
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by enra 8mo ago
Consumer software can be good, but it's often also optimized for max engagement, not for the actual value or functionality. Enterprise software can be because there isn't an incentive mismatch, good solution is more valuable for t
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Design is more than code(linear.app)
1 points by enra 9mo ago|0 comments
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by enra 1y ago
Ozempic & Novo Nordisk contributes something like 2% of the economic growth.
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by enra 2y ago
I tried to ask examples of this yesterday[1], but afaik the patterns seems to be think throwing money at the problems works in undifferentiated, maybe transactional categories like food delivery, ride share, e-commerce etc where the softwar
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by enra 2y ago
"Venture debt is like a delicious sandwich that only costs ten cents, but occasionally explodes in your face" - PG Part of being a startup is still that there is not a lot of historical precedent and uncertainty how well your busi
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by enra 2y ago
Correct. Those raises were made when there was some uncertainty about how the business would grow, and the opportunity and timing seemed right. For example, in 2022, it was difficult to predict how deep the market downturn would be. We saw
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by enra 2y ago
Karri from Linear here. I wrote this to challenge the common dichotomy that startups are either VC-backed money-burning machines or anti-VC/profitably bootstrapped. It doesn’t have to be that binary. There’s a spectrum, a middle ground
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by enra 2y ago
You wouldn’t but many of the largest users of these frameworks are actually e-commerce sites, not applications.
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by enra 2y ago
I still prefer shorter flight time. I rather spend those hours in hotel bed or eating at restaurant than sit/lie in the airline seat.
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by enra 2y ago
Soviets attacked Finland, and brought it in to the war. Finland didn't want to become a part of Soviet Union (btw no-one did willingly) and Axis was fighting against Soviet Union. Enemy of your enemy is my friend.
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by enra 2y ago
Pouring one out. I remember using Pivotal Tracker back when working in a Ruby on Rails shop and enjoying directness and how optioned it was of it. Then several years later, after working in large Silicon Valley tech companies, and seeing ho
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by enra 2y ago
Linear founder here. We look at AI as capability similar to any other technology. Instead of jumping on the AI bandwagon or thinking AI is a feature, we look if there is opportunity to reduce friction or help the user well in the workflow t
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by enra 2y ago
Linear founder here. We aim to build the product in a way that it works well for smaller/early stage teams as well as all the way to the enterprise. So I think lot of the “enterprise” stuff will be optional.
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by enra 2y ago
I’m glad to hear! :)
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by enra 2y ago
As long as I been around startups, about 15 years, the advice always have been had more success getting warm intro. Even more back in the day than now. I think PGs essays lays out the fundraising process this way too. The advice is never ju
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by enra 2y ago
We have companies moving to Linear daily, so it’s possible. And these can be anything from a 10 person company to 2000+ person companies. We have jira sync that helps with transition. https://linear.app/integrations/jir
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by enra 2y ago
Hard to believe that ending up with exact copy is not intentional.
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by enra 2y ago
Great on work creating an alternative to Linear which is a carbon copy of Linear [1]. Linear also been powered by local first sync since 2019, we have AI features shipped and in the pipeline. As YC alumni/design founder of Linear disap
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by enra 2y ago
Finland’s largest land border by far is with Russia which is not generally viewed as that of a friendly neighbor. The border between Finland and Russia is 1,340 kilometers (832 miles). The border between South Korea and North Korea about 25
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by enra 2y ago
It is fairly lucrative business, $2b last year from serving the lower end of creative tools market. They are also about to ipo so this acquisition probably gives the an additinal growth story to sell.
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by enra 3y ago
To me it was having just one powerful upgradable desktop computer with Windows and MacOS. So I don't have to have devices on my desk. Now I have solved with PC desktop, MacBook Air, and Apple Display. PC also has usb-c display output s
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by enra 3y ago
It's is but that's the issue. The term is misused and misunderstood. Meaning variety of things and activities. How the definition has emphasis on building something quickly and cheaply, can do more harm than help. When that happen
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by enra 3y ago
> As the minimum viable product approaches the complexity of a complete product, the difference between the two shrinks to the point that the concept of MVP isn't all that useful anymore. That's the actual case against Lean Sta
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by enra 3y ago
PC i7 13700k (chrome) - 29.8 iPhone 15 Pro (safari) - 23.1 MacBook Air M1 (chrome) - 25.9 MacBook Air M1 (safari) - 18.0
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by enra 3y ago
We’re starting to evaluate other platforms, Pulley and Angellist.
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by enra 3y ago
I’m CEO of Linear who raised the alarm on this. I have to commend them for making this decision and removing the conflict of interest. However they didn’t address the fact that sales people had convenient access to data and how long & b
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Carta, a key tech company for startups, has a credibility problem(axios.com)
4 points by enra 3y ago|0 comments
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by enra 3y ago
I'm Karri the Linear CEO who is involved in this. I posted this on Twitter but several points in this post are not true: On Friday we had an internal policy violation that affected three companies. - I have 7 Linear investors no
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by enra 3y ago
Don't feel bad. The issue here is the relationship with the company & Carta and overall corporate concerns, not much about employee equity. Briefly: - In a startup you're granted options. Contract that allows you to buy certai

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