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by georgesequeira 4y ago
Look at their investors. When interviewing, ask to speak to the investors. See what they say. When speaking with founders do they have numbers they can show or is it pure show-personship?
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
Idea generator and fundraising are also a couple of benefits to joining a startup before starting your own. 1. Finding ideas can be hard especially when you start from scratch. Most startups (particularly fast scaling ones) can give you ide
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
Zapier makes changes on behalf of a single account. You can change the "share" permission to only allow view for anyone except for the account tied to Zapier which has edit permissions.
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
also interested, if you're up for it! (also email in profile)
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
Ah right. Yeah, reverse-engineering Airbyte's DSL and just "borrowing" their UI generation may be the move.
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
I don't know of a solution for ETL DSL -> UI but https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy goes from a DSL to internal web apps. Perhaps some inspiration could be taken from there. Good luck!
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
`I'm very curious to hear a concrete example of a segment/industry and how it could be "unbundled", but unfortunately, there is none in the article.` Alloy Automation is making a better Zapier for E-commerce: https:&#x2
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
Would love to hear more about your experience with these platforms. Thought they were mostly plug-n-play these days. Could I email you?
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
Totally, outside of people trying to make a "smarter" excel like Airtable or Rows, different business units will make some "template" that lets them run their orgs in excel. Those "templates" could certainly be
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
At the end of the day, most business owners don't want to connect all these tools together. It just allows them to accomplish business outcomes. What makes their job hard is keeping track where all the data is and how to know if things
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
I think it's two things Is the workflow automation tool big enough that subgroups of users are still a big number of users to service Of those subgroups, does one (or more) stand to have a better product experience if someone focused o
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Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity(georgesequeira.com)
239 points by georgesequeira 4y ago|154 comments
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by georgesequeira 4y ago
it'd be interesting to know what kind of companies those are. Don't want to give people a false sense of hope with "Uber for x"
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
Also, I realized, an over-arching concern could be: Does this promote bias? Yes. Especially in early-stage, it's about how fast can you go and are you iterating enough. For example: Some of the advice for hiring early stage is "hi
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
In my experience, I agree with the fact that top school people don't correlate with the best hires but my data shows that high clarity + high energy does not correlate with top schools! In fact, I have many high-clarity // lo
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
Hi hn! Early hires are so crucial in a startup. I've made dozens of interview loops to try and tease out the people who will raise the bar but honestly it just made for longer interviews with about the same mis-hire rate. When I was hi
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Great teams hire “high-clarity and high-energy” people(medium.com)
2 points by georgesequeira 5y ago|4 comments
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
I think that task/project management is also starting to go through that with Clubhouse, Linear, Height, Notion/Coda/Knowledge-bases (trying to solve it). I would not be surprised to hear that there are a couple in "Stea
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
"There is still no turnkey solution for UX" What would that even look like? Do they expect a unified UX language from the Gov t?
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
Working at a company where middle-management is incompetent is common. Particularly in startups where they promote from within or the leaders haven't seen good management before. That being said, if you aren't getting your best wo
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
Wow, this non-linear note-taking space is blowing up. Just recently I started using https://museapp.com/ . That being said, they're hierarchical if not linear but same concept with "inking"! Any others that pe
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
Hi HN! I've been working with founders that are finding new startup ideas. I found that many were aware of B2B SaaS but were often intimidated by going out and figuring out which industries to go after and who they should talk to. I pu
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Breaking into B2B SaaS(georgesequeira.com)
3 points by georgesequeira 5y ago|1 comments
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by georgesequeira 5y ago
Hey folks! I wrote this as I've been trying to start my second company. Starting the first required trashing a bunch of "Uber for X" and it always sat weird with me. After internalizing this method of "inflection events&
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Finding startup ideas that predict the future(georgesequeira.com)
1 points by georgesequeira 5y ago|1 comments
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Learn Clojure – My first month as a clojurian(athensresearch.ghost.io)
4 points by georgesequeira 5y ago|0 comments
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by georgesequeira 6y ago
RevvUp | Software Engineer - Frontend | Full Time | Remote | https://www.getrevvup.com RevvUp is an early stage, venture funded startup building an operation management platform for auto service shops. Our mission is to make aut
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by georgesequeira 6y ago
RevvUp | Software Engineer - Frontend | Full Time | New York, NY (Remote during Pandemic) | https://www.getrevvup.com RevvUp is an early stage, venture funded startup building an operation management platform for auto service sh