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Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'(letsnotdothat.com)
423 points by mikhaill 2y ago|168 comments
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The ongoing content moderation issues behind Substack's meltdown(mashable.com)
3 points by mikhaill 3y ago|1 comments
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by mikhaill 4y ago
Agreed. I posted this comment a few years ago, but it looks like it's relevant as here as well: A potential acquisition came our way that seemed to be exactly what we were looking for. Customer traction and revenues, the features exact
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by mikhaill 4y ago
This is exactly what I do at my SaaS platform. The "Welcome" email explains that you can do the click-here-and-do-yourself approach to onboarding or if you need help or have a question, just reply to the email. I think that's
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by mikhaill 5y ago
lbj, I agree. In my current SaaS app, I have a few customers that consistently try to take advantage of the billing grace behavior to save peanuts by canceling/re-subscribing/canceling/re-subscribing to try to fool billing sy
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by mikhaill 5y ago
A few years ago I attended a SaaS pricing discussion and two of the key insights that emerged were: * For companies that gated based on usage, free/trial users were much more likely to make the transition to a paying customer. For comp
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How to Make Millions from Bezos’ Billions(forbes.com)
1 points by mikhaill 6y ago|0 comments
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Amazon-Native Brand Anker Goes Public(marketplacepulse.com)
5 points by mikhaill 6y ago|0 comments
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Former Pinterest COO says company suffers from hostile, misogynistic work envm(cnbc.com)
3 points by mikhaill 6y ago|0 comments
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How the E-commerce platform Elliot fell back down to Earth(modernretail.co)
2 points by mikhaill 6y ago|0 comments
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Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Startup Cut Corners(nytimes.com)
3 points by mikhaill 7y ago|0 comments
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How Shippo Built and Maintains Versioned APIs(stackshare.io)
27 points by mikhaill 10y ago|0 comments
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by mikhaill 10y ago
Thanks for the sources, I'll have to check them out. We've recently spent a considerable amount of time tracking, analyzing and evolving our PagerDuty alerting[0], learnings of which we've shared in a blog post. [0] https:&#
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How Shippo Focused on the Long Tail to Drive Enterprise Traction(mattermark.com)
1 points by mikhaill 10y ago|0 comments
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Shippo raises $7M to become Twilio for shipping(venturebeat.com)
1 points by mikhaill 10y ago|0 comments
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How we accidentally over-engineered seeding Memcached in Python, Redis and Celery(goshippo.com)
26 points by mikhaill 10y ago|0 comments
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Multi-Piece Shipment Support Available in the Shippo API(goshippo.com)
39 points by mikhaill 10y ago|6 comments
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by mikhaill 10y ago
Shippo | San Francisco/SOMA | Onsite, Visa | Full-time http://www.goshippo.com Shippo is a shipping API company that connects e-commerce businesses and marketplaces to multiple shipping carriers from one place. Our API powe
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by mikhaill 11y ago
When you’re a small business, it's important to establish repeatable methods that customers and your support team can follow easily. Do not over complicate. Find the single most efficient and scalable delivery method and perfect it. St
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Things I wish someone told me when I started with Go(github.com)
11 points by mikhaill 11y ago|2 comments
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by mikhaill 11y ago
I don't have a story on startup failing due to tech debt, but I do have a story about technical debt forcing us to pass on potentially acquiring a startup. A potential acquisition came our way that seemed to be exactly what we were loo
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by mikhaill 12y ago
Just be careful about two things about the Nest protect, which are not obvious when you first purchase it. 1. If your house has the 3rd wire running between all the smoke alarms, so if one detects smoke, they all ring, Protect will not work
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by mikhaill 13y ago
I would love to have a minute to talk to you about this. I recently took over a new but quickly growing webstore. Just two weeks ago we decided that we want to add "Payments by Amazon" as an option for our customers. We run a Mag
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by mikhaill 13y ago
The issue is that when you use Facebook connect and get the user's email it returns the email originally used to sign up for facebook. Since people signed up years ago, many no longer have that as an active address, which leads to the
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by mikhaill 14y ago
I'm working a community to helping startups find good help building out financial projections, revenue and cost drivers, market positioning, etc all things that are needed for raising funding. Building out models correctly can be a huge tim
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by mikhaill 14y ago
I second qeorge's concerns about PCI compliance and credit card storage. Futhermore, credit card processors and banks do not want to be on the hook for what happens when the items do not ship in these pre-order scenarios. The CCs are all a
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by mikhaill 14y ago
SDL[1] maybe a bit overkill for what you need but we had good success with them for projects that required international translation. [1] http://www.sdl.com
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by mikhaill 14y ago
This is very interesting. As a runner myself I can see a lot of application here. Especially at the price tag of $15, and re-usable for different shoes its almost a no brainer to grab. Now, if it could make me run faster....
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by mikhaill 14y ago
Interestingly enough, one of the first YC companies from Summer '05, Memamp, tried to solve the Desktop search problem with replacing Finder. I remember watching their demonstration during demo day and and being very impressed. Now the prob
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by mikhaill 14y ago
I'll second @therealarmen point and agree with @sgdesign. You priced the product based on real value and not perceived value, which represents how much customers feel a product is worth and is willing to pay for it. If I have a web app, I s

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