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by rexreed 13d ago
Don't take any sort of business advice from VCs. They aren't even competent at running their own business, which is a financial play, not an operational business building and selling products or services. 90% of VC firms don'
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by rexreed 13d ago
I don't feel bad for VCs. Venture capital has turned the old style of startup entrepreneurship into a financial hustle of Startupism that is about trading equity value and not about venture creation. Maybe it always was about that, but
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by rexreed 2mo ago
SV is so SV-centric that people in SV can only call SV "SV" and assume everyone outside SV knows what they are talking about.
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by rexreed 2mo ago
And yet Microsoft is still ... Microsoft. Oracle is still Oracle. Whatever you think of them, they didn't decide to rebrand their whole company to go all-in on something that ended up not being that strategic. And no one can say they h
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by rexreed 2mo ago
If Google is slowly dying, then Meta is quickly dying. I still never understood the hard reframe of their company to the Metaverse. Why was it so important that they had to pivot the whole brand? And now AI is here and they're 20 steps
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by rexreed 2mo ago
The tipping point from steady improvement to steady enshittification is just post the 2008 recession. As soon as the financial incentives were put in for growth (2009+) the trend shifted hard to value extraction from a captive audience.
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by rexreed 2mo ago
There was an article in Forbes [1] that shared that it's not about jobs going away, but the steady creep of tasks being taken away from people and given to AI and automation. The point made is that AI is hollowing out jobs, leading to
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by rexreed 5mo ago
You can disable all cloud models in your Ollama settings if you just want all local. For cloud you don't have to use the cloud models unless you explicitly request.
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by rexreed 5mo ago
Why are you looking to move off Ollama? Just curious because I'm using Ollama and the cloud models (Kimi 2.5 and Minimax 2.7) which I'm having lots of good success with.
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by rexreed 5mo ago
You can also run these models on the cloud with Ollama. You might say what's the difference, but these are models whose performance will stay consistent over time, whether run locally or in the cloud. For $200 a year I'm getting s
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by rexreed 9mo ago
Yeah and a lot of these are small only temporarily. Many of these startups are following the grow-at-all-costs VC philosophy that doesn't optimize for small team size. So I'm trying to find those alternate stories. Much harder to
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by rexreed 9mo ago
I'm looking for companies that are small by intent, but also looking to scale sustainably and grow beyond the capabilities of a single person. There are a lot of small businesses / solopreneurs / freelancers who work enough t
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by rexreed 9mo ago
Would love to learn more about your approach to managing a small team and getting high scale. What is the best way to reach out?
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by rexreed 9mo ago
YES! I want to find more stories like this. Where can I find Bootstrappers or seedstrappers who have successfully scaled their companies past a few million in revenue with very small teams?
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by rexreed 9mo ago
Looks like .+P is just a regex way of saying any set of characters / protocol ending in P.
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by rexreed 11mo ago
One of the top comments ( https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1o4jup6/i_aud... ): "Step 1: Don't listen to anything OP said. OP lies about going to Harvard. He thinks he can put it on
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by rexreed 1y ago
We live in a post-competition economy these days. Those on top don't believe in competition, and we all pay the price.
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by rexreed 1y ago
Before I first used the Web in 1991, I was on Usenet and of course Telnet and email-based systems, and Gopher also emerged around the same time. So the web didn't come out of nowhere, but the IP behind what we're still using, HTML
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by rexreed 1y ago
what fine tuning approach did you use?
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This Team Is Rethinking AI's Core: Perforated AI Bets on Dendrites(forbes.com)
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by rexreed 1y ago
What is your approach to keeping these cameras off the Internet, but still on your local network to ensure they're not backchanneling with your awareness?
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by rexreed 1y ago
Here's what IPCam says about Reolink. Mostly bad night time performance: https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/convince-me-reolink-is-bad-to-...
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by rexreed 1y ago
This is cool. I wonder, as you were iterating on the design and development, why didn't you start with a very small grid (10x10) to validate or test different options for their practicality and operation before scaling up to the 1000 p
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by rexreed 1y ago
How is it going? Intrigued enough to possibly get an M4 Mac with 128GB RAM if it's worthwhile...
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by rexreed 1y ago
The only boss I'd work 996 for is myself.
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by rexreed 1y ago
I am of the firm belief the solopreneurship is the future, especially with the power of AI. I don't believe corporations of any type, from startup to tech giant have the interests of anyone but the majority shareholders in mind. Employ
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by rexreed 1y ago
PHP can work the same way. Push / FTP / SFTP PHP file to directory, deployed.
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by rexreed 1y ago
It doesn't hurt to be brib...incentivizing the F1000 CISOs (not my words, see article) : https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc "The first sales come from the loyal CISOs who work with
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by rexreed 1y ago
100% -- many of these acquisitions don't start through the front door.
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by rexreed 1y ago
I migrated from Quickbooks to Manager.io and haven't looked back. It keeps getting better and stronger, and is desktop based (free) with a cloud-based version as well (paid) and well supported: https://www.manager.io/

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