rrival

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by rrival 1y ago
How well is “if you build it, they will come” working for anyone else?
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by rrival 2y ago
With many of these solutions, there's already a there there. Middle market and larger companies are seeing dramatic efficiency improvements year 1. Making this tech so accessible, while unfortunately inviting crypto bros to add "p
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by rrival 3y ago
Have you seen the Citizen hybrid watches? Analog hands + eink, 17+ days of battery life.
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by rrival 4y ago
Saw Sarah Parcak speak on this at her book launch @ The Explorer's Club ( https://www.amazon.com/Archaeology-Space-Future-Shapes-Past/... ). The current, viable remote observation approach for shipwrecks is to use s
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by rrival 4y ago
I run forwardapp.co for this reason - I bought it from the previous developer when they wanted to shut it down. I've used it every day since it was Jot in the early 2010s. At ~60 users who paid $2 once, it's a total commercial fai
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by rrival 4y ago
Things that made year 1 tolerable: - Understanding your time horizon just went from weeks/months to "today" for all definitions of "today" for awhile - Boot Camp for New Dads ( https://www.bootcampfornewda
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by rrival 5y ago
all credit goes to valley schwag for the original concept - they went on to better things (getsatisfaction.com) - but as a subscriber to that service, I inadvertently received a cc'd (instead of bcc'd) list of 500 of their subscri
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by rrival 5y ago
"founder" of startupschwag here ( https://techcrunch.com/2007/09/03/return-of-the-schwag/ ) - passed the torch to a guy about 10 years ago - would be happy to talk about how to bring it back, a
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by rrival 5y ago
Text file + Forward (forwardapp.co) - bought the source for an app called Jot before it shut down and brought it back online as Forward. Totally biased and I love it, all credit to the original author Dan Hopwood. Forward sends me an email
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by rrival 6y ago
Forward: http://ForwardApp.co Quickly send yourself notes now. tomorrow. next week. Has about 50 happy users and I'll keep it alive forever b/c I use it every day for time shifting thoughts on my mind =)
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by rrival 6y ago
Hadn't heard of this type of vehicle before - this was helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22nVFTd8nI
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by rrival 6y ago
- Time spent working on myself (exercise, personal development) seems to improve my business - Adding value for others is the best way I've found to achieve greater success - (and this is very recent) consider price as a measure of val
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by rrival 6y ago
and the rest of NIRVANAnet
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Family Offices Have Spoken(medium.com)
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by rrival 7y ago
Where do I take the SuperGLUE test?
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by rrival 7y ago
Getting ~5h for awhile now. Coffee ftw.
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by rrival 7y ago
Experienced this at LAX - another driver called my driver, commenting "It's at 3.5!!" - well played, I don't fault them for this at all.
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by rrival 8y ago
Great! Let's add another MSFT browser to the regression tests!
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by rrival 8y ago
There's a prescription discount plan - takes that $2k/mo cost down to $5.00/mo on good insurance plans.
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by rrival 8y ago
Make sure sales compensation is very closely tied to performance, i.e. don't put salespeople on a vesting schedule tied only to time passing.
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by rrival 8y ago
The Dark Forest (Three Body Problem) explores this
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by rrival 8y ago
APEC - Assert thesis, Present evidence, Explain relevance, Conclude. Should include the counterargument in the explanation paragraph. Source: my tyrant of an English professor. Add a personal/colorful story paragraph before the A and y
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by rrival 9y ago
Mirsky's Worst of the Web, because Gabocorp and FuckedCompany were already mentioned =)
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by rrival 9y ago
http://forwardapp.co/ - we bought the app 'Jot', rebranded it and brought it back for this purpose
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by rrival 10y ago
Make sure they're commission incentivized. I learned this the hard, expensive way. If there's a way to structure equity grants around sales performance, do it. At the very least, make sure you have minimum requirements beyond 1 ye
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by rrival 11y ago
He's kidding... You must not live in CO? It's the line out here. Anti-town building, too many people are moving here already because it's so great, so spread the word that it's buried in snow, full of potheads and hippie
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by rrival 12y ago
"Hawaii 2" is one of my favorite things from 2014.
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by rrival 12y ago
also see https://www.zeel.com/
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by rrival 12y ago
More from Neal Stephenson: Diamond Age is good, Cryptonomicon is fantastic. Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire is interesting as well.
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by rrival 12y ago
What's the # of exits that result in $10m for one founder?

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