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by staysaasy 5y ago
I've been saving my list (on startups specifically) here: https://staysaasy.com/startups/2020/09/24/startup-book-readi...
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Soho House S1(sec.gov)
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by staysaasy 5y ago
In my (admittedly limited) experience, Very Successful People say versions of "that will be really hard" very often, and say "that is impossible / won't work" effectively never. I'm not sure if this is cau
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by staysaasy 5y ago
IME most people will generally appear to be making things up as they go – even if they have significant relevant experience. Every situation is unique, and experience tends to look more like having a list of techniques with varying degrees
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by staysaasy 5y ago
I really agree with this advice, with the added thought that very very specific struggles are usually easier to write about and more compelling to read. For example, this post that my co-author wrote was well-received, I think in part becau
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by staysaasy 5y ago
IME if it's inconvenient to write, you'll never do it. My blog co-author and I do our drafting and editing in Google Docs for that reason. Once you're done writing, you're sufficiently emotionally invested that you can h
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by staysaasy 5y ago
It also has some mild advantages in terms of auto-generating links to their homepage when referring to the company by name in places like Teams or Slack.
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by staysaasy 5y ago
Yup and as recently as 24 months ago, $3B would still have been somewhat pricey at their revenue and growth rate. It'd be very hard for me personally to justify investing in a product that is in such a competitive market without produc
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by staysaasy 5y ago
I consistently have trouble figuring out how to login to Workday, much less "use" it.
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Beware the Beloved Leader of Malcontents(staysaasy.com)
1 points by staysaasy 5y ago|1 comments
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by staysaasy 5y ago
I imagine that that would be really hard to achieve (or manage for the company) in practice, although I'd love to see a world in which employees could essentially get pro rata rights to purchase more shares built into their employment.
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On Writing Performance Reviews(staysaasy.com)
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by staysaasy 5y ago
Thanks for reading, and glad that you've enjoyed the blog! We've preferred to stay anonymous as it allows us to write more authentically.
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by staysaasy 5y ago
They occupy a really strange place in the industry – relied upon by many, but heavily conflicted in terms of their incentives. The ritual and strategy of participating in something like a Gartner magic quadrant is worth a whole post in and
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by staysaasy 5y ago
Author's co-writer here – there are a few common ways to get this information from public sources. Public documentation, press releases, analyst reports from places like Gartner or G2crowd, field reports from a sales team in an enterpr
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by staysaasy 5y ago
I think that this is a very reasonable observation. It's definitely weird in theory, but the reasons that I've seen are: * Very large tech companies build software (relatively) slowly due to their size * Sort of like a toddler, yo
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Zenefits, Once Worth $4.5B, Does Deal with PE Firm That Gives It Control(forbes.com)
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by staysaasy 5y ago
Short version: have an agenda, manage the clock, don't fuck around, have well defined and understood interaction models
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by staysaasy 5y ago
We wrote about this here https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/05/05/Running-Meetings...
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by staysaasy 5y ago
We coincidentally wrote a post on this at the start of the pandemic: https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/05/05/Running-Meetings... TLDR * Have an agenda * Aggressively manage time * Make sure that peop
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by staysaasy 5y ago
Same
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The Intangible Skills You Can’t Interview For(staysaasy.com)
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by staysaasy 5y ago
The main thing that was stopping them from improving in the collaboration / usability department was the fact that Adobe's products are extremely comprehensive – that's how they differentiate. But that comprehensiveness comes
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A Year of SaaSiness(staysaasy.com)
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Machine Learning Won’t Save Your Startup(staysaasy.com)
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by staysaasy 5y ago
Management advice that I learned the hard way – Force yourself to talk less. If you're talking too much, just stop wherever you are or even say something like "hey actually let's hear what you have to say first." Separat
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by staysaasy 6y ago
Author here - would definitely appreciate any more feedback on it being a misfire. Was it unfocused? Inaccurate? Boring? (edit) Alternatively if easier to chat 1:1 would love to talk via email, our address is on this page: https:/&#x2
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by staysaasy 6y ago
I agree that it feels pretty cray but it's inline with the market. Sector is hot, it has a trendy + efficient product-driven growth model, they're profitable, and growth looks good. There's a lot to like which gives them a re
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by staysaasy 6y ago
I usually equate VC to some new experimental rocket fuel. It's by far the best way to get yourself into orbit, but the downside is that if it fails you're going to explode rather than cruise to a nice landing.
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by staysaasy 6y ago
HN is the only public place I've found that has well beyond a critical mass of people who have started, owned, operated, or worked at very strong startups and technology companies. When the media is out of touch on a topic, HN will oft

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