Beau Blinder

Want to become a great B2B PM? I'll help you get there. Scaled 2 startups to $100+ million, working on my 3rd. Current: @PaperlessParts, fomer: @Fiksu, @Salsify

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@mijustin Churn is bonkers on most of these apps.

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@Shpigford Reminds me of IdleRPG for IRC. Join a room, add the bot. You automatically go on quests, level up, etc. If you start chatting in the room, your character starts dying.

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@RomanShalabanov @philkellr @elie2222 That's such a dismissive view that is poisoning the indie hacker community. Yes, companies blow VC money but I bet it's at the same right that idiots go and "indie hack" until they're broke.

VC is great for taking BIG bets/solving BIG problems.

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@theboyfrom_kol @aakashgupta Get ready for much fuzzier attribution of value and be ready to wade into your customers' business -- learn it inside and out.

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@kevinyien The world isn't suddenly going to be only Principal PMs, but software is rapidly taking the turn finance did 20 years ago -- you've gotta be really smart and really good to get your foot in the door.

The era of SaaS companies tolerating mediocrity in the name of growth is over.

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@NatashaTynes Nah, Notion is geared toward making you _feel_ productive rather than actually being productive. The editor is poor and the experience is so visual that you end up wasting time on formatting rather than thinking or writing things down.

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@ianharveyOT @GergelyOrosz Nvidia's moat is the synthesis between hardware and software. They make it very easy to develop in an all-Nvidia environment in a way that is very challenging to compete with right now.

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Frameworks won't save you. If Product were as simple as "plug numbers into spreadsheet", we wouldn't be worrying about AI taking our jobs -- we'd have been out of a job 20 years ago.

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@KiwiDenny Bad idea in B2B SaaS. Roadmaps inherently are probabilistic. Customers take them as gospel. Creates way more friction than a quarterly update... at least that's my experience selling to Fortune 500 companies.

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@amandanat Flesh out vs flush out is another good one.

Flesh out: to add detail to something
Flush out: to remove or displace something with a liquid, often water

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@Shpigford @maybe Rails + Hotwire is truly a dream.

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@PatThePM @nadavwiz Notion's problem is that people waste too much time trying to make things look nice.

It's text editor is also absolutely terrible for actually writing content.

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@PatThePM The key is to pick a system and stick to it. You have invest in your system every. single. day. to make it work.

I primarily use Things3 for task management, but I follow a much looser version of GTD than it's designed for -- i don't log every single activity, just the big ones.

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@StOnSoftware @sdw @LTrutter So, within 2 years, the app store was 10x larger than any other distributor of mobile apps and controlled 92%+ percent of the market.

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@StOnSoftware @sdw @LTrutter I do, do you?

"For 2010 ... while it lost market share to some of its mobile rivals, Apple still captured 82.7 percent of the app store market last year, down from 92.8 percent the prior year."

https://t.co/lH3dtYvIV3

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@StOnSoftware @sdw @LTrutter I mean the App Store MADE the mobile economy possible. In 2008 people were not willing to buy software from unknown vendors off the internet and Apple's protective policies changed that.

Not saying it justifies high fees now, but it's an important point.

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@gpdawson @sdw They control 22% of the market in the EU. How does that constitute a monopoly? Is Lufthansa (20%) a monopoly? Is VW (~18%) a monopoly?

I guess being a successful business is now a bad thing. (And look, Apple's store fees need to come down, but this EU stuff is nonsense).

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@ForsakenLad @stevesi Ah yes, "monopolistic tactics" when you control... 22% of the market in Europe. App store fees to drop, but this isn't hero gov saving people from monopoly -- it's greedy gov going after greedy company.

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@redfoxash @sdw The EU's desire to regulate without an iota of understanding of what their doing is very European.

It's even more European for EU folks to look down on the US while literally financing their lives off products they launch in the US.

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@markgurman The takes here are bad.

This is a business decision. Netflix is mad at Apple's b/c of fees & sign-up flows in the App Store.

Apple won't help Netflix. Why would Netflix help Apple?

If the Vision Pro succeeds, Netflix will build an app but why help a bad partner?