TechScoop

Dad, startup enthusiast, and ML engineer. Avid reader, gamer, and bbq enthusiast. Opinions are my own.

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@SSmirkie @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @ComicDaveSmith @SpencerGuard @DouglasKMurray Dave is right to be appalled by the death of innocent Palestinians but wrong about who's to blame for this tragedy. To compare the morality of any war let alone this one to that of a simple domestic dispute is shocking and really puts Dave's moral ignorance on full display.

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@Bretosionic @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @ComicDaveSmith @SpencerGuard @DouglasKMurray Nailed it.

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@agazdecki Learning as fast as possible about your market is a different goal than building the best possible product. Know what "mode" you are in. It's rarely possible to do both of these things simultaneously.

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Getting candidates from first contact to an offer faster than large companies is a competitive advantage for startups. Getting this right will increase your offer acceptance rate and decrease the likelihood of getting into a bidding war due to multiple offers.

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@agazdecki Generally true, but it depends if the decision is a one-way or a two way door. There are occasional high stakes decisions that cannot be reversed easily if at all. These must be approached with care.

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Creative freedom, recognition, ownership, decision input, challenge...These are just a few of the things you can optimize for in your career. Being intentional about what matters to you is so important to finding the right fit.

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The NBA Draft gets twice as many viewers as the average nationally televised game. People love potential.

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@mcfrsPIO @mcfrs So 120k people lost power from a single point of failure...Has Pepco ever heard of redundancy? Does not sound like our power grid is being engineered properly.

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Understanding your needs and enforcing your boundaries is a sign of greatness not weakness.

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Innovation happens at the periphery. No one knows what the future looks like better than those on the front-lines building it.

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When it comes to software, easy to use does not necessarily mean easy to build. What you see as a user is often just the tip of the iceberg.

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I have a personal rule for buying books: If it takes > 30 seconds to decide on whether to buy - stop overthinking and make the purchase immediately. How do you make book-buying decisions?

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Is your startup running a social experiment or a science experiment? An interesting way to think about risk and progress.
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@justingordon212 Meaningful problems, access to capital, and places to mingle with like-minded creatives. Get these things right and the talent will follow.

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@agazdecki Most hiring is done to backfill for positions that are vacant because someone resigned. Keep your great people from leaving and you won't have to hire nearly as many. The root cause of hiring challenges is usually poor retention.

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@sama More money in the system and repeatable SaaS playbooks lowered the barrier to entry. This made luck less important relative to skills and learned experience. The older crowd tends to have more of what matters.

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@VicKalchev TDD works even better for startup building then software because the costs of a flawed assumption are usually more significant. You usually can't refactor business models as easily as you can refactor code.

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"Plans are useless. Planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Gotta get some implementation detail past an ivory tower architect? Don't say "we're gonna do this forever". People will get upset. Just say "we're going to run an experiment". No one wants to object to rapid experimentation.

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@agazdecki Truth. It's also considerably easier to attract a talented technical co-founder once you've proven that people want to buy what you are selling.