Joe Vancena

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@DavidSacks You could argue his consistency is a sign of honesty.

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@john_avex Music was my path to reconnecting over the last few years. A recommendation: https://t.co/tYazzeUEe7

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@ArtiKenCEO @dennishegstad +1. We spent 5 days in NICU, no procedures, just observation & medication, was over $50K

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@bwhalley Congratulations 💪💪

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@mchl_mthws 🇺🇸

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@BretWeinstein Yes, #1. Too many variables for designer to predict fitness.

Only path to recreate intelligence in a foreign environment: a cell with two instructions, reproduce and survive.

Then hundreds of millions of years of patience — and on that point our creator is likely beyond human.

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@jasonfried Boosting your ego by judging people who put Calendly in footer: 🧠

Boosting your ego by putting Calendly in your footer & declining everyone who books without asking:

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@asanwal I sure hope the 25% answering “must” are PAYING for college.

If it’s “must” + loan I’m calling child services.

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@dtcpages We all need to go back to grade school:

Median & Mode!!

[youness @blanklob]

Anyone used Status accounts for account management with Shopify? Really good piece of software from what i see.

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@rrhoover Azul, if you like fun & simple
Puerto Rico, if you fun & complex*

(*divisive pick = most people think it's a 3-4 player game, but 2 player is like economic chess & my fav way to play.)

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@tobi 🔥 We’re helping brands use QRs & links to get more customers signed-in to Shopify.

Put the QR in front of a mannequin, or printed next to a model in direct mail = “Save this outfit”

Here’s a live example:

https://t.co/JtCTTufNyI

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@chaseclymer Amazon gives away Echos like candy during Black Friday / Cyber Monday.

I’ve been using 5 connected Echos + Spotify for the last 2 years. Covers every room in the house, Alexa app is garbage but audio is perfectly in sync.

Can’t beat it for the price. 🤷

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@PhilipPages (For the record, I think you're awesome & of course there will be consumables that win on DTC. I'm just #TeamApparel on Shopify and enjoying the banter.)

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@PhilipPages I like that. Also just love debating ecomm 😎

The "pay $50 to acquire customer and $5 to ship for $8 margin on their *second* order of lotion" playbook was the real temporary economic swing... fueled by VC & hot economy.

Prices need to be way too high to make it work.

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@TheDavidJo @PhilipPages Shoppers will be more loyal (less likely to cut spend) with products that go on their body & reflect who they are.

My clothes, my shoes, my makeup? Last to go. My identity.

Magic Spoon, expensive snacks, trendy lotions? First to go. Save $100/mo at Kroger and nobody notices.

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@elonmusk @levie @elonmusk new format makes me more likely to click the link and leave X. I liked scanning headlines and staying on X.

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

@briansugar 2 minute email + 5 minute exit = if you wanted my time

2 minute email + 10 minute exit = if I wanted your time

[Joe Vancena @joevancena]

This has been the most important lesson of my first two 2 years building.

The skill is identifying what *not* to fix.

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

Startups are almost always under-resourced.

There are always 100 things broken, all crying out for attention, but you only have the resources to fix a handful of them. Even then, the best entrepreneurs know not to spread those resources evenly. 

Do you have just enough people to handle ten things? Then it’s better to pick two things and do them five times as well.