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I'm recently reminded that the tips I learned editing the President's Daily Brief can help anyone writing on complex issues, like for busy executives, or for random people on Twitter.
So here are they are, with Star Wars examples. These are simple, but hard.🧵
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The success metric for the Translate team for improvement on their Japanese<>English translations should be a 50% reduction in inaccurate English print tees in Japan
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Competitive advantages on startup pitch decks
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Some recruiter emails these days: 🤦♂️
"I'm currently recruiting for a specific opportunity, for an innovative client, that I believe has strong synergy with your professional history." ✨
Well at least the template is highly reusable 🧐
I envision 3 years before FDA approval. Get in while its cheap 💸
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It’s a trillion dollar industry. I’d say our TAM is at least 10B 📊
I’ll start by raising $20B at a pre-money valuation of $100B. Who’s wants in? 💰
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- Other nanobots download the code and replicate the virus in everyone else’s bodies (like vaccines on auto-update) 💉
- People develop immunity against any possible virus 🦠
- …
- Profit 🤑
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Alright hear me out… A crowd-sourced immune system
- We put nanobots in everybody 🤖
- They upload gene sequencing of all viruses any person encounters onto the blockchain 🧬
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Programmers who are a bit too commited to their Github be like.
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I wish more misunderstandings were resolved like this.
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Bootstrapping in 2021:
1. Setup LLC with Stripe Atlas, bank with Mercury
2. Loan the company $50 - $100k
3. Offer annual-only subscriptions for 4 months (for cashflow)
4. Once > $100k in annual rev, move to monthly plans and sell mrr on pipe.com
5. Profitable!
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ever notice how some founders own only 5-10% of their company at IPO? Instead of raising from VC's, raise money from your customers (this is called bootstrapping) with the same results so you can own 100% of your company
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It's Lorem Ipsum but instead of Latin it generates paragraphs about developers
meow.ph/developer-ipsum
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Announcing...Calendly for Enterprise! 🎉 Calendly helps your high-performing teams build speed & consistency in client, candidate, & prospect interactions. Read more about the features in this thread, or in the announcement from our Chief Product Officer: calendly.com/blog/introduci
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I'm happy to report that has its first paying customer! 🎉 That's $25 MRR 😁
It's not much but it sure feels good after indie hacking with zero revenue for almost 4 years 😌
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my name is Boat
and wen im tired
(but shipping werk
is still required)
then all I want
is lyttle snooze
i turn to side
i blok the Sooz
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Join us for discoveries, thoughts, and culture shocks from First-Generation Americans in our first “From World to America 🌎 ➡️ 🇺🇸” Clubhouse Chat this Friday, Feb 12 at 9:00 PM EST on .
DM me if you need an app invite! 🎫
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I heard if a tech company sends out sweaters to all employees, it automatically levels up to Unicorn 🦄 status.
BREAKING NEWS: Trump supporters at the capitol deemed the worst dressed revolutionary crowd in the last decade
I didn't make this up, BTW. It's a thing in the industry that "code is a liability." It powers great tools, but it also increases the surface area for things to break. Any code not written is good code 🙂
Software as Liability: wiki.c2.com/?SoftwareAsLia
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Software development: the job where you're paid to code, but the less code per feature the better 😄
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Spain's large-scale study (61k people) indicates just 5% of its population has developed coronavirus antibodies - ie herd immunity “unachieveable” without vaccines. Largest antibody study in Europe according to European CDC. #COVID19
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The silver lining 🌟
Some startups have already started offering restricted stock units to employees (essentially $0 cost stock options that also vest) 🙌
Employees can also remain engaged if they’re allowed to buy their stock and sell it on each round of funding 🥧
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Some win, some lose 🥊
VCs tend to have pro-rata rights that allow them to keep their percentage of ownership intact, but employees don’t ⚖️
VCs benefit from the upside of keeping the startup private for longer, but employees’ reward gets farther and smaller 👁️
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Why it matters 👊
The more money a startup raises, the more the value of your stock options get diluted by the new money 📉
Liquidity events are no longer happening before the average employee’s tenure, so you’re not likely to be rewarded for your hard work any time soon 😟
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The rationale 💭
Startups are raising “growth” capital from investors rather than going public and relying on raising money from the market 💰
The idea is that, by remaining private, all the growth that Wall Street benefitted from, goes instead to the private investors 📈
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Times have changed 👀
“Liquidity events” (i.e. when a company goes public or gets sold) are taking almost twice as long to happen ⌚️
In the 20th century, companies would IPO in 6–8 years. Nowadays, companies take 10–12 years to IPO 💸
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Startup stock options don’t seem to be the great deal they used to be 🤔
Keep this in mind when reviewing job offers that might be offering a lower salary with more stock options 🔎
Let me dive in 🌊
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Checkout the first episode of my new podcast! 🙌🏻
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On our first episode, we talk about smartphones: this little portal to a universe of information that our ancestors only dreamed of; all of it tucked into our tiny pockets. Tips on using them wisely to increase–not decrease–our productivity. 
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I've been playing with , and I am very pleased so far 😁
Trying to replace my Notion + Calendar combination for planning my daily tasks, and it does that job very well 🧐
Still using Notion for notes, lists, and long-term roadmaps, though 📝
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Shout out to many of us for outgrowing that mean-ass personality we had in high school 🙌
I tried setting a server with a reverse proxy to the DNS endpoint, but was having a hard time making that work, and ultimately is an ugly workaround around the goal I am trying to achieve 🥺
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The Amazing Thing Product Managers Do: Broken Down Into Four Situations by
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So I was curious if the phrase "knowing the ropes" came from climbing, but of course it doesn't, hah!
Comes from the golden age of sailing, when handling the ropes was essential to operating a ship: bit.ly/2XwgZvv
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