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These are all great action items and I completely agree. One topic I've heard a lot is the fact that impostor syndrome is often stronger for women. This is impacts their willingnes…

Thanks for these links. Really helpful. Curious if you're seeing technology businesses leverage Zapier? For some reason I've always assumed that's for places without a real dev tea…

I have seen cryptography on some webhooks, but after doing about 30+ integrations at my old company, most were very basic / no auth. Maybe it's a standards thing. Perhaps if there …

I feel like it's time for an improvement on / replacement for webhooks. Pains / concerns: * Local development is annoying (ngrok, etc.) * Security is low * Doesn't work super well …

Great comic! There are definitely ppl out there like this. I have a rubric of sorts I use to rank people and ideas. This makes it very easy to avoid the dilbert scenario. Some of t…

The catalyst for me was joining a couple of communities. The best for me was Cambrian ( https://www.cambrianhq.com/ ) because I am generally interested in fintech. Another option c…

Yes, as the previous responder mentioned, finding the right community is the first step. But tbh, it's much harder than it feels like it should be. I think places like Human Capita…

I wish I did, but it's not my domain of focus. I've heard good things about OnDeck, but I'm not sure how much biotech is there.

Yes, agreed completely. If you are looking to be a cofounder, "founding engineer" is far from it.

Yes, this is an unfortunate truth. This is why I limited the meetings to 30min and made sure to ask explicitly about what they are looking for. If they phrase it as "early employee…

Yes, agreed with this sentiment. "Clearly a problem!" was vague and not the best wording. My hope is to see that number increase. Not the right post to explore it, but I'd love to …

Yes, I think this is very common. I'm very opposed to the idea that founders need to eat ramen for 4+ years when raising venture money, and I think VCs are slowly warming up to tha…

Thanks! I definitely agree with this. I feel fortunate to have met a few people that seem like they could be a great fit, but we are still early. It takes time and working together…

Yes, cofounder and first dev is a huge difference in equity. Strange that it works this way, but it does. Like 40% down to 2%

Completely agree. Building tech is only half (maybe less than half?) of the equation. Bringing on the right business partner is crucial.

Yeah - I considered this. There were probably 10% of people I could tell that wouldn't lead anywhere. Some of it was trying to not allow my own biases to cloud things. Some of it w…

Yes 100%. By the end of the week especially. Probably not the perfect setup. In retrospect, I should have baked in some breaks. I didn't expect such a response and suddenly looked …

It was super painful tbh. I am so glad I had 0 meetings the following week. It took a bit to rebound. But honestly much nicer to just get it done and move on.