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This is obviously oversimplified but I think this is a big factor: Singapore is a business masquerading as a country. While it is technically democratic, in practice there are some…

Talk to customers. Listen to their problems. Build a prototype. See if they will pay for it. Repeat. As a founder I spend as much time as I can with customers. They tell us what to…

In my experience (enterprise software), customers buy our products not because we have a moat or some hard-to-achieve technical advantage but because they can speak to us in their …

You can find these in western Canada too: https://www.elitejetsetter.com/snow-ghosts-big-white/amp/

A really important part of this is the emotional component. When real money is involved, then you will sometimes face actual losses. It’s hard for a human to completely trust the m…

I’ve stayed >150 nights at Marriott hotels this year and was pleasantly surprised when Sonder started popping up as an option. But the thing I noticed is that, at least in the mark…

I anecdotally find flight prices tend to follow a cosine wave. Starting high, dipping a couple months before, and shooting back up. You can see these sorts of trends on Google Flig…

There are some contexts where 9.11 is larger than 9.9, such as semver, so it could be ambiguous depending on the context.

Often when I've rented cars, the agent has shown me an evaluator they use to assess damage - like this https://www.core77.com/posts/111200/Damage-Evaluator-Templat... Using that as…

I used to be a devout Airbnb user. I never had a horror story on Airbnb, and I certainly had a lot of very unique and interesting experiences that I've never been able to replicate…

That’s an interesting question. I think there are a couple of points here. So, more broadly, you might be asking me “why waste your time selling $100s of furniture?” which is a com…

There are two fundamental ways to win a negotiation. By "win", I mean achieve an outcome outside the norm, such as an above market rate salary. 1. Negotiate from a position of stre…

I think it's important to start with identifying your bottlenecks, and work from there to determine the solutions you need. In the case of our business, I feel that my time is best…

I wonder if some of this output will take a while to be visible en masse. For example, I founded a SaaS company late last year which has been growing very quickly. We are track to …

Yes. As somebody who has used dozens of metro systems around the world, it is literally the only one that is not ~room temperature. In the summer, it is so uncomfortable on the tub…

I interpreted the “uninterested in giving … attention” part of that point a bit differently. To me, somebody avoiding socialising is not giving off a superiority complex. I suspect…

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Their 2024 revenue was estimated at $16.8M [1] and $10.5M in 2023. If you extrapolate that growth rate +1 year you can assume it's now $26.9M. Another source estimates it at $15M i…

Maybe easiest to explain from a software perspective. So if you build a SaaS app, your company will incur a number of costs. You need to pay AWS for hosting, your support team, you…

You will need to sacrifice something. If the regulations become more restrictive, one of the following needs to change: - cost (laptops getting more expensive) - quality (laptops g…

I have a lot of experience with this. Happy to have a call to give you some tips - my email address is in my profile.

I'm interested, can you email me (address in profile)

I suspect certain domains have higher performance than others. My normal use cases involve API calls, database calls, data transformation and AI fairly consistently does what I wan…

Yes this is the same for me. I’ve shifted my programming style so now I just write function signatures and let the AI do the rest for me. It has been a dream and works consistently…

While the strategy to find good deals / award space is a solved problem, the search tools to do so aren't. Tools like ExpertFlyer are super inefficient: it permits you to search fo…