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bpm140

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About bpm140

Co-founder IGN, MyBlogLog, Gnip + loads of failed startups that didn't end up on my LinkedIn profile ;)

Early-stage startup coach, focused on helping founder survive long enough to get lucky.

https://www.marcoullier.com eric@marcoullier.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42257127

    NGL, the pronunciation of Waikiki as “Why, Kiki?” made me laugh out loud.

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    Comment #41821549

    This is the same thing I tell entrepreneurs. At least with startups you can get lucky. Writing (or producing) something memorable requires something more.

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    Comment #41622821

    The author keeps mentioning capital-E “Elites” and never names one or even defines what that means. My Spidey senses go off whenever someone uses an undefined label to describe a s…

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    Comment #41418568

    It’s interesting that Graham doesn’t seem to say what Founder Mode looks like in any capacity, other than referring to a few outlier founders. Less than one quarter of companies th…

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    Comment #41126247

    “they also told me my usage was higher than other developers...” Next you’ll tell me that they’re NOT actually experiencing higher-than-normal call volumes!

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    Comment #40989134

    Not relying on your network sounds like terrible advice. Employee: “Hello, hiring manager. I know an incredible candidate for that job we posted last week.” Hiring manager: “Thanks…

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    Comment #40760692

    aka “Galt’s speech reformatted for TikTok” Tell us more about the moochers, please?

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    Comment #40693601

    I don’t think you’re following my point (I probably explained it poorly). People voluntarily agreed to follow the robots.txt model when they could have ignore it. To this day, a pl…

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    Comment #40692075

    With all the ad blockers out there, which functionally demonetize content sites, why isn’t there an ad equivalent to robots.txt that says “don’t display this site if ads are blocke…

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    Comment #40661454

    Gaslighting has a very specific definition — lying to someone in a way that causes them to question their own reasoning or grasp on reality. For folks who are just finding out they…

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    Comment #40577561

    Has a lot of similarities to Knotwords ( https://playknotwords.com/ ). I like both implementations. Well done!

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    Comment #40465744

    At least they didn’t say it takes courage to brick a perfectly serviceable product. That was last month.

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    Comment #40253572

    I saw down below that you’re not familiar with Vampr, which is very similar to what your screenshots suggest. Moments like this always make me sad. Even a cursory web search would …

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    Comment #36931985

    I have no strong point of view and am interested in why you think safety is okay and financial auditing is not. Are both not about serving the interests of the public?

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    Comment #36931923

    “He said that tours are limited because the foundation has only a few volunteer docents who are knowledgeable about the home…” Perhaps they could use some of the $35M in tax breaks…

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    Comment #36931570

    I think like many people, the first couple of paragraphs inspired me to see what else was published on the site for more “context” about the author’s point of views. At this point,…

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    Comment #36906308

    It sounds like you’re working with a number of services right now, so take this with a grain of salt. Joinrelentless.com does resume review and coaching and then gets people first …

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    Comment #36831918

    One person is incompetence. An entire staff is strategy.

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    Comment #36831896

    Every time I am forced to endure shitty hold music for an extended period of time, my thought is, “let the CEO sit on hold for ten minutes and see how fast this gets changed.” What…

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    Comment #35317936

    Brian Lumley write a series of horror novels back in the 80s and 90s that had such a world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroscope_III:_The_Source Was written in 1989. Kind of …

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    Comment #35204241

    About a year ago, I stopped consuming news cold turkey (save technology and movie news [the former work-necessary and the latter a personal vice]). I took the extra step of banning…

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    Comment #34990485

    Please Google "Adverse Childhood Experiences" or just read this overview: https://www.joiningforcesforchildren.org/what-are-aces/ Childhood trauma like physical neglect, sexual abu…

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    Comment #34226135

    My cup literally runneth over. I'm launching a series of community-focused dinners for Colorado-based CEOs and VCs ( https://www.ThunderviewCEODinners.com ) I'm launching a social …

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    Comment #14478637

    That opening story just broke my heart. As a parent of a child with a severe peanut and tree nut allergy, it has been completely drilled into me: If my child is exhibiting an aller…