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s1k3

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    Comment #35486037

    The range in equity grants can still cause problems. The reality is exposing this information only works against you and limits your ability to negotiate with employees if you know…

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    Comment #35485901

    The cap table can have sensitive information on it that might compromise employees and or investors or the founders themselves. I don’t think being secretive about the exact detail…

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    Comment #35391218

    Do you see the irony in your question yet? =P

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    Comment #35314001

    Most people don’t even know what sideloading is, but more importantly it would kill the value of tik tok because the population would be gone and therefor the audience and the mone…

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    Comment #35313967

    It’s not about optimizing it’s about cash flow. If you get a 500k mortgage today at the current rate of ~7% your monthly payment is about 3500/mo. That same mortgage financed 2 yea…

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    Comment #35313863

    When the interest rate goes up that fast existing homeowners are less inclined to sell because their monthly payments will go way up buying a comparable house elsewhere. So you end…

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    Comment #35274900

    I mean, they could do it. But it would be wildly unpopular among that demo.

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    Comment #35240176

    I literally just wasted so much money on a logo. Coulda used this post last week.

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    Comment #35236544

    If you are talented you will have no problem keeping or landing a new job. The people that have trouble maintaining employment are the ones that are not very good. Tech is about as…

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    Comment #35198471

    Well the opposite view isn’t really based on science , only in faulty risk mitigation. So is it riskier to let your kid go without knowing for a long time or is it better to test i…

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    Comment #35198431

    We did the same. My wife was nervous but I’m like, it’s common sense. We did hold off on honey until they were one due to the botulism risk tho.

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    Comment #35198419

    The idea is you basically just touch their lips with a dab at first, so if there is any sort of reaction it isn’t life threatening. Then you increase a bit, etc.

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    Comment #35175807

    You know what I’d listen to is a podcast of just normal founders. I’d love to just hear about people like me, not the 1% on either side.

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    Comment #35174411

    Blew up last week because they had to sell stock and explain why. Which is what she’s light on their liquidity crunch.

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    Comment #35151934

    This is true of every tech billionaire. They improved something that already existed. Rarely if ever do they true novel inventors dominate the market because when the market doesn’…

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    Comment #35151849

    Managers write novels because employees complain about lack of transparency and communication. I promise you no manager wants to write some novel about how layoffs are good for com…

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    Comment #34085960

    If you aren’t a founder or investor then your chances of making significant money at a startup via equity is very limited. You WILL be diluted during every fundraising round and yo…

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    Comment #34016722

    Step 1 - turn off all notifications, noise and badges. This will allow you to not be disturbed by interruptions. Step 2 - if step 1 doesn’t work then shut slack down while working.…

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    Comment #33944001

    Poor performing developers cannot be fixed with a process. This is a management problem. It’s up to the developers manager to properly motivate and course correct flagging devs. Tr…

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    Comment #33915580

    Is notion eating their lunch?

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    Comment #33915564

    Calendly is nearly ubiquitous when scheduling meetings with people outside your office these days. They’re particularly useful in sales and product. Given the space their in and th…

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    Comment #33772603

    It never clicked for me? It just always made sense. Maybe I’m still meandering around in the pre-click phase though and don’t know. Maybe one day it will click for me!

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    Comment #33763719

    Meh. Some of this advice is pretty common sense. Some of it a little cut throat. I don’t see anything in here that isn’t in a playbook I’ve seen multiple times, do you?

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    Comment #33749877

    This is absurd. You don’t get to open the books of the company you are being paid to endorse. Nor should you be allowed to. This is an insane suit and is hopefully thrown out right…

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    Comment #33718277

    The cuts are coming from Alexa and e-commerce, right? I didn’t see any ya out AWS… maybe I missed it tho.