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Walking and talking is my preferred method of communication. I use to wait until I had a call scheduled but now I just go (3-4X a day) and send/listen to audio messages.

You shouldn't seek or take advice from the internet

Interesting! That would explain motivation. Any insight on how to track if we're on one of those lists and remove ourselves?

We're experiencing daily twilio OTP attacks that create accounts. We block IPs and have throttled rate of account creation. But other than running up our bills (~$10 / day) I don't…

In my experience, there is no silver bullet outreach. Until you have dozens of customers you shouldn't do anything at scale. Best thing (depending on customer) is call, linkedin in…

Sales at a startup trying to find product market fit is probably the worst job of all time. You have no marketing/brand/leads and if by some miracle you do land a deal your product…

Because Stephen Wolfram is a billionaire who knows what he's sitting on

I went through extreme zoom overload as a senior leader at a large organization. I found myself on upwards of 16 Zooms a day. It was exhausting and I felt not very productive. I fo…

The second you hit record the vibe on the meeting is different.

Things don't always go up and to the right. Life is not linear. If things aren't going your way professionally, you can always work on your personal life or physical body. You're o…

Hang in there. These 5 months rank among the worst times to get a job in software. Things will pick up in a couple of months. Make sure you're working on an interesting side projec…

No, we had a group chat on Telegram that we used during meetings for our snarky comments

In my experience there are 3 types of justifications for big decisions. The first is data supported, any logical person would come to the same conclusion. The second is data sort o…

Sounds like a universal chat app: https://www.makeuseof.com/best-all-in-one-messaging-platform...

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The telegram chat was far more interesting than anything ever said in slack

Zoom chat. It's a slack/teams competitor

we do audio messages. Taking the synchronous out of it allows for similar interactions on global time

Totally agreed. This is the part that makes RTO mandates make no sense to me. When I worked in an office, we would video call instead of going up two floors

I believe Eric is right. It's often the moments before or after the scheduled meeting when the side conversations happen that build relationships. Sometimes the insight comes 20 mi…

If you are growing MoM with clear PMF in a decent sized TAM you'll have no problem getting meetings or raising money. If you have paying a couple of customers who are passionate ab…

Build relationships with paying customers ASAP in the journey. They will give you all the guidance you need.

Most of the available addressable market of websites that want a chat widget already have intercom, drift, crisp installed. All these companies have AI-features either deployed or …

When Path was shut down, a shared album became the default social network for my family. I now have one for different friend groups. It's not spectacular, but it works and privacy …

How'd the fund do?