Anyone knows what software Sam is using for his blog?
Startup Playbook
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#72If this is something that is expected to be around for awhile I recommend talking to an editor. Friends are good to check for overall content and typos, but they are too familiar with the subject to check how well you convey something and too nice to really tear through the text objectively.
he commented that it was released early.
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#73>It’s important that you distort reality for others but not yourself.
I would love to see more content and discussion around this. I understand clearly why it is important to pitch who you will be not who you are when recruiting and raising money but when it comes to day to day, doesn't this contradict what you had said earlier about sharing all of the good and bad with your employees? Replacing your water jugs with Kool-Aid at the office just seems evil to me. I'm not sure if that is really what you are saying or not but it seems synonymous with unicorn culture. I see a lot of positives to creating a culture masked with illusion, but in my head, all of the value seems short-term.
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#74I wish there was a similar level and quality of resources for what I think are called lifestyle businesses. By that, I mean product-based businesses with at most a few million in revenue, a 5ish person team, a solid sustainable market position, and no desire to revolutionize any unicorns. I know a lot of people attempting this and they mostly seem to be flying under the radar, or at least have nowhere near the cachet…
The people doing this are too busy chilling on the beaches of the world with their moderately huge income to write much about it.
But I highly recommend anything DHH says (as mentioned before) and also the 4 hour workweek book.
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#75>It’s important that you distort reality for others but not yourself. I would love to see more content and discussion around this. I understand clearly why it is important to pitch who you will be not who you are when recruiting and raising money but when it comes to day to day, doesn't this contradict what you had said earlier about sharing all of the good and bad with your employees? Replacing your water jugs with…
You can be transparent. The trick is how you interpret the facts.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Office was not the first word processor, Mac OS was inspired almost wholesale from Xerox Parc, the iPod was absolutely not the first mp3 player, and the iPhone was absolutely not the first --iPhone-- edit: smartphone (what a freudian slip!). These are all perfect examples of my point: these were all examples of these products that due to their incrementally better and thoughtful design, which included ease of integra…
for office I think it was bundling word processor, spreadhseet etc. and selling it large businesses. why buy one when I can buy 4 for the price of 2. But neither of these companies started out where they ended up.
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#77I wish there was a similar level and quality of resources for what I think are called lifestyle businesses. By that, I mean product-based businesses with at most a few million in revenue, a 5ish person team, a solid sustainable market position, and no desire to revolutionize any unicorns. I know a lot of people attempting this and they mostly seem to be flying under the radar, or at least have nowhere near the cachet…
Along similar lines, it would also be nice to have resources for one (or max two) person businesses, with 100-300K revenue per year (clicky was two man team making 500K/year). That is more than enough to live well and spend some time pursuing interests (not for money).
Or pursuing other business opportunities as well.
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#78Anyone knows what software Sam is using for his blog?
For the startup playbook, I just built it with static HTML (glued together with gulp).
(For his actual blog, he uses Posthaven: https://posthaven.com/)
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#79This is great! Why no anchor tags? :(
There are; they just aren't linked.
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#80I wish there was a similar level and quality of resources for what I think are called lifestyle businesses. By that, I mean product-based businesses with at most a few million in revenue, a 5ish person team, a solid sustainable market position, and no desire to revolutionize any unicorns. I know a lot of people attempting this and they mostly seem to be flying under the radar, or at least have nowhere near the cachet…
You might check out Starting and Sustaining: http://startingandsustaining.com/