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A survey of founders by NFX found that 42% of Series A companies are 100% remote which is higher than 38% of seed-stage companies that are fully remote.
It’s becoming clear that remote work isn’t going anywhere. A large portion of the workforce continues to work from home.
A successful business playbook I keep coming across is turning cost centers into profit centers.
There is a range of acceptable employer policies that ranges from unthinkable to popular.
There is a long list of reasons that a startup to fail, but running out of money is high among them.
The Hawaii Unemployment Insurance portal becomes unavailable outside of their normal stated business hours.
Product debt is when promises made about functionality exceed what the product can actually do.
There are many times in business when an answer is required.
A small thing I realized about programming is that nullable values carry a sneaky amount of complexity in code.
A useful metric for SaaS businesses is the amount of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) per employee.
The color we see in complete darkness is not pure black, instead they see a dark gray called Eigengrau.
The theory popularized by the book The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species, published in 1970, has long since been debunked.
I recently wrote and published the Stripe Atlas Guide to Starting a Remote Company.
In Startup Decoupling & Reckoning by Elad Gil, the author lays out the situation many mid-to-late stage startups will be in starting at the end of 2024.
Companies don’t really want frontend engineers or backend engineers or infrastructure engineers.
On one very special day, Taravangian was the smartest person in the world.
It’s fairly common for companies to make sweeping claims in the course of day-to-day business.
I would guess that a significant amount of software is written for one person and we should celebrate it more.
Writing code is also writing for other people. We use many conventions in written communication to help with readability.
This question comes up a lot from founders starting a company and raising a seed round—how much should you pay yourself?
New York City’s largest union, District Council 37, is in the midst of negotiating a five-year deal that includes, among other things, protections for remote work.
It always seems to take awhile to get resolve an issue with a state agency.
What gets you into a creative field is having really good taste.
Sometimes the only way to know there is a problem is by receiving a letter in the mail from a state agency.