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Startup Growth Calculator
There is a long list of reasons that a startup to fail, but running out of money is high among them.
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Product Debt
Product debt is when promises made about functionality exceed what the product can actually do.
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Answer Required, Not Necessarily a Good One
There are many times in business when an answer is required.
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A Non-Nullable Value Reduces Complexity by Half
A small thing I realized about programming is that nullable values carry a sneaky amount of complexity in code.
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SaaS Revenue per Employee Benchmarks for B2B Companies
A useful metric for SaaS businesses is the amount of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) per employee.
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Eigengrau Is the Color We See in Total Darkness
The color we see in complete darkness is not pure black, instead they see a dark gray called Eigengrau.
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Alpha Males Only Exist in Captivity
The theory popularized by the book The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species, published in 1970, has long since been debunked.
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The Guide to Starting a Remote Company
I recently wrote and published the Stripe Atlas Guide to Starting a Remote Company.
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Many Startups Will Run Out of Cash Starting End of 2023
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.
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How to Be a Good Product Engineer
Companies don’t really want frontend engineers or backend engineers or infrastructure engineers.
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Substituted Acceptance for Self-Hate
There’s a push in conservative politics to make it illegal to be trans or dress in drag.
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Taravangian Intelligence Test
On one very special day, Taravangian was the smartest person in the world.
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Puffery Doctrine
It’s fairly common for companies to make sweeping claims in the course of day-to-day business.
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One of One Software
I would guess that a significant amount of software is written for one person and we should celebrate it more.
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Format Code Like Prose
Writing code is also writing for other people. We use many conventions in written communication to help with readability.
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How Much to Pay Yourself as an Early-Stage Founder
This question comes up a lot from founders starting a company and raising a seed round—how much should you pay yourself?
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Remote Work Is Now a Union Negotiation Item
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.
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State Agencies Are Eventually Consistent
It always seems to take awhile to get resolve an issue with a state agency.
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The Taste Gap
What gets you into a creative field is having really good taste.
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You Don't Know There Is a Compliance Problem Until After It's a Problem
One of the many challenges of staying compliant is that the feedback loop can be incredibly slow.
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Physical Mail Is Essential to Staying Compliant
Sometimes the only way to know there is a problem is by receiving a letter in the mail from a state agency.
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Manhattan Workers Are Spending $12.4 Billion Less Than Last Year
A recent study found that workers in Manhattan are spending $12.
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There Is No Software Maintenance
In There Is No Software Maintenance by Henrik Warne, the author argues that software maintenance is just product development.
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CEO Lifespans Decrease 1.5 Years in a Downturn and They Look Older
In a paper CEO Stress, Aging, and Death, the authors studied the effects of managerial stress on lifespan and visible signs of aging.