I was very disappointed with the How to Build the Future series. Particularly, the interview with Elon Musk. The quality of the questions was mediocre at best.
And the podcasts are just about showcasing YC companies. As an entrepreneur, I basically got zero value from these.
PG should write more essays. Whenever one of them came out, I dropped whatever I was doing to read them.
This reply is very late and you may not see it, but I wanted to express my thoughts.
I appreciate the way Sam presents his thoughts (questions, answers, or otherwise). They're both extremely thoughtful and simple in a sense that he won't repel those who may feel below his level intellectually. Some of his points are so insightful, but it's taken me a lot of time, experience, and thought to be able to absorb or agree/disagree with them. Some just seem like simple advice that I should consider because I don't know enough to strongly believe he's right or wrong.
Perhaps you're at a high enough level intellectually that his simply-stated yet thoughtful points are, by now, obvious to you. I definitely don't mean to imply otherwise. Unfortunately, I haven't found many writers whose thoughts are as insightful as PG's, but I am content with rereading his old essays as I'm certain I haven't thoroughly understood everything he's written at the depth of understanding that he or others may have.
I updated using gem update and got the latest 3.35.1.
But then when I updated heroku gem, I got the deprecation warning...
! The `heroku` gem has been deprecated and replaced with the Heroku Toolbelt.
! Download and install from: https://toolbelt.heroku.com
! For API access, see: https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb
Just downloaded the book! Thanks for making it free. You are very generous!
I am looking to build a quick and dirty prototype for Tinder for X, and this is a great starting point for me. Thanks Nick!
I am curious to see how you guys decided to go after this space. For me, I started ContentDJ through an attempt at growth hacking on Twitter. Through a script I developed back in 2011, I was able to retweet trending content and grow my followers by about 1K per month. It turned into a viable growth channel for the startup I was working on at the time. So, I made the pivot and build ContentDJ (http://a.contentdj.com/1nrbICq).
As an interesting anecdote, last year, two product managers from Buddy Media signed up. Through Mixpanel, I found that they were particularly interested in my social media editorial calendar feature (http://a.contentdj.com/1lOiRWD). Surely enough, just last month, Salesforce announced their Marketing Cloud with a very similar content calendar in it. Unfortunately we now live in a world where multi-billion dollar public company steals from a one-man bootstrapped startup...
A bit of a leap to assume it was blatantly stolen. It's entirely possible that this feature was on the roadmap long before they discovered ContentDJ. Sure, big companies may get ideas from startup products, but of course the reverse happens all the time too and both feel like fair game to me.
The philosophy has been mostly to create a profitable company, in the more traditional sense-- consistent revenue that can employ people.
- I share with this philosophy exactly.
The thing I am pointing out is that because of the VC gap, startups are dealing with the lack of cash infusion to really hit a homerun. As a result, Canadian tech companies stall after growing to a certain size. The options were taking VC money with bad terms or getting bought by US companies.
US companies are buying profitable Canadian businesses at a bargain price, reaping all the benefits of job creation and ambitious business goals.
I was very disappointed with the How to Build the Future series. Particularly, the interview with Elon Musk. The quality of the questions was mediocre at best.
And the podcasts are just about showcasing YC companies. As an entrepreneur, I basically got zero value from these.
PG should write more essays. Whenever one of them came out, I dropped whatever I was doing to read them.