Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
Inspiration is a productivity multiplier, but it’s perishable. Act quickly.
100 Simple Truths
If you notice something at your company below standards and don't fix it or make sure someone else does, you have set a new standard.
Complaining about it does not count as fixing it.
If someone gets upset/tells you to stay in your lane, they've set an even worse new standard.
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i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen https://t.co/mz5auDBkKl
Airbnb cofounder: "I thought of a way to make a few bucks"
September 22, 2007 https://t.co/mPPTqLO04z
Say you have 100,000 DAUs and a retention rate of 80%, and for every five users, one of them tells a friend each day to download your app (and they do it). You get 20k new users per day just from word of mouth. In this equation, Xn is the number of DAUs today and Xn+1 is the number of DAUs tomorrow:
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X n+1 = (X n * 80%) + (X n * (1⁄5))
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Sean Colombo • The Secret to Duolingo’s Growth
How to Scale: Lessons from Stripe CEO | Khosla
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Amazon: How do we keep experimenting in superfast delivery?
September 19, 2013
On the risk of leaning too heavily into “best practices”