Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
When you believe, "Even if I don't succeed with this business, I'll still have a great life" ... then you are in a much better position to give it a try.
James Clear • 3-2-1: On being bigger than your problems, personal responsibility, and inner circle friendships
“Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.”
• Time Magazine (1966)
Time doubted that people would ever want to buy goods online, with an argument rooted in assumptions about shopping habits.
https://martech.zone/failed-predictions/
Selling is a discipline that can be learned like any other. It’s a matter of first deciding to believe that what you are selling is valuable, helpful and worth the money (it is!). Then understanding who it can help, what results and feelings they are seeking and how your product provides the answer. You have to stretch your comfort zone. And you
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goatherders on May 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?
Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.
1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales... See more
Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.
1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales... See more
ycombinator.com • Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.
Many founders, out of their fear of things slowing down, are missing the opportunities that [slowing down] affords them.
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
Raise your standards, pick up the pace, sharpen your focus, and align your people. You don't need to bring in reams of consultants to examine everything that is going on. What you need on day one is to ratchet up expectations, energy, urgency, and intensity.
Frank Slootman • Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say?
Surprisingly often they don’t know.
Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?
Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time?
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
A few places you should probably use AI to help you, based on the research we have (but do whatever you want):
-Idea generation
-Writing (not writing for you, maybe, but second opinions/proofing/etc)
-Advice/finding frameworks to solve problems
-Summarizing documents & meetings
Ethan Mollickx.comWeird GPT token for Reddit user davidjl123, “a keen member of the /r/counting subreddit. He’s posted incremented numbers there well over 163,000 times. Presumably that subreddit ended up in the training data used to create the tokenizer used by GPT-2, and since that particular username showed up hundreds of thousands of times it ended up getting
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