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YJfcboaDaJRDw commented on 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13   datocms.com/blog/a-look-b... · Posted by u/steffoz
jacquesm · 5 days ago
That's excellent by any metric. Most larger successful companies have a very hard time consistently breaking the 200K / employee / year turnover level and this is 2.5 times that. On top of that they are indestructible, with that much left on the table a couple of years of solid saving and you can start thinking about much larger projects, and still without outside financing.

10 years is long and if we take the revenues as linearly changing over time and the costs growing roughly linear along with it then years two and three must have been quite difficult, expectations need to be met but the money wasn't really there yet. But now there is.

YJfcboaDaJRDw · 5 days ago
Agreed. What stands out to me is not just the revenue per employee, but the optionality it creates. Getting past that threshold buys you resilience and patience suddenly you can absorb slower years, fund bigger bets internally, and avoid being forced into bad financing decisions.
YJfcboaDaJRDw commented on The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/karakoram
amanaplanacanal · 6 days ago
I expect China will pick up the slack.
YJfcboaDaJRDw · 6 days ago
Certainly but US policy changes every 4 years and China has a gigantic one child policy issue which just can't be changed. I think it will with China somewhat similar how it was back in the day with the udssr where economists were predicting its economy would outgrow the economy of the USA by 1994 and then 1991 or so it died. Could imagine something similar might be awaiting china

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YJfcboaDaJRDw commented on The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice   bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/1659447091
lb1lf · 6 days ago
These are all over the place in Norway (as are they everywhere else, presumably!)

When we moved to the island we currently live on, our address was in a road called 'Solsteinen' (The Sun Stone), but I didn't think anything of it until I realized that the roughly hewn stone serving as the property limit marker was juuu-uuust touched by the sun on Winter Solstice. Aha.

A quick call to the local archaeologist confirmed my suspicion - 'Oh, so you're the new resident there, I'd planned on being in touch - that stone monument has been there for more than 2000 years, is A-listed and please, whatever you do, don't do anything with it. Seriously.'

YJfcboaDaJRDw · 6 days ago
We also have these in Germany, in the region where I live it which is North Rhein Westfalis they are quite a common thing actually. Strongly recomment people check it out if they pass by here some time

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