As a naive person, I have a simple question - why would they even fly to an airport where there's 100mph winds? Wouldn't ATC know this and tell the flight way in advance to fly to a different destination?
Readit Newsblizkreeg commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum
blizkreeg commented on I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/cpeterso
The idea is neat but holy SaaS, the price for what it offers is ridiculous. It’s not even about having the money, it’s just that $828 p.a. price of entry to build a spreadsheet front-end is objectively a bad buy/business decision.
Most people would just learn to code at a boot camp for $828 so they don’t need codeless.
This comment reminds me of the infamous Dropbox comment :)
blizkreeg commented on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity stefantheard.com/silicon-... · Posted by u/mooreds
The other aspect that's not factored in here is that often founders can spend years in search mode, living on savings or some early stage pre-seed VC, with zero guarantee of success or ever even finding something to work on.
Took you 5 years to get to a concept that finally justified hiring someone to help you grow it? Equity is the only form of compensation you have for all that work, and it might still be worth $0 another 5 years later. In the meantime the ICs are getting paid, are getting benefits, are having a life beyond the company.
The rewards have to be deeply asymmetric for this system to work, otherwise nobody in their right mind would even consider it.
The asymmetric reward is the _company_ having a liquidity event thereby enriching the founder, NOT a funding round enriching the founder.
blizkreeg commented on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity stefantheard.com/silicon-... · Posted by u/mooreds
blizkreeg commented on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity stefantheard.com/silicon-... · Posted by u/mooreds
Founder liquidity is wrong -- and not because employees don't get the same deal.
It's wrong because it is NOT uncommon for a founder to take chips off the table sometimes enriching themselves to the tune of millions only for the startup to then "fail" -- either go bankrupt, sell for peanuts, or sell for only a modest multiple.
You're not done until you're done. But founder liquidity has now become a path to getting rich when the outcome of the company is still unknown and up in the air. If venture backed founders don't want that risk, they should start bootstrapped companies.
At a minimum, there should be a cap on it (not % but $), and yes, it should be extended to early employees too.
blizkreeg commented on Show HN: I built an end user announcement service that needs no deploys · Posted by u/atlas3651
Interesting name! (probably get rid of the dashes if you can :) I liked the idea of a demo site. Very few take the pains to create one.
Is there a way to target individual users or a subset of users?
blizkreeg commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring
SEEKING WORK | Oakland | Remote
Looking for something a little different here: I'd like to help an early stage startup hire remote overseas talent and build a stellar dev team.
I'm an experienced engineering leader/early stage CTO who has led software teams of up to 10. I've built a number of products from the ground up. I've hired at least 35-40 engineers in my career thus far, and a number of them from outside the US in the past few years.
Here's how I see myself helping:
- help non technical founders source, vet, and interview developers
- help non technical founders as initial/interim CTO helping the hired team hit their stride and get productive shipping (by setting the right processes and culture)
- act as deputy VP of eng helping the VP of eng with interviews, resume screening, and anything else that helps them with hiring
Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5flvdmfrxaq8ytipzqthc/Profile...
I previously led a team of 10 at a notable company to re-build its platform entirely. More recently, I've been leading a small team at a Series B startup in a fractional eng lead capacity. I have worked with engineers from diverse cultures and countries (I'm an immigrant myself) and know how to relate to and vet them.
React out if this interests you. I'm open to other interesting freelance consulting opportunities as well.
Email in my bio.
blizkreeg commented on Is a venture studio right for you? steveblank.com/2023/01/17... · Posted by u/sblank
I just hate the sales/marketing grind. Like if I probably have enough bandwidth to support 3-5 clients at any one time. I can’t source that much work though my network, so I end up with 0-2 at any given time.
If my sales/marketing game was stronger, I could probably be doing $750k/yr as one guy. Unsure if this is just the market- things definitely tightened up over the past 3-4 months.
I feel like I'm in the same boat as you. I'd love to chat and exchange notes or just discuss challenges. My email is in my bio. Would love to hear from you if you're open to it. It's hard to meet agency owners who run small/solo agencies.
fyi - i'm based in the bay area.
blizkreeg commented on Is a venture studio right for you? steveblank.com/2023/01/17... · Posted by u/sblank
I run a dev shop and did some work for a vc studio. They want to bring me in house to CTO a bunch of the companies they are building. Offer was much lower than expected: 1% carry & $150k salary. I’ve worked @ FAANG, and also got a startup to a successful exit. I was hoping to shut my dev shop down and join this studio, but now don’t know what to do.
Why do you want to shut the dev shop? I run a dev shop myself and would love to hear your perspective.