rchiba
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Comment · 4 years ago
> Ultimately, the reason that the startup died was because I did not do the due diligence in discerning whether this was a problem that I genuinely wanted to solve with my entire being. That's the bar for creating a successful startup, you need to find a problem that you're willing to dedicate yourself entirely to solving.
My own startup journey has led me to a contrary belief: At the earliest stages of building a business, being flexible and continuously re-evaluating your assumptions in order to find real market opportunities is more useful than having a lot of passion solving a single problem.
If anything, I've met many many founders who have had too much passion about a single problem, which hurts them gravely when they refuse to consider the possibility that the problem they are passionate about is not a problem at all and they need to pivot.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm excited by this post because I think Jimmy deserves this success. I've never met him in person, but I owe him big time because:
1. His community was a big factor in my SaaS business getting traction among copywriters and content marketers.
2. I took a bike tour near his area and he saved me from trying to bike through a mudslide that had recently washed out part the route.
Biases aside, I've been a member of Superpath for awhile now and can say that he's put together a unique community that has a strong backbone of "givers" that can help the "takers". The vast majority of professional communities (especially free ones) devolve into places with endless questions with no one to answer them. Superpath isn't like that at all. Questions turn into threads with insightful answers and discussions.
Props!
Comment · 4 years ago
What a great device with so much potential. If they could have survived longer, they could have been the classic Casio watch of our generation.
Comment · 5 years ago
CafeMedia | QA Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full Time | https://cafemedia.com/
APPLY HERE: https://cafemedia.applytojob.com/apply/MAyiIQ6l4W/QA-Enginee...
We are looking for a quick-witted QA Engineer to join us as a founding member of a new team responsible for creating a portfolio of marketing products for our publishers. Our team's charter is to help our community of 3,000+ independent publishers grow their audience and you will help us empower them with the highest-quality tools.
DETAILS
• on the position: https://cafemedia.applytojob.com/apply/MAyiIQ6l4W/QA-Enginee...
• on working at CafeMedia: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-CafeMedia-EI_I...
• on our customers: https://webwideopen.com/stories/
BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary...)
• RAPIDLY GROWING COMPANY - In the past year, the company has risen to become the 11th largest digital property in the U.S. (just under Viacom and Apple) and manages 175M monthly unique visitors.
• ESTABLISHED REMOTE CULTURE - CafeMedia has been a fully remote company for years before the pandemic and knows how to create effective remote teams.
• POWERFUL MISSION - Our product enables thousands of creators and independent publishers make a living. We are a force for the open web, freeing creators from the walled-gardens of Facebook and Pinterest.
Comment · 5 years ago
I found this article through a friend of my wife's who is a skincare expert.
Check your cabinets. I actually found the Neutrogena lotion that we use in the table of affected products!
List of affected products: https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Valisure-Citizen...
List of unaffected products: https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Attachment-A-Tab...
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm a big fan of this thread because it helps correct the preconceived notion that culture is on a 1 dimensional spectrum between "bad" and "great".
At our 30-person company, we did an experiment where we took a culture framework that was evaluated on 2 axes, and took internal surveys between two years to determine where on the spectrum employees felt our culture was currently at, and what their ideal culture would be.
For anyone curious, I have a data visualization of it here: https://ryochiba.com/2016/11/22/what-is-a-company-culture.ht...
For anyone in a position to explore these questions at an organizational level, I would highly recommend doing an exercise like this. It gives more agency to the employee to express what direction they think would be optimal and brings awareness to the fact that totally different cultures can both be considered "great".
Comment · 5 years ago
Same, I thought of Tint(up) :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, with that kind of attitude life does seem pointless.
My opinion is that not everything we do in life needs to aimed towards the lofty self-actualization of mankind... or even the lofty self-actualization of one's self, which is the point being made later in the blog post.
Sometimes you wanna build something and see what happens. Hell yea I'll praise that.
Most human progress is made incrementally and in all directions, with many of the paths failing. The original versions of many extraordinary things seemed like meaningless branches of a capitalistic society.
There was a time when people played chess over telegraph, and considered telegraphy as a technology nothing more than a strange novelty.*
* For more, I highly recommend checking out the book "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers"
Comment · 6 years ago
Boo to all of the people on this thread who are hating on what you've built. Why can't you build a business selling emails, or automatically posting to GitHub?
If you hate getting spam emails, hit "spam" and get that domain blacklisted, it creates a natural balance where the quality of cold outreach grows. And I doubt real hiring decisions are being made from git commit history badges.
Kudos for going out there and adding value to the people that are paying for your products.
Comment · 9 years ago
TINT | Senior Full Stack / Frontend / Backend Engineers | UX/UI Designer | https://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE (US/Canada/India) | $90K - $170K
APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
We’re looking for senior engineers and a UX/UI designer to join our small 24-person team. We offer a competitive compensation package, and have a flexible remote work policy.
Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding. Every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.
___________________
DETAILS
• on the positions: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
• on TINT company culture: https://www.tintup.com/about
• on a few of our customers: https://www.tintup.com/clients
• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/ and https://vimeo.com/album/4636336
___________________
BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)
• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates. Even cofounder meeting minutes are sent to the team.
• FLEXIBLE REMOTE WORK - We have a flexible remote work policy that allows employees based in San Francisco to work remotely for extended periods, and for engineers to join us remotely full-time.
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.
APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
Comment · 9 years ago
TINT | Senior Full Stack / Frontend / Backend Engineers | UX/UI Designer | https://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE (US/Canada/India) | $90K - $170K
APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
We’re looking for engineers and a UX/UI designer to join our small 24-person team. We offer a competitive compensation package, and have a flexible remote work policy.
Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding. Every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.
___________________
DETAILS
• on the positions: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
• on TINT company culture: https://www.tintup.com/about
• on a few of our customers: https://www.tintup.com/clients
• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/
___________________
BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)
• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates. Even cofounder meeting minutes are sent to the team.
• FLEXIBLE REMOTE WORK - We have a flexible remote work policy that allows employees based in San Francisco to work remotely for extended periods, and for engineers to join us remotely full-time.
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.
APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
Comment · 9 years ago
TINT | Front End Engineer | https://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE (US/Canada) | $90K - $164K
APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
We’re looking for a Front End Engineer to join our small 30-person team. We offer a competitive compensation package, and have a flexible remote work policy.
Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding. Every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.
___________________
DETAILS
• on the positions: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
• on TINT company culture: https://www.tintup.com/about
• on a few of our customers: https://www.tintup.com/clients
• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/
___________________
BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)
• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates. Even cofounder meeting minutes are sent to the team.
• FLEXIBLE REMOTE WORK - We have a flexible remote work policy that allows employees based in San Francisco to work remotely for extended periods, and for engineers to join us remotely full-time.
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.
APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews
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