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3 Paths to Essence « gupta.think found via @hunterwalk
1 week ago
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about Cup-Stacking Guy and His Enthusiastic Friend in the bottom of the 19th at Turner Field.
Never forget.
“We’ve designed the Mailbox service to scale indefinitely, and have done as much load testing as we can. But we don’t know what we don’t know, so we’re using reservations to add people gradually.
At first, the pace may seem slow. This is by design. If we run into unexpected snags, we may even stop filling reservations temporarily. But as the service grows, we should be able to dramatically increase this pace until we no longer need a reservation system at all.”
- the on-boarding process for Mailbox is one part transparent messaging, two parts velvet rope and a dash of soup kitchen line.
If you don’t like shoveling, then don’t work at a startup.
If you like “managing stuff,” then don’t work at a startup.
You build or you sell. There’s nothing else to do.
If you like “managing stuff,” then don’t work at a startup.
You build or you sell. There’s nothing else to do.
A blog from the mind of falicon: I am not an entrepreneur.
I love startups because I love building something out of nothing. Problem solving. Creating. Inventing.
I enjoy small, passionate, teams completely focused on a core mission or an idea. Teams that dream big but are starting small and focused.
So I talk with a lot of people about a lot of ideas.
Definitely a hacker
Key lesson in name-your-own-price strategies: set an appropriate anchoring price. As you can see, Cards Against Humanity (a thoroughly entertaining game) allowed customers to name their price for a set of holiday cards. The default (i.e. anchor price) was $5. What was the result? While 20% paid nothing, most paid the default and in the end, they came out ahead with $70K in profit.
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I HAVE A DEFENSE TEAM THAT HAS A BYE WEEK. IS THER ANY WAY TO ADD A DEFENSIVE TEAM WITHOUT DROPPING THE TEAM THAT IS ON A BYE?
AnonymousDepends on your league’s rules. In almost all standard formats you should be able to drop any roster spot and replace it with any other. You may run into limits on certain positions (like you can’t have over 3 QBs on a single roster), but it’s unlikely you’ll have that problem picking up a second defense.
