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Please fix your writing and make it more user friendly to the users you want to read it. As of now, it reads like unedited AI slop.

Get this out of here.

I don't understand why you needed to insult OP. It was out of line and uncalled for.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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Unfortunately, AI-Generated SEO articles are a race to the bottom, with everyone churning out the same keyword-stuffed fluffy low value articles with the same tired phrasing, "In the <everchanging|fast-paced|dynamic> world of <topic|industry|function>.. crucial crucial. "In today's digital age..."

Id like you to consider what is the true value-add here not from the perspective of getting paying customers, but from the perspective of the final end customer (the reader). Putting more low quality ai-generated content on the web degrades the experience.

Because 'Geopolitical Risk' is a thing.

Its nice when you can buy $60/bushel wheat. Its not so nice when your dealer cuts you off.

The extra $40/bushel you pay to produce in-house, thats your insurance policy against having your supplies cut off. In a world where geopolitical lines are shifting, it's a matter of national security and optionality to have your own food production capacity. Risk management.

Easy way to accelerate attrition (and thus, headcount reduction) without announcing layoffs.

Please do. Decidedly unhip email in profile.

Strategy and management consulting for the Pharma industry. $450k/3 months.

Without knowing your customers, your product, your industry, or your use case, its difficult to give pointed advice. Here is some generic advice:

- You need to learn more about the value proposition of your product so you can best align price with value. If your product saves me $1m/year, that will have very difference pricing than if it saved me $100/year

- If adoption is what you're optimizing for, I'd be in favor of having a completely free tier (even free of transaction costs) up to a certain level, then billing turns on after you reach that threshold. This means customers invest in wiring into your product because it makes them money. By the time they reach the billable threshold, they already see the value prop and happily pay instead of rewiring everything to a new platform.

- If early revenue is what you're optimizing for, start charging immediately to get some intelligence about what customers are willing to pay. If you get some early customers on an underpriced version, thats fine. Grandfather them in under goodwill (for now) and adjust the pricing for net new customers.

It was explained to me using the analogy of watching sports: One of the most entertaining activities for a human is to watch other humans do things. This is why professional sports leagues exist. This is also why “Watching people play computer games” is a perfectly reasonable entertainment option, despite it not being your preference.

Patio11's posts on the Bingo Card Creator journey, particularly the methodical and quantitative way he went about his marketing

I run a consulting firm that focuses on strategy, ops, and org for life science industry. I spent the first 10 years of my career in tech (worked at a few big names, ran a couple startups with nominal success). I still like technology for its applicability to business problems. Ive been on HN since 2007ish

A few of the struggles you mentioned were a matter of lifestyle choices (e.g., soy lattes, haircuts, avocado toast).

My question is, “Why do you care what other people spend money on?”

Whats the easiest way to contact you?

Seems like you're trying to solve a people problem with a technology solution. The simple solution is to set an agreement with the team to have a 'single source of truth' for comments. Continue to use your task manager of choice, but solve the 'human behavior challenge' with a human solution, (e.g., "Ok team, let's all agree to put any and all comments in <place x>")

Check out some of Peter Zeihan's work for some original geopolitical thinking re: US/China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyICg5OYXvM

Finance is more than the stock market. When I took a class on personal finance, I, too, wondered why it wasn't taught in high school. Personal finance gives you a basic grounding in: - How the economy works and how it affects you - Income taxes - Employee sponsored health care plans/FSAs/HSAs - Life insurance/annuities and health insurance - Budgeting and cash flow - How stocks and bonds work

So yes, there is coverage of the stock market, but it is a very narrow slice of the pie when you're talking about an entry level personal finance class.

There are business brokers who play that role, as well as microcap sell-side investment banks. The SBA will loan up to $5m if you can come up with 10% down payment.

I went to the landing page and I dont immediately know what this service does or why I should buy it. Suggestion 1: Look at some copywriting tutorials and implement those lessons on your page copy. Suggestion 2: Dont hide behind 'Us'. Who are you? At the early stage, your personal story is important. When I click 'about us', I get sent to #Deliverable. Which is not what I'm looking for. Suggestion 3: Show me, don't tell me. Let me download an example from a well-known book of how you took the lessons and injected real-world applicability.

Hope this helps.

Depending on your financial situation, you could Buy an old line company and digitize it.

In the US, If you can get 500k from friends and family, you can buy a $5m company with a strong balance sheet and strong cash flow. It will give you a live Petri dish to test your ideas on how to do things better.

I'd like to see this for all YC companies. The 'how you can help' was an especially useful artifact of information. For those of us who are bored and in need of intellectual stimulation, I would like to know what other (non medical) startups are working on, with a specific description of 'how I can help'. Im talking specifically about short term projects (e.g., a week to 2 months) as opposed to the 'who's hiring' thread.

The point of Scrum is not to deliver a full feature in a 2-week timebox. Its to deliver 'something of value' in a 2-week timebox. 'Something of value' could be stuff like: - A tracer bullet implementation of a new DB technology to de-risk full implementation - A skeleton workflow so you can validate with stakeholders that you're on the right track in terms of understanding how they work - A completely failed attempt at an implementation of a particular feature as to outline key lessons, go forward plan, and the next set of experiments you want to run to mitigate technology risk (will this work), customer risk (will they like it), or product risk (will it sell)

Jl2718, how do I get in contact with you directly?

Why would you need to run 'Scrum' or any kind of formal methodology with a team of 2 people?

My advice: Get them in a room, co-located, with a clear directive. Standups and retros can and should happen organically if we're talking about 2-3 people (or even 6). Thats a small enough group of people such that they can actually talk to each other throughout the day (think about how startup engineering works... 5-7 people, at a table, coding, talking whiteboarding, testing, deploying concurrently, beautiful mess style.

It's not clear the real problem you're trying to solve.

Its always been my opinion that not only are "entries" (funding) a necessary precondition, but also EXITS. Thats the magic momentum of SV; - Hordes of post-exit entrepreneurs funding the next generation of businesses and providing mentorship to the next generation of entrepreneurs. - A good number of capital sources who have had enough successes to keep rolling the dice.

I live in San Diego and my son is a few years away from entering HS, but I had no idea GMC existed. Even worse, I used to live in Fletcher Hills about a block away from the school. Thanks!

Its helpful for all team members to be, as you put it, "competent and fast", its not absolutely necessary (in order for Scrum to work), and in a lot of companies, its not the case.

The purpose of Scrum is to highlight issues and bottlenecks in the 'system' so they can be addressed.

"Wide skill variances in team members skillsets" is one such problem, and a fairly common one. One remedy is to drop the dead weight, either through management/hr action or natural attrition. Another remedy is to upgrade the skills of the people who are "behind" using the people who are "ahead" as mentors.

- The Consulting Company

I would agree with that. When a company brings me in, the first question I ask is "What is the problem you are trying to solve?"

Most of the problems that management think are because of the team are mostly (80%+) caused by people/processes/habits/cultural issues UPSTREAM of the team.

In other words, shit rolls down hill.

Thats how it goes I guess *shrug