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- No Startup Has Ever Failed Because it Didn’t Have a Blog
- Airbnb tackled crappy check-in rates by bringing their cameras into homes and taking better photos, not by blogging about the future of holiday stays.
- The Hidden Costs of Running a Global Engineering Team and Recipes for Mitigation
- A 3-hour gap is manageable.
- A 6-hour gap starts breaking things. Someone’s always sacrificing their schedule, and a one-day delay easily turns into two.
- A 9-hour gap? This is where things fall apart completely. Simple decisions that should take 30 minutes turned into multi-day sagas. By the time you got an answer to your question, the context had changed so much you needed to ask new questions.
- Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office
- With these circumstances, returning to the office feels very "worth it."
- No need to commute, your driver takes you door to door while you work in the back
- No need to hurry home to pick up the kids, the PA does it
- No need to shop, clean, or cook, the staff does it all
- No need to help with homework, the amazing school provides tutoring
- With these circumstances, returning to the office feels very "worth it."
- The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
- The housing theory of everything
- Interconnected Problems: Housing shortages exacerbate multiple societal challenges, including inequality, climate change, low productivity, obesity, and declining fertility rates.
- Economic Impact: High housing costs limit disposable income, reducing spending in other sectors and hindering economic growth.
- Productivity Drain: Expensive housing restricts labor mobility, forcing skilled workers to remain in less productive jobs, thereby lowering overall productivity.
- Innovation Stifling: Limited housing supply in high-demand areas hampers innovation by restricting the collaboration opportunities that dense urban environments facilitate.
- Rising Inequality: Housing scarcity turns homes into valuable assets, disproportionately benefiting landowners and increasing income inequality within communities.
- Regional Disparities: Housing shortages contribute to regional inequality, as lower-income individuals cannot afford to relocate to high-opportunity cities, stalling economic convergence among regions.
- Family Dynamics: High housing costs affect family planning, with expensive homes discouraging larger families and delaying childbirth.
- Health Consequences: Urban sprawl and lack of walkable environments linked to housing shortages contribute to rising obesity rates and related health issues.
- Environmental Impact: More densely populated, walkable cities lead to lower carbon emissions, whereas sprawl increases reliance on cars and energy consumption.
- Urgent Solutions Needed: Addressing housing shortages is crucial for improving quality of life, fostering economic growth, and creating equitable communities, necessitating innovative policy approaches to increase housing supply.
- The Alliance
The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of duty.
- Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don’t buy
- Even if a product could be implemented effortlessly and at no cost, customers may still decline due to perceived risks and implementation challenges.
- Products must provide significant value that far exceeds the penalties of adoption; otherwise, customers will not prioritize them.
- Identifying which customers have an urgent need for a product. Companies often delay purchases until they address higher-priority issues.
Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea?
mamcx
but everything I create or try to do seems like there are already dozens of other solutions doing the same thing The major lesson I have after +20 years doing this: WHO CARES.
This concern is valid for a huge company or anybody that wanna get like 70% of the whole market.
For solo/small teams? Think of yourself as a street cart vendor that sells hamburgers, and is located on the front of mac donalds.
They still sell.
What you has but not others is that you are small, and is the actual person other person can , FOR REAL, talk about your product.
That is the whole thing of working as a freelancer, solo, small business. You can, FOR REAL, provide personal training/consulting/support, etc.
And that works even if you just take the product made by the big corporation and just know how to use it. There is business in being the guy who knows Excel well.
- Products must provide significant value that far exceeds the penalties of adoption; otherwise, customers will not prioritize them.
- Identifying which customers have an urgent need for a product. Companies often delay purchases until they address higher-priority issues.
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