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How to offer effective free trials | Upollo
If you could increase the conversion rate of your free trials by 10%, how much of a difference would that make? For most companies, even a 5% boost in their trial-to-paid conversion rate would transform their business. The problem is figuring out how to do that.
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on: 2022-08-31
Let it slide
No matter the size of the business, there'll always be an unlimited number of tasks left to do, processes left to improve, and contingencies left to plan. The work is truly never done, so regardless of how much effort is put in, you'll inevitably end the day unfinished.
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on: 2022-08-23
Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack? | Hacker News
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on: 2021-08-26
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
In my parents' childhood it was more common for milk to be delivered weekly (or twice weekly) by a milkman than to go to a shop to buy it. Milk was a subscription service and that made a lot of sense, especially as the milkman also sold eggs, bread and other staples.
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on: 2021-08-03
A Bootstrapped SaaS Journey to $10K MRR
I'm Jon Yongfook the founder of Bannerbear. $10K MRR is considered something of a SaaS Bootstrapping milestone so I thought I should document how I got here. This is not a secret formula / growth hack, it is just a personal account of growing a startup.
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on: 2021-01-28
The $4335 Video Course Launch That Made Me Think ????? - Christoph Rumpel
At the beginning of 2019, I released Laravel Core Adventures as a free video course on how Laravel works under the hood. It started with a few videos on Laravel's request life-cycle and facades.
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on: 2020-08-13
How to validate your startup idea quickly
In this post, I’d like to share my learnings on how to validate product ideas quickly. This is an extremely useful skill to have when building 0 to 1 products, because most product ideas will fail in the market. So, better not spend 3-6 months building something that nobody wants.
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on: 2020-07-24
You don't want quality time, you want garbage time
What is something you wish you'd done later in life, rather than earlier? Reply directly to this email to let me know! If you've been curious about machine learning, Vicki Boykis wrote a couple of posts that provide context to the hype.
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on: 2020-03-10
The Google Squeeze
In 3Q 2014 Google had $16.5 billion in revenue and $2.8 billion in profit. I proceeded to write an article entitled Peak Google. Fast forward to last quarter, and Google had $36 billion in revenue and $6.7 billion in profit, increases of 118% and 139% respectively.
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on: 2019-11-13
GitHub stars won’t pay your rent - Kitze - Medium
It’s been a long time since I have written something here, but I don’t want to write articles for the sake of “keeping the blog alive”, screw that. Well, I finally have a story to tell. I finally launched the new version of Sizzy last month.
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on: 2019-08-12
Facebook’s Privacy Cake – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
What was striking about the reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s latest missive about the future of Facebook, A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking, were the two very distinct reactions that, in my estimation, made the same mistake, but in opposite directions; one set of folks didn’t take Zuck
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on: 2019-03-08
A rocker’s guide to management | 1843
In his languidly titled autobiography, “Life”, Keith Richards tells a story that captures something about the workplace culture of the Rolling Stones and his decades as the band’s guitarist. It’s 1984 and the Stones are in Amsterdam for a meeting (yes, even Keith Richards attends meetings).
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on: 2019-01-08
Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage every day situatio
He's unemotional yet thoughtful. If he doesn't have an immediate answer for something, he instinctively understands how to search for the answer. He has a natural sense of the real priority of work and discussions. So I asked him for some of his favourite brain hacks...
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on: 2018-12-03
How I’ve Attracted The First 500 Paid Users For My SaaS That Costs $5/mo
Hello, it’s Takuya here. This is a story about my experience on my solo product called Inkdrop — a Markdown note-taking app with built-in cloud sync. It is a SaaS that earns $3,200 per month from 600 customers now, with pricing $4.99/mo or $49.9/yr.
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on: 2018-10-15
Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
My first job at Amazon was as the first analyst in strategic planning, the forward-looking counterpart to accounting, which records what already happened.
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on: 2018-05-29
What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter
Despite memes (below) to the contrarian, the core operating principles of Amazon hasn’t changed much if at all since the company went public in 1997. Amazon aims to be the world’s most customer-centric company.
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on: 2017-10-15