This seems incredibly racist. There could be low level employees of other ethnicities or countries of origin leaking information. That’s like saying ban all muslims from entering the US due to their ‘track record’
IG content isn’t nonsensical IMO. The content on IG is generally of higher quality and visually curated. It’s also a better platform for showcasing your brand if you’re in the ecommerce space than FB Pages for example.
Granted, there are accounts that are dedicated to memes and other ‘nonsensical’ content, but you get much more of that on FB. Putting IG in the same trash pile that FB is in is unfair.
Why bother with offices at all then? Why are companies paying tons of money for office space on prime real estate in SF, or dishing out free lunches and dinners, if people are more productive working from home? Google and Facebook should just mandate that people work from home.
Do the new sippy cup lids take more plastic to make though?
What they need to do is get rid of the plastic cups altogether. It’s summer and I’m starting to see more and more plastic starbucks cups in the garbage, as well as littered on the streets. Cities and states need to start banning plastic cups, or at least make it an additional 50c per use of plastic cup
When will US cities do the same? Most restaurants offer plastic togo containers, which ends up in the landfill. Some restaurants even use plastic bowls and plates for dine-in customers, arguably so they don’t have to invest in equipment and labor to wash dishes.
With The China recycling ban, this becomes more of a pressing issue. I’m surprised cities aren’t outright banning or imposing a tax on the use of plastics at restaurants.
Interesting that they decide to publish this now. Also interesting that this is not a full audit, and while it might show Tether is backed 1:1 to USD, the timing is right before the BTC pump in Oct 2017.
What Tether needs is a full audit of its accounts from Oct - EOY 2017, where number of Tethers tripled.
Hopefully they do put this away once and for all with an actual full audit so everyone can move on
it’s unacceptable to ignore users. At least respond and provide a timeline or a reasonable acknowledgement. Sure, your company might have big accounts thst need more attention, but if there are bugs piled up and feature requests left rotting on the shelf - HIRE.
I dont think it’s impossible to both chase whales as well as satisfying pools of smaller fish. It’s often hard to tell a whale ‘no’ so your team can work on smaller pressing issues for some smaller customers, but there just needs to be a balance and discipline on doing that. How you say no is also extremely important :)
is there no way to invalidate addresses / wallets? Surprised that the address used in the Bitstamp heist was still usable. Surprised that the hacker used the same address even.
I think team chemistry and emoloyee buyin is severely underrated. Large salaries being thrown around silicon valley when the hires themselves dint believe in the product but just the money, resulting in a team that just 'dayjobs' whatever they are working on instead of being passionate sbout the company's products and values.
Depends on what you mean by 'making it' as a startup - is it the revenue growth? burn rate? profit growth? Number of users? Number of employees? A SF office? How well funded you are?
It's hard to grow a business without going the conventional SV route and getting VC funding. Unless you have a revolutionary product, the bigger competition will likely stomp over you unless you have resources to grow your team and product and marketing. Or if you are comfortable with a small market share but a profitable one.
Not saying it is impossible, but just hard. I know a few SaaS out there like Roninapp and Reamaze that like Mailchimp are not VC funded and are growing well and are run by a small but effective team, but the question is would startups like these benefit from funding and be in a better position with regards to growth and user base than without vc funding?
More often than not when startups receive funding they move away from satisfying the customers to making investors happy. As the company starts to hire, get a nice office, increase spend on things like office perks, ads, marketing etc while it might contribute to growth it doesnt necessarily work well for the end user. You go from lean to bloat more often than not. I guess that depends on how you manage resources but it isnt exactly easy with investors breathing down your neck
I have a company that is bootstrapped and while there are well funded competitors out there, i'm perfectly fine with my startup running lean and being profitable, albeit slowly. At least I am my own boss and I answer to myself, and that in my world is 'making it'.
Cool idea, but not sure if the Trello boards ux is suitable as a help desk.
At 15$ per month i use Reamaze (https://www.reamaze.com) for my consultancy and it serves as a full featured help desk with slack and github integration as well and i hear they do have a trello in the works, last I asked. Not sure if there are ones out there with a trello integration though.
Believe chat support will go in the ways of instant messaging in the years to come. There's also the upcoming trend of chat bots and AI... Interesting to see how it plays out
For most companies instagram is just a fire and forget thing. I've asked questions on instagram posts before for some brands i follow and i rarely get a reply :( then again i guess it's not easy to sift through all the comments, some of which are spam