#Startups
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How to hire low experience, high potential people
The page argues that startups should hire some inexperienced but high-potential people, then evaluates them for wins above replacement, originality, drive, EQ, excellence, openness, and humility.
2008 Redux: The Great Tech Reset
The post argues that the 2008 crisis forced startups into discipline, lean execution, customer validation, and resilience, and that those habits shaped companies that later became giants.
How not to be boring
PostHog argues that brand and website shape how people judge a startup, and that being specific, transparent, and intentionally opinionated can attract the right users while turning away the wrong ones.
Software Engineering Talent is Gold Right Now
The job market is weak, but experienced software engineers can automate tedious or semi-manual workflows, create marketing assets, and get high leverage from tools like ChatGPT and Cursor.
Surviving the Dot-Com Collapse Lessons
The post revisits the dot-com crash to argue that growth without cash flow, discipline in costs, realistic narratives, and patience with timing are what let companies survive downturns.
Original Startup Garage: Hobbyists, Hackers, and Home PCs
The page shows how the garage became a myth of origin for Silicon Valley, tied to hobbyists, hackers, and home PCs, but argues that networks, capital, and timing mattered more.
The Infinite Growth Illusion
The post argues that startup growth is often treated as endless acceleration, but markets saturate and companies need spurts, recovery, and sound operations to last.
How to Hire a Great Web Designer
The text highlights that design can differentiate web startups and that the company should have design leadership early. It also says that whoever evaluates designers needs to understand the work or ask someone trustworthy for help.
Picking Your Tech Stack For Dummies (and the future)
The post gives rules of thumb for early startup stack choices: use what you know when very early, prefer popular and supported technologies, stay mostly boring, but keep enough novelty to recruit and replace tech intentionally over time.
Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?
Revisits a year-old prediction that AI would create as many jobs as it automates, using startup headcount and funding data to show compute substituting for labor instead.
The AI pricing and monetization playbook
Bessemer's playbook on AI pricing: unlike SaaS, every AI query has a real compute cost, so the charge metric (tokens, workflows, or outcomes) becomes a strategic bet on what the product is worth.
About Brajeshwar
Brajeshwar Oinam traces his career from a floppy-disk design test in a Mumbai internet café in 1999 to Chief Product Officer roles spanning cricket media, mobile dating, retail supply chains and climate tech.
Loyalty Is Dead In Tech - by Nikunj Kothari - Balancing Act
A VC argues the unwritten loyalty pact between founders, employees, and investors is broken, citing acquihires, founders leaving on the eve of exits, and funds backing rival startups.
The Startup Winter Is Always Coming
The article argues that startup booms always give way to downturns, so founders should expect cycles, keep cash discipline, build real customer value, and prepare while capital is still cheap.
The Importance of Clean Code in Your Startup's Success
The post argues that clean code helps startups win investor, customer, and partner trust, while reducing tech debt and making changes easier. It also lists basic habits for keeping code readable, consistent, and maintainable.
Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing
Jessica Livingston argues that early-stage startups should work the sales end of the sales-marketing continuum: talk to a few highly interested users, learn from them, and build the product through manual outreach.
[dotnetarchitects] [OFF] - Utlização do .Net no mundo afora
Discussão sobre a presença do .NET fora do ambiente Microsoft, com contraste entre enterprise e startups, e argumentos sobre produtividade, especialização e escolha de stack conforme o problema.
Hiring Your Best Friend as a Co-Founder
The writer says friendship can help a startup, but salary, equity, and performance discussions become harder. He argues for clarity, patience, and visible work before making someone a co-founder.
Carta para um Jovem Programador Considerando uma Startup
O texto questiona a idealização das startups, lembra que elas são só um meio e descreve seus custos sociais, profissionais e pessoais, sem tratar empreendedorismo como destino inevitável.