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Think Growth
thinkgrowth.org · Company blog · on HN since 2016
Think Growth is a Medium publication with startup advice on analytics, culture, hiring and company growth, written by founders and operators.
What HN saysHN commenters use it for discussion of startup analytics, fundraising and Uber's market position, and one founder shares a bet-the-company story about integrating with Slack.
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- 1The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics5 people · 10 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Uber Is Going to 0, and Benchmark Knows It2 people · 32 points · first shared 2017 · 7 comments on HN
- 3One Click to Help Save Net Neutrality2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 4Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves2 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 5Why Good People Leave Large Tech Companies1 people · 410 points · first shared 2017 · 245 comments on HN
- 6Why successful startups stumble at 40 employees1 people · 277 points · first shared 2017 · 119 comments on HN
- 7Assessing a startup’s culture before joining1 people · 15 points · first shared 2018 · 14 comments on HN
- 8The 3/2/2/1 Method: Using Self-Awareness to Work Well Remotely1 people · 7 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9Why Uber Is the Revenge of the Founders – ThinkGrowth.org1 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Success Is Making Those Who Believed in You Look Brilliant1 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 11Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them, by Steve Blank1 people · 4 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 12I Don’t Really Believe in “Work-Life Balance”1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Stop Blogging and Start Building Tools for Great Content Marketing ROI1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Why We Traded Scrum for “Science Fair” to Build HubSpot1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Steve Blank: the 9 startup deadliest sins1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
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zby · 2019-02-06
Uber is actually not the best example of a natural global monopoly - because it needs to compete locally - most taxi rides are for local population. So there might be a natural monopoly (or duopoly) for a taxi app - but one per a metro area. This is different from AirBnB - where the app works truly globally. https://thinkgrowth.org/uber-is-going-to-0-and-benchmark-knows-it-1566…
thekhatribharat · 2019-07-15
1. What do you think of NoETL and SQL++?
Ref: https://www.couchbase.com/products/analytics
2. Do you think adopting a tool like Dataform makes more sense at mid-stage companies?
Ref: https://thinkgrowth.org/the-startup-founders-guide-to-analytics-1d2176…
giancarlostoro · 2019-03-12
Investing so you can make more money? Even Microsoft has raised money to be reinvested, and they've been profitable for decades.
https://thinkgrowth.org/why-you-should-raise-money-when-you-dont-need-…
andygcook · 2020-08-24
Agreed and happy to share because you asked.
At the time, the "company" was just my co-founder and me. We were essentially going to fail/give up by taking on consulting work. The decision to integrate with Slack was a bit of a bet-the-company move. We were building an internal wiki to compete with Confluence. Our early beta users told us they'd use our MVP, and when we gave it to them, no one actually did. When we asked, they just said, "We just keep forgetting. Still interested." We then asked about hooking up our wiki to Slack so you could search from Slack and get notifications for new content, and they wanted that desperately. Some teams even pre-paid us to build it for them. So we scrapped our whole MVP and three months of work, and rebuilt the entire product on top the Slack platform in two weeks over the holidays.
When I say, "on top of Slack", I mean we literally used Slack's APIs as our backend and just rebuilt a "wiki" front end serving up Slack files from the APIs. We even deep linked to their Post as the editor in our wiki. The goal was to validate demand so we did it as leanly as possible. Once we launched, we got about 200 sign ups in 48 hours. From there, we built a real product, which is now tettra.com.
I wrote an article about the pros and cons of building on another company's platform about a year after that which goes into more details if you're interested: https://thinkgrowth.org/building-on-slack-saved-our-startup-94953fdaf2…