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jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: How housing became the world’s biggest asset class

Remove all the housing regulation in California and allow builders to build. You'll smoothly see rents going down to $500/month. Start having integrity and finally do what's best for your country, not best for just yourself. Otherwise... All other countries are quickly catching up (esp. Europe and Asia) and soon, it will be irrelevant.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: How to Invest in Startups

Off topic: I can't subscribe to this blog with any of my emails (at the bottom of the page), getting a "Invalid email" for literally any valid email address I would enter.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: Loudness war

WHY does this happen? Does loud music sell better than silent music? Nobody here, not even Wikipedia, mentions the reason WHY it happens.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: Guide to speaking at tech conferences

I'm also not a huge fan in general, but it's a distinctly good method for getting feedback when building an API or product.

Let me tell you this story: October 2019 we did something similar, but took it to the extreme: We created 8 conventions on 8 days in 8 major cities in Germany to learn more about private investors and our customers. Time-wise, almost no rational person would've invested so much time.

We talked to almost 1000 real and some prospective customers. The learnings were amazing. In the following 4 weeks, we managed to improve product and reduce churn by 3X (~24% to 6%), which is generally unheard of. It was one of the best ways ever to build up user empathy and understanding real, underlying needs as well as a ton of UX problems.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

"current customers who would switch to linux". Again, this is 0 incremental revenue but a ton of incremental costs to Adobe.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: The Amazon Premium

One more idea: "$BIG_TECH has huge developer economies-of-scale".

Whenever I or one of our devs has a problem with AWS or configuration, there's a 99% probability that anyone had this problem before and I find high quality google search results. That's not the case for OVH, Digital Ocean, ...

With developer salaries at 350'000 USD/year, you can now calculate the massive amount of savings.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift

Tiny improvement suggestion: remove the "collapse" button and show the residual items on mouse hover of any of the top right menu bar area automatically. Save me the extra clicks. That would be exceptional user design :) Right now, it's not worth the extra 2 clicks for "a cleaner look", so I did not download

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: The Lesson to Unlearn

It's exactly the same with hiring at FANG/McKinsey/BCG/... :). You optimize for the (well known) interview process. You study 10 hours/day for 2 weeks. And you get the job with 99% accuracy.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?

FIRST build a successful business, THEN try to sell it. You try so sell something that's essentially worthless, and even worse: you have zero negotiating power. So at best, you would accept an offer of ~10'000 USD. This is the cold hard truth in this case, and I don't mean it in any bad way.

jakobmi | 6 years ago | on: Small Projects, Big Companies

Dropbox ultimately failed at B2B, and Box/Azure/Apple/Amazon/Google/ and others have taken their spot way before Dropbox opened up a B2B product.
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