verticalflight's comments

verticalflight | 1 year ago | on: VCs aren’t your friends

This is the smart comment. If, as a VC, you know the outliers are hard to find, would you really get distracted by someone being on the market for 1-2 months?

verticalflight | 4 years ago

Just fyi - Mario Andretti and other similar drivers could be placed into any car and would perform at a very high level after a lap or so...

verticalflight | 5 years ago | on: Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects

FAANG = Netflix

verticalflight | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: I built an app that helps amplify the voice of the customer

"And immediately my issue was eventually resolved." - from their testimonial.

verticalflight | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How is your mental health?

Mate, we're all slowly dying.

verticalflight | 10 years ago | on: Behavioral Effect of Metrics

It is important to measure what you treasure.

However the concept of pairing metrics is equally important. Otherwise the power of what is being measured will become the entire focus.

Pairing metrics combine quantity with quality. Like speed of improvement with safety, or quantity of burgers processed with quality of the assembly process.

verticalflight | 10 years ago | on: Jello Biafra's 1979 campaign for Mayor of San Francisco

Bicycles in the city, what a great idea.

verticalflight | 11 years ago | on: How to Figure Out Your Competitors’ Revenues in About 70 Seconds (2013)

Hey Chris, its Kris!

verticalflight | 11 years ago | on: How to Figure Out Your Competitors’ Revenues in About 70 Seconds (2013)

Jason mentions in his article that this applies after the first few million of ARR.

verticalflight | 11 years ago | on: Secret + Quora = Quibbles

Secret + Quora = Reddit

verticalflight | 11 years ago | on: A Leader Struggles to Sell Software Meant to Aid Sales

Clean house first. Take the team down to 3. Get rep productivity back on track.

Then... consider bringing in a sales VP that can responsibly scale.

verticalflight | 11 years ago | on: Shrturl: Faking the web since 1942

Takes rickrolling to a whole new level.

verticalflight | 12 years ago | on: How to Present to Investors

I think you are wrong. The entrepreneurs that intuitively knew this, without reading a blog post about it, were the ones that also got funded.

So hopefully others that don't know this, can adjust their behavior, and possibly have a chance at getting funded.

verticalflight | 13 years ago | on: How 30 days without social media changed my life

3 accounts doesn't sound like "balanced" usage.

verticalflight | 14 years ago | on: I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone

Care to expand on the magnesium and B6 comment?

verticalflight | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What makes you happy?

The key to happiness is setting goals that are recognizably stretch goals for oneself (but not so stretch that they are unachievable), then achieving them, and then taking pause to reflect on the successful achievement of those goals.