The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin

Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by crsv on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:58AM (#19551214)

Firstround shills for their founders like no other. No mention of the discipline as it relates to profitability, a healthy CAC:LTV, equity efficiency - but plenty of vanity metrics to go around, naturally amount of money raised and team size. These VC fluff pieces are increasingly insufferable PR.

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by GraffitiTim on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:00AM (#19551437)

It's insane to refer to this article as a fluff piece. It's a detailed, transparent, numerical, inside look at how a particular founder runs various aspects of her business.

It's one of the least fluffy pieces I've seen about a startup.

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by valuearb on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:45AM (#19551605)

Is this one of those “great businesses” that’s never turned a profit and will disappear like a puff of smoke in the next economic downturn?

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by ztratar on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:09AM (#19551724)

Read the article.

See where she says "we're default alive" in an email to her company?

That means they were profitable back in 2016. I assume now with extra capital that might not be the case, but that's the re-invest in the growth strategy, a la Amazon (which is smart).

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by hellot848 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:48AM (#19551622)

I'd say it's more likely to peter out/be acquired and killed due to the overall lack of vision. Discipline is good for local optimization, but it doesn't build huge companies on its own.

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by bb92849281 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:05AM (#19551247)

First Round is not an investor in Front.

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by crsv on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:09AM (#19551260)

They don’t put these pieces together out of a collegial respect for random entrepreneurs.

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by skrebbel on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:00AM (#19552242)

Correct, it's called content marketing. YC does it too.

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Re:The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s M... by bb92849281 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:14AM (#19551281)

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