In Canada, our CGM's are over the counter, which is pretty cool...you can get the Freestyle Libre or Dexcom CGMs right from the pharmacy without a prescription
The ending with GT was great, where he talked about the importance of maintaining a growth mindset in the startup and tech ecosystem, so that more startups can be built in the future.
It's something that you see in podcasting, vlogging, and comedy, where people help each other out, rather than compete with a self-serving mindset of "winner take all"
It was great to hear Garry spread the message of wanting to help others, from both a VC and company-building standpoint
Hey HN Community!Ben Grynol here – I’m one of the co-founders of Thisten (thisten.co)Thisten is an audio-to-text platform where transcripts are created and aggregated from podcasts, for people to search, reference and discover.When we first started building Thisten, our product was much different – it was a platform where we transcribed speaker sessions at conferences to make them more...
The "Dark Horse" in spot two is quite the outlier
As for number 1, I think they got the GOAT right. IG has proven to be a ridiculously good acquisition…not just in economic value, but also in how quickly the platform grew, given the team size of 13 when it was acquired
I've run two successful campaigns (one on Indiegogo, and one on Kickstarter), which both surpassed the fundraising targets.
When putting together the campaigns, we modelled out everything thoroughly to account for all the costs that go into a campaign – manufacturing, packaging, shipping, duties, tariffs, etc
Our team all had experience in manufacturing / retail / business, so we knew that it was integral to get the economics right, and to model out the pricing at different scenarios.
If people are off on the economics, and a campaign hits scale, a $1 variance that isn't accounted for can be a big deal if you're shipping tens of thousand of units.
One other key was to confirm costs and get commitments for those costs with factories before starting the campaign. If this isn't done, then manufacturers have leverage after a campaign is over and aren't always willing to negotiate on price. They know that a team needs a product made and has commitments to ship them, so sourcing factories becomes much more challenging after a campaign is complete.
With that said, I've backed a number of successful campaigns that have come through with the product and timeline they committed to, so there are many successful campaigns, but some of the largest campaigns also prove to be the most challenging to follow through on.
Are there specific podcasts (or voice-related activities) where you wish you had transcripts that you could search, discover and reference content?What other reasons would you use the transcripts for?What do you wish you could do with voice-related transcripts if they were available?
Didn't see the other post on HN from Google's blog :)