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Re:Al Founder's Plan to Buy Out His Own VCs on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:40PM (#43003588)
Buying out VCs with debt having earned $15 million profit on $134 million revenue last year. Interesting...

Unpaywalled version: https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https:/www.forbes.com/sites/ia...

Re:AI Founder's Plan to Buy Out His Own VCs on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:39PM (#43003572)
Gotcha. That makes sense, thanks.
Re:AI Founder's Plan to Buy Out His Own VCs on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:34PM (#42985044)
Buying out VCs with debt having earned $15 million profit on $134 million revenue last year. Interesting... P.S. It's unpaywalled Forbes article, not sure if that's kosher here.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024) on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:22PM (#39993307)
Is Ashby much better at the hiring workflow than Notion?
Re:Ask HN: Contractors, what is your hourly rate? on Saturday August 27, 2022 @07:24AM (#32617842)
I’m a Notion Consultant. I usually avoid hourly work but when I do some coaching/training sometimes. In that case, I charge between $300 and $1000 session (60 to 90 mins).

Ask HN: When building a company/team, do you focus on “knowledge management”?

Posted by optemization on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Knowledge Management (KM) as an idea/principle feels important yet obscure and too "archaic/enterprise".I think it's important because good KM practices ensure that teammates/employees are able to autonomously and asynchronously capture, organize and share knowledge. So that they can do their job faster and more efficiently.On the other hand, the term "feels" so old and outdated that I don't...

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you? on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:50PM (#31951840)
I don't know much about the space but if you're just starting out, I'd pay attention to two interesting companies: 1. https://www.synthesis.com (productizing Elon Musk school) 2. https://primer.com (community for home schooled kids)
Re:What tool do you use to write software design docs and what don't l... on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:44PM (#31951731)
There's missing link between visual design tools (Figma etc.) and documentation tools (Notion etc.). Yes, you can embed Figma into Notion but that's where the interconnectedness ends.

I think it's very important for a smooth workflow.

I've been keeping tabs on two apps that are trying to merge a canvas/whiteboard and docs: 1. https://cloverapp.com/ 2. https://heptabase.com/

It's an interesting and relevant problem to solve.

Re:Show HN: Startup School OS – Notion Operating System for Startup Sc... on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:40PM (#31951668)
That's a clever launch :)
Re:A tool to get more Deep Work done on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:05AM (#31862017)
Not a sponsored post. Just in love with the tool!

Ask HN: How do you use Notion?

Posted by optemization on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:39AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm seeing people use it for hundreds of different things both for business and personal use cases. It's not good at everything but I find myself hacking and twisting instead of using multiple apps, so curious if this is a similar for y'all.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022) on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:49AM (#31595569)
There's something wrong with how you set it up. I can't open the individual position on the public Notion page. Do those pages have restricted permissions?

See: https://share.cleanshot.com/bT1jYG

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:16PM (#25426943)
I run https://optemization.com.

Formally, its a "digital operations" agency but I'm experimenting with a newsletter, YouTube videos and selling Notion templates.

Made $55k in 8 months. Idk if that's successful but I'm having a blast.

Re:Notion Timeline View on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:53PM (#25066245)
it's a long awaited update for the Notion community. Beyond the timeline view, they introduced the ability to hide database properties in card view, so that doesn't obstruct content, which btw, adding content to a database record in a vertical UI is one of the best Notion features, so they made it so much nicer.

just like any new Notion features, there are bells and whistles so, i went ahead and carefully broke them down in today's blog post: https://optemization.com/timeline-view-notion

Re:Decision Journal in Notion on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:24PM (#24986431)
yeah, sometimes I feel that the FS template is an overkill that's why I delete prompts often. Maybe it's a good idea to create a "simple decision" template.
Re:Decision Journal in Notion on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:23PM (#24986429)
woah! makes me think, once Notion has reliable API and offline mode, we'll be building entire products there.
Re:Decision Journal in Notion on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:11PM (#24984024)
What: Two Notion database templates of decisions modeled after the Farnam Street Decision Journal.

Why: To help you and your team make better decisions.

How: Once you receive a link over email, open it and click "Duplicate" on the top right to copy this page to your Notion workspace. Use it.

Here's a blog post about this template was published on the Digital Opssessions newsletter. There's also a video breakdown: https://optemization.com/decision-journal-notion

Re:Show HN: Founderpath – Raise $10k-$1m in 72 hours, free revenue ana... on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:38PM (#24074064)
why do you think the vc have not thought of that? also, why do this over like the shl micro angel?

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