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Re:Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate on Saturday July 06, 2024 @09:39PM (#40894636)
Smart! That is an interesting application of contextualism.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos with AI on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:12PM (#40374849)
The search bar in Finder does a decent job searching for text (recursively) in files and PDFs.
Re:Combating olive oil fraud with nuclear innovations on Sunday March 03, 2024 @05:00PM (#39584932)
How exactly is spectroscopy a nuclear innovation?

Ask HN: What is your All-Hands Cadence and Agenda?

Posted by stork19 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm co-founder and CEO of a 5-year old startup. We're now big enough to justify all-hands' meetings to keep the team aligned on goals and objectives.What best-practices have you seen/experienced for all-hands meetings? I'm particularly interested in: * Cadence (monthly, quarterly) * Agenda (business metrics, product milestones, etc.)While I know what I want to talk about in the first meeting,...

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Re:Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:43AM (#38519522)
There was an autonomous Lebanon of one form of another since at least the 16th century, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Emirate
Re:Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:52AM (#38518751)
Actually, a self-governing Lebanon existed in one form or another since at least the 16th century: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Emirate
Re:Leonard vs. Pepsico, Inc on Sunday November 12, 2023 @11:12AM (#38241421)
More like $1.3M in today's dollars.
Re:Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:26PM (#38014511)
Fabulously written.
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:25PM (#37407383)
Noooo. Manuals are on average much more efficient. I drive a 1st generation Honda Insight, and the manual version gets ~10 mpg more than the automatic.
Re:Ask HN: Is frugality underrated in startups? on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:02AM (#25810689)
Equity is actually the most expensive form of capital (measured by an investor's required return on capital). If a startup could raise debt financing, that would no doubt be preferable. However that's quasi-impossible with no revenue. I do agree with the other parts of this answer though.