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Jon Yongfook @yongfook
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10 days left to launch my 3rd startup of the 12 month challenge. Looking at all the cool stuff coming out of #24hrstartup I do feel like a bit of a slacker!
I've been in naming paralysis for a while now. Most of the functionality finished, but I can't really get any of the design work started until I have a name I'm happy with. Anyone else *constantly* have this problem?
Tried all the usual naming tools but this is such a subjective problem to solve. Most of them come out with stuff that's either unusably bad or usable but no "zing" (there's the subjective part...)
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1/ I’ve had a few days to reflect on the last 4 months of my startup challenge and I think it’s time for a pivot / recalibration

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2/ The challenge began with me wanting to practice execution again, after almost 3 years in a senior corporate role where I didn’t touch any code. I missed building things, had the luxury of free time, so it seemed like a good goal to just “practice shipping”.
3/ Now, after 4 consistent launches in 4 months I feel I’ve proved to myself I’ve still got the knack. I can still build and ship a decent MVP within a given time constraint. But I’m not happy.
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Not many people go from launch to sustaining lifestyle in just a couple of months. Maybe that happens to some in survivorship-bias-land. But back in the real world it takes a lot longer. My last SaaS took 6+ months to get to just a few thousand $ MRR.
And that was when I was focused on ONE SaaS product and spent a good amount of time on content marketing every day.
I’ve said many times that revenue isn’t my short term goal. I’ve launched a free open source app, an app that charges $1, an app that has pricing but isn’t charging anything yet, and a job board in a competitive niche. These aren’t the actions of someone focused on revenue 😅
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Without a doubt, yes. But then who is to say which strategy is right? Build another MVP or focus on an existing one? I feel like I will “know” when it’s the right time to really focus.
In the end whether you’re successful from iterating one product consistently or successful from trying many things and seeing what works - it’s all down to the chaos monkeys anyway 😅
I think the 12 startup method suits me best because I haven’t quite decided what industry / area I want to focus on. So it’s all experimentation. Even if I wanted to focus on one thing I don’t know what that one thing would be. Yet!
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Okay so I tuned in briefly to the MU69 webcast and OMG Olivier Barnouin-Jha just spewed more OSIRIS-REx science than I've heard since they arrived at Bennu. I took a lot of screen caps but may not be able to do much with them until tomorrow
I do have some time, so here we go with OSIRIS-REx science screen caps. First up, some stuff on Bennu's phase curve. It shows "bluing" at lower phase angles. This is information only spectroscopists could love, but I know some spectroscopists, so here you go. 1/n
Olivier Barnouin-Jha: Ryugu is much more uniform in color than Bennu is. Look at all the spectral variation! 2/n
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Down at the Fresno City Council meeting November 8,2018 Among the items on the agenda are adding Adding 8 Emergency Dispatchers to Fresno Police Department, Consider a 9000 sq ft FUNERAL HOME with a 190 seat chapel at Nees Ave and Bond St No crematory or body, Approve an up to
$20 million tax-exempt loan to HOTEL FRESNO Apartments via California Municipal Finance Authority (CMFA). Proposed $20 a scooter fee for companies like Lime and Bird. Among Consent items $300,000 land acquisition for relocation of Fire Station 10
Appointment of Ruby Yanez to
to Fresno Housing Authority
Reappointment of Richard Keyes to Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board. PURCHASE of two rear-loading refuse trucks for $612,000
PURCHASE of 7 sideloading refuse trucks for $2.5 million
PURCHASE of one Caterpillar Cold Planer machine $600,000
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1/13 I just published an interactive blog post on the topic of inversion recovery T1 mapping for quantitative MRI! #ISMRM

Even if qMRI isn't your thing - it has a lot of cool technical features under the hood that might interest you.

qmrlab.org/jekyll/2018/10…
2/13 The interactive tutorial was built using a wide range of free open-source softwares, packages, and tools: @qMRLab @plotlygraphs @ProjectJupyter @ScriptOfScripts @mybinderteam @Docker @GnuOctave @ThePSF @github
3/13 On the front-end side, the tutorial includes several interactive figures, made possible thanks to @plotlygraphs. These allow you to see in your browser how the plotted curves behaves when you change a parameter:
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[Tweetstorm] What's the TAM Chasm? A #SaaS #startup story

Early stage founders typically get thrown for a loop when they're asked for their TAM. Here's two ways to think about it that both make sense, but not really for the same person at the same time!
Let's say you're a domain expert - 10-15 years in manufacturing sw for auto ancillary units. You know the end users, you've done pre-sales, deployment, you know what their problems are, you even know how to solve some

You decide to startup to solve one of the problems Yay!
The founders of your company hate to see you leave, but also know you're a go-getter. They agree to support you with angel investment, and access to customers. You find a few friends who're hitting a glass ceiling, and want out of mid-mgmt, and into an exciting startup.
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Good technically still morning, babies. Your weird Twitter political analyst is not doing so great. Insomnia phase plus the onset of something that's making my throat and limbs hurt.

(This tweet does not contain a question. Unsolicited advice givers will be blocked.)
There is a lot happening right now (there's a lot happening all the time now) and it is hard to keep up with all of it. New evidence against the Trump conspirators is breaking every day, and this time around some of it is even surprising, not just confirmation.
Like, it's not surprising that Wikileaks coordinated with people inside the Trump campaign.

It's stunning that they approached Don-Don through Twitter DMs.
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1/ I'm walking around lower Manhattan half lost. I know what I'm looking for - it's close, but coming out of the subway has me turned around. I've never been here before, it's literally my first time in New York City...

It's October 19th, 1987. I'm 18 years-old.
2/ What I'm looking for is the New York Stock Exchange. After nurturing dreams all through high school of working on "Wall St," my aim - of all things - is just to see the NYSE. Now that I'm here, it's all I can think about.
3/ Still confused, I'm lured to the WTC mainly because it's famous. I recognize it from TV/movies, and my adolescent mind infers a connection to the stock market b/c of the famous Comex scene in Trading Places. I don't yet understand commodities & stocks have different exchanges.
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