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Working from home when Internet connection is unreliable.
(A little bit of magic Stripe does, and I swear it is magic, is ensuring all of the offices and even any temporary event space share the same SSID and whatever networking tomfoolery is necessary such that machines instantly and automatically connect just like they were at HQ.)
(Which means that I get to forget that being "not on the network" is even a state that can happen... right until a certain large Japanese telecom provider servicing my house starts having 12 second ping times.)
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This is fantastic, and “Why do professionals chase out amateurs” is, broadly writ, one of the most interesting questions there is about startups, particularly if you understand how a startup is a collaborative effort by both with a changing mix over time.
I’ll also note that both startups generally and marketplaces specifically benefit enormously by giving amateurs the opportunity to go professional if that is interesting to them, and by accelerating that transition.
(In most relevant respects I was an amateur when I started working on my businesses in 2006. For better or worse, nobody ever comes to you, puts a diploma in your hand, and says “Congratulations! Now you know what you’re doing. Go forth and perform the duties of our profession.”)
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Coming soon to many seed rounds and Series A near you, and also likely to much of the bootstrapping community: cap tables where literally all of the money comes from software people, not traditional sources (VC funds with non-tech LPs).
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The *money* has always been fungible, but the *networks* are increasingly weighted less to “I, a financial services provider, am tight with the firms you’ll raise your next round from” and more “Of course I can pick up a phone and call Google.”
Bluntly, the community can afford it. Napkin math how many accredited investors get how much direct deposited every single payday from AppAmaGooBookSoft alone. 5% of 20% of that is seed rounds for N startups.
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This book would sell X,000 copies pretty quickly and create substantial value, so if anyone wants to take a stab at writing it... Much of it is not rocket science, but having every SaaS entrepreneur independently reinvent not-rocket-science as table stakes is clearly suboptimal.
Simple things like "You're basically going to inevitably eventually have web servers serving live users and the API, worker processes doing aynchronous heavy lifting, and a job queue. You probably *will not* implement a message bus in the way large software shops would."
"Monoliths versus microservices: Make it a monolith. Done. You won't have sufficient organizational complexity to justify the engineering tax of microservices until you have multiple engineering teams, and plausibly your company never gets there."
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