Liam Martin

A staggering 5 million+ mouse jugglers are flooding the market, posing a red alert to your business's productivity and profitability.

@MorganGermani @allthingsgeekk can i get one?

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@michaelpatron0 Had a lot of problems holding down relationships until I got a therapist that put me through a huge psycho analysis and told me exactly who I should date and you might be looking for the same person. Yoga studio owner. Creative, in shape, fun, spiritual and entrepreneurial

Until this year, I never dated a girl that made over 40Kish a year (Waitresses, Hair Stylists, Massage Therapists are my go-tos). So finally dated a few that made 6 figures and....well, that ain't it either, lmao. Gotta get me a sugar mama before Amazon raises fees again.

Half of the statements are wrong but they make me look so good that I’m not going to tell you which ones are true vs not true. Lol.

@andreasklinger Great to see the rebrand, I haven't seen a VC video like that basically ever. So cool!

🚨 Hey folks I got something to announce: I am launching a new investment fund brand: Prototype Capital 🦾 A globally-active first-check investment fund. We focus on cool stuff that's technical hard to achieve, but also still new enough to be a bit weird – globally. Think Robotics in Eastern Europe, AI in SF, Software remotely, OpenSource SaaS, Space-tech in India, Reindustrialization of Europe, AI Agents in Brazil, among many others… - $100k-$200k - we say we invest early and we actually mean it - with every 5th investment we are the first to commit - only 6% of all ivnestments were after seed - the brand will be a larger umbrella for all kinds of stuff from our own prototypes 😬, to streams, to communities, to investinpublic transparency efforts - this is legally speaking a rebrand of my previous solo GP fund so we got track record to proof - we do about 15-20 investments per year Link in thread! 🔥 Please RT if you got a sec – Appreciate your launch support 🙏❤️

Todoist has made more than $100 million in total revenue, which isn't very interesting because many others have reached this number. What's interesting is that we did it in our unique way: — Fully bootstrapped. Customers have supported us since the beginning, and we've used only our revenues to improve things further. — Complete independence. Since we are customer-supported, no one tells us what we can or can't do. — Remote-first. But not only remote-first, we've hired super talented people worldwide who never went to Ivy League schools or worked at Google. Many of the early people who joined Doist have seen a 10x increase in compensation as we've scaled Doist. — Europe mixed with US mentality. We've achieved this by working 40-hour workweeks and taking 40 days of vacation per year. We only work on weekdays. The three-member CXO team has 8 kids, and we got them while we scaled Doist. The most critical personal lesson I've learned is that you can do much more than you think. I came from a refugee background and started a real school in the 4th grade. Starting and running a tech company was not even plausible while growing up. But here we are! So start learning, growing, and building! You got this 😊🚀

Re: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381128… Crazy to see how poor most of my VC funded friends are, literally scraping by Meanwhile my bootstrapped friends are entering HNWI and UHNWI category now buying luxury yachts and mansions (not my thing but good for them) 10 years ago all of them were broke! Founding a VC funded startup is usually 1-5% odds of success or less When u do get successful you only keep 5-10% of equity usually (esp w/ cofounders which is usually reqd to even get VC funding!) but then 1/3rd goes tax so 2.5-5% of $100M-$1B so $2.5M to $50M But u can get the low end of that $20M-$30M if you bootstrap solo properly for 10 years ($1-3M/y biz @ 5x and high margins and save money and invest in ETFs properly) I think impt thing to note is that VCs have a big interest in manipulating public opinion in startup world to make founders think they need VCs and they have the money to spend on it with PR Indie bootstrappers have no incentive to do that at all which is why you hear much less about indie founders in press and public opinion etc while it's a big part of the economy realistically as it's part of small and medium businesses (SMBs are 44% of US GDP!) I think

Anyone who has #humble in their twitter profile I would pretty much guarantee is not humble. Thoughts?

@amix3k It’s sad how they had such a huge head start and fell apart. Are they seriously saying slack will just shut down for a week?

Meanwhile at Slack... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Slack is a sinking ship. If you are looking for a Slack alternative, try out Twist.com

@michaelpatron0 Break it down for us. I don’t know the Ecom game but Saas is basically get more customers, get them to pay you more and/or keep more of them. Every biz I talk to isn’t truly focused on one of those 3 directions.

Gonna net under 1m this year - Goal for next year is 2m and I am WAY off track - running the numbers every which way and the math just ain't mathing. Been focusing to crawl my way back to this 2M every since we did it 2020...been a bit harder than I thought. lol.

@EspreeDevora Kid peed in her bed, very much up.

who's awake rn...?

@nomadicmatt 100+ dollar a plate restaurant in manila told me the table water was filtered. 48 hours and 8 pounds later I discovered the water was indeed not filtered...

@carloborja It seems incredibly illogical that just to preorder wouldn't start the moment they announced it.

@liamremote Pre-order starts on the 15th according o the event.

Super confused, was just about to buy the new iphone. Filled out all the specs and I can't buy it or even pre-order it? Why???

What is Pickle Ball and why is everyone playing it now?

@amix3k I've been thinking about this all week. We are also talking about distributed power delivery since producing small amounts of solar now becomes multiple times more efficient. This can't happen fast enough.

What would room-temperature (and room-pressure) superconductors enable: — Transport of electricity without any loss — Perfect batteries — Magnetically levitating trains that move without friction — Fusion reactors — Quantum computers — Etc. It’s not a wonder that there is massive hype for LK-99! Let’s hope for the best because it would enormously accelerate our progress 🤞

@matthewnemeth @danmontgomery @SimplyDionysus @GhostBRAJ @michaelpatron0 This can break it down: amazon.com/Running-Remote… Or this: youtube.com/watch?v=kNny-2…

Had to fire 2 ppl today. These were employees with 2+ years of tenure. They were remote and clocking in and using software to mimic work but not actually working - prob hundreds of hours of this. I liked these people and they were well liked within the company - Even though...

@JD20379095 @michaelpatron0 Not directly, we can track macros as an example but that's usually helping us show that a user is doing something that's making them more productive and we can teach other team members that same workflow.

@liamremote @michaelpatron0 Does timedoctor flag automation where actual work is still being done? Say like autohotkey being used to complete repetitive tasks that should have been automated in the first place.

@danmontgomery @SimplyDionysus @GhostBRAJ @matthewnemeth @michaelpatron0 Big part of this is asynchronous management. Implementing that is the magic part of deploying remote successfully.

@SimplyDionysus @GhostBRAJ @matthewnemeth @michaelpatron0 @liamremote If you can’t figure out whether or not the job was getting done, was there enough work to do in the first place to justify hiring another person?