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Hi! Welcome to Gingerlime. My name is Yoav Aner. I’m an Antipreneur. What’s an Antipreneur? Think Entrepreneur, minus the cut-throat, growth-at-all-costs mentality. Keeping things sustainable, personal, humane, yet still aiming for profitability. I co-founded a couple of companies. I’m now working on different…

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Getting a bit creepy

I spend a lot of time working with monitoring solutions, and like to measure and track things. The information we collect from our apps tells us a lot about what’s going on. Who’s using it. How frequently they access it. Where they are from. How much time they spend accessing the app etc. And then…

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The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy

If you’re lurking on HackerNews, or are interesting in entrepreneurship, you might occasionally bump into something like this Starbucks coffee is $2.45 + taxes. $100/mo is less than a cup of coffee a day. And it’s very tempting — and somehow logical — to consider how much money we might spend without thinking too much…