Tech Industry & Business — top blog posts on Hacker News · 2022 · page 37

When decisions are reversible, speed them up. The biggest risk is dragging your feet. When decisions are irreversible, slow them down. The biggest risk is making the wrong decision.

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A case study in early-stage startup execution

Wave Blog2022110 points35 comments details

Before joining Wave four years ago, I spoke to a former employee about his experience. He said something that has stayed in my memory ever since: “Wave is really good at execution, so by working at Wave, you’ll learn how to execute very well.” Now that I’ve been here a while, I thought it would be good to write down…

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Why is American administrative capacity in decline?

Don Moynihan2022109 points336 comments details

Some speculative hypotheses

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Meta Reports Second Quarter 2022 Results

Meta Investor Relations2022109 points214 commentscited by 3 details

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Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces

mycodingtales2022109 points102 comments details

The pandemic made evident how much work can, and should, be different. The forced change to accommodate remote workflows also brought to light what I like to call “virtual offices”. Unlike truly remote friendly workplaces optimized for asynchronous communication, these aim to merely transport the office into a virtual…

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Do data-driven companies win?

Benn Stancil2022109 points61 comments details

Some gut-based judgements on the effectiveness of data.

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Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics

Noahpinion2022109 points54 comments details

The supply chain crunch, modern logistics, and that famous trip around the Port of Long Beach

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The Economics of Data Businesses

Pivotal2022109 points5 comments details

How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.

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Engineers should do customer support and success

Notorious2022108 points131 comments details

The best PLG founders, startups, strategies, metrics and community. Every week.

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Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC

The Disinformation Chronicle2022108 points109 comments details

A potential $50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.”

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California Considers Doubling Its Taxes

Tax Foundation2022107 points342 comments details

Practically doubling state taxes—even if the burden is partially offset through state-provided health coverage—could send taxpayers racing for the exits.

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Is there a housing shortage or not?

Brian Potter2022107 points208 comments details

The housing shortage in the US is a perennially popular topic of conversation for the urbanist crowd (which online includes basically everyone.) The basic argument is that housing starts collapsed after the financial crisis and have never truly recovered.

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The branch banking model

Patrick McKenzie2022107 points128 comments details

Ever wondered how bank branches work at a nuts-and-bolts level? Let's dig into the logic and economics of them.

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The YC Summer 2022 Batch

Y Combinator Blog2022107 points110 comments details

For the Summer 2022 batch, we received 19,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 240. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at our 35th Demo Day. Here’s what we saw in the S22 batch.

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