Tagged: startups
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When Code Is Free: 9 Things That Still Matter
Network effects, data, distribution, trust, ideas. When anyone can ship anything, everything that isn't code matters more.
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AI is eating SaaS
We just cancelled $32,000/year in SaaS subscriptions and replaced them with tools we built ourselves in about two days each.
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AI Fundamentally Changes the Startup Funding Game
What took $1M+ to build three years ago now takes two people a few weeks. The constraint has shifted from building to distribution.
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ChatGPT vs. Spreadsheet powered AI
ChatGPT is not ready for spreadsheet models. It will give you wrong results … and confidently so.
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When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets
GRID doubles down on spreadsheet modeling
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Spreadsheets: Where businesses dream about their future
Businesses analyze their past using Business Intelligence, but spreadsheet models are where they dream about the future.
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The value of Product Principles
What are Product Principles? Why are they important? How to establish them? …and an example from GRID
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GRID launched: Reflections, insights and gratitude
GRID is now officially out of Beta, and our Pro Plan commercially available.
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How to “pay it forward” without losing focus on your primary responsibilities
I’ve been starting companies for 25 years now, GRID being my fifth as a founder. So I guess that if you buy into the 10,000 hours rule…
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Observations from raising a Series A in 2020
Two weeks ago, GRID announced a $12M Series A funding round led by NEA. I thought it might be interesting for fellow entrepreneurs to read…
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GRID: The Backstory
Although we’ve only been working on GRID for a little over 18 months, the backstory is certainly somewhat longer.
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Spreadsheets as a UI pattern — leveraging knowledge workers’ existing skills
After a somewhat quiet decade or so, the last few years have seen a significant uptick in innovation in the productivity tool space. The…
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The Case for Modern Productivity Tools
Several startups are realizing the power of spreadsheets and the spreadsheet “metaphor” as an end-user development approach: A way to…
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The 20 Best Spreadsheet Quotes
In GRID’s deep dive into the world of spreadsheets, we’ve come across a lot of insightful, witty and sometimes somewhat distressing quotes…
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Excel vs. Google Sheets usage — nature and numbers
This post was written as a part of research for: GRID — the new face of spreadsheets.
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Your biggest competitor is a spreadsheet
This article has also been published on the GRID Blog.
