Tagged: startups
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Two of the most common pieces of startup advice are "fail fast" and "never give up"
Fail fast is about killing bets. Never give up is about the problem. Overnight success is what you get when you hold both.
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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.
