If you are a startup founder of planning to become one, I highly recommend you to start investing in other startups. It is the best way to understand how startup work from the investor point of view.
But how a founder, already putting all his/her savings (maybe even parents’ savings too) can become the investor of others. Well it is simple, you can use sites like seedrs to invest from as little as £10 per company.Read more...
This week I was ready to publish 3 technical articles. But that would be too much in one go and many non-tech people would just stop reading. So I’ve decide to make to changes to simplify my blog life:
I will only write about:
Fun stuff on Monday Tech stuff on Tuesday People stuff on Wednesday Simple stuff on Thursday Money stuff on Friday nothing on days I do not work (i.Read more...
Some day ago I was creating a Wardley Map of Strategic Blue’s offering and as we care only about money and cloud, discounts are part of my map.
So I searched online for the different types of discounts available, to them map them to what is already available from cloud vendors. I was expecting 5-7 types of discounts, I found 23, here is the list
Financial discounts Commitment discounts Volume discounts Contractual discounts Buy 1 get 1 Early pay Free shipping Industry (or vertical ) discounts Order specific Seasonal Trade discount (like reseller discount) Cash discount Client specific Geographical Promotional Pre-launch Early birds Cross-sell Upsell Production discounts Customer characteristics Age related discounts Coupon (and discount card) I just discovered that wikipedia has a longer list https://en.Read more...
I am studying to pass the GCP exam and a very confusing part of all Cloud Providers is the amount of products available and how the names are confusing. So here is a list of GCP services and a small summary of what they are.
GCP for AWS experts https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/
This is a WIP and is not planned to be the ultimate guide of anything, that’s what official documentation is for.Read more...
Beware of stats, or at least take them with a ton of salt. Based on stats
on average each humans have one breast and one testicle do not go to bed, most people die in one same with hospital, this is where sick people meet even worst most people die in a bed in an hospital, so never sleep in a hospital based on this and this wikipedia article we could deduce that humans expire at 105.Read more...
A copy of Seth Godin post of the 2019-11-02
Will today’s emergency even be remembered? Will that thing you’re particularly anxious about have been hardly worth the time you put into it?
Better question: What could you do today that would matter a year from now?Read more...
While reading (for the third time, I can be slow) Simon Wardley’s book on Medium I had an epiphanie. What is really important is the OODA loop and in particular the Decide and Act section are the most important topics.
military world In the military world Observe and Orient are “easy” because based on standardised maps and standardised weather reports.
business world In business, there is no such thing as a standard map, or a standard weather report.Read more...
Back to git, again. This time paying more attention and not rushing through the book. The last time I was trying to learn very fast to become a teacher of git, now I only want to master it. This article will probably evolved and will include more and more things for me to remember and if I do it well avoid using duckduckgo for each git command.
Why do you need git, You ask?Read more...
Some years ago my father died of cancer, and one of his last sentence to me was:“I’ve no regrets”. Since then I make sure that at any point in life I can say “I’ve no regrets”.
A business view of this would be:
Regrets are the shareholders of my actionsRead more...