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The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Butter Thesis
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The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Butter Thesis
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis. The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a tool we u...
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Many years ago, when I had just started working at USV, I remember there was kind of a complicated situation that unfolded in a seemingly bad way, and I'll never forget what Brad said in response. He said:you never know when you've had a good dayI didn't really understand what that meant, so he told me a story that went something like: back around the year 2000 at the height of the dot-com boom, there was a guy who was a senior exec at a successful startup. That person had a falling out with ...
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From the Yak Shaving department Working from the top of the inbox is a recipe for working on stuff that isn't important. But, sometimes you need to write emails. The problem is, to write an email you need to first go to your email client, which usually means passing by your inbox. For me, this often means getting distracted by something there, and possibly forgetting whatever it was I was going to write. Here's my solution, using Gmail and the awesome Quicksilver for Mac. (if you're a mac user and don't use quicksilver, you should) Go to the quicksilver preferences, then go to Triggers. Create a new "hot key" trigger, and paste "https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=cm&fs=1&tf=1" into the prompt. Save, then press the "info" icon, and open up the trigger settings. Under "Settings", enter a Hot Key. I use command-shift-M. When you're done it should look like this:
Now, no matter where you are on your computer, you can type command-shift-M and get a fresh Gmail Compose window. Now take a deep sigh of relief before your
Share Dialog
From the Yak Shaving department Working from the top of the inbox is a recipe for working on stuff that isn't important. But, sometimes you need to write emails. The problem is, to write an email you need to first go to your email client, which usually means passing by your inbox. For me, this often means getting distracted by something there, and possibly forgetting whatever it was I was going to write. Here's my solution, using Gmail and the awesome Quicksilver for Mac. (if you're a mac user and don't use quicksilver, you should) Go to the quicksilver preferences, then go to Triggers. Create a new "hot key" trigger, and paste "https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=cm&fs=1&tf=1" into the prompt. Save, then press the "info" icon, and open up the trigger settings. Under "Settings", enter a Hot Key. I use command-shift-M. When you're done it should look like this:
Now, no matter where you are on your computer, you can type command-shift-M and get a fresh Gmail Compose window. Now take a deep sigh of relief before your
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