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kludgekrafton There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”

What is the main reason though? The BigCo being too risk averse? Or employees having too much of a safety net? Or BigCo processes weighing the team down? A combination of these?

kludgekrafton IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed

Yes, I do the same, only on https://www.zidisha.org/

100 dollars have been used for 500+ loans, the last 8 years or so. While you can pick the recipients yourselves, I've opted for automatic re-lending on the platform.

kludgekrafton Google's Back Up

All fine for me

kludgekrafton The End of the IPO as We Know It?

Completely agree. But I'm guessing today's late stage VC and PE still think of IPO as the ultimate 'exit'. If the investors sign up to provide enough liquidity or even providing partial exits to founders/employees, they'll have provided the company enough leeway to turn profitable.

kludgekrafton Canadians name top appliance brands that break down

An increasing number of brands are just that, brands. They buy product from china, slap their logo onto the product and go to market. If consumers complain of poor quality, brands look for a new OEM, but cannot do much more. Service is often outsourced to other companies making the brand incentivised even less.

kludgekrafton The End of the IPO as We Know It?

Late stage VC and PE went after sky-high valuations, startups didn't see the need to go IPO for much longer than the yesteryears. At some point, they run out of money and IPO is their only option to raise afresh. VC/PE must correct this by bringing their valuations inline with the IPO market and be just a stepping stone and not the ultimate step in the fundraising market

kludgekrafton How many users block Google analytics? (2017)

Please take a look at Blokada: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.blokada.alarm/

You'll have to get it from the F-Droid app store, but this doesn't require a rooted phone. It uses a local VPN to block ads at the network level, hence no ads in your apps as well

I've been using this for a month and it works wonderfully

kludgekrafton How many users block Google analytics? (2017)

Analytics should be one of your sources. Server logs is another. I know of a company that has a whatsapp group for people who've contacted them via support, and one more for "fans". Each of these bring novel perspectives, and its up to the org to extract signal out of them.

kludgekrafton A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

As a B2B startup building an enterprise product, we've had to be wary of using external services as a part of our offering. Our customers prefer predictable/fixed-annual pricing and do not sign up for saas pricing models, especially the ones that cost a lot at scale. Also, this eats into our margins as the external service has no obligation/contract to reduce prices.