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Tal Hoffman

2 months

Finally, we're launching ! Now, you can create your own AI phone assistants, no coding needed. Here's a quick demo of an AI customer support rep for Shopify built using Leo:

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10 months

@risty100 This is clearly not done by an airstrike. More likely Hamas snipers. @CommunityNotes

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@lexfridman “ChatGPT, please provide me with some clichés I can tweet”

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@Nrg8000 Great analysis. BUT, there ought be a more vocal discussion regarding the reliability of the numbers released by the Palestinian Health Ministry.

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@AvivaKlompas Hamas = Nazis

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@visegrad24 Inversely proportional to their lies

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@MicrosoftLoop

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@TheMossadIL A true HERO. May he RIP 💔

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9 months

@MOSSADil “Civilian” death count: +2

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2 years

@JonErlichman Ryan Howard, is that you?

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@paulg Ryan Howard from The Office, is that you?

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@werderbremen Danke 💚💔

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1 year

@frantzfries Only thing that’s missing in that salad is Blockchain

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9 months

@TheMossadIL Oh no! They’re shirtless!

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10 months

@paulg Thirty-two children were taken hostage, some of whom are now orphans after their parents were murdered by Hamas.

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11 months

@paulg As long as you don’t decide, both selectively and untruthfully, who is powerless and who is not. Otherwise, you just become self-righteous.

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11 months

@DanaGat1 מזוויע. דעא״ש בישראל

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9 months

@MichaelRapaport @DouglasKMurray The country of Israel owes you both a great deal of gratitude and love. Thank you! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇱

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11 months

@ElieMesso @MarioNawfal LOL You’re aware that her husband is still being held hostage by them, right??

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

פעם ראשונה מקשיב לפרק הזה שבו דוד מראיין את @eytanlevit על הכישלון של יובי. מדהים לשמוע את הדכדוך והכנות משולבים באופטימיות ואמונה, בפרספקטיבה של מה הם בנו בסוף עם מיקסטיילס. מעורר השראה, ומוכיח שבסוף היזמים שמצליחים זה אלה שלא מפסיקים לנסות. אייקוני

פרק 24: הכשלון של יובי, דוד מראיין את איתן

Episode · השבוע: פודקאסט על סטארטאפים · בשנתיים האחרונות איתן עבד על יובי, סטארטאפ ואפליקציה לשיתוף תמונות משפחה. לפני כמה שבועות איתן סגר את יובי, יובי נכשלה. סטארטאפים נסגרים כל הזמן, אבל אנחנו לא...

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Tal Hoffman

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10 months

@paulg Also:

Amjad Taha أمجد طه

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Breaking News: Just now, #Hamas snipers have reportedly killed dozens of children and women on the streets, targeting those attempting to travel from north to south #Gaza and those displaying white flags as a sign of peace. Similar acts have previously been attributed to

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11 months

@ClimateCompadre @AvivaKlompas Beheadings > Siege Rape > Siege Get your moral compass straight

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10 months

@mhfootballclub התנצלות אישית של כל אחד או זריז מטוס הביתה. ביאסתם את התחת. לא מסוגלים להניף שלט למען אזרחים חטופים, חלקם יושבי היציע (לא שזה משנה משהו)? גועל נפש

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

@paulg Where the heck do people drive pickup trucks as a fashion statement?

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Tal Hoffman

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9 months

@karol So innocent.

Mossad Commentary

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9 months

🚨 More armed terrorists surrender to the IDF forces and lay down their weapons.

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2 years

@tobi @amarcela @Shopify Respect for both replies

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9 months

@mondowitz “He helped lead and inspire a generation of writes in Gaza” This explains a lot. So much for inspiration…

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9 months

@paulg Israel Jew here. I don't think you're anti-semitic. And since you're clearly anti-Hamas and, I suppose, would love to see them eradicated - how do you suggest this is done?

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

@gdibner What’s the bottom line then, in non-VC speak? Firms going under in 2023?

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Tal Hoffman

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10 months

@doritsos היה בנאדם עם לב שכולו זהב. עזר לי מיוזמתו כשיצאתי לדרך היזמות. בטוח שעידו האלוף (בוס לשעבר) והצוות התותח בפיירפליי יגשימו לו את החלום. יהי זכרו ברוך 💔

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

Apparently someone posted my Firecracker Internals blog post from 2021 on @hackernews , and it got to 5th place. 🤯

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Tal Hoffman

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11 months

@Ike_Saul I appreciate the thoughtful analysis, but I think it’s still missing nuances. E.g: Saying you want Hamas to be cleared and eliminated, then saying the IDF should not bomb their buildings is contradictory. It’s impossible to wipe them out otherwise given that they are so

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11 months

@BillAckman @therealnirs lol good one Iran doesn’t need to engage directly, it uses proxies.

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Tal Hoffman

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3 years

What are status pages even for? * AWS us-east-1 is down * Also AWS: #aws

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

@liron @a16z At least he didn't say 'Blockchain'

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Tal Hoffman

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10 months

@EylonALevy Fucking holocaust scenes. Monsters

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

@levie Reminds me of your great lecture on building software for the enterprise. A must watch for every B2B software startup founder.

Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise (Aaron Levie)

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Aaron-levie-lecture-12-sales-and-marketing-annotatedAaron Levie - founder of Box, enterprise master, Twitter comed...

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@levie @sama @elonmusk Aaron's work time since discovering ChatGPT

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@elonmusk

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11 months

@nexta_tv This is what we’re up against. Please share! @AlexCohen @ilyasu @shaunmmaguire @yuris @levie

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Tal Hoffman

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8 months

@mehdirhasan I guess that Hezbollah firing rockets at Israel since Oct 7th doesn’t count as a violation of Israeli sovereignty, does it? Were you sad when Bin-Laden was eliminated? Or al-Baghdadi?

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

@the_lightheart @Eli_Barbel לדעתי זו הדרך הנכונה לבנות סטארטאפ מוצלח, כשהמרדף אחרי pmf במרכז, ולא ״המשחק בסטארטאפ״ - גיוס של צוות גדול מדי, מרדף אחרי משרדים מפוארים… התקציב הזה דוחף אותם להתמקד במה שחשוב, ובפחות ב hiring מאסיבי ושקרי. חוץ מזה, סטארטאפ b2c בארץ בכל זאת. סופר מרשים בעיניי.

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2 years

@navotvolk ‘Book a Demo’ הכפתור השנוא עליי עלי אדמות

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@liadagmon ניקוי הסרטן שנקרא חמאס וג׳יאהד איסלאמי, כולל חיסול ארוך טווח של כל זרועות חמאס חו״ל, אה-לה ספטמבר השחור. במקביל שיקום הרצועה ויצירת אלטרנטיבה כלכלית. השאיפה צריכה להיות בידוד מתמשך ואגרסיבי של רעיונות טרור (מקל) מיצירת כלכלה (גזר). לא יודע כמה זה ריאלי, אבל זה בעיניי הכיוון (מה

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@antoniogm Unless you’re closer the border, then the time decreases down to 15 seconds even, and in some places it’s 0 seconds.

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@antoniogm Tbh we all wish to get to fake virtual conflict, optional realities, status contests, and atomization right now.

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@chaimlevinson יהי זכרו ברוך 😢 מציאות בלתי נתפסת

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@paulg I still refer to Meta as Facebook

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@amasad And you can see the Israeli comments condemning it and calling for the police to take action.

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2 years

@amitaiz * סטארטפים בתחום ה cloud security בזה הרגע *

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@lexfridman “ChatGPT, please provide me with some clichés I can tweet”

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@liron @a16z

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@IDFSpokesperson מטורף 👏🇮🇱 גיבור על

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2 years

@IamInvestor_ אז זה לא עובד?

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2 years

First pre-sale, first few $$$ in the bank. Exciting yet a bit stressful. Now back to work. 💪 #Startups

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1 year

@levie Never realized they are a cybersecurity company

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@paulg In Israel it's ~1 year to get an interview appointment.

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

‘Personalized Product Demos’ is a great example of a new startup category being invented. It has become super competitive, super quickly: @WalnutInc , @DemostackHQ , @GetReprise , @GetSmartCue , @storylaneio , @navattic , YC’s Lancey, @GetSaleo May the best ones win. #Startups

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@ElieMesso @MarioNawfal

Freed Israeli grandmother is a peace activist who helped sick Gazans, grandson says

Yocheved Lifshitz, an Israeli grandmother released by Hamas militants on Monday, is a peace activist who together with her husband helped sick Palestinians in Gaza get to hospital for years, her...

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1 year

GenAI can be quite a distraction for early stage founders at this point. Generally speaking, good startup ideas come from solving real problems, not blindly applying new tech to old problems (aka, ‘Solution in search of a problem’). Don’t force it.

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

Some reflections and insights from the first 12 months of my journey: #Startups

Starting a startup

Last week marked one year since I quit my previous job and began chasing my dream of starting my own startup. Even though it’s still early days in what will hopefully be a very long journey, I...

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@Ike_Saul (To be clear, I *don’t* want to see *any* innocent Palestinian civilian killed. I just don’t think it’s possible unfortunately.)

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@antoniogm They didn’t use the laser though (at least not officially.) They used David’s Sling.

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@moizali This is unacceptable, racist and honestly self-defeating. I’m sorry, Moiz. I’m an Israeli Jew. Muslims are NOT my enemy. Muslim hate = Jew hate. Many of them actually saved and sacrificed their lives saving fellow Jews from being slaughtered by Hamas terrorists. Sad that it’s

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Tal Hoffman

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1 year

Occasional self-reflection is crucial, especially as a solo-founder. My progress over the last couple of months has been too slow, and that feels like shit. Time to speed things up. Hoping to wrap this week with the launch of 3 new important features (1st one already out.)

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Important first-time founder lesson: Follow-ups actually work. Do follow-ups.

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@visegrad24 LOL He’ll sell out his mother just for another $3 subscriber.

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10 months

@pardesi1990 @MarioNawfal Sun: *Rises* Jackson Hinkle fanboys: Sun was just set!

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Tal Hoffman

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9 months

Might regret this tweet, but: I've come to find that sending out monthly investor updates is something I enjoy more than the investors probably do reading them. It's a rather solid way to keep me and the team publicly accountable for our monthly wins and misses.

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Tal Hoffman

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2 years

Update: Now up at 8. Super excited about the demand and hearing from customers around the globe about how this saves them a great amount of pain. A *TON* of work ahead. Can’t wait to deliver everything 🚀

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First pre-sale, first few $$$ in the bank. Exciting yet a bit stressful. Now back to work. 💪 #Startups

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@ClimateCompadre @AvivaKlompas The answer is certainly not beheading babies. Nor mass-shooting innocent german citizens. Nor raping their women and then shooting them. For fuck’s sake

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11 months

Which pre-seed and seed investors purposefully invest in and support Israeli companies at the moment? 🇮🇱

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2 years

Web3 startups: “We solve a real problem” The problem: #Startups #Web3

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@NAChristakis @TheEconomist Indeed. Why isn't Hamas held accountable then? Oh, they don't care. "It's the UN's responsibility".

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1 year

@paulg To be honest, it appears that they can almost mess things up endlessly due to the switching costs and strong network effects

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2 years

@ReemSherman @dssham שמע, בין הפודקאסטים, היזמות והחיים האישיים שלך, אין לי מושג איך אתה עומד בהספק המטורף הזה. מחכה לשמוע את הפרק :)

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2 years

@YuvalAriav What NFT is doing to the concept of Pyramid Schemes, few understand.

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Stop talking about the rockets. This is about Hamas = ISIS. Do not dare to call those animals “freedom fighters”. Pure evil. Barbarian scum. Rest of the world - if it wasn’t for Israel, you were next.

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Tal Hoffman

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Being or having a technical founder significantly lowers the execution risk in the early days. So glad I'm not dependent on any third-party dev agencies or have to hire developers in order to ship quickly.

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Tal Hoffman

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@idofrizler דווקא הגיוני מבחינתם לדעתי. רוצים יריעה יותר רחבה. האנשים שאוהבים את ווייז לא יאהבו את גוגל מפס ולהפך. למה סתם לוותר על משתמשים? ההימור ב b2c גדול מדי בשביל לוותר על מה שיש להם סתם ככה.

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@mwseibel Also, caring for your users should NOT end when you hit PMF.

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@ReemSherman אלוהים ישמור. זה נורא. בנאדם הולך עם אשתו לראות דירה ונרצח. חסר להם שלא ימצאו את הבן זונה

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Tal Hoffman

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@PnL63962200 ואז במקרה ה״גרוע״ זה נגמר באיזה אקזיט. לעניותי מרבית היזמים בסייבר בכלל לא מחפשים להרים חברה גדולה, אלא מחפשים לעשות קופה. זה הכי רחוק שיש מלבנות מוצר אמיתי עם PMF ושוק שבאמת צריך אותו, וזו פשוט הפכה להיות הדרך הקלה יותר להיות יזם בישראל. * לדעתי כמובן.

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Tal Hoffman

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@mhfootballclub ווינרים 💚💚💚 כפרה על ברק מאז הפגישה בקובה של מומו לפני שנתיים ידעתי שיש על מי לסמוך

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Tal Hoffman

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1 year

Damn, self-service is hard. It's only when I go through the onboarding process with a user that I truly grasp the quirks and nuances of the process as experienced by those who are new to it.

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Tal Hoffman

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10 months

@mr_james_c @mikemaccana @paulg @ov_ceo For instance:

GWAR69 🇩🇰🇺🇦

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10 months

Hamas published a video of its mortar crews working. It is noteworthy that the militants are in civilian clothes. Hamas will then pool these "civilians" and showcase it as IDF targeting civilians Its the age old song about non-combatants/combatants from Iraq and Afghanistan

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Always be shipping 🚢 #Startups #eCommerce

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@ShaharTzafrir ללא ספק הטלפון, כל פעם עם אפליקציה אחרת. בימינו זאת טוויטר, בעבר אינסטגרם. ברמה של נכנס ל-2 שניות, יוצא, ומיד באינסטינקט נכנס שוב. מה שעזר היה למחוק את האפליקציה ולגלוש דרך הגרסת דפדפן במובייל. לא עובד לי עם טוויטר

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@amasad I’m pretty hopeless. I have no idea how we’re able to get out of this deadlock. The more those things happen - the more extreme people get. :(

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1 year

Made my day! A five-star review even if it was supposed to go to a pizza. I'm definitely taking it!

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1 year

Today I switched my communication channel from email to WhatsApp with one of my users. It’s been so much better. The feedback loop has become faster, tighter, and more personal. Conclusion: Need to be doing that as much as possible and as much as users are willing to.

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Tal Hoffman

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1 year

A glimpse of what I'm working on...

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2 years

רמת שירות ב @mixtiles : משלוח משנה שעברה שפתחתי רק לאחרונה עם מעבר דירה - אחד ה tileים נפל אחרי כמה פעמים שהזזתי אותו על הקיר. בן-דוד שלי שעובד שם אמר לי ״מה הבעיה, דבר עם התמיכה הטכנית, ישמחו לעזור לך״. שלחו אחד חדש מהמפעל, כמעט no questions asked. מסביר הרבה על ההצלחה שלהם.

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10 months

@levie Web3 use cases be like

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10 months

@MichaelRapaport @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN Wondering what they both have to say about this:

Dr. Eli David

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10 months

🚨 Breaking: AP, CNN, NY Times, and Reuters had journalists embedded with Hamas terrorists on October 7th massacre

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2 years

@TurnerNovak Let us know if it worked for him, might go and do the same

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1 year

A great reminder why you shouldn’t make your startup just a shiny ChatGPT wrapper. Good luck, people.

OpenAI

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1 year

We are adding support for plugins to ChatGPT — extensions which integrate it with third-party services or allow it to access up-to-date information. We’re starting small to study real-world use, impact, and safety and alignment challenges: