why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Thomas: Enterprise PLG startups must reach a 50-50 sales-to-self-serve revenue split
“When you're a PLG self-serve business, you at some point need to actually have sales led, especially after you're going after enterprise organizations, be approximately fifty-fifty of your net new revenue that you're generating, and we are far from that ratio,…”
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Thomas: Early-stage founders must commit to a single product distribution channel
“Now you end up adding on channels over the course of time, but when you are an early stage founder and CEO, you truly only have time for one, right? And there should be one that's as directly aligned with your company as possible, and just go after that one as…”
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Thomas: Startups only need one yes while corporate ideas require consensus
“Why startups win is that corporations end up saying no a lot to really good ideas. You actually have to probably get yeses all the way up the chain, whereas startups only need one yes, one percent of the time over the course of a year in order to build somethi…”
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Thomas: Video is highly efficient for encoding knowledge but inefficient for decoding
“Video is very efficient from an encoding perspective, but inefficient from a decoding perspective for the person receiving”
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Joe Thomas: Synchronous Communication Is Best for Rapid Idea Exchange
“Studies show that it's best utilized for bursty communication. If you can imagine having a ball in your hands, and when you're in a meeting, you want to pass that ball to as many different people as frequently as you can, because that means you're exchanging i…”
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Joe Thomas: Asynchronous Communication Is Best for Deep Work
“And what it's best used for is for deep work, and it's also best used for information dissemination. How do I get an idea from one person to another?”