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Source: Zapier.com Note: This post got picked up on hackers news! In September 2019, A16Z described a strategy for identifying new startup opportunities: look at broad horizontal platforms that are near their breaking point. Horizontal platforms usually succeed in providing simple interactions that support a variety of verticals, think Craigslist (renting apartments, finding jobs, creating…
I’m a Software Engineer @ Datadog. I’ve built a couple of startups, worked at a couple, and once upon a time helped launch the Amazon Alexa. You can also find me here: twitter/george_sequeira medium/@sequeira linkedin/georgesequeira
To build a successful startup, your number one priority is to hire great people. Being energized by the people you work with translates to everyone doing their best work. When I was building my company in 2020, I wanted our edge to be our employees. After examining my years of building world changing products, scaling a unicorn, and working at various startups, I found that in my career, periods…
Building a company is hard! Unless you have conviction in an area through prior experience, figuring out your next big idea is a daunting task. Do you build an app that finds the best parties? Everyone likes to party, right? Wrong. So how do you get started searching for ideas? At the start of 2020, I had zero clue on what I wanted to solve… I spent 2 months working on a podcast app that…
Photo by Michael Dziedzic After years of building, advising, and investing in startups, I’ve realized that while I love supporting high-growth companies, I am most passionate about companies that solve the problems of the future. For example, it’s incredible that while the Biden administration recently passed more incentives to accelerate electric vehicle adoption, companies like ChargePoint and…
Photo by Patrick Fore As of September of 2021, I have stepped back from my role as Co-founder at RevvUp. While I rest, collect my thoughts, and prepare for my next adventure, I want to pass along some of the learnings from my journey. By the start of 2020 I had helped launch the first Alexa product, built the foundations of a unicorn at Bluecore, and helped kick off Bonsai’s initial product.
Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko Growing up as a child to immigrant parents, my role was to play translator in conversations that required english. Transacting on behalf of my family trained me to pick up on the nuances of language, how to sound “American”, and how to leverage colloquialisms. While it was annoying to deal with all the forms, phone calls, and meetings, it taught me that inexact and…
Photo by Markus Winkle This was originally posted under Bluecore Engineering’s Publication. How can we reduce costs of running our code? Every engineer has answered this question at some point in his/her career. My latest encounter with the question was in early 2017. After two quarters of engineering heads-down building product, it was time for us to assess the cost damage. Available at the time…