Sometimes it is useful to tunnel your connections through a server. Because it is located in a different country or simply to add an extra layer of security. What it is not always easy is to create the infrastructure. But that is solved now. So to create the credentials we simply need to run this […]
Author Archives: Roc Reguant
Defining the ideal customer for our startup
Any company bases their success on their customers; therefore, it is highly important to define the customers right. There is never too much emphasis in defining the customers correctly. The foundation of any Company, and specially startups, is about identifying and meeting the consumer needs. The better we do this the greater the satisfaction […]
What is NOT a competitive advantage
On my last post I wrote about the real competitive advantages that your company may have. There are, however, other ideas that sound like competitive advantages but they are not. Sometimes we get obsessed into being different but being different does not make us special. We can take steps forward into the right direction but […]
How to make a business that it is uncopyable
Every time when we get a business idea or we start a company we cannot avoid but think that someone is going to steal our idea and f*ck us over. I think that is a very natural thought. We feel jealous of our idea, we had it, we think it is very cool. But sooner […]
ROC curves vs Precision and recall curves
ROC curves are widely used but not always descriptive. The ROC curve is a plot of the true positive rate (TPR) against the false positive rate (FPR). It defines how many true positives are vs how many false positives. The higher the area below the curve the better it is, this area can be defined as […]
We might have a fancy watch, but that doesn’t mean we’re good at telling time.
Everyone is so obsessed with tools that we forget to reflect. Cutting edge tools won’t make you better at your craft. If you’re already good at it will improve but tools by themselves won’t make you a professional. A professional photographer carries around many different lenses and gadgets to carry on with their work. However, […]
A degree is not telling anything about a person
A degree is used for HR departments to asses if a person is qualified for a position or not. A degree is a showcase for a reputation that no one knows about. A degree tells that you were able to survive X amount of years in the university. A degree does not say if you […]
Improve your strategic thinking
Don’t be reactive, be strategic about your life. But like everything in life you’re not born natural, you need work to develop the skill. Stop chasing leaves, you may work hard and be busy, it may be your passion but it does not mean that you’re productive. Ultimately you would have failed at the game […]
Play games you cannot loose
I never loose, I either win or learn – Nelson Mandela If you reframe life in a way that never leads to failure you will win the game of life. You can choose one single goal, i.e. running a marathon. However, wouldn’t it be better to create a system? For example, run 1h every two […]
Few concepts to live by
Internet is full of lists like this post. Most of the lists are repetitive and useless. They bring to the table the same old information again and again. However, these paragraphs are different. They bring new and fresh insights to your life. These insights are from Robert Greene, author of many important books such as […]