AmberShah

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by AmberShah 16y ago
All that support and knowledge is tempting, but I won't be applying. I'm currently in private beta and making very good progress with my product on my own by bootstrapping. It would also be incredibly difficult for me to move to another c
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by AmberShah 16y ago
>Spoken like someone who has never had a real customer. I've had real customers and you do what you can to keep the loyal ones and make them happy, even if that means cutting your profits temporarily. It's not just being nice, it's sma
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Life would go on. I'd spend more time with my son. Pretty sad, but true.
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Best Career Advice from Programmers(codeanthem.com)
3 points by AmberShah 16y ago|1 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
To be fair, PostgreSQL is clunky no matter what.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I did this, primarily to do work that was interesting and more fulfilling, and it didn't end up working out after a trial period. But I did want to share my experience about the payout question. So I was making $85K a year as a project man
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Most of this is good except for the: don't use rockstar and other terminology. I don't behave like a rockstar but I often look for that as an indicator to apply since at least I know that I would be valued there. It's not so important to
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by AmberShah 16y ago
1. Talk about what you'll actually be doing, both in terms of both technology and the projects. Most of the time this has to be guessed from vague technical "requirements" rather than offered up freely. If you can show genuine enthusiasm
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Since women overall make less, then women with families must make a lot less than their male counterparts.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I second that it's a good useful post, but misses the point of why women aren't female Y-Combinator founders. If you aren't ready for a life of rejection, then it doesn't have anything to do with Y-Combinator, but don't be an entrepreneur!
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Interview with the Author of "Being Geek"(codeanthem.com)
2 points by AmberShah 16y ago|0 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
By the way, I didn't say cofounders are silly, just that I choose not to have one right now. It's a choice often met with disdain from a certain group of people: "you will definitely fail". Others have already proven that single founder can
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Could this be accomplished by paying company management a low but reasonable wage and having them also get paid dividends? That way they'd be motivated to have more profits and get more money through dividends themselves. I suppose in the
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by AmberShah 16y ago
What I read about VC's definitely leads me to believe that you should have an exit plan and be on the same page with them about it. If I wanted to tell them, come back in 5-10 years and I'll think about it, that would be a problem. Perhap
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by AmberShah 16y ago
This is interesting to me. I consider what I have a startup, but what is the distinction? I'm not sure what about the $200K statement makes me an entrepreneur and not a startup. I'm assuming we are talking about scalable tech business, no
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by AmberShah 16y ago
The point about cofounders is semantics, but considering he hasn't done anything besides cheerlead since I beta launched, nor does he care about this idea except that it's mine makes him NOT a cofounder, in my opinion. I knew sone would dis
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Indeed.com does this and appears to be doing well.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
It's important to go fast, which is why you need clean code. To be fair, my startup code isn't the best code that I've ever worked in, but it is solid and tested. By the way, comments are crap in any kind of software. They are out of date
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A Lesson Learned From Private Beta(codeanthem.com)
1 points by AmberShah 16y ago|0 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I notice no one is saying FastSpring or Braintree Payments. Is it because those are not considered in the sane classs as Paypal or aren't good for people starting out?
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by AmberShah 16y ago
The only people who could say that are people who've never had to hire and manage programmers for a living. It's ridiculously hard. With a technical co-founder you have someone who is presumably very talented and extremely motivated with a
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Forget about it. You aren't looking for a business partner or advisor, you're looking for a spouse with whom you will have children and a life forever. I am married to a programmer (and am one myself) so you might think that we are always
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How to Hire from the Bottom of the Barrel(codeanthem.com)
3 points by AmberShah 16y ago|0 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Just to be clear, finding a different career and starting a software business are two totally different things. Starting a software business does not get you away from coding, you have to do a great deal of coding, and then learn marketing
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by AmberShah 16y ago
You are burned out and being an entrepreneur is not a solution to being burned out. In fact, entrepreneurship is likely to cause more burn out. I would focus on fixing the burnout first and then if you're serious about being an entrepreneu
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I'm not a lawyer so don't take this as legal advice, but here's my understanding: I don't think that you are able to give a percentage share of the company with a sole proprietorship. By definition it is owned by him alone and if you trans
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by AmberShah 16y ago
"refuses to put grades" Well, sure when you put it that way it sounds bad. It's extremely common to see resumes without grades (and is often advised by career services for people with low grades). It sounds like your boss cares more about
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Do not mention your grades on your resume. About half the people won't even ask or care. The ones that do will ask and that is the time to explain what you got and why it was low. When I was graduating they told us that if you got above 2
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by AmberShah 16y ago
It's actually a tribute to Ayn Rand that this long after the book was written, it still espouses such strong praise and such strong criticism.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Even if the .ly domain signifies Libya, does purchasing one count as "trading with Libya"? I'm not a lawyer so I don't really know, but I'd think not. Seems like the sort thing TC would jump all over if true.

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