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by Blackstone4 9y ago
The Bottom Line - Excellent business podcast Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman How I built this - Interviews with entrepreneurs Freakonomics - Very good The Tim Ferriss Show - Lots of interesting people come on the show
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
you're right there is a lot of tooling/layers if it helps, Apollo has Redux built into it so you don't need a store. With this I reduced the size of my small app quite significantly by removing reducers, actions and the store
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
Yeah I think I could build an okay MVP. It wont be shiny but it'll work
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
Fair point - it would be a data intensive investor portal which also serves up PDFs. My goal further down the line is to have advanced analytics but the initial services would be fairly rudimentary and I feel like I could build it..... it j
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
Any constructive advice would be more than welcome
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Ask HN: Am I Technical enough to be the Technical Co-founder?
2 points by Blackstone4 9y ago|6 comments
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
I imagine an indie game is way more work than building a B2B web app?
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
Thanks for this! I've got an idea for a financial data B2B business that I am going to go full-time on later this year. The idea of a long drawn out sales cycle worries me as I'm only looking at an initial product with a $10k p.a.
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
Have you done this? If so it would be great to get your perspective
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
Maybe start here: https://wtfismyengineertalkingabout.com/2017/03/11/wtf-is-a-...
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
I used to be a software engineer and switched into the investment/asset management industry. I had hand, finger and shoulder pain. Turns out it was Carpel Tunnel.. I was 25... I've been using Bracoo wrist braces when typing and th
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by Blackstone4 9y ago
Sorenbs - would you recommend Graph.cool to a beginner? It's between GraphQL and REST API and I only have a basic understanding of REST API. I was thinking of using React.js + Graph.cool with a Node.js server to handle subscriptions an
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
> CEOs are born I feel that this statement is too strong. Maybe something along the lines of "CEOs are formed"... Some people also believe entrepreneurs are born entrepreneurs .... is that what you meant? I always come back to
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
The flip side is that the market segment he operates in is very popular and this might blind some less disciplined buyers. So if you focus on the popularity part you still might be able to get a good price. You have to be positive and down
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
As an aside, I'd be interested to hear more about how you started and grew the business.
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
I should finish by saying that if you want to future proof yourself.... you should focus on what I wrote above...
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
* Tangent warning * I used to be very focused on what I could do.... learn how to code, how to write a report, stats, CFA, how to present etc..... I've come to realise that it doesn't matter as much as I thought. You only need
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
Those countries are conventionally considered part of Western Europe in countries such as the US, France and the UK
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
Where are you based?
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
To add to that... people hire people. Someone they can see themselves hanging out with
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
Keep your head up! Desperation reeks....so you want to get far away from this. For one moment put aside the technical aspects and focus on your confidence, communication and the message you send when in an interview. Watch Amy Cuddy's
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
Yep that's right. They've predicted 1,000,000 of the last 0 recessions
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
Would you recommend looking any where else?
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
How did you sell your side business? Just thinking aloud if I wanted to buy one
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
Both yourself and Eridrus made similar points and I replied to his post below
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by Blackstone4 10y ago
I've already spoken to 5+ people in the industry using my contacts and have already changed my idea once. I've shifted from an UI first approach to focusing more on the API. I've also gotten feedback on data formatting and I
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Ask HN: To Startup or not to Start-up?
2 points by Blackstone4 10y ago|5 comments