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by Edinburger 17y ago
A common strategy is to engage a salesperson who has worked for similar companies, get them to use their book of contacts to sell your services. If you advertise for the salesperson, you should be able to find someone who will work on a fre
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Check whether you would be violating the Terms of Use of the competitor's product (e.g. by screen-scraping their site). Of course, if you are small you are less likely to be sued so you might want to take the risk.
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Voted up as I wasn't previously aware of these specialized services. I'd consider outsourcing PSD->HTML work as I'm not particularly good at implementing HTML and CSS. Confidentiality is a concern but I could always 'tweak' the product
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by Edinburger 17y ago
What are your requirements? 2 seats or more? Need to move stuff? How much stuff?
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Everyday meeting notes: low-cost A4 pad. This is my short-term memory - I rarely look more than 2 weeks back. Strategy/product thinking: A5(?) Moleskine notebook. This is my long-term memory. It takes longer to fill and I love looking back
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by Edinburger 17y ago
If you need to hire fast, there are ways to get the group to be effective quickly. If you normally work on long projects, it could take a long time before everyone gets a chance to interact, debate, reach conclusions and pull together to de
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by Edinburger 17y ago
That's very interesting - I have seen myself as a self-funding founder than an angel but given my lack of compelling ideas, perhaps that's where I'm going wrong. Perhaps I should do more networking to find other people with ideas where I ca
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by Edinburger 17y ago
One frustrating reason: I haven't found an idea with a sufficient chance of success to justify my investment. It's frustrating because I have execution skills (I've launched 'startups' for larger companies), I could fund a small startup wit
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Nice piece of work. A few observations: (1) It would be good to be able to link from the site name itself in the results rather than having to hit the W3C/HTML/Trash icons. Also, I would show the icons by default rather than only on hover s
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Cool, thanks. I think it would be interesting to compile an online free resource which covered all of this material. There are plenty of free course videos online...I feel a side project coming on...
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Could you elaborate on what goes into an MBA program that isn't covered by 10 Day MBA? Case studies, exercises, networking oppos, what else? Thanks!
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Ten Day MBA is a great little book. I bought a bunch of copies for the engineers here and we ran a discussion group, chapter-by-chapter over a few weeks. The exercise really improved the quantity and quality of business ideas and useful inp
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by Edinburger 17y ago
> "Hey, you know there’s this guy Zed who wrote the software I’m using, why don’t we hire him as a consultant?" This seems wrong. For example, let's say we use Apache webserver and Rails. They aren't our core business. I really don't wa
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by Edinburger 17y ago
I still have a television. For watching movies, you can't beat a good, large-screen television (or a projector I suppose) in a comfortable room. Also, in the UK we have a reasonable (well, fairly reasonable) selection of shows on Freeview a
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Well said. 37s have missed some important points: * A plan is a statement of your intentions at the time it is written. * Writing the plan helps to clarify your understanding of the problem, forces you to consider difficult issues and acts
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by Edinburger 17y ago
It's hard to answer this without first answering the more general question of what we believe about business ethics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_ethics#Ethical_issues_... ) which would probably make an interesting conversation th
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by Edinburger 17y ago
"3. Make a suggestion that HR should implement temporary paid leave for employees." Enlightened companies may allow you to take unpaid leave for a few months. Yes, you'll need some savings to get through the period but at least you (hopeful
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by Edinburger 17y ago
It's a reasonable question and I haven't downmodded you. I think you're right that whenever the solutions become available they will be expensive. However, I also think these solutions are so sought after that they will likely be quickly co
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by Edinburger 17y ago
It would be interesting to know how the phones were allegedly hacked. Were these just wiretaps on landlines or something more sophisticated?
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Yes, good luck to anyone in (a) an open-plan office or (b) an office with security cameras.
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Beans can certainly encourage http://martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html
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by Edinburger 17y ago
So...anyone tried to sell one of these yet? If I was prepared to re-register on Facebook, ask my friends to move over to the new account and clear my photos, presumably there isn't really any other reason why I couldn't eBay the vanity URL.
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by Edinburger 17y ago
It's a good point. You can mitigate this by asking your designer to leave a PSD file with various UI components and teach you the basics of how, for example, to create new buttons in the site style. Of course, this doesn't help with brand-n
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by Edinburger 17y ago
The advice above is great if you have a real passion and talent for design or if you really need to save the $$$. However, as a counterpoint I'll share some compelling reasons to hire/borrow a real designer, even if that means paying some $
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by Edinburger 17y ago
Very interesting. Could you also allow generous users to upload scanned manuals for old products which aren't online? IANAL but perhaps if you're in the US you could get some Safe Harbor protection and in any case, it is not certain that m
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by Edinburger 18y ago
Looks like it's been removed :-(
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by Edinburger 18y ago
Actual time taken to complete tasks is a good input to future estimates for similar work. Agile folks have the concept of 'velocity' which helps them to predict delivery dates based on accuracy of previous estimates.
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by Edinburger 18y ago
Years of experience is only sometimes correlated to employee value. So, including it in an inflexible formula to determine level will cause mis-levelling. Exceptionally talented staff with few years under their belt will be levelled too low
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by Edinburger 18y ago
I voted this up because I'd like to see a discussion, not because I necessarily agree with the article. Certainly, I agree that the bar is high for graphic materials nowadays. However, I think it is often better to hire a professional to do
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by Edinburger 18y ago
Yep, unfortunately http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html

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