MCRed

39 ms·

301.
by MCRed 11y ago
You're making a good point- you never found the right person. Alas, PG's essay has come to be takend as "you must have a cofounder or you aren't serious" with little attention paid to finding the right person. The r
302.
by MCRed 11y ago
> Additionally the idea of "lifestyle" startups is well known in SV and the concept is also well known to be frowned upon by the VC's You're confusing hacker news with "silicon valley". That's a mistake
303.
by MCRed 11y ago
No serious venture is plausible to tackle alone. But every venture that YC has funded could be done with a single founder. There are other people in companies and they're called employees. You can get to demo day with one founder an
304.
by MCRed 11y ago
All of the "Startup" resources, like The Lean Startup, etc that aren't busy glorifying VCs or the SV model, are useful for these businesses. The only difference between a "lifestyle" business and the "Silicon V
305.
by MCRed 11y ago
You're making a couple assumptions I disagree with. Even when I was under 40 I knew of more problems that needed to be solved than I could possibly address. Every job I've had has exposed me to industry problems that were big...
306.
by MCRed 11y ago
Founding a startup with my spouse was very useful in a lot of ways, but unfortunately, despite enthusiasm my spouse lacked sufficient skills and experience, so unless your spouse has also been working at startups for a decade, it's not
307.
by MCRed 11y ago
They also greatly increase the likelihood that your startup will go bankrupt, and decrease the likelihood that it will be moderately successful. Thus they do not hedge your financial risk they increase your risk. VC only makes sense if you
308.
by MCRed 11y ago
Uh, no. That's not what PG said, and if he ever used the term "lifestyle" he didn't mean it that way. Most companies YC funds do not have the potential to be on a stock market index, because they are features as much as
309.
by MCRed 11y ago
I'm leaning this way now myself, after previously believing that co-founders were essential and prior to that being dubious about their value. Two things I've seen kill startups are bad cofounder relationships, and Venture Capital
310.
by MCRed 11y ago
I've never seen it work. The people whose only purpose in the organization is to create meetings and waste other people's time always seem to be able to stand and drone on about irrelevancies for 45 minutes without breaking a swe
311.
by MCRed 11y ago
It should be obvious, on an hour by hour basis, what is bing down, what is on deck and what is a blocker due to where issues are in the workflow. This is much more detailed and it's already being updated. You don't need to inter
312.
by MCRed 11y ago
I've never seen a standup be useful. Last year we built a team that was in constant communication threat the day, via slack and bug reports/statuses. We had ad-hoc conversations regularly. We all knew what was going on and what w
313.
by MCRed 11y ago
Moderation on HN seems to be far less arbitrary than it was a couple years go, but is still to opaque. It doesn't feel like it's really the readers who are in control, still.
314.
by MCRed 11y ago
Client owes you the money, if they are evading you then you need to get a barrister involved. Recruiter might be liable- I think they would be if they were in the USA- but that depends on UK laws. I'm not a lawyer and don't know
315.
by MCRed 11y ago
I think at this point those who locate in the bay area see getting VC money as success, and whatever comes after as resume padding. Anyone who is ready to build a real fast growing business is not going to go to the one place in the world
316.
by MCRed 11y ago
Lower rent will come with increased capacity. Part of the reason rents are so high tis that california does not add capacity very quickly because the permitting process is very burdensome and californians are the original NIMBYs-- yes even
317.
by MCRed 11y ago
I spent 6 years traveling full time from 2008-2014. One of the things that I really liked about the way we did it is that there was not tourism involved... we lived in each country as long as a visa would allow. For instance, in Bath UK w
318.
by MCRed 11y ago
Here's repositioning cruises, for less than $50: http://cruisesheet.com/?rt=0&max_cpd=80
319.
by MCRed 11y ago
Specifically, Hilary Clinton's email scandal would be a crime under SOX, as would be the recent IRS data destruction. The problem isn't that there aren't laws that criminalize these activities, there are. The problem is that
320.
by MCRed 11y ago
When you want to scale across multiple servers without much effort.
321.
by MCRed 11y ago
"We" don't get to go after its agents, only Prosecutors, and investigatory agencies (like the police) get to "go after" them. And if you look at the history of crimes committed by government employees you see that
322.
by MCRed 11y ago
For an excellent review of the nature of policing and wiretaps in particular, watch the TV show The Wire. On HBO now and Amazon Prime. (and I think the best TV show ever made.) It's fictionalized but written by an ex-cop and covers th
323.
by MCRed 11y ago
The real money in electronics is in accessories. People will pay $25 for a Raspberry Pi and fret each additional dollar, then turn around and pay $20 for a injection molded case for it. If their strategy is to sell accessories then they $9
324.
by MCRed 11y ago
First salary calculator I've seen that was worth a damn. They didn't demand my email address, they asked relevant questions, and they separate by geography. I'd prefer to just give my info and then see the salaries in each of
325.
by MCRed 11y ago
Human drone pilots, and gunners in manned aircraft are much better at making such assessments than any current technology-- yet they do not do so, and kill people who really it appears shouldn't be killed, including those you mention.
326.
by MCRed 11y ago
Or you can use Elixir and get the real thing with a ruby like syntax (plus a lot more.)
327.
by MCRed 11y ago
Unfortunately, I think you're serious. And you're probably one of many who think this way. Which shows that people really don't understand what it means to do concurrency (as go doesn't support it really.) Look the erl
328.
by MCRed 11y ago
You could implement a half written, buggy version of erlang in C++... but GPC isn't even close to erlang/OTP. What I'm learning here is that people don't understand what erlang/OTP is.
329.
by MCRed 11y ago
Not even close. And that your claim seems to be widely believed shows me that people don't understand what erlang/OTP are and what makes them unique (so far.)
330.
by MCRed 11y ago
Erlang/OTP are not just "actors", and Actors on the JVM aren't actually actors. They're poser actors.

More ›