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by TWSS 15y ago
As someone with a failed education startup in my past, this makes me deliriously happy. It means that there are still teachers out there who haven't had all the initiative beaten out of them yet. That said, yes, education publishing is a hu
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by TWSS 15y ago
Re: fiber. I wonder how much of this has to do with NYC's older infrastructure. Does Boston boast better access?
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by TWSS 15y ago
It's obvious that his sister shares his genius. I'm so grateful she shared this intensely private experience with the world. I have a half brother, ten years older. We didn't grow up together. Mona's story gives me hope that there are relat
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by TWSS 15y ago
+1 for Portland, definitely.
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by TWSS 15y ago
Holy shit. I'm in a tech incubator now ( http://www.piepdx.com ) and this sounds nightmarish to me. To be frank, I hadn't been following the show all that closely, but I can't even imagine the added stress of having cameras around filming m
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Entrepreneurship and the Golden Rule(youruisucks.tumblr.com)
1 points by TWSS 15y ago|0 comments
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by TWSS 15y ago
"Overmentored and undersponsored" really resonated with me for two reasons - first, there aren't that many women in a position to act as sponsors (either as CEOs or angels), and second, because it's hard to ask someone to go all-in on you.
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Why so few women at the top, still?(nytimes.com)
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You might be a bootstrapping startup if...(youruisucks.tumblr.com)
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Women-Led Startups Have Fewer Failures(businessinsider.com)
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How to feel miserable as an entrepreneur.(youruisucks.tumblr.com)
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by TWSS 15y ago
As a UI designer, this is something I need to tattoo on my forearm. Sometimes I'll spend so long banging my head against a problem that my bike-racer colleague will take me aside and remind me of the principles of overtraining. Of course, I
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by TWSS 15y ago
That has certainly been a facet of my experience in 15 years spent working in or adjacent to development departments. Although I think it has less to do with being attractive, or a woman, as being _cultured_ the way women have conventionall
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Why being a female founder sucks... and rocks(youruisucks.tumblr.com)
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by TWSS 15y ago
I keep hearing that they're coming out with a 15" MBA next year. I'm on a 15" MBP now, and while the weight kills my shoulder on longer jaunts, I can't see giving up the screen real estate (I'm a front-end designer/developer and spend a lot
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How much money do you really need to start your company?(blog.kveton.com)
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High functioning autistics more likely to be atheists(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by TWSS 15y ago
I have a few startups brewing right now. For one I'm working with technical co-founders, and another I'm not. Trying to "rent a coder" for the latter has proven to be much more difficult both short term and long term than having partners wh
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by TWSS 15y ago
Would have been helpful to include examples with each of the types of pivot. Like Burbn -> Instagram, as an example of a zoom-in pivot.
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by TWSS 15y ago
The interesting part of this from my perspective is "my dad - a lifelong entrepreneur." I recently saw that pud is a year younger than me, and we entered the job market at almost the same time with similar skill sets. Why did it take me so
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by TWSS 15y ago
Oregon. One of only a handful of states with self-employment assistance programs - the others are Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, AFAIK.
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by TWSS 15y ago
I fought against the need to quit my job for over a year while I was working on startups on the side. It took an idea that I was wildly passionate about and a well-timed layoff to make me realize that being "all in" wasn't just a poker meta
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by TWSS 15y ago
Good question. To clarify: I cashed out 1/3 because I'm inherently conservative financially and had no idea whether the stock would go up or down. Not because of tax purposes. My colleagues who ran into problems with Uncle Sugar are the one
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by TWSS 15y ago
Heh, good point, and fodder for another interesting post - how working at a startup is like Vegas...
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by TWSS 15y ago
So is no one naming names of the companies they worked for? Most of this stuff doesn't seem to violate any NDAs and we're all past the quiet period... Anyway, I was an early rank and file employee at a startup that was acquired by WebMD. Wh
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Designers need code review*, too(youruisucks.tumblr.com)
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Solving your startup's cold start problem... or not.(youruisucks.tumblr.com)
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by TWSS 15y ago
Thanks for the advice - it's pretty much what I ended up doing. Snarky enough to be satisfying, but I buried the diss so it wasn't too blatant. :^)
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by TWSS 15y ago
This is great advice for me to hear, as I'm in a similar position right now. I've been considering obliquely slamming our competitor in a blog post, but I've held off because I don't want us to come off like dicks. Wouldn't I be better off
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by TWSS 15y ago
I love the comments that argue that since a preference for attractive (i.e., symmetrical) faces is hard-wired, we shouldn't try to legislate against it. From what I remember of ev psych, suspicion of individuals who are not of our group/tri

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