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Inspirational video from Britain's got Talent(youtube.com)
1 points by asdf333 18y ago|1 comments
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by asdf333 18y ago
Are you crazy. Save your money to make sure the company succeeds! I heard this quote somewhere: Run your startup like a one story whorehouse. It was mentioned by a VC who has seen many startups come and go. Not to say they are the final wor
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by asdf333 18y ago
Most people have the basics covered. Here is one I haven't seen and is worth a huge amount -- not business, but it will definitely help you in life. Will and Ariel Durant: The Lessons of History A great synthesis by two lifelong historians
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Time Management Advice from a Terminally ill Professor(youtube.com)
3 points by asdf333 18y ago|0 comments
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by asdf333 18y ago
So we did not offer equity stakes when we had interns working for us. We offered them a chance to be a significant part of a small team, trying to pull off the impossible. As a student--especially from the top schools--I think you are more
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by asdf333 18y ago
bravo for sharing a thought provoking link and not a 5 second sound-bite.
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by asdf333 19y ago
an office space, office furniture, luxury items like candy/soda
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by asdf333 19y ago
Having sold two sites: the first a website and the second a company. At your size its all about how much they want you ans how much you want them. Step into their shoes for a while and see what they see. Do they see a 10 million dollar a ye
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by asdf333 19y ago
where is mit?
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by asdf333 19y ago
I would. Its like Richard Branson says. You don't want to lead sheep. You want to herd cats. I think its the job of the founder/leader to figure out how to make a team of superstars work together. We ended up changing direction a few times
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by asdf333 19y ago
I have gotten help from zed a number of times, as an early adopter of rails and mongrel. He's always been professional, extremely helpful and courteous. I respect his contribution to rails (I am using at least 18 mongrels as we speak) and
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by asdf333 19y ago
Salesforce is actually 4. Not 1. There is one 'charismatic' fellow, but it was started by 4 folks.
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by asdf333 19y ago
150K a month... is not alot of views....
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by asdf333 19y ago
OK here's the suggestion. Do one foolish thing every day. I am serious. Start small if you have to. Work up to it.
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by asdf333 19y ago
So it seems like there are two questions here: 1. All said and done, when one is about to die, do you look back on your contributions to society and say "yes I am glad I did that, even at the expense of not being with my family as much as I
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by asdf333 19y ago
Wow what a valuable article. That was awesome. Thanks for the post.
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by asdf333 19y ago
Sort of like Ender's game? Such a good book....
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by asdf333 19y ago
very cool.
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by asdf333 19y ago
If you are young and relatively healthy, i suggest going w/ disaster insurance (really cheap insurance w/ a high deductible) Get advice for small colds from med school friends, and get insurance only for those cases when you are hit by a tr
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by asdf333 19y ago
So my experience from doing a startup. It depends on the wife/girl. - If they are confident and not risk adverse its OK. My gf practically told me to go get a life and challenge yourself or i'm going to dump you b/c you are clearly doing
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by asdf333 19y ago
agreed. even warren buffet, arguably the best guy at this game, makes the same observation about trading. very well put. I'd add accounting to that list as well, particularly something as burdensome as sarbanes oxley
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by asdf333 19y ago
ENTP. have started 2 companies (so far). But...I am only slightly E. It says 'moderately'. My T swings wildly between Very T and barely T.
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by asdf333 19y ago
Unfortunately I can't b/c of some reasons I'd be happy to share later. I know it sounds like a copout, but really, I'd be in trouble if I mentioned it now. Upper mgmt is making us rewrite it in java. (shoot self). It has more to do with wha
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by asdf333 19y ago
No. As someone who runs a site w/ more than half a million hits a day at times, rails is butt slow. We memcache up the wazoo as well as make other optimizations. Not only is it slow but there are memory leaks too. I hope they fix alot of t
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by asdf333 19y ago
full time, definitely. Part time, you are just too tired out.
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by asdf333 19y ago
"Be the change you want to see in the world" --Ghandi
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by asdf333 20y ago
Being CEO has its downsides like any other job. It means you are the one that shields everyone else from verbal beatings if customers are unhappy. You're the guy that takes the heat if something is not going well. Especially at a small com
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by asdf333 20y ago
honestly it sucks. specifically, the programming (types of shows available) sucks. A big mistake they've made so far is to not open it up to whoever wants to broadcast. The resulting content is third-rate. They need to open it up to anyone
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by asdf333 20y ago
I did a startup and recently got acquired. Here's what I did. I say get disaster health insurance (30 bucks a month) screw cobra. its too expensive. if you're in MA, i hear you can get universal health care and suck on the teat of the taxpa