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by asenna 13y ago
I don't think so. You never know, he could have been successful in his 12th attempt but how could he have known if he did not try. That's the thing about success. You know its there, you just don't know how many tries it woul
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Ask HN: Given the price and the MtGox news, is now a good time to buy bitcoins?
4 points by asenna 13y ago|11 comments
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by asenna 13y ago
TMobile has some really good plans. They are trying a lot of new things. An unlimited plan from them with a Nexus 5 is what I use and I'm very happy with it.
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by asenna 13y ago
It is not about the money. It is about satisfaction and achievement. Are you creating an impact around you? Everyone is trying to make a "dent in the universe".
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by asenna 13y ago
Great analogy. This is just the thing I wanted to see. I am in that last 20% phase with my project and it really is a lot more work to get to a 100%.
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The Micropreneur Manifesto for the solo founders [pdf](changethis.com)
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by asenna 13y ago
Hah! I am one of you guys but for a moment, just zoom out from the conversation a bit and look at it from the perspective of someone not like us(hackers/geeks). One of those classic Penny - Sheldon conversations.
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by asenna 13y ago
> Does it then make sense to bring on board a sub-optimal co-founder, one whose skill sets may be similar to yours, and who may not share that close a friendship or history with you, and whom you cannot blindly trust? This is very true.
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by asenna 13y ago
This is really cool. With companies like Firebase, Layer, Parse (and many more that I can't remember right now), it is becoming incredibly easy to build awesome (complex) services in a matter of hours. Now imagine all this as the base
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by asenna 13y ago
This is really motivating. I have been putting off writing and it's been killing me. I keep getting all these excuses to not start now but I will probably have to make a commitment like this and stick to it. Thanks for sharing.
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by asenna 13y ago
The app looks pretty cool. Could you please share some of your thoughts on how you settled on the price? I am about to launch an App and this app would later have a web backend to go along. I am not sure whether to launch the app for free a
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by asenna 13y ago
I loved your Duet app. I have a question regarding CodeCanyon. The most popular things selling on there seems to be Wordpress plugins and stuff. Do you see a pattern of some kind? I was thinking of making some templates for Android Apps but
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by asenna 13y ago
How has this been up for 10 days?
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by asenna 13y ago
> A really good text to speech app for news so I can listen to it in my car I use Umano ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sothree.um... ) while travelling. It is actually news recorded by profes
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by asenna 13y ago
Forget who invested and who voted, Layer is seriously addressing a huge problem. I looked at their presentation and realized how bad something like this is needed. I was looking for something like this recently and now I can't wait to
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by asenna 13y ago
A good VC brings a lot more to the table than just money. Crowdfunding cannot replace that.
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by asenna 13y ago
> You can self-fund by consulting and by setting aside money for your venture. That doesn't work. Why does this not work?
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Ask HN: Health insurance for self-employed?
5 points by asenna 13y ago|2 comments
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by asenna 13y ago
<sarcasm> Yep, definitely relevant and deserves to be on the front page of HN. </sarcasm>
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by asenna 13y ago
As others have pointed out, this is not really an experiment for Yahoo to figure out which logo works best. It is just an attempt to shake things up, trying to appeal to the modern internet users. You can perhaps see this more in the line o
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by asenna 13y ago
All of them had things taking off before they decided to drop school.
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by asenna 13y ago
> I just hope Microsoft's internal politics doesn't ruin Nokia's future! How bright do you think Nokia's future was prior to this?
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by asenna 13y ago
And this is why I believe the HR department needs to give less emphasis on Resume and the "flashy keywords" and focus on the projects that the candidate is involved in / what role he/she played in it. Just looking at the
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by asenna 13y ago
I just can't believe how or why they are continuing with the system when it is clear this is counter-productive and is hurting the company in many ways. What possible reason can there be? There is no way I would ever want to work in th
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by asenna 13y ago
"Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and a son-of-a-bitch." -- Peter McArthur
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by asenna 13y ago
ayee! Another fan of Senna :)
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by asenna 13y ago
Exactly. The tables have turned.
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by asenna 13y ago
Great post Ian. I can totally relate to it and there are some fantastic tips that I need to apply to my work. I hope I can fix my procrastination and focus on one thing at a time.
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by asenna 13y ago
The Social Network - Ad Board Chairwoman: Mr. Zuckerberg, this is an Administrative Board hearing. You're being accused of intentionally breaching security, violating copyrights, violating individual privacy by creating the website, ww
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by asenna 13y ago
Businesses cannot stop coming up with new products and solutions. We cannot say that "Oh, NSA can access anything so let's not use anything anymore." A better way to address the problem is to just persistently keep fighting i

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