bjelkeman-again

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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
Yes, I agree with your addendum. This is what we have done with Akvo.org. Nearly 3 billion people do not have clean water to drink or adequate sanitation. That is what I call a large market and a big problem. We have taken the open source a
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
Senior Web-developer - San Francisco, Netherlands, Stockholm, Sweden or London, UK. We are looking for a really experienced HTML / CSS programmer/designer preferably with a background in Python and Django. Some PHP experience is of course u
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
Certain things goes a lot faster if you don't have to look them up evertime you have to do them. But then I haven't read the article, so what would I know? :o
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
Thanks. That really threw me in a loop.
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
I have been asked twice, once was in a job interview, way before I began starting companies. The other time was two years after a VC started investing in our operation. But then I am generally quite upfront about my background, so he probab
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
These two stories at the Economist may help: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11090197 http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
Yep. The problem with carbon tax is to get it implemented widely enough, so that you just don't displace the pollution to somewhere else. We have something similar today. In China it is nearly free to pollute, to have jobs with shitty work
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
In the organisation I work in we deliberately have an explicit transparency rule. We are quite small at this point, but it is very nice to be able to have open discussions around just about anything. Richardo Semler's company Semco has been
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
Maybe they read the Maverick by Ricardo Semler and realised that working in a company doesn't have to be shit.
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
The (former) Swedish forestry company Stora Kopparberg would have been no. 5-9 on the list if they hadn't merged with a Finnish company in 1998. "Stora was, by one count, the oldest existing corporation or limited liability company in the w
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
I am sure how people learn this is as varied as their background. I learned by starting a small business and when it got bigger I got mentoring from other entrepreneurs as well as had my accountant teach me. I also bought books on simple ac
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
Founded an internet software company in SF that went down when the bubble burst. Was a great experience and several of the team are back together again, this time doing much better.
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
There are several different implementations of solar power that are suitable to produce the electricity we need. It is going to take time and money to implement, but it can be done without inventing something new.
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by bjelkeman-again 18y ago
With the right plan I think you can be more effective if you stay at home and deploy your Hacker skills. Mechanical-fish wrote in another thread: "Wake me up when you have an actionable plan to solve a problem. That would be interesting." W