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by bks 15y ago
I was at the Twilio conference this year and there was a talk from Tim Lytle who only uses oDesk for his clients. He claims to have a pretty good client base and is busy from the work. Twilio also endorses oDesk as a platform for people t
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by bks 15y ago
Call me stupid but I use Quickbooks Online from Intuit - why, you might ask? Because when it comes to accounting and having these processes outsourced I make sure that it is a familiar an interface as it can be for my accountant. The online
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by bks 15y ago
Great idea on re-marketing, it is really cost effective - downright cheap to do. If you are not sure what is is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting but basically a banner follows a user that has come to your site for 30
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Ask HN: If you had 15TB of Storage and NO bandwidth costs - What would you do?
10 points by bks 15y ago|5 comments
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by bks 15y ago
Github - Code repo Skype - phone calls Pivotal Tracker - Agile - Yo baby! Raven Tools - SEO and reporting Freshbooks - Billing Quickbooks online - "accounting" Balsamiq Online - Collaborative Mockups and I think my new SaaS that I will be a
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by bks 15y ago
Getting physical checks to the bank for deposit without having to fight traffic. I just end up mailing them, but my accountant wants "a deposit slip" from the bank when they get it.
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by bks 15y ago
I met Patrick at a conference recently where he did another presentation - I have only skimmed this one but ever time I skipped forward there was another excellent section. I pay attention not just for the technical but also the understand
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by bks 15y ago
Depending on your needs there are some options for online data backup solutions. If your needs are more consumer oriented, say files and media vs. databases, exchange servers and networked files - take a look at www.backblaze.com/ They are
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by bks 15y ago
One of the bigger issues of the voicemail system is that they typically use the phone number of the subscriber as an authentication token. This means that if the voicemail system sees an incoming call from a specific phone number it assumes
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by bks 15y ago
Who would have thought that checking HN at 7:04am would make me late to the party...
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by bks 15y ago
I was at the San Diego Ruby meetup group two weeks ago where one of the Twilio developers was on hand doing some demo work with the API. He was using this to tunnel the API / http calls through the firewall back to his local machine. Very
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by bks 15y ago
So I went to a course from http://www.humintell.com/ in San Diego a few weeks ago. Now I realize that this is not specifically what you were asking, it is a way to work on your people reading skills. You said you were going to be hirin
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by bks 15y ago
Pro tip here, I have spent a few hundred thousand in the past few years outsourcing on these sites and the simple - "please respond in the Private Message area with the phrase 'i am real'" goes very long way in filtering out these bad prov
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by bks 16y ago
Your this seems like a really simple / elegant solution. I have been using the Good Karma List machine at my site - http://www.formactivate.com/beta/signup.php but your seems a lot more elegant. Possibility of getting the code?
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by bks 16y ago
Pete - Unspace did not make it onto my radar for whatever reason. So no I did not get turned down by you guys...yet, however I agree during my first call I was surprised by the "way things worked" the philosophy, the pricing, everything but
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by bks 16y ago
Call it selection bias - you have to understand that when I started looking I had done some prelim research and that research led me to a conclusion, and that conclusion led me to a direction. Imperfect action. After a lot more reading I wo
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by bks 16y ago
A PDF is tough because the fields are not fillable when exported - but here it is in PDF and Powerpoint. I hope this works for you. http://www.bradslavin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/agile-u... http://www.bradslavin.com/wp-content/upl
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An Update on my Ask HN - 2223764
50 points by bks 16y ago|11 comments
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by bks 16y ago
I appreciated the CEO of your life analogy - with the knowledge that you are ultimately responsible for your own success and the allocation of your own assets.
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by bks 16y ago
I am a 7 out of 10 sure I will be there.
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by bks 16y ago
Again thank you. I have contacted - www.hashrocket.com / www.thoughtbot.com To move forward with round one. Will keep you posted.
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by bks 16y ago
If you have money but no brains, hire some brains. If you have brains but no money find a funder. You can't have both no money and no brains.... So I got the recommendation to contact: www.hashrocket.com www.thoughtbot.com And then attend
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by bks 16y ago
127.0.0.1
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by bks 16y ago
Knowing how to configure Apache and configure Exchange server is a far cry from I need to build a SaaS webapp.
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by bks 16y ago
Item 1. Agreed. Item 2. Starting to step up.
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by bks 16y ago
Damn, you know my strategy. However the difference between your idea and mine is that they are drinking buddies that I gave golf lessons to in exchange for money.
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by bks 16y ago
Thank you for your reply. I agree money is currently the easy part, the biggest issue is execution. The ideal is fools gold if I can't transform it from a pitch deck into a reality. You gave me some really great ideas here about reaching ou
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by bks 16y ago
And looked at the pricing models for the API services that I would be using for the Beta code from Twillio, to Braintree + a modicum of understanding how I "think" the application will get used.
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by bks 16y ago
Proven track record of making other businesses work. Just not a software startup.
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by bks 16y ago
Do you think this is from lack of belief or the overconfidence?

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