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by bluekite2000 15y ago
My lesson as a coffee entrepreneur: hire cute asian waitresses with big boobs (working exclusively on tips) and have them wear nothing but pasties http://www.ocregister.com/articles/says-126730-nguyen-coffee...
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by bluekite2000 15y ago
This is not thuggish but I figure I share it here anyway since it s pretty entrepreneurial: A long time ago I was a housekeeper in Yosemite National Park. When I wasn't working, I d roam around the valley, checking out its nooks and crannie
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by bluekite2000 15y ago
My friend and I recently came up w/ a phrase that we say out loud whenever we go out. It is "I DONT GIVE A SHIT" Ultimately it doesnt matter if they want to talk to you, if people are watching, if you bomb, etc because in the end it doesn't
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by bluekite2000 15y ago
Relevant: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/renting-vs--buying-a-home?p...
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by bluekite2000 15y ago
I was 27. I quit after 3 years out of grad school. But you are right. I dont think its just age. It is also the differences in the backgrounds. You just need to adapt and mirror the other person. It is easier said than done but my social sk
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by bluekite2000 15y ago
How I did it: 1. quit my corporate software engineering job (it was slowly killing my soul) 2. went surfing in maui for 2 weeks then bali for a month. when there was no waves, there were parties on Kuta beach 3. opened an English bookstore
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by bluekite2000 15y ago
You are still in a better situation than many here. SF's coffee shops are littered w/ debt-laden (pseudo)-hackers who have half-baked ideas/projects, no gf's (or wives), zero connection to anyone of value and sleeping on a sofa of some frie
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Ask HN: What weekend projects actually make money
40 points by bluekite2000 16y ago|6 comments
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
I heard Brian Chesky (Airbnb's cofounder) on Gigaom talking about announcing other categories in 2011 on top of housing (which sounds like a natural extension).So kudos to the guy who executed this but I can already see this space is going
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
Airbnb is a good startup but the founders struggled so much at first without gaining any significant traction. And even with PG's endorsement they still had trouble getting funding from a progressive-minded VC. I wonder if they (Airbnb's fo
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
"Moving here will help you find a cofounder, meet lots of other entrepreneurs who can help you, and build relationships with investors." Can you share some specific experiences (how you met them, how they helped you, outcomes,etc)?
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
"it comes down to a question of whether I'd rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures" : exactly my experience in SF public library vs a cafe in Mission.
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
I m also interested in the same kind of career (spent the past 3 years in S.E Asia doing startup) so let me know when you make enough money&have nothing stopping you:)
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
not a bad idea..what is stopping you?
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
why do you need to supply an email? Is that even necessary? Most people will fake it anyway
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
On a related note,I hosted glype (a free proxy script) on a server in the US to help people from Vietnam access facebook. But javascript is disabled and I m having trouble enabling it. If you are interested in helping me, pm me please. My p
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
" If you think it's easy to get laid in Silicon Valley, you are a bartender with a huge dick, not the VP of Product for Whatever.com" LOL. This is the best sentence I have read on hackers news by far.
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
so what will you decision be (working for a startup or doing ur own thing)? I remember you did your own stuff (iphone app) and stuff. I m in Sf now and in a similar situation so I d like to hear your take.
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Advice for apartment hunting in SF or South Bay
1 points by bluekite2000 16y ago|0 comments
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
Did you rent a scooter and rider around Cat ba island? Good times...
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
how did pua help you through bad times when u were just a theorist? please clarify
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
Why say so? You found pua's here? That d be shocking.
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
I just came from S.E Asia after 3 years. its pretty gritty there so you must watch out. Where will you be and what will you do exactly?
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
Can you hack non-VM phones to use this plan?
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
Because vietnam is a friendly and loving country. bookstore because government-owned stores in Saigon sold really shitty English books
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
What? You opened a bookstore in Vietnam too? lol.
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
have u considered living abroad? I spent 3 years in silicon valley and got burnt out. So i just moved to vietnam, opened a bookstore and outsourced most of the work. Then I just went out a lot and traveled a lot since Vietnam is close to ev
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Any bad experiences with Y combinator?
60 points by bluekite2000 16y ago|42 comments
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
Have you been able to grow beyond the "inside contact" deals? And by "look for companies in fields outside of internet tech" can you give some examples?
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by bluekite2000 16y ago
How did you go about finding these 500K+ web apps? What kind of clients are they? What kind of apps do you do for them? If you dont mind me asking

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