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It can work either way. If you and your co-founders can get in a room on a regular basis and that leads to increased productivity, great. If you and your co-founders are in different cities or countries, and the only way the startup gets la
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There are problems everywhere. Start with problems that you have that you would realistically pay to solve. Solve them in a way that can be sold as a service to others. Then sell it as a service.
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I bought a timeshare for $3495 on eBay. The seller had 100% positive feedback and a history of large transactions (watch out for sellers with 1000 sales of $1 items and then an expensive one). PayPal does not allow real estate transactions
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There should be a system where you can allow email from people in your contact list but unsolicited email is blocked or requires a fee, say a few cents or some price you specify. If the email is really valuable you should have no problem pa
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There is still lorem ipsum text in the "features" section under "transfers are instant". That does not inspire confidence
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It certainly contributed to its development, in the same way that the pandemic accelerated acceptance of work-from-home and Zoom meetings. People need interaction, and the metaverse (whatever it is) is the latest iteration on that theme.
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I've been really impressed by Samsung (especially the new folding phones and curved screens) the way I used to be impressed by Apple. Was Steve Jobs really the driving force behind all innovation at Apple?
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After flying JetBlue and WestJet, where full carry-on bags were not included in the fare (small backpacks that fit under the seat were allowed), I will never bring a full size carry-on again. Most of the delay is people fighting for overhea
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I'm not sure what reason I'd give to ask for their phone number as using the product doesn't really need that Hard to know unless you describe the app. In our case we had business owners enter their business phone number to
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Wouldn't it have made more sense to start this division back in 2009?
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How did you get these users? They signed up on their own through the app or website? With such a small amount of users, you should collect a phone number and just call them. For figuring out which features a user wants, my old company tried
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1 ultra wide monitor is good for gaming. Dual monitors are good for separating tasks, e.g. browser and emulator on one screen and IDE on the other. This is also better for screen sharing, so you can share one screen and keep clutter on the
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Ok I'm fat and I think this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Changes in weight (without corresponding changes in diet or activity) can signal and number of conditions such as hypothyroidism or congestive heart failure. It is
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Driverless Car Engineer Telehealth Nurse and Doctor Cryptocurrency investor
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clickable link https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/29/what-if-all-wo...
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The democratization of filmmaking technology makes it possible to do what only Hollywood was able to do just a decade or 2 ago. A few smartphones, drones, and laptops can produce big-budget special effects. It's exciting to see what st
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Impossible for work/school accounts https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3056283?hl=en
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Maybe the person choosing to get vaccinated is controlling the switch and one track has a group of people tied up and the other track has the person's pride
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I think you are forgetting the terrible experience of ActiveX errors, Java errors, Javascript alert boxes, broken image tags, and broken layouts that were all common in the past.
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This article is from 2011...how has ICE used this power since then?
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the systems and infrastructure are nice to use That's true...big companies just have that infrastructure thing ironed out. There's bureaucracy (like having to get security to sign off on some new software), but there is also sup
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If you like hacking on features, not having to do robust A/B testing or walk through tons of leadership / management hoops Definitely. Working for big companies sometimes makes you miss the days when A/B testing was the onl
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It is very competitive to get a job at one of these companies. I have applied to Netflix multiple times but to date they have not replied even to reject me (only "application received"). Since applying to Netflix, I was hired at C
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I think you are right, and to date, QR codes have been underutilized. 9/10 times when I scan a QR code it takes me to a static menu page or worse, a PDF. But if the QR code led to a dynamic page, then many of these upsell opportunities
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If we assume 3 tiers of restaurant, with McDonalds at the cheap end, places like Chili's and TGI Friday's in the middle, and fine dining like steakhouses at the top, this change is aimed at the middle tier. In the US the trend has
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There will be people to deliver the food...in some restaurants this is already the case that the waiter who takes the order is not the same one who delivers the food. Most of your other objections are host/hostess responsibilities, not
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I think a good middle ground is to allow people to request a waiter if desired, or order directly using a device. At a nice restaurant, I may want to ask the waiter for a recommendation or I may want to explain food allergies (assuming I ca
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I had a coworker who was a Disney World character, voiceover actor, and then a flight attendant before going to a coding bootcamp. 12 weeks in a bootcamp and she was a solid junior frontend developer. I think that path is very achievable fo
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Makes sense!
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Sending the kids in to search for their own balloons sounds like a (poor) sorting algorithm Haha true, I think that was the lesson. But sending kids to search for anyone's balloon and then assign it to the correct person seemed to be
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