capital_omega

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by capital_omega 16y ago
You know nothing about the upper class. They don't need to hire PR firms (which is very expensive and unaffordable to a bootstrapped startup). They have their well-connected daddies and uncles make phone calls to get press coverage, etc.
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by capital_omega 16y ago
Startup founders do not go into poverty. To do a startup, you have to be middle-class, at least, from the start, because otherwise you have no hope of getting the funding or building up the savings. The most successful startups are an excep
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by capital_omega 16y ago
Answer: ideas aren't worthless. An idea has no value to you if you can't execute, but it has long-term value if you might be able to do so in the future, and it definitely has value to competitors who may wish to execute it now. [Edit: Also
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by capital_omega 16y ago
A good barometer for whether a decent college grad should take a job is how elite business schools will perceive the work experience-- they generally require four years of real-world work experience in applicants. I'm not saying that everyo
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by capital_omega 16y ago
I don't know, but I think both are bad. If I were him, I'd probably bump the college degree by a couple years.
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by capital_omega 16y ago
This has more to do with higher parental expectations, coming out of the general climate of economic insecurity in the United States. Upper-middle-class parents can hire maids to do some of the chores, but raising children is still exhausti
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by capital_omega 16y ago
He's working odd jobs and as a volunteer firefighter, so he is doing useful work. He's also sending out five resumes per week, which is a lot if he's actually researching the jobs and positions. (I know some people send out 200 per day ,
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by capital_omega 16y ago
This is an entirely different country from what it was in the 19th century. Although early industrial America was brutal in a lot of ways that our society isn't, it was possible to "work your way up" then. Now it's not. The work environment
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by capital_omega 16y ago
Also, though a lot of people won't admit to it, he's putting himself in danger by taking a mediocre job. He can very easily be typecast into that sort of role for a long time.
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by capital_omega 16y ago
Of course, this should not be a surprise. If you are no longer fretting about spending too little time with your children after they’re born (because you have a year of paid maternity leave), if you’re no longer anxious about finding affor