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by cglee 13y ago
The product/market fit isn't the business model. The product/market fit is first seeing if there's any demand whatsoever of whatever you're selling. The strategy is how you position yourself within the market. The business model is how you
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by cglee 13y ago
The latest Star Trek movie was meant as a prequel, so if the movie showcased advanced tech that's not in the original, it would look weird to the Trekkie purists.
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by cglee 13y ago
HN has progressively become more and more negative, so I wouldn't worry about the negative responses here. That's not to say your blog can't improve, but obviously what you wrote must have hit a nerve judging it's on the front page, so make
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by cglee 13y ago
Why do you care what VCs like. Making a mil a year (or run rate of 1 mil) should be the goal, not impressing VCs.
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by cglee 13y ago
An annual run rate of 1 mil is an admirable goal that we should put on a pedestal, not wipe away with a dismissive "tiny business" label. If you're a founder, that should be your goal.
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by cglee 13y ago
I completely disagree. I've learned a lot from natural salesmen and marketers, and have improved on both fronts due to learning from their battlefield stories.
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by cglee 13y ago
I find generic advice like "be good at marketing/sales/etc" to be really useless. HOW do you become good at marketing/sales/etc? Because each situation and company is different, the how can only be gleamed from details of stories. The meati
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by cglee 13y ago
Asians underperform? Please explain.
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by cglee 14y ago
Having a mortgage means you can't tolerate a long profit-less ramp up. Find a business you can start that draws revenue immediately. You'll have to do some business analysis before you code, but this actually is probably better than the "bu
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by cglee 14y ago
We run Tealeaf Academy, which is an online based web dev bootcamp focusing on Ruby and Rails. Read more on our website: www.gotealeaf.com
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by cglee 14y ago
Couple of questions: 1. do you do transcoding at all? 2. where do the videos live, and in what format? 3. any size/time limit on the recordings? 4. you compared with some competitors, but not Tokbox; how is it different? 5. is y
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by cglee 14y ago
Awesome write up Roy!
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by cglee 14y ago
Discussions like this seem to always come back to a sense of "fairness". It's not about being fair, but about how situations make people feel. Majority-group members tend to brush away the sensitivities of minority-group members. If you're
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by cglee 14y ago
Stefan, I operate an online school to teach people web development. Send me an email and let's see how we can help you. If you have the desire, I'm confident we can teach you to launch a product.
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by cglee 14y ago
It's in the FAQ section.
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by cglee 14y ago
Like this? http://www.gotealeaf.com (disclaimer, I'm an instructor)
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by cglee 14y ago
> Then fire them. That's exactly what will probably happen if they don't comply. I think giving people an opportunity to comply before firing is a good move.
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by cglee 14y ago
This needs to be repeated over and over. We see so many pundits pushing the "right" way to build Rails applications now. Rails was a reaction against large applications. The major use case is to build CRUDs in front of a db. If your appli
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by cglee 14y ago
Bingo. In order to report meteorite strikes, there must be 1) people to report them and 2) some institution to track them. If anything, it looks pretty evenly distributed after adjusting for 1 and 2.
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by cglee 14y ago
The analysis paralysis on which tools to use really comes from lack of focus on which problems you wish to work on. Many people are either told what problem to work on (employees), or have an unclear focus (I just want a job, any job!). The
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by cglee 14y ago
Developers probably aren't the intended audience. Yammer, Chatter, Hall, etc are going after enterprise customers.
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by cglee 14y ago
There's always a tradeoff between security and other variables. There's no such thing as 100% secure, so where you make your stake in the spectrum of security depends on your business domain. Just as you have different engineering require
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by cglee 14y ago
The Society of Barefoot Walkers may include it in their next newsletter, though.
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by cglee 14y ago
I had the opposite feeling. Jobs was direct, concise and wrote in an unmistakable way. Colligan was writing "for the record" and used a lot of empty flowery language.
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by cglee 14y ago
For more information, see the blog post that details what we're planning on doing this time around: http://www.opensourcerails.com/relaunch/
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by cglee 14y ago
Your cohort was pretty active, and I think a lot of it had to do with the reply-by-email functionality. For example, I was able to just reply while on my cell without fumbling with mobile Safari. You should've seen earlier cohorts, a lot le
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by cglee 14y ago
Seems appropriate since we let you steal our knowledge :) disclaimer: I'm an instructor at Tealeaf Academy.
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My point is that it doesn't matter much which stack you pick. The default stack is not failing. The fail is being overwhelmed by choice, when it doesn't matter in the beginning. What matters most is having a good teacher, who choses a stack
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I should mention that in our 3-course program, we teach Ruby first. See http://www.gotealeaf.com
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We've taught hundreds of beginners new to Rails, and we've found that beginners want to learn about all the alternatives - it's like they have to survey the entire landscape before starting. No matter if we're teaching TestUnit or Rspec,

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