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by cityzen 9y ago
"How to Tell the Truth" from the VC's invested in companies like Facebook and Zenefits... I'll pass.
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by cityzen 9y ago
I suppose this is why top bro-dawg Chris Sacca is retiring? It's not surprising as he did nothing to hide his bro-ner for fellow douchebag Travis Kalanick.
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by cityzen 9y ago
Hi Dan, Happy Anniversary! Love your emails, always look forward to reading them in the morning.
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by cityzen 9y ago
There is a podcast called The Dollop where one person essentially teaches another person about a particular subject. They recently did Uber and it was eye-opening to see just how shady this company has always been. I am not a fan of Uber bu
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by cityzen 9y ago
Because money.
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by cityzen 9y ago
shocker... douchebag CEO with "win at all costs" attitude is trying to win at all costs.
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by cityzen 10y ago
Not to mention this was written up by her on mashable back in 2014.... (I commented elsewhere in the thread about it). But yes, I agree completely.
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by cityzen 10y ago
I'm a skeptic and stuff like this always seems like marketing to me. This happened back in/before 2014 and her article on mashable from april 2, 2014 is almost the same: http://mashable.com/2014/04/02&#x2
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by cityzen 10y ago
Light-hearted or not, this is pretty patronizing. I'm sure this person wants nothing more but to get on with their life.
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MetaLab acquires majority stake in Dribbble(medium.com)
2 points by cityzen 10y ago|0 comments
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The Preposterous Success Story of America’s Pillow King(bloomberg.com)
3 points by cityzen 10y ago|0 comments
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by cityzen 10y ago
you got me!
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by cityzen 10y ago
Fair enough. I'm not an attorney or an accountant and the comparison of tax liability for self employment vs. LLC filing as an s-corp may or may not be significant. It really depends on each person's situation in terms of income,
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by cityzen 10y ago
avoiding taxes vs. running your business in a way that is fully legal that allows you to not be penalized for being self employed are two different things. For example, if you paid 30% (self employment tax, roughly) on 250k, you're pay
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by cityzen 10y ago
Transparency isn't about things being exciting all the time, it's about being transparent. I would venture to guess that Patrick is not a 10x developer and his real skill is self promotion. I agree about equating really technicall
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by cityzen 10y ago
Key point is in your opening, "I used to work in software training. WE charged $4k/day" which would lead me to believe this was a company and not a person. In that instance, training, it makes complete sense to charge those k
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by cityzen 10y ago
Do you not think Amy Hoy isn't Amy Hoy's biggest product?
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by cityzen 10y ago
Read the blog post I linked to. There is a section that specifically says "What I did to earn those rates" that does not mention AT ALL that he is spending half/one third/some/very little money on travel and expense
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by cityzen 10y ago
Agree with you 100%. To me, reading those kinds of posts are very misleading as they give you all the good stuff but none of the gory details of travel, how long it takes to close a deal, etc. I have clients all over the place, rarely trave
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by cityzen 10y ago
I agree with this. I appreciate everything Patrick has spent his time writing and sharing but it's hard to reconcile the writing to the reality sometimes. There's a lot about his world I just don't understand. In this post (
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by cityzen 10y ago
Sure, Sal Khan is a great example that you can do a start up, get on that sweet grant gravy train and still make a respectable Silicon Valley salary. What's not to like? I just wish non-profits like this would drop the BS facade of act
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by cityzen 10y ago
Also, here's some info regarding their revenues, take it for what it's worth: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/261...
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by cityzen 10y ago
I would say the vast majority of their money comes from grants (I'm guessing here). I got an email from them at the end of 2015 asking me to donate $3 but when I saw that Sal Khan was pulling down a salary of $550k+ I was completely tu
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by cityzen 10y ago
Nothing is free, not even the free internet you get from that massive, public, for-profit advertising platform called Facebook.
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by cityzen 10y ago
Every time i hear the words "acquired by amazon", I think of the amazing Woot video announcing they were... acquired by Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnCHCcveteA
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by cityzen 10y ago
I don't think (s)he has a 15 h/w job, they just work 15 hours per week. When you work for yourself you can do this. It takes some time to figure out what works but 15 h/w at $100/hr is ~$6,000/month. If you do good
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by cityzen 10y ago
"the goal to replace the paper menus and give restaurants full control over their online presence." "Our business was seemingly working and from 30K feet — it looked great:" "We had had happy customers and revenue a
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by cityzen 10y ago
That being said...
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by cityzen 10y ago
"doing things right"... by whose standards? It blows my mind how convoluted everything has become due to "doing things right" and "best practices". It's a side project, keep it in perspective. The faster i
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by cityzen 11y ago
This is disappointing. I wonder how people would react if the article was titled, "Pharmaceutical Billionaires and Bankers get together to formulate a plan to stop Sanders". People would lose their minds.

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