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by coward123 5y ago
I wouldn't buy a Samsung anything given my experiences. That said... the LG washer and dryer I bought 12 years ago have been awesome and the LG fridge I bought a while back has been very good too. Enough that my partner pushed to buy
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by coward123 5y ago
Cloud costs, basic incorporation fees, etc are nothing compared to labor costs, for example, or what it will cost to keep a roof over your head while you build out your product and get traction. Those credits et al are peanuts by comparis
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by coward123 5y ago
I'm in full agreement with kingnothing here...and in fact if your industry / niche is such that you need to do these things, you need to gain domain knowledge even more than you need to talk to a lawyer.
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by coward123 5y ago
Can the SBA advisor point you at a lawyer? Are there lawyers in your area that partner with the SBA? In my state, there are law firms that everybody knows has focus on early-stage companies, and surprisingly their fees are reasonable (thoug
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by coward123 5y ago
why are you wasting your time with accelerators? Listen, this whole game about VC, accelerators, startup events, finding a co-founder... all the noise you hear around early-stage / startup companies is just that: noise. Go build someth
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by coward123 5y ago
This sounds like keeping up with the Jones' more than anything... these are not middle America public schools or even middle class neighborhoods where this family is residing - these are feeders to the upper echelon of American society
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by coward123 5y ago
Between high school and college I was a camp counselor. Had a camper who had been adopted out of a horrific situation somewhere in Central America. Was put into a home where I'm sure they were well-intentioned, but completely in over t
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by coward123 5y ago
Take a weekend to learn Smalltalk, then it will all make sense. Objects composed of other objects, all passing messages to each other. Whether you can then take that knowledge and have it make sense in a Java, a Python, a C++, etc is hard t
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by coward123 5y ago
You know what I miss from that era? The extension that would allow Oscar the Grouch to pop out of the trash can. What I mean is - Macintosh really had this different vibe back then. You could easily customize everything about your experienc
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by coward123 5y ago
Years ago I was in my ancestral village and met a man (with same very distinctive family name) countless generations removed who looked exactly like my grandfather. Even the same physical, stocky build... and yeah, I had to just kind of m
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by coward123 5y ago
Here's what I thought was really great about this: My family originated in a European country not included in the list. In the 1600s (maybe even late 1500s) we took refuge in one of these countries that allowed a degree of religious to
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by coward123 5y ago
Karat represents everything wrong with how we interview in the tech industry. After being in tech for dozens of years and having interviewed and hired hundreds of people, an interview with Karat was one of the experiences that shook me to t
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by coward123 5y ago
I did business in PDX for a number of years... while I love the city, the startup / tech scene there was absolute fubar. It was fake it until you make it taken to an extreme. Weirdly insular, cliquish...so many snake oil salespeople. C