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by crmd 7y ago
The transition from 100% product marketing (how does it work, how is it better than competitive technology), to a blend of Customer storytelling (what are customers doing with the technology, how is it transforming their businesses and help
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by crmd 7y ago
I am the CTO of a “unicorn” B2B tech company that focuses almost exclusively on the global 2000. Sales are 95% about relationships and 5% about Product. If you want to sell into Citibank, you go hire the one guy or girl who previously sold
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by crmd 8y ago
Seriously one of the nerdiest hip hop albums ever. It’s one of my favorite double LP’s and never fails as a first record to kick off a party. Can’t believe we’re talking about dr. Octagon on HN :-)
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by crmd 8y ago
Assuming this is a real company and not a joke, consider taking the money you would spend with them and paying people to do work for you, like cleaning, cooking, bill paying, investing, testing, marketing, etc. Be your own boss!
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by crmd 8y ago
>so we assigned Huawei with producing a totally unique router for our superbroadband-service that we could place on the market. no thank you
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by crmd 9y ago
I have a strange love for the Acela Express' cheeseburger. If I wasn't sitting in a meeting right now I would go to Penn Station now and take a ride to Newark for that burger.
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by crmd 9y ago
Good one!
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by crmd 9y ago
One of my friends is the music director of a US freeform radio station. He’s a legend in the industry known for his encyclopedic knowledge of cool but highly obscure artists over the past 40 years. Over the past year, he has often been left
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by crmd 9y ago
I'm trying to imagine a cringier situation than a druggy sex party full of industry people. Try chilling with artists, musicians, chefs, teachers, dog walkers, anything but tech people. The mutual discovery of each other's worlds
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by crmd 9y ago
If you enjoyed your telecom's support experience in the old days as the customer, you're going to love it even more being the product.
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by crmd 9y ago
>If the base platform (last mile 'wires') were owned by the community It's not necessary for the wires to be owned by the people. They could be owned by a private, highly regulated, capital intensive, infrastructure utilit
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by crmd 9y ago
If I pay a consultant $1M for his expertise in navigating local bureaucracy, and it turns out that he used half of that money to bribe local officials without my knowledge, have I committed a crime under FCPA?
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by crmd 9y ago
solution architect: an iteration of your current job, except in the front office (working with customers), and paying 1.5-3x your current salary.
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by crmd 9y ago
>having been given a target Not a war crime
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by crmd 9y ago
It is an unequivocal war crime to create a computer program that autonomously kills humans.
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by crmd 9y ago
I'm surprised there isn't more discussion about hype cycles and the poor efficacy of "AI" here. Sentiment analysis (find the uncivil words) is a trivial solved problem in 2017, and is many, many orders of magnitude less
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by crmd 9y ago
>SM57 at the kick 57 resonant peak is at 200 Hz with steep rolloff below. It will sound like a bedroom recording no matter what you do with IRQs and DMAs.
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by crmd 9y ago
Live customer since 4.0. Spot on.
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by crmd 10y ago
Yes a bit due to asymmetry in the phase inverter circuit driving TD push-pull, but mostly because the odd harmonics are naturally cancelled out in the output transformer.
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by crmd 10y ago
I'm perfectly fine with this.
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by crmd 10y ago
State-level marijuana laws may have diminished relevance if Chris Christie and/or Rudy Guliani assume federal law enforcement and policy roles.
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by crmd 10y ago
It's not nice to belittle individuals whose brains work differently than your own.
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by crmd 11y ago
Storage - compression
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by crmd 11y ago
You can also do it on paper. Make your VC shares subordinate to your employee ISO pool. Talk is cheap ;-)
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by crmd 11y ago
That's one philosophy. The philosophy of my company is that the management team has an ethical responsibility to consider the interests of employees in strategic decision making. I am certain this is the only way to build a healthy lon
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by crmd 11y ago
Make a counteroffer and say it's not up for negotiation.
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by crmd 12y ago
Hire a recruiter and instruct him/her that "the candidate slate must be diverse."
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by crmd 12y ago
My neighbor's dog found a cow tongue full of nails hammered through in prospect park. I saw the pic this morning, it was pretty gross.
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by crmd 12y ago
The theory is to incentivize awesome service by having each customer decide how much compensation to give based on the server's performance. Those who delight customers make more money, while whose who are bad at customer service make
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by crmd 12y ago
>I won't default to a high tip for average service just because other people are doing it. 30% and up is a high tip. 20% is not. Life is short. Be the guy/gal who puts smiles on strangers faces. You can do this by taking care o

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