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by curt 16y ago
Need to remember public companies manipulate their balance sheets, how do you think GE usually grows by the same percentage every year like clockwork. If you are trying to gain detailed insights instead of generalizations it won't work. You
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by curt 16y ago
1) Finish the iPhone application I've been working on in my spare time within the next 3 months. 2) Find a full-time gig at a fun/energetic company designing and creating products I love. 3) Put on 20 lbs of muscle
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Ask HN: Make a New Year's resolution
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by curt 16y ago
I was making just over $30/hr my freshmen year of college doing engineering/design work. It went up from there until my senior year when I switched to helping start-ups. Had one friend who his senior year was making an average of $50+/hr. H
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by curt 16y ago
Engineering around a lose/vague patent if you find a good patent attorney isn't that difficult. Also remember that even if you violate a patent, most patent's aren't enforced because the company owning the patent doesn't have the resources
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by curt 16y ago
Get an engineering degree, then get an MBA. But if you are set on business, I got my MBA (mostly entrepreneurship and marketing) right out of undergrad at Indiana University so I kind of enjoyed the undergrad life while in grad school and i
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by curt 16y ago
From my experience with programmers/engineers 'IN' India and China is that they seem to be far less flexible/creative. They know what they know but if you ask them to solve a problem that they haven't encountered they struggle. I used to ou
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by curt 16y ago
I believe any great inventor/innovator must be and so I've aspired do be the same with high levels of knowledge in: engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, human behavior, economics, business, mathematics, and design/art. M
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by curt 16y ago
Texas has been creating over half of all net new jobs over the last few years. It's actually making it through the recession quite well.
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by curt 16y ago
If you don't need the money, ask for equity. Depending on the school and the code of conduct you might even be able to get course credit as independent study. I did something very similar to that my senior year for a medical startup, just o
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by curt 16y ago
Ask thought problems, how would you do this and why. Even ask real problems that you're facing. Another really good indicator is whether someone can teach themselves a skill or talent. Did a business major learn programming on his own? Does
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by curt 16y ago
that's awesome, sad, and yet oh so accurate. I'd get rid of the obvious skills such as saying your skilled in windows 7 or you know how to install software, but it does depend on who's going to be reading your resume. If it's technical pers
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by curt 16y ago
Be VERY specific, I primarily used contracted and outsourced work and found that communications was the main problem. I wrote and communicated one thing and they thought I meant another. So what I learned to do was be very specific and brea
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by curt 16y ago
That was a bit of a rant, but the point I was trying to make was that innovations such as those I was working on will disappear unless the system is corrected. What doctor wants to be told you can't save a life because there isn't a code fo
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by curt 16y ago
I was literally working on the cure for ALL disease, but stopped because I got frustrated with all the crap regulations and rules the government forces you to follow. If someones dieing and only has a few months to live they don't have the
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by curt 16y ago
How to talk to women? Couldn't resist.
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by curt 16y ago
You might be able to do it at that price for everything but the toilet. Instead of going big, the design I would use (after only thinking about it for 2-3 minutes) would be to mimic an insect. Go really small and have it be able to adhere t
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by curt 16y ago
The manipulation is going to be near impossible at your price point. Remember for each articulation you'll need a motor unless you build a flywheel assembly. That adds to the price really quick. The programming, if you're just doing it for
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by curt 16y ago
What's the purpose of the analysis? The one thing I have learned through my years of helping start-ups and small businesses is that making detailed plans is a waste of time. Once you start selling a product and talking to the customer you e
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by curt 16y ago
The problem is that there are so many different areas that such a resource would have cover, likely it would be quite hard to navigate. The difficulty is that someone learning and someone experienced creating/adding to the site see things d
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by curt 16y ago
I always make sure the interface actions and flow is near perfect even before I even begin to develop. Artwork and graphics are easily changed at any time, but how the user interacts with the interface is much more complicated and much more
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by curt 16y ago
Used to have it really bad then started doing more pull-ups and push-ups to strengthen the forearm muscles. While I still have occasional discomfort, the pain has disappeared.
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by curt 16y ago
AWESOME... GET IT DONE... It cost me just over $4,000, 6 years ago, got both eyes done at the same time, took a total of 5 minutes and now I see better then 20/20. Before with glasses I could only get to 20/30. You get to 20/20 the day afte
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by curt 16y ago
Thought of launching something like this during grad school. There are a ton of legal hurtles to go through which is why I passed. But good luck there definitely is a market. From the numbers I ran the lowest you can go cooking in-house is
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by curt 16y ago
At 5% per month, after the first year the EBITDA multiple would go from 12 to 8. After 2nd year, 5 and so on. So the company would pay off the purchase during the 4th year. A good deal for any purchase.
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by curt 16y ago
Take EBITDA (Earning before income tax, depreciation, and amortization) and multiply that number by between 5-18. You get a higher multiple through higher growth, long term consumers, sustainability (your consumers won't leave), competition
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by curt 16y ago
http://ventureloop.com/ventureloop/home.php http://startuply.com/ http://linkedin.com/ Looking myself and these are what I use. Also read TechCrunch and similar sites. Then just contact the CEO of the company directly, don't apply to
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by curt 16y ago
People forget that technological development isn't linear but an exponential curve. Once we get to a point where machines can design themselves the sky is the limit. Right now all human knowledge doubles every 2 years. Look back at the tech
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by curt 16y ago
I owned a kids toy/developmental products company, be careful not to over stimulate your child. Over stimulation is just as bad as neglecting your child. This is the time to introduce your child to multiple languages, just have them playing
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by curt 16y ago
Any movement is going to have its share of crazies, but as a whole tea party folks are great people. A lot of those "racists" are plants, I've gone to a few events and those people are quickly booed out. Just go to an event and talk to the

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