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by davismwfl 5y ago
Yes and no. It only works for honest companies that comply with the spirit of the law, not just the text (the text has some failures). I worked for years building direct marketing software and we complied with the law best we could, and
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by davismwfl 5y ago
I've consulted at so many places that just wrote stored procedures/functions and put them in the DB but never put those in source control and managed them like code. Can't tell you how many times they'd split the SQL bo
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Find a new job first, then quit. I am not part of nor associated to YC but I wouldn't worry about this, good YC founders know there are bad YC founders (same for techstars etc) -- FWIW I have worked with YC founders. Being in the &quo
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Market market market and early. Every time I kept something quiet and tried to pick and choose who I launched with (especially when bootstrapping) it was a failure. There are very few stealth startups that ever are successful, and even fe
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Totally agree, I do this as well, and actually quite often. I've written down ideas I've heard people talking about during their lunch break at Panera Bread and researched it later. I've even stopped someone and asked them
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by davismwfl 5y ago
What I found is with texting and emailing is that people get distracted and you aren't getting their full attention, if at all -- very easy for them to ignore you or drop you into spam. You need peoples focus to be able to talk throug
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by davismwfl 5y ago
It does work, the key is you have to do more than send a text or email or just call someone (not picking on you, just my own personal lesson). You have to talk to people about their business and see what is happening. This is literally how
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by davismwfl 5y ago
1. Accept that the best product is usually not the one that sells. e.g. perfect is the enemy of good enough (or a thousand other versions of that saying). 2. Find a pain point in an area you understand or have experience etc, then talk to p
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by davismwfl 5y ago
A lot of the details depend on what level person you want to bring in. My 2 cents, having done this bootstrapped more then once before, is to hire in good mid level sales people who have networks in the space you are in. Do not hire a VP o
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Yea, there are two misconceptions based on old sayings that always make me laugh in relations to birds. When people say bird brain as an insult to others. And when people say someone "eats like a bird", trying to say they eat so
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Which generally means you don't need it. One of the worst habits/pitfalls we all can fall victim to in startup world is doing something cause we think it might be helpful or important. Sometime this is fine, but I always try to
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Definitely was interesting, and fun times for sure. Microsoft with ASP, ActiveX and VBScript in pages. I also remember writing ISAPI extensions for IIS to handle searching backend systems. IIRC e-bay was the best known company that had an
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by davismwfl 5y ago
To fill temporary roles or access specialist knowledge which they do not need to fill a permanent position for. It generally is that simple. Freelancers fill roles to help complete tasks or build features that the company doesn’t need full
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Totally agree, I had early access to the internet through one of the BBS's I subscribed to, textual only of course cause the www didn't exist at first and then even in the early 90's it was still very new. But in the early to
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by davismwfl 5y ago
It was pretty awesome. The barrier to entry was a little high for a lot of people in the 80's as you required a decent PC, modem and had to pay the phone bill for long distance calls. Something people don't remember is that long
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Are you experienced looking just for someone to work with a little? Or are you looking to work with someone with more experience to mentor you through a project or what's the goal? You looking for something more server based, desktop
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Treat everyone equal, period. If she is hurting her team her manager needs to be aware and address it. If your manager is asking you to help her, give her some extra grace and offer your help without judgement (you should really do that for
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Typically to raise funds you need to be able to show real growth in at least a few metrics. Revenue is great, but if you can show user growth, and/or growing time on platform month over month that will get investors excited, even if r
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by davismwfl 5y ago
I've hired people from HN postings, been hired from HN postings and been contacted for contract work multiple times which I did a number of them. The key in the 90's to getting hired is mostly the same as today, except one key dif
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Thank you, I didn't know that, interesting. I still think the better way would've been to force the industry to comply by stating whatever the agreement was any devices not meeting it would be barred from sales in the market. Tha
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by davismwfl 5y ago
The problem I have with legislating this type of stuff is in 5 years (or whatever period) there will be a successor to USB C but getting legislation updated will be difficult and time consuming. So instead of being innovative and moving for
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by davismwfl 5y ago
FWIW Turning the phone off is very different to removing the battery. Removing the battery is the most secure. Mobile phones that are “off” are still powered and many/most essentially enter a form of sleep and aren’t fully off. There h
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by davismwfl 5y ago
This sounds reasonable but when you start doing the math it just doesn't make sense. Creating the device and getting it certified world wide is difficult but very doable. Pulling users away from their platforms and ecosystems is infin
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Why didn't they give you increases as you delivered and showed them value? This is always the key question to ask. If you are worth 40% more to them now, why didn't they keep you happy before you went looking? Did you ask for m
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by davismwfl 5y ago
I get it and respect that some people can do it respectfully. I have seen some people do it respectfully and still participate etc, it just sadly isn't the norm. It also can be distracting as you are trying to present and you hear 10
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by davismwfl 5y ago
I use a 5 subject notebook and write notes down in that throughout the day, during meetings etc. From that I will usually, once or twice a week, take the things that are important and put them into my Apple Notes (used to use OneNote). I d
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Go for the second option now or over the medium term. In the short term you could pick option 3 until you can find the person to fit option 2. Generally full time designer is not necessary at the stage you describe with some exceptions. If
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by davismwfl 5y ago
I disagree the govt handed Zuck or Dorsey anything outside of funds through cut outs. The US govt, I hate to say, is so slow and full of incompetence they couldn't put together a Facebook or Twitter. What I do think is the intelligence
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by davismwfl 5y ago
Curious for people living there. Can you tell from the ground looking at it that it has sunk that much? I would think from another high rise looking at it you would see the skew more, right? I am reluctant to trust somme of the pictures I&
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by davismwfl 5y ago
I've worked on a variety of vital systems including some in health care. We defined vital systems as severe injury or death could occur if the system failed or failed unsafely. The article dharmab linked is pretty well known and I thi

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