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by dqdo 12y ago
I second that. Craiglist is very easy to build and useful for a local market and new market. Yelp for your country may be another good idea. Though it does take some time for people to get used to it. You can also try other location-based a
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by dqdo 12y ago
There are two downsides to Firebase. The first one being price. For certain applications (e.g., photo sharing app) it does not make sense to use Firebase due to the high cost of storage. I would just use AWS in this case. The second downsid
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by dqdo 12y ago
I took some of the material on HN and put it inside a Blogger. The blog is quite rough at the moment as I have not spent much time editing the content. If you are interested in reading it and possibly sharing it with others, here is the url
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by dqdo 12y ago
I guess there is quite a bit of positive reception with what I am writing about enterprise software and pricing model. I might just have to create a blog to talk about these topics and other related start-up topics in greater detail. I am l
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by dqdo 12y ago
There is no hard rule for charging the percentage of the software base on the value delivered to the client. The short answer is I usually charge between 5% to 20% (read further more the long answer). You want your client to feel like they
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by dqdo 12y ago
I tend to decide which tools to use base on how likely I would need to maintain and refractor the code. For the core application code, I want to keep things as nice and simple as possible. For particular functionalities where once you build
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by dqdo 12y ago
So I by no means am talking about following the Southwest model religiously. There is always a tradeoff between over using a tool and having too many different tools in place. Ultimately you have to choose the right tool for the job. But mo
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by dqdo 12y ago
In my opinion, web technology has become so advanced that the technology for the most part should not matter as much. Unless you are doing something on the scale of Facebook or Google, your technology usually does not matter. Just choose th
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by dqdo 12y ago
I have been selling enterprise software for the construction industry (a niche product) for about a year. In my situation the sales process is fairly simple once you have the right product (e.g., product market fit). Although this example i
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by dqdo 12y ago
I worked at 2 start-ups so here are the technology stacks: The first company was started 3 years ago and our technology included: (1) Python-Flask (2) Postgresql (3) SQL Alchemy (4) JQuery for web (5) Objective C for IOS (6) Bootstrap In my
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by dqdo 12y ago
The grind is quite difficult and long. It can take 1-3 years for a good idea and a good product to gain traction. In the mean time, you have to reduce your spending and work crazy hours in order to stay afloat. The previous comment about it
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by dqdo 12y ago
It depends on your market. Some ideas are winner take all (e.g., Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube) while other ideas can have multiple major market players (e.g., Uber, Lyft, etc.). Depending upon your market, you may or may not have to
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by dqdo 12y ago
Curiosity
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by dqdo 12y ago
Too many adults quit science because it does not pay enough.
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by dqdo 12y ago
I study project management so I only know about things from the production perspective. The following reading should get you a modern view of managing projects. http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2000/isbn951385566X/ ht
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by dqdo 12y ago
I heard that term at a conference given by Sidney Dekker. Professor Dekker is a world famous expert in risk and accident management. The links from his talk and books are below. He said "MBA stands for more bad advice" at 14:00. I
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by dqdo 12y ago
MBA stands for "more bad advice". The current MBA curriculum is mainly based on knowledge that we know in the 1980s. Most of the advance science and management processes that we have developed since then are not in the curriculum.
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by dqdo 12y ago
The reason that the 10,000 hour does not exist are: (1) different fields require different amount of training and dedication, (2) it is difficult to measure what "mastery" is because it is so hard to quantify, (3) some fields are
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by dqdo 12y ago
As a society, we need to ask ourselves two questions: (1) what is the purpose of work? and (2) what do people find valuable? The premise of question 1 is that we should not work just for the sake of saying that we are working. Rather we sho
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by dqdo 12y ago
If you want to study computer science, then I think that you are in luck. CS is one of the few fields where most (if not all) the information that you need is freely available online. Some other fields such as civil engineering or medicine