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by eddy_chan 13y ago
Sorry, maybe my reaction to the post title was so visceral I didn't read the finer points. My concerns that I wrote down were actually my wifes concerns, they always seem to have the final say in who takes care of the kids if both pare
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by eddy_chan 13y ago
Do you have kids yourself? I don't want to be condescending but, this is one of those things where you have to be part of the target market to understand that the protective instinct you have over your own kids is so strong and so raw
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by eddy_chan 13y ago
Thanks for the insight into the world of ODesk 'Agencies', you've confirmed for me what my hunch was all along. Recently I put a Django Ecommerce site job there for $10k USD and you won't believe how many phone calls&#x2
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
Guys, a bit misleading - On your site, I was expecting to see example/s of products with engaged users that you've built together. Perhaps 'hire.me' would've been a more apt domain name as acquihire implies there's a company with a product
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The only thing you need to get good at is selling...(eddychan.com)
2 points by eddy_chan 14y ago|0 comments
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
The part about not starting something new out of fear of failure is the best advice ever. Even if your startup 'fails' you would've gained a hell of a lot skills out of building it, call it 'personal capital' and the best thing you could do
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
I'd add Stephen Elop to that list as well, he will be judged in due time
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
When you create a company that acts as an agent or marketplace between 2 parties you have to take on some of the risk in the transaction if you're profiting from it. AirBnB struck a goldmine in apartments cos it's pretty hard to 'steal' an
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
In my experience of being part of the acquiree, you can get acquired for a gross earnings multiple of between 30 and 40. So as long you're only spending 2.5m per year to get your 5 mil run rate then yep, find the right acquirer and you can
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
Totally agree with this post, I make CRUD-dy web apps and my dev box is a mirror of my production stack (nginx, apache, postgres, python/django + associated tools) with the desktop stuff like browsers, chat clients bolted on. Having a deskt
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
Screen size must be 1920 wide? It's a known issue, we've had a hell of a time trying to get our CSS to be responsive to all the different screen sizes out there. In any case, thanks for taking the time to check it out. Much appreciated
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
Thanks for the compliment on the website. I'm just a bit worried she might get lost inside the product - could you pass my email to her eddy [at] zenbookings.com in case she needs help/explaining. I've worked very closely with our beta cust
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
Hey HN - we just launched our rough MVP yesterday. Looking for some honest feedback on our website, our product and the overall vibe/pitch. My motivation for building a relatively lowtech CRM/CMS'y startup was that I couldn't risk it all co
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Show HN: Launching my DIY class scheduling website platform for small businesses(zenbookings.com)
5 points by eddy_chan 14y ago|7 comments
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
If only big corporations took the same line as you. I can't believe the last company I worked for (starts with A, one that Steve Jobs hated) re-appropriated my 3 year old scuffed, dented, damaged MBP to a new employee after I left. I though
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
I might add that if you make and sell your own products, then a degree is completely unnecessary for you given the amount of 'free' education that can be obtained via the internet today. For 99% of people out there, a degree is a institutio
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
I forgot to add - if you work with someone else or a couple of other people (cofounders in a startup) rotate the role of 'motivational taskmaster'. Basically it's this persons jobs to drive projects by saying to everyone else - 'Where the F
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
Some general advice that's helped me improve productivity since I started working for myself rather than for the man. 1) Don't "multi-task" ever. Make a plan and then do everything on the plan in serial and make sure you focus 100% effort a
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What a relief, I have launched my MVP (thoughts from a Founder)(eddychan.com)
1 points by eddy_chan 14y ago|1 comments
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
Yep, Googles Compute Engine might be the latest new and shiny service in town but that isn't enough reason to move. I gotta give Amazon a plug here just cos they secured my loyalty through what I thought was empowered customer support inste
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
It's much harder to comparison shop but it's also a much harder effort for the OEM to manage their SEO. Same product with thousands of different codes would make quality online reviews worthless I reckon. It would also mess up user/fan foru
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by eddy_chan 14y ago
I'm 30 and I spend a lot of my time trying to drum most of this list into my 24 year old brother so it's not far off the mark. The problem with self help advice like this is that you have to arrive at these conclusions through your own expe
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by eddy_chan 15y ago
I really think the poster has missed one important difference between the baby boomer generation and their kids. The baby boomers have gone through a period of life where a car is absolutely necessity because they were raising families wher
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by eddy_chan 15y ago
Really depends on how big your angel round is. If you've raised 200k and you've got 3 founders who all require 60k salaries each you'll get a year of runway which isn't very long and that's not even taking into account the possibility or ne
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by eddy_chan 15y ago
This - is totally the text editor I used to learn Python, now I'm using it for jQuery tutorials. For an IDE suggestion, I'd vote for PyCharm once you're developing more complex stuff http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ . Most worthwhile $100
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by eddy_chan 15y ago
I wrote a basic primer for django on EC2 to take advantage of the free tier last week here: http://eddychan.com/post/18484749431/minimum-viable-ops-depl...
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by eddy_chan 15y ago
Glad somebody's reading it :) Thank you. Looking at Amazon's pricing page ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing ) if you stick with 1 micro Linux instance past the free first year it's $0.02 per hour which works out to $14/month. Add some da
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Minimum Viable Ops - Deploying your first Django App to Amazon EC2(eddychan.com)
8 points by eddy_chan 15y ago|2 comments
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by eddy_chan 15y ago
This is a very well articulated post on why there are so many startups today. Even my previous boss, an (exited) founder who started in the bad old days when you HAD to build out your own hardware made a particularly memorable quote last ti
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by eddy_chan 15y ago
Thank you for being such an inspiration - and a therapist, I'm working on an online reservation tool for small business service providers cos the rest of them as you say 'suck goatnuggets' (LOL) but it's all too easy to get depressed readin

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