geoffbrown2014

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by geoffbrown2014 11y ago
At some point you are going to have to sell at your startup. You are going to have to sell yourself. Selling is a soul crushing, time consuming lottery. But every once in a while its brilliant. If you think YC application is tough, try sell
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
They made a documentary about barbed wire and Glidden and the town where he manufactured it Dekalb, Illinois. Its called Barbed Wire Pioneers.
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
What sort of extremism are you hoping to eliminate??
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
They missed the requirement where the candidate must be willing to work for peanuts too. I guess they didn't want to scare people off. :)
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
Ask or drop by at lunch and see what people are wearing. I went to an interview about a two years ago in an academic setting in the finance department and one of the interviewers was the president of the finance department. I wore a suit an
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
First the computers came for our cat meme gifs and I did not speak up. ;)
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
The first step out of depression is finding someone to trust. Find a therapist or a friend. You can determine if a person is trustworthy by how they respond to your feelings. Do they honor and affirm how you are feeling. Do not carry this a
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
I think you need to expand your horizons. There are large portions of the US population that view our public schools as little more than glorified daycare. While I agree for the most part, I admit that there are exceptions where we do have
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
The federal government has a terrible record of trying and succeeding in ruining people they perceive as a threat to the status quo, including people like MLK Jr., a Senate confirmed target of the FBI. These tactics continue today, they are
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
Another building products designer/manufacturer here. I'm not sure there is a substitute for practice. I always have a large sketch pad on hand for working out ideas. I think you would benefit from giving yourself design challenge
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
Can you build and a deliver a box in a U form factor that you can setup a service contract around?
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
Drop me an email geoff at foom.co and I'll show you what I'm building in Python. Not precisely what you are looking for but would not take much to adapt it.
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
If you are a undisciplined writer like me, you will have to find the theme of your post after writing it. In the goulash of your initial stream of writing, look for a kernel or thought that clarifies your point. Use that kernel as a logic d
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
The bells and whistles comment struck a chord with me. That can be a tremendous advantage to you if the company bundles all those features. Go talk to customers and find out how many of the features they actually use. If they only use 15-20
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
I've been working on it in my spare time for 18 months and can do some rudimentary stuff. Graphing was the easy part. ;) I do a lot of material layout at work and need to maximize how many parts of a specific shape can fit on a single
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Donald E. Knuth Lectures(scpd.stanford.edu)
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
This reminds me of the old farmer saw. A farmer was asked what he would do with a millions dollars. His answer: Keep farming until it was gone. :)
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
For airlines it must have been hard to capture much of the x value they created when someone else was in control of their y. ;) I think computer hardware (especially memory or hard drives) would be a better historical industry to point to f
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
One minor point of clarification on airline profitability. It wasn't competition that bankrupt them it was government regulation. Airlines were heavily regulated for many years and their ticket prices were set by regulators. Huge incen
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
Yes, please!!
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by geoffbrown2014 12y ago
Very cool, I did the font one. I found myself first adjusting the leaders based on how well the letter looked to my eye and could easily get into the 80+% range. But when I tried to use my analytical eye by lining up the dimension leaders,