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by gl338 10y ago
That's definitely not true. There are only a few dozen unicorns, and hundreds of self-sustained businesses that "print" small amounts of money. If you join any large city's small business CEO groups (in NYC, SF, Toronto
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by gl338 10y ago
One of the things I find fascinating about this article is how cyber warfare deterrence requires that you publicly show force (and thus, your cyber capabilities), which also puts you at a disadvantage against your adversary since they can l
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US weighs up options in response to Russian hacking(ft.com)
1 points by gl338 10y ago|1 comments
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by gl338 10y ago
It also depends a lot on the company's strategy. If you are building a complex product then a small, highly qualified team makes sense. If your product is basic and requires a lot of customer success, you might want to hire junior devs
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by gl338 10y ago
Oh boy, that sprint to the bank sounds absolutely devastating. :(
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by gl338 10y ago
haha, good point! But I'm not sure if that's how other people would see it, but touche. :)
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by gl338 10y ago
I'm the CEO of a 20-person startup and we've been on the brink of failure twice. Both times, our employees were never aware of it from the symptoms other people might expect (e.g., late payroll, some senior folks leaving); in fact
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by gl338 10y ago
Interesting; and that's a shame. I guess I just mean to say that a mistake like that could legitimately be a mistake. I'd be horrified if our employees thought we were going bankrupt because our payroll system had a bug in it!
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by gl338 10y ago
I'll be writing a longer response in a few minutes. I am the CEO of a 20-person startup and there were a few scenarios we've had where payroll was truly late because of bank issues. Just want to bring this up so people aren&#x27
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by gl338 10y ago
Hi Devon, thanks for writing this. Have you spent much time reading Jane Jacobs or "Seeing Like a State"? Both talk a bit about the lack of ability to truly plan cities (and even make references to chaos theory), leading them both
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by gl338 10y ago
I really want to be respectful here but your comment shows a large level of ignorance around the difference between public monopolies, public UTILITIES, public (regulated) goods, and the economics thereof. A lot of public utilities were cre
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PapaParse: JS-based CSV parsing(papaparse.com)
2 points by gl338 10y ago|0 comments
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by gl338 10y ago
Completely agree. It took us to 15 people before we hired an Office Manager. Silly in hindsight, but not obvious at all, and we debated it quite a bit.
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by gl338 10y ago
Curious if anyone is aware of usage stats for Office365 (and Excel + Excel API) in the workplace? This sounds "neat" but nearly all of our customers do not use Office365 and I'm curious if it'll get any traction. Would b