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Ask HN: Good resources for a US startup expanding overseas
1 points by issa 7y ago|0 comments
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by issa 7y ago
The hardest lesson for me is that, especially at large companies, things don't happen for good reasons. Meaning if you are used to the world making sense, you're in trouble. One example that jumps to mind is the flak I took for de
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by issa 7y ago
I love this site! My company started because paying freelancers was such a headache...it is a pain point close to my heart. https://outvoice.com
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by issa 7y ago
Just that Facebook influencing public opinion, elections, and currency seems like it would be too much for the government to allow.
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by issa 7y ago
I feel like this move will almost guarantee anti-trust actions. Although if nothing has already, who knows.
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by issa 8y ago
I would say that an engineer leaving can cost a company much more than the $60-70k you think the company would spend to keep them. You have to: 1) Hire a new person (this comes with costs!) 2) Train the new person (this takes time to do AND
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by issa 8y ago
I've always found it strange that companies don't give raises to current employees. A team I am on just lost a good engineer to another company offering him a $30k+ raise. He would have stayed if our company had even given him hal
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by issa 8y ago
Government is great at some things. Unfortunately one of those things isn't dealing with fears rationally.
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by issa 8y ago
This might be besides the point, but isn't it strange for a company to issue ~25,000 shares total? More to the point, it seems like this (and almost all) crypto companies will rise and fall based on the price of crypto. You might be be
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by issa 8y ago
A few possible answers and solutions: 1) People who live in urban residential areas in Europe don't typically drive very far on a daily basis. So charging doesn't have to be as common a thing as it is in the US. 2) Charging statio
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A Fix for the Freelance Publishing World(outvoice.com)
1 points by issa 8y ago|0 comments
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by issa 8y ago
I realize this wasn't the point of the story, and I'm so sorry this happened to anyone's dog. But please do not buy dogs from breeders when there are plenty of amazing dogs waiting to be rescued at shelters.
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But lots of people got nowhere from doing the WRONG thing. Focusing on finding a cofounder instead of on furthering the product could definitely be one of those mistakes.
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There are two parts to having a good idea. One is the idea itself, but it's also critical that you have expertise in the domain. My company helps freelance writers and photographers get paid. The CEO was a publisher who had this proble
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by issa 8y ago
This is much more complicated than it might initially seem. It can be argued that a whale can suffer at a higher level than a chicken can. Even though this clearly isn't your point, I agree wholeheartedly with your first sentence and
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What am I missing here? Shouldn't the phone end of a cord only be a few volts? Is the article talking about people dropping power strips into the bath?
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I think one reason is that the interview process isn't JUST designed to check if you can code. While I agree that the process is broken, there are legitimate reasons why companies put up high barriers to entry.
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by issa 8y ago
Am I the only one who feels strongly that people should be paid for their time to do coding for you in interviews? I feel like every company has some small tasks they can have a potential employee take on.
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by issa 8y ago
I think the most useful interviews are ones with three parts: 1) Casual talk. Does this person have basic communication skills and are they someone you want to deal with regularly for a long time? 2) Give them an actual coding project to do
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by issa 8y ago
I'm not sure how useful this article is, but I think the idea that combining multiple disciplines can lead to breakthroughs is hardly controversial. It's certainly great for startups and for the whole "software is eating the
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by issa 8y ago
100%. My move from SF to DC was mind-blowing in the general expectations set on developers. Without hyperbole, a year of output at most gov't contracts is a couple weeks worth of work at a typical startup.
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by issa 8y ago
This article misses two points that are so basic that I'm shocked. 1) Home prices don't need to go up in order to make it a good investment 2) Banks pay a huge percentage of the cost of buying a house, but the consumer keeps 100%
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by issa 8y ago
I thought the iPhone 5 was the last decently sized phone made. I recently held an older iPhone model and it was actually smaller and even better. I understand that most people, like my wife, use their phone for everything and a bigger scree
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by issa 8y ago
I've worked in a variety of companies as employee and consultant and I have some counterintuitive advice that applies to building things on the web: In almost all cases, things like code maintainability, coding "standards", a
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by issa 8y ago
What was the excuse in the US for not doing high-speed transit projects in the 50 years before Musk came on the scene?
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by issa 8y ago
Have subways been successful in moving all transportation underground? No. Because they are too expensive, too slow to build, and therefore have extremely limited points of entry/exit. This (specifically a car that can ride on an elect
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by issa 8y ago
I feel like the article covers the advantages. But, most notably, the tunnel is much cheaper and faster (to build).
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by issa 8y ago
This technology and the practice of putting transportation underground sounds too good to be true. I'm really curious to see how this plays out. If it works as promised, this will be revolutionary.
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This comment was the best thing to happen today. This is still not as good as hard buttons, but it improves the experience tremendously.
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I own a touchbar MPB and the last model without one. I use both and I wish I could fuse the best elements of the two together. I would GLADLY trade a smaller touchpad for an extra row of keys on the keyboard. The touchbar would be a fine ad

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