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by jayliew 17y ago
I'll be there!
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by jayliew 17y ago
Quite the opposite, I try hard to keep my brain working while dozing off and while waking up .. and as much as possible when I am drifting in and out from consciousness, because sometimes that's how I find a solution to a problem that I hav
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by jayliew 17y ago
A quote from that I keep close to my heart: "Courage is not the absence of failure, courage is acting in spite of fear." (Carly Fiorina) In your case, if I were you, after I get off my ass to a networking event, I'd be thinking, "hell, I di
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by jayliew 17y ago
Hi, I'm not trying to be a jerk and it's very kind of you to offer a freebie here :) ... but I believe Google Checkout already does this for free (I recall helping an ebook author set this up) - but maybe I am missing something you offer th
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by jayliew 17y ago
Beware of the downsides: e.g. if you accrue many days of "illegal" status, then let's say your mom is sick back in the UK, you go home to see her, and now when you want to re-enter, immigration's going to say, "yeah - sorry, we remember you
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by jayliew 17y ago
You cannot just "rig" it; if you've looked closely at the law (I have), there's a whole checklist of items that prevents you from doing exactly just that. For starters, the company that employs you has to show a track record of profitabilit
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by jayliew 17y ago
Alain, I'm actually very sure that small companies do have more trouble. For one, they have to prove that they (have revenue/are profitable) for X months. If you're a budding Twitter or Facebook in the early days, your revenue is $0 and y
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Picnik: Innovation - Giving Birth to a Startup(socialinnovationperspectives.blogspot.com)
4 points by jayliew 17y ago|0 comments
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by jayliew 17y ago
I watched this, and there is a ton of goodies in it, I wish I could re-watch it again. Can this be replayed some how ?
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by jayliew 17y ago
But I have mad social engineering skillz!
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by jayliew 17y ago
+1 for the python-style method comment block =]
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by jayliew 17y ago
it's a fair and legitimate point that it's easier for already famous people to get their company acquired than it is for a nobody <-- you are pointing out the obvious. And your point? It's naive to think that only products remarkable by
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by jayliew 17y ago
I detest the subtle jab at FriendFeed. Seriously, what are you going to say next? That the world is not fair? Only the 'remarkable' by your standards should see market success? That is wrong to get lucky, to be at the right place and right
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by jayliew 17y ago
Same here, I'd be interested if anyone knows of a good machine learning / AI "cookbook" (to borrow O'Reilly book's metaphor), in Python.
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by jayliew 17y ago
I don't know if that's the right approach. If his target audience are people who don't know the difference between Web 2.0 and 1.0 (say, accountants in the accounting department of a big corporation), they would probably feel more at home w
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Lessons Learned: Tell your Startup Visa story(startuplessonslearned.com)
2 points by jayliew 17y ago|0 comments
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by jayliew 17y ago
You know - we should find a way to identify the HN'ers at this conference. How about we find a pen/pencil and mark "HN" on our badges? (I assume there will be some kind of badge, but that won't work if there's not).. which if that's the cas
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by jayliew 17y ago
It's a 21+ only event (since there is alcohol), and the ticket is $10. I'll be going, looking forward to see the SD tech startup community
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San Diego tech startup mixer (Tech Cocktail) next week(techcocktail.com)
16 points by jayliew 17y ago|12 comments
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by jayliew 17y ago
Actually, more often than not recruiter's best interest is against yours. Recruiters in companies have one job: to get as high of a talent as possible - for as low cost as possible. Right? Everybody is shopping for the best bargain.
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by jayliew 17y ago
We have some people from UC Irvine that may join us. We should inform them ahead of time too.
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by jayliew 17y ago
+1 for execution! may this be a motivation for others to execute like you.
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by jayliew 17y ago
Yup, and thinking in terms of "customer development", perhaps you can share some hypothesis use-case of how a non-techie would use this. Meaning, in what situations would the non-techie say, "gosh I need to know exactly what file this is?"
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by jayliew 17y ago
Exactly. It's an opportunity cost. With 2 months, I can do so much in terms of not just product development but also customer development - because let's face it, the bulk of startups YC invests in are not technology risks, they are market
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by jayliew 17y ago
In corporate sales (thanks dayjob!), you have the transactional sales and the relationship based sales. Transactional: e.g. used car salesman. The sales guy promises you the world to convince you to hand over a boatload of cash, even if he
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by jayliew 17y ago
Good tip .. I will keep that in mind in my search
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by jayliew 17y ago
Paul, the guy you spoke to afterwards is me :) Jay Liew, the guy who also posted the cofounder spreadsheet on Google Docs that spread like wildfire a few weeks ago. I do not want to be the stereotypical stubborn child who won't listen (th
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by jayliew 17y ago
Taking a step back as an impartial observer, (1) Sure, Freenode's policy can be improved, because a significant amt. of users think it is a bit stifling. The admins need to figure out how to engage the users. (2) In this situation, there ar
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by jayliew 17y ago
I'll add one more: * Can you support Twitter OAuth, or FB Connect, OpenID, clickpass .. ? We're all tired of signing up for yet another site. Usually if it's a rather prominent site whose value I already understand and I know the value will
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by jayliew 17y ago
That's actually a good idea. If people I follow & respect bookmarked, I would consider paying for it since I am interested in their thought process. Basically you want to follow their web "foot prints". On the flip side, that's exactly

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