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by jtrtoo 8y ago
Nice! If you enjoyed Breaking the Time Barrier, you may also want to check the material put out by Alan Weiss. In my case, the real-world proposal examples he published years back (and pulled from his own solo practice) have easily been wor
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by jtrtoo 8y ago
I respectfully disagree. That situation is common in hourly billing certainly. That doesn't mean you can't require a deposit upfront based on some sort of rough estimate. The point isn't necessarily the amount, but that there
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How to get your consulting fee upfront(joshrichards.net)
55 points by jtrtoo 8y ago|9 comments
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Recurring revenue: a path to sustainability in your solo freelancing firm(joshrichards.net)
1 points by jtrtoo 8y ago|0 comments
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by jtrtoo 8y ago
How much do the connections between the people in your friend group overlap? How do you deal with people you're connected with but not necessarily others in the group? Just thinking out loud. Thanks for sharing!
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by jtrtoo 9y ago
Do you have website describing this work? I poked around a bit and found your blog, but not one specifically describing your work for VCs. --A fellow techie that has done a wide variety of freelancing and consulting the past decade or so; y
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by jtrtoo 9y ago
This.
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The Brain Science of Conformity(wsj.com)
29 points by jtrtoo 9y ago|2 comments
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by jtrtoo 9y ago
I have a idea. Well, several. 1. Let's stop overbooking in the airline industry. The seats are already prepaid for. Who cares if a passenger shows or not? (It'd be different if they were losing revenue when a passenger doesn'
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
You do not need to incorporate or form an LLC to establish a business account. A sole proprietorship is just doing business as yourself. It's particularly easy if you have your own name in the business name. No paperwork/DBA publi
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Investigate OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). A lot of tech companies use them internally to align objectives and work across the organization and all teams. I work solo (as a freelancer and solopreneur) and I have found OKRs invaluable in
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
There's a distinction to be made between permanent losses and market driven / unbooked losses. If the original investment thesis stands, ignoring day to day market changes is perfectly reasonable.
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Check http://consumerlab.com
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
It's all too easy to feel righteous indignation for the "others" when we're so easily immersed in our own little bubbles and personal challenges. To be sure, there are fringes on the edges of every faction of the politic
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Either Pocket or Insta should do more to surface previously saved (yet unread) stories. Pocket preferably as I'm a customer of theirs :)
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
This seems successful because It's less a rewrite and more of a build a different solution that actually fits the need. Which is a good reason to dump something that isn't appropriate any longer. Or, worse, never was appropriate.
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Creating useful /comparable to the end user editions of old (packaged software) products and offering them in a new way entirely is developing a new product. People aren't simply signing up to pay by the month (though that can b
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
At first read that was what I thought the headline was referring to. That or at the very least a more incremental pricing model.
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
This assumes calories are all equal and the best measuring stick. Do we know this to be a fact?
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Yeah, the great irony of progress is that your old stuff always looks bad to your (later) self. It's all relative.
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Check out the video of him discussing this and you'll actually hear his voice: https://vimeo.com/24715531 :-)
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Here's the entire note from Ira Glass on that topic, in a video with him: https://vimeo.com/24715531
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
How were you handling sales, relationships building, market/MVP feedback, lead nurturing, and marketing in your business? And what happened with your business? Were you left with no connections, relationships, and reputation of results
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
This a thousand times. If you're an introvert like me, it might require some creativity to find compatible ways to do this, but so this.
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What Can a Poor Dumb Engineer Do That Most Marketers Can’t? – SmoothSpan Blog(smoothspan.wordpress.com)
2 points by jtrtoo 10y ago|0 comments
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
How does using open source actually avoid that? Isn't all software opinion, regardless of origin?
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Yes.
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Awesome handle!
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by jtrtoo 10y ago
Wow, that reminds me of UUCP.
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EQ (Emotional Intelligence) for Everybody(eqi.org)
4 points by jtrtoo 10y ago|0 comments

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