justin

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Exec is hiring engineers. Come change how people work with us(iamexec.com)
1 points by justin 14y ago
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by justin 14y ago
Not sure how to measure developer demand, but as a "valley-insider" I regularly observe directly engineers being paid about 40% more today than they were in 2008. Also, I recently heard of a mobile developer getting a base salary of 900k, b
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Want to pitch a VC while he cleans your house?(techcrunch.com)
51 points by justin 14y ago|9 comments
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by justin 14y ago
If I was going to answer more thoroughly, here are my answers on why to start something: 1) you can work on what you like, and in a way that you like 2) it's higher beta, meaning the top outcomes are higher than working for others. 3) it is
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by justin 14y ago
I had some limited programming exposure as a teen (and at Yale), but really I owe most of my programming knowledge to Emmett. Throughout the entire period of time we were working on Kiko, and then the first couple years of Justin.tv, he men
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by justin 14y ago
Actually we did make something like 40k a piece after taxes. So it wasn't bad (we were 22 at the time, seemed like a lot then!).
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by justin 14y ago
Thanks, we try! Generally my philosophy is that it is important to make a place that people love to work, and in exchange people who work there take responsibility for getting things done in their domain. Pretty simple. Also you should chec
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Exec launches professional cleaning service(techcrunch.com)
49 points by justin 14y ago|38 comments
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by justin 14y ago
Apple is 30 years old. Why would you think it would be so easily replaced?
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by justin 14y ago
> There's trons of things infinitely more interesting than being an entrepreneur - Family. Mathematics. Physics. CS. Depends on your interests. My business is my family -- I started my company with my brother. I was a Physics major when
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Exec is hiring full stack and mobile programmers to change how people work(iamexec.com)
1 points by justin 14y ago
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Exec is hiring mobile engineers to change how people work [SF](iamexec.com)
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by justin 14y ago
Serious question: what's the difference between spec work and a concept?
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Exec is hiring an Android developer [SF](iamexec.com)
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by justin 14y ago
If you are going in for heart surgery, you probably want a team of surgeons and anaesthesiologists to perform your operation. You wouldn't want a team of lawyers to do it -- you would die. It boggles the mind that we don't hold the same sta
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by justin 14y ago
And then.. wend to work on their business, built a product, and acquired customers. Of course, a book covering the period of time that wrapped up right after startups were raising their rounds wouldn't tell the whole story. But it is far mo
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by justin 14y ago
Startups certainly "take responsibility" for announcing and heavily publicizing their fundraising rounds. It's a strong signal that your company is on a path to success (not the only path) and you certainly want it spread as far and wide as
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by justin 14y ago
Grow a site to tens of millions of users. Spend nights and weekends for several years keeping it up. :) Otherwise get a job at some company that is doing that presently.
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by justin 14y ago
You can get your pharmacy orders picked up in SF by Exec ( http://iamexec.com ). In California your assistant only needs your name, address and phone number to get your prescribed medications.
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by justin 14y ago
Loser's attitude. Yes, it might be impossible to be the best just by putting in hard work. But hard work and belief that you can accomplish is prerequisite to ever finding out if you can be the best.
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by justin 14y ago
> Its interesting how most of the major pre-computer fantasy universes with big fan-bases (Battletech, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, Star Wars etc.) never managed to really transition seriously into computer games (a few hits but lo
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Get Exec to Volunteer for Charity on your Behalf(blog.iamexec.com)
36 points by justin 14y ago|22 comments
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Exec is hiring an Android developer
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Join Exec as our Recruiter [SF](iamexec.com)
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Exec is hiring an in-house recruiter.(iamexec.com)
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by justin 14y ago
"I agree with Mark Zuckerberg that most of us will only have one really good business idea in our lives." I think the founders of Microsoft, Dropbox, Zynga, and many, many others would disagree. Even if we do on average only have one good b
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by justin 14y ago
We had a lot of ideas / pivots that were released or almost released and never made it: leaving video messages for your friends on Facebook (when the first platform came out in '07), a live streaming API, a gaming site for live video stream
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by justin 14y ago
Unbelievable. Alexis spends the majority of his resources (read: time, money, presence, influence) doing things that are not for profit. One big one was heavily campaigning online and offline against SOPA in December and January. SOPA not p
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Startup jobs for non-programmers: Join Exec in Operations.(iamexec.com)
1 points by justin 14y ago
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by justin 14y ago
You say that now. Not so easy to say once your company has been making a million a year for a while.

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