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by kareemm 7y ago
> Examples include circuit board layout programs, finite element modeling, any engineered hardware product, entertainment (like computer games), or anything other than pure business, really. "Don't write code" really means
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by kareemm 7y ago
This is the right advice if you want to nerd out on technology. But my experience suggests[1] that if you want to build a business it'll be cheaper to validate problem/solution with phone calls and mocks / designs befor
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by kareemm 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only (located in Atlantic Timezone, ET+1) Full stack Rails developer with tons of product management experience. My sweet spot is helping founders with deep domain experience who are funded and need to build a v1. B2B
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If you give photo album access to eg WhatsApp, can it grab and upload EXIF data from all of your photos?
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42. Never too late but my advice would be to de risk as much as possible (eg get paid by customers as early as possible - that’s true validation).
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Agreed. I’m a little surprised Indie Hackers didn’t mention it (hence my comment) given how viable it is. There are still stresses associated with this approach.
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In my experience the ideal is to have a little lead gem machine that spits out leads, and discipline around how much time I consult every week vs time spent working on the product.
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by kareemm 7y ago
I’m bootstrapping my third company[1]. I sold the previous two. I’m surprised my approach wasn’t mentioned: bootstrap with consulting revenue. It’s not novel (it’s how 37Signals bootstrapped Basecamp back in the day). The ideal way is to pr
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> Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use? Serious question: how many software companies have something that a billion people have used? It's a pretty special indu
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> Gone are the days of a unicorn every month or two. My friend, I've been building software professionally for big companies and small since 2001. There were never days where there was a unicorn every month or two.
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The New York Times was able to track Trump's movements with leaked location data(businessinsider.com)
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Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America(share-now.com)
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New Orleans mayor declares state of emergency in wake of city cyberattack(cnn.com)
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> People's attention" is the highest ROI resource to mine. It’s the scarcest resource we all have. Makes sense that mining it is so valuable.
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I’m not sure why this is downvoted. It’s not straight up complaining about pay walled articles. Proposing a solution (ban then from HN) is worth considering. If most HNers can’t read enough of an article to discuss it with some degree of de
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Esther Perel on How to Fix the Co-Founder Fights You’re Sick of Having(firstround.com)
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One of my clients has one. They’re all in a conference room and I’m remote in another city. I’ve had remote clients and my own companies since 2007, and the owl is by far the best videoconferencing solution I’ve used. 10/10 would recom
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Woman handcuffed for not holding escalator handrail wins in Supreme Court(thestar.com)
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I was writing code at ESPN two hours down the road from Cambridge when the summer founders program launched. I had been following pg and his essays for a while and thought he was the real deal. So I tried to convince a co-worker to apply wi
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The world has come a long way in the last 12 years and it seems (to me at least) that salary date is trending towards openness.
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I’m not sure that’s a fair characterization. Is it clear they’re overpaying? I’m not pro-union but unions aren’t the devil.
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This squares with my experience. In 2007 I had a social conversation with a well known and successful operator / VC in the valley about new ideas. Having just gone through negotiations for a raise at my corporate job, the information a
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I think they're all necessary. Product + grinding - building it and nobody comes, will get there eventually. Easier to learn to sell than to make a good product. Sales + grinding - selling a turd, hopefully will get there. Harder to
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by kareemm 7y ago
Re problem 2 - I’ve had decent success using Gabe Weinberg’s Bullseye framework. re no connections to industry x - if you don’t have connections it means you probably don’t have the insight necessary to solve a problem for people in that in
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I'm running Savio[1], which is my fourth small internet company I've run since 2007 (the previous three were sold). At the risk of sounding cliche, the three skills that have been most valuable are: 1. The ability to build softwar
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CICO is too simple a model. Satiety is a factor but it’s facile to say fat satiates more so you eat fewer calories. If I understand it correctly that’s not how leptin works (satiety hormone). It doesn’t trigger at eg 500 calories regardles
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BAMtech was spun out of MLB Advanced Media, has been doing streaming since 2002. If you could choose anybody to rely on to launch D+ they’re at the top of the list.
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I’m not sure this is true. As you ramp down eg carbs you ramp up protein and fat, sometimes significantly. It’s not clear that a caloric deficit is the reason you’re losing weight.
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Developer Compensation Survey Results in Eastern Canada(halihax.com)
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How do you find consulting clients?

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