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by karmajunkie 15y ago
I have to agree. I'm lucky enough now that I have a great cofounder who I'm excited to work with, and who will put as much as I do into our project. I've been in situations though that I should have walked away from a lot sooner than I did.
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
Here's my gripe about this: Ok, so startups have limited funds, fair enough. But way too many of them offer way too little in the way of equity to make up for a below-market salary and the risk and opportunity cost of taking the job. I have
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
I agree with you in principle but your ratio is way off. Once you get out of the startup phase, a senior team lead plus one senior to two juniors is plenty. Training them isn't any more costly than hiring a senior, and they have the benef
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
As someone who's prospectively moving out to the Valley from Austin in a couple of months, I'd say its perhaps the most interesting part of this thread...
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
... Who then drive up real estate prices here in Austin enough that "normal" people have a hard time buying in town. To the OP: get out of your bubble, man. Austin is one of the friendliest places around.
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
no, really... ideas are worthless. show me three people who were ever paid any substantial sum for just an idea—no implementation or ability to produce one.
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
For example, link to their "Chief Software Architect" linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1613224
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
I honestly thought it was, but crawling the rest of the site it doesn't have an ounce of parody about it. I think these guys really think this is a new methodology...
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
Honestly, this mostly feels like someone who's miffed they were snubbed by Gowallans.
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
The obvious answer is to see if you can get the data from somewhere else. If its proprietary information to their app, then you may be stuck there. If that's the case, I'd ask yourself whether its something you should really build. Let's as
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
Oh sweet Jesus, you guys are missing the point in style.
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Panic.(karmajunkie.com)
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
yes—i'd probably buy it if only for the insurance, though I doubt if i'd use it without a really good reason.
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
I'm going to be the asshole that points out that startups aren't an industry. They're businesses that operate in many industries. If you want to work with/for/building a startup, do that—but pick an industry you know something about or want
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
No, its not. Its also worth pointing out that sometimes, just sometimes, it works out the other way. I was the lead on a team that took $150k in funding and produced an open-source implementation of some CDC specifications ( https://github.
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
Something like this happened to me several years back... I accidentally deleted a table full of emails out of a spam appliance when I thought I was in my development window. Thanking my stars it happened at 5pm on a Friday afternoon, took m
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
For awhile now I've been pondering the possibility of relocating my family to europe for awhile. How hard is it for someone who can start his own business to come there to found a company? How difficult is it to get a work permit to move to
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
I got one too many, thus the post :)
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Recruiters: get involved.(karmajunkie.com)
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by karmajunkie 15y ago
I think its a troll. "Apparently, the answer is that patent trolls do not manufacture the technology that is embodied by the patents that they seek to enforce." This is a strawman. The issue isn't that patent trolls are generally NPE's. T
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Stop writing imaginary code.(collectiveidea.com)
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