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by kfk 11y ago
At least for me, there are 2 main problems: taxes and language. Taxes: here in Germany you pay 19% VAT on all transactions. Then, income tax, which quickly reaches 42%, then solidarity tax, basically almost half of your earnings evaporate L
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by kfk 11y ago
Have you checked with the customers? I have never heard of a customer commenting software features of a car. It looks to me that car buyers are interested in other things in a car. I mean, at least for me (potential customer?), an Audi with
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by kfk 11y ago
The point is that many BI enterprise solutions are mere data extractor with very little intelligence built into them. That means that people have to download big chunks of data and run models in Excel. No, you won't convince people to
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by kfk 11y ago
I think in small organization you might need a lot of talent, but once organizations (or projects) get bigger, you need process over talent and that, well, also means good management. There are things you can do with a small group and thing
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by kfk 12y ago
Most big firms have a concern line/department you can report to in case of ethics or internal policy compliance issues, check, but maybe they won't even reveal your identity. If there is no such a line, I would start looking for a
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by kfk 12y ago
The worst thing for me is not being able to sync only 1 folder instead of the whole thing. When you are syncing a mobile phone, you don't want to be downloading GBs of stuff, maybe only 1 folder with your resized pictures...
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by kfk 12y ago
Yeah, but the thing is, we are not really running out of flats/houses, we are running out of space in the cities. That is a way less bleak future than the parent proposed, it just means that poor people will leave far from the city cen
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by kfk 12y ago
This book title seems also a great proposition for a software company aimed at improving and automating enterprise office work...
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by kfk 12y ago
It is worth mentioning that an economy that produces higher added value will have a fallback on the lower classes too. While the delta in wealth between the rich and the poor has been increasing, in relative terms the poor have been getting
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by kfk 12y ago
Ahem... not to sound sarcastic but... everything... in a company... is a cost center. A good company knows you need to spend money to make money, in fact a lot of cost is reported ad a % of sales, meaning if you grow your sales you grow you
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by kfk 12y ago
Not it's not. Currency is a unity of measure, it's not the foundation of an economy. The real problem with Germany's trade surplus is that is showing how inefficient and backwards are some of the other European countries. Wha
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by kfk 12y ago
Great magazine, it’s a pity this is the first time I hear about it! Could you share a bit what type of customers did you gather? What did they like the most about HackerMonthly? Would have this worked online-only or was the print version pa
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by kfk 12y ago
During the last months with a smartphone and a 3g I have noticed I read more. I spend a lot of time in the metro and I read. I read about everything, but I enjoy in depth articles on many topics. However, I find it difficult to find good wr
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by kfk 12y ago
You body is not a 100% efficient machine and it does not take into account calories to the decimal point.
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by kfk 12y ago
Calories are a very broad way to measure what we need in terms of food. Eating 200-2500 at 50-60% carbs tends to make me fat-ter than eating 3000 at 20%. I cook most of the food I eat, but I take calories into account very broadly, more nar
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by kfk 12y ago
And so what? They are copying, most of the companies out there copy each other. Copy is also part of innovation. It's OK to shout against copyright and it's wrong to copy a SaaS service? Really?
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by kfk 12y ago
I am very ashamed to say this, but what about outlook calendar integration? In many big companies rooms are still booked that way... also, maybe you want to make your page customizable so that you can put the company's logo. Finally, l
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by kfk 12y ago
I see a clear lack of management, communication and leadership skills here. For how meaningless those words might seem here on HN, it really shows when startup founders do not have them. And it's not even a culture fit issue, dealing w
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by kfk 12y ago
Is RethinkDB shifting focus? I remember at the beginning it was focusing on streaming data but now it does also light analytics?
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by kfk 12y ago
Part of the reason you are lost is because you have no experience. You are trying to solve problems with startups, but the quality and profitability of the problems you can solve at 25 is not that high. Simply because you have not seen enou
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by kfk 12y ago
Hi, then if you are building this you should put a real database in the middle and work on hierarchies, structures, mappings, comparisons and drill downs. You should allow multiple users to pull data from said db into their Excel. You shoul
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by kfk 12y ago
Finance here. Just gave it a try, it won’t fly. There are 2 types of finance: those that take a spreadsheet as it is and just “use” it; those that read formulas. Neither of the 2 is going to get any value from this. On the other hand, finan
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by kfk 12y ago
I see you guys have you been exploring the spreadsheet world for a while. Have you had a look at financials consolidations? The de facto software for this is Hyperion and it is terrible. Also, nothing I know of allows to build complex web r
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by kfk 12y ago
If you speak Italian head over noisefromamerika and search “modello superfisso”, there you can see why this reasoning is flawed. Prices of stuff are not fixed, they are a function of demand and offer. The true problem here is how you innova
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by kfk 12y ago
Do you have experience of this? The reason I am a bit wary of this idea is because the best selling point of finance in the cloud is that you get rid of local IT and maintenance. One way I thought to solve this would be to remotely manage t
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Ask HN: are we ready for business finance in the cloud?
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by kfk 12y ago
It's completely OT, but as a financial controller I always say this: we are facing issues also in "small data". Some problems are similar to those described in the article, especially regarding integrating different structure
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by kfk 12y ago
To me the most amazing thing is that we still have "low fat" food around and that it is still labelled as healthy. Instead, the low carb food is either labelled "low carb" or "paleo", which are both names that
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by kfk 12y ago
The problem with this is that creating a customer base is very hard. I recently created a python script that can save people literally days of power point monkey work, but how do you sell it? To who? It's a job in itself. In fact, thos
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by kfk 12y ago
This is nonsense. An ERP has to run your business and operations. It has to be extremely reliable. Users couldn't care less about it's UX, in fact, the standard ERP solution, SAP, looks terrible, but it is also quite ok to use. In

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