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by kleinsch 16y ago
Anyone can respond to emergencies in front of them. It's the great ones that can see ahead to upcoming challenges and take care of them proactively. Unfortunately, it's the emergency-du-jour people that always seem to be saving the day, whi
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Hiring a Lawyer for your Startup(kleinsch.com)
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I should have clarified, I lumped electronic checks in with physical ones in understanding the parent's point. I use electronic checking transfers to pay my rent, not physical handwritten checks. Most bills in the US (including rent) have a
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Debugging SOAP stuff is a complete nightmare, but trying to figure out and implement somebody's RESTful API that has 100 different types of objects is also a hassle, since there isn't code generation that can help you. For tiny one-API-call
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I see that you offer a 14 day free trial. How does someone go about doing a trial of software that transforms the entire process of running an apartment building? You get all your tenants to sign up with this system, then change your mind a
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Banks charge 1-2% as a credit card fee, but no fees for using checks. In my building, they pass the fee along to me (the tenant), so it's in my best interest to pay by check.
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by kleinsch 16y ago
If they gave in so easily, definitely should have asked for more, although it's always hard to know what to ask for when it's your first "real" job. After that you have a baseline to help figure out what you're worth.
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I worked for a company where there were a bunch of Engineering Leads with no direct reports. Makes no sense, I realize, but titles rarely do. You might want to make that a checkbox.
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Very cool idea. As someone who works out 5-6x/week, I'd love to sign up for a gym that has that model. ;) 4x/week seems a little much for people that are trying to start out. I'll be curious to see how their plans evolve through market feed
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Agreed. Especially since most cases similar to his argument are retargeting, not query leakage. In his example, if the user actually clicked directly from Google to Wikipedia, Google would be the only one who knew about the user's interest
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In many cases, ads are loaded in iframes, which hide the referrer from the ad network. It's not in all cases, but most big publishers don't want malformed ad network JavaScript to destroy their entire page, so they wrap ad calls in iframes
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Everywhere I've worked, the first step to hiring a new developer is to ask all the good developers if they have any friends that are also good and interested in work.
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I don't know much about Financial Engineering, but most business fields value experience the most, with degrees being a way to get your foot in the door. Startups are much more flexible, and probably provide a better opportunity for someone
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Agreed. I never talk salary or details about benefits until I'm 100% sure I'm interested in the job. Optimize your (and the interviewer's) time, and stay on topics that either help you figure out if this is the job for you or help them figu
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I had an interview once where I successfully dodged the question asking how much I wanted, so the interviewer moved on to his next logical question: how much are you making right now? I refused to answer that one as well, and he got complet
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Great article, especially for engineering managers. There's always a temptation to do something manually since it's quicker now, but in the long term all that time adds up fast.
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It's good to try out different ideas, but be careful not to give up on one and switch to something else too easily. Every project is going to have a period where it sucks, nobody's using it, and you don't want to work on it anymore. If you
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I have my doubts. One main criticism of Groupon and other daily deal companies is that their business is much less defensible. Aside from the size of their email lists, there's no reason a small business shouldn't go run their daily deal on
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Works fine for me.
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Congrats! Woven sounds interesting, can't wait to try it.
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I'm in the process of releasing a game for iOS: - Email/Cal/Docs - Google Apps - Hosting - AWS - Accounting - Quickbooks - Source Control - Github - Issue Tracking - Jira - IDE - XCode - Libraries - ZLib, LibPNG, Lua, Bullet Physics, Wild M
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by kleinsch 16y ago
While it's possible Google might snoop on their competitors email to figure out their strategy, I'd think the possible consequences if they got caught would be too significant for any possible benefit. With regard to the guy that got fired
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I liked the detailed look at what your values are and how that ties into your goals. After talking with some friends recently, I went through this exercise and it helped me come up with a logical set of short-term goals that will get me to
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Aside from some delusional PMs at TV manufacturers, I don't think too many people think connected TVs are the future. More likely, it's features they can add cheaply to existing products to add more showroom bullet points.
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We've got our budget set up using Mint.com and evaluate it using their tools. Since they're the 800 pound gorilla in that space, how're you thinking about differentiating from them?
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Awesome article! I liked the emphasis on going off-tutorial and learning how to get help elsewhere when necessary. That's one of the most useful skills you can have in the real world. I think, for startups especially, being able to quickly
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I'm personally not sure if Quora will ever be bigger than Twitter, but I do think they have a potential advantage in the fact that user who ask questions are looking for answers when using their service. It's similar to the difference in va
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I'm not married yet, but live with my girlfriend, so it's a similar situation. She's OK with my trying to bootstrap it and also offered to help me with my share of the rent, if necessary, for a month or two. She doesn't make enough to suppo
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I did this a few months ago and it's worked incredibly well. I went from full-time to two days per week, leaving me the other three to work on my own stuff. Had a lawyer go over the intellectual property agreements for me first to make sure
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Good job pointing out the effect on your family. Bootstrapping is more than just a pay cut when your spouse and/or children will be affected as well. Discussing the potential risks with them is 100% necessary before taking a major leap.

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