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by lsemel 18y ago
Republic is quite loud and crowded most of the time. Other good in the area: Grey Dog Coffee (University Place), City Bakery (18th Street betw 5 and 6), Tarallucci E Vino (18th street, big table in back good for meeting).
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by lsemel 18y ago
Once a society gets too prosperous, the highest-paying jobs end up in fields like finance and law, far outpacing science and engineering. That's one reason for the decline in science -- the return on learning hard material is higher in oth
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by lsemel 18y ago
The conflict-of-interest Blodget describes seems to be a central problem in any situation where where one party is acting as an agent or performing services for another party. In the case of the mortgage bubble, the interest of the financi
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by lsemel 18y ago
There are no ownership rights in a twitter name. I had some company names and they were reverted over to the companies by twitter itself.
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by lsemel 18y ago
Congrats, Jeremy!
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by lsemel 18y ago
I went to public school but in the meantime taught myself computer programming, drawing, photography, and other subjects I was interested in. And I've worked for myself ever since graduating from college. So I'd say that attending a publi
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by lsemel 18y ago
Also.. if you find a design firm that has particular projects you like you can try to find the individuals or freelancers that worked on them, and hire them individually. I'd google for "portfolio" combined with the name of the design firm
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by lsemel 18y ago
Design firms can be costly. Might be better to hire a talented freelancer. If you do want to go with a firm check out: Behavior Design, Happy Cog, Concentric Studios, We Break Stuff
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by lsemel 18y ago
When I got to college, on my first calculus quiz I got a C+. It's a good thing this happened right away. After that, I realized I needed to actually learn how to study and ended up putting in a great deal of effort, unlike in high school
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by lsemel 18y ago
Everything is relative. No matter what you have, there is always someone with more. If you have $1 million, there's someone with $10. If you have $10 million, there's someone with $100. If you have $100 million, there are billionaires.
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by lsemel 18y ago
I enjoy http://ask.metafilter.com more than the main Metafilter site.
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by lsemel 18y ago
By starting to develop the project, it'll probably be easier to find a partner because you'll have something to show them, and it demonstrates that you are the kind of person who actually does something about his ideas other than just talk
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by lsemel 18y ago
Just because a business isn't suited for investment by VCs doesn't mean it's not a great investment for its owners nor that they necessarily possess lesser business ability or some kind of inferior mentality.
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by lsemel 18y ago
Don't take tiny bits of work that are due in two days. But if it's a bigger piece of software, you can tell them "It'll be ready in 6 weeks" then you'll have time to do it on your own schedule, assuming you really don't need 6 weeks fulltim
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by lsemel 18y ago
Questions for you to think about to help make your decision: - Will the extra money from consulting reduce any worries you have about money, thereby letting you focus on the product more? - Would consulting save you from having to take a fu
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by lsemel 18y ago
Chase is fine. You can link all your accounts and Chase credit cards in one login, set up automatic payments and transfers between accounts, and get all your statements as PDFs. The main screen is a bit confusing and poorly-designed espec
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by lsemel 18y ago
Employers want to hire people who can solve problems. And right now, you're problem is that you need a degree. If you can't figure out a solution to that problem one way or another, who is going to believe that you have the tenacity and s
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by lsemel 18y ago
1. Each project is generally a one-off, custom solution, rather than a reusable technology. You will spend a lot of time building features specific to one customer, in exact way that customer demands, rather than building generally applica
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by lsemel 18y ago
You should specify if you're looking for a graphic designer, HTML coder or a software developer. "Programmer/designer" doesn't mean anything.
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by lsemel 18y ago
Amtrak is a pleasant, viable alternative to flying as long as you are traveling between Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. The Cascades services between Seattle and Vancouver has some nice scenery as well.
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by lsemel 18y ago
Doesn't say who runs it. If it's run by the gov't it'll probably be incredibly risk averse and not invest in anything particularly innovative.
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NYC Seed - funding tech companies in NYC(nycseed.com)
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by lsemel 18y ago
Go work for yourself.
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Cities based on ideas are made of straw... and why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
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Yes or no: Should web startups host on Amazon?
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"Entrepreneurs strike after negotiations break down with National Venture Capital Association"(newsgroper.com)
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by lsemel 19y ago
Don't get too many people to seed sites like Digg for you -- we got buried yesterday when we launched http://www.commandshift3.com because we got a lot of our friends Digg us and they blocked it. It got on the front page of Reddit and del
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by lsemel 19y ago
This is Lee from commandshift3 -- what browser/os and version of Flash were you using?
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by lsemel 19y ago
Wow, this site has been around since the last dot com era. It's good to know they've managed to not only stay in business, but positively thrive, since then. Surely they are on the road to a Google acquisition.
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by lsemel 19y ago
NYC is getting pretty good startup vibe. Check out www.alleyinsider.com, www.nextny.org, and a bunch of startup-related Meetups.

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