moocow01

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by moocow01 15y ago
I honestly wouldn't target startups as contract customers - many who have gone down that route find out the hard way that startups are volatile - one day they are on-board with you and the next day they are short on funding, changing direct
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by moocow01 15y ago
Lets not go overboard - I'm sure some customers have their complaints but your making the car repair industry sound equivalent to today's Wall Street. I genuinely rarely hear people complain about car repair - now if we were back in 1970 o
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by moocow01 15y ago
Ben Horowitz a man who stands to make money on inflating the bubble is trying to convince others about the soundness of startup economics through rap lyrics? Hmm, not exactly convincing - rather the opposite.
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by moocow01 15y ago
Probably not a popular opinion around here but Id say we are well on our way to the precipice. I hear the line about how the companies are better this time around but I'm really not so sure about that on a macro scale. I'd be much more enc
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Are we headed for the burst of a bubble in social media? SXSW sure felt like it(statesman.com)
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by moocow01 15y ago
Very good article - BUT can we stop pointing to Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg as examples of dropout success? Thats 2 people. It would be much more encouraging to point to some data that infers how well college dropouts or non-degree hol
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by moocow01 15y ago
How many hours a week do employees spend interviewing candidates? (I've had jobs that I spend 2 hours everyday doing interviews - not fun after a while)
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by moocow01 15y ago
Not trying to degrade that VC startup ecosystem but I'm not entirely sure that typical startup is creating more impact than the typical lifestyle business. (Note the word typical) I might even side with the typical lifestyle business proba
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by moocow01 15y ago
Honestly its probably more like the top 1% didn't follow the crowd and didn't want that job at (insert famous company here). But thats my own definition of top 1%
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Tech Addiction(realdanlyons.com)
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by moocow01 15y ago
Thats more common than you think unfortunately - Ive seen that exact scenario happen a couple times. That or calling everyone into a room and telling them they have been laid off.
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by moocow01 15y ago
This is like asking a poker player to show you his cards before you bet. Sorry but no thanks.
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by moocow01 15y ago
Sounds like a great way to get acquired.
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by moocow01 15y ago
Im sorry but this is an incredibly sad and dehumanizing way of perceiving people and their skills. Can you make us a full list of all SV companies so we all can know where we stand on your tiered list and accordingly, what startups will an
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by moocow01 15y ago
This tactic leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. Yes patent abuse needs to be dealt with, yes Yahoo is now apart of the abuse and it is sad. But firing a rocket at Yahoo employees by telling them they need uproot their lives or otherwis
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by moocow01 15y ago
Disregarding all the traditional startup acumen (lean, agile, blah blah blah), in an environment where businesses are expected to be tested and discarded within months how will our 'ecosystem' tackle the bigger more meaningful problems that
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by moocow01 15y ago
In software these days I feel like patents are analogous to chefs patenting cooking techniques and then running into the middle of another chef's dinner service and saying he can't use cream in his mashed potatoes because of the 'creamy mas
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by moocow01 15y ago
Completely agree. I worked in the silicon valley scene for about 5 years and left last year because after a while I saw little value in the majority of what was being created in the ecosystem. Note the word majority - there are some group
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by moocow01 15y ago
Actually know a guy who just had to completely redo his deck because the contractor used the wrong nails on treated wood. So in that regard technicalities do have some signifigance.
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by moocow01 15y ago
You know you can cross out lines in your contract? Don't agree to anything you're not comfortable with. I usually cross out at least a quarter of the stipulations in contracts - never had any company say too much about it.
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Lloyd Dobler Wisdom(ritholtz.com)
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by moocow01 15y ago
The problem is that it is a trend to the detriment of our profession. You don't have any other half way respectable profession with a sector of it trying to emulate being frat boys. Its embarrassing really. Its a surprising slice of progr
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by moocow01 15y ago
Makes me think it may be time for a career change if this is what the industry is coming to.
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by moocow01 15y ago
I've been in similar scenarios (as Tom) and it usually boils down to inspiration. As soon as someone gets overloaded and piled on its very difficult for them to feel inspired or at all good about their work. Instead they feel trapped unde
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Tech worship can ruin the world(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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End of the e-Family(vexentricity.com)
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by moocow01 15y ago
You're correct in that tech companies can pay overtime but in real terms this legislation results in no tech companies that actually pay overtime (but Im sure there is some rare exception). I'm sure there is a bandwagon of free-market fo
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by moocow01 15y ago
Totally agree but this is an unfortunately common behavior. During the dot-com boom many people picked up hugely expensive homes based upon the the perceived value of their shares. We all know how that turned out for most. Even now I hear
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by moocow01 15y ago
Nobody is forbidding overtime work - they are exempting tech employees from receiving pay for the overtime they work. Much of this legislation was passed in the US through the lobbying of big tech corporations (Microsoft) to increase profi
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by moocow01 15y ago
Sorry but I have to disagree. Thats a great philosophy for employer's to pitch and I suppose one that I might pitch to employees if I were employing them but is also in my experience a fallacy. Especially after working for a number of yea

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