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by mswen 13y ago
Please do not submit/link to stories that require registration!
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From the perspective of lessons learned, that is generalizable truths, one can only generalize to that company. So the reader of this article can only really say, this is highly relevant and accurate if I intend to apply for an engineering
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Interesting results that seem to challenge some received wisdom. However, N=1! What this study tells you is the systematic relationship between resume detectable attributes and getting hired at this particular company. If this same analysi
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by mswen 13y ago
Thanks for your article reminding me of the need to iteratively check in with business clients to make sure the analysis will be addressing central not peripheral problems. This reminds me of "Backward Market Research" by Alan R.
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by mswen 13y ago
That was a really interesting read. I am only a very casual poker player and occasional viewer of WPT on cable. I am a multiple start-up guy, first as employee, now as founder. Many of the points you made ring true. I am reminded of the
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by mswen 13y ago
Take the money and practical experience. Give yourself solidly to whichever job offer you except, but don't work 70+ hours a week. Work a highly productive 50 to 55 and take the difference to learn new skills. Always have a side proje
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Does your family know why you took a gap year despite good academic performance? If they don't know the reasons or only have a vague notion of why you took a year off, it might be good to have one of those honest vulnerable conversati
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I also am single founder with 3 products built. The 3 products share a technological base but address very different markets and somewhat different expressions of the underlying idea. I haven't sought any funding, but I am often in a quanda
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I tried again and no sign in now - odd
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why am I being prompted to sign in with twitter just to read an article or blog post?
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I just saw it as well
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I have long noticed a similar correlation in my own work. Whenever I find myself using the phrase "playing around with" it usually signals that I am actually doing my most creative/inventive work. Hard becomes easy when insight arrives and
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Cool goal - reminds me a bit of the graph of boards of directors which lets you see how the web of board members for major corporations are intertwined. My first assumption was that you had scrapped University sites and/or tried mining Link
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That was fun. I resisted the temptation to use a search engine to explore clues.
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by mswen 14y ago
The video is a reaction to the meme that a group of college kids can whip up an interesting product in a few days over spring break. I agree that this kind of thinking has gone overboard. However, I disagree that it takes $1M to build somet
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by mswen 14y ago
Thanks for posting your lessons learned.
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I don't know anyone who has gone through one of these dev bootcamps - but in the grand scheme of things 12 weeks of intense effort under some guidance is a relatively small investment to give you a feel for whether not you have the talent a
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by mswen 14y ago
Over the past 14 months I have put myself through the same self-learning process with a similar goal. Be able to build full working prototypes of the web app ideas in my head. I am fully aware that if one of these start to get some custom
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by mswen 14y ago
This looks like an interesting tool. I forwarded a link to my daughter who writes fiction for fun and maybe eventually for profit as well.
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Clearly you are above average in intelligence, possess initiative and are not afraid to take some risks. This is a great start to adult life. My advice, keep doing what you are currently doing. Going to school part-time and working. If the
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by mswen 14y ago
That sounds reasonable then. If you know they have history as a company and cash then your risk is clearly diminished. Also if the company is small enough that you are talking with the CEO you will likely be in a position to make a noticea
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by mswen 14y ago
Does successful and about to explode include verifiable revenue, or is it founder and/or VC opinion? I know the joy and pain of working on something innovative. I built out the NLP engine for an exchange that had angel funding to about $400
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Advanced technology can easily be too early from a market adoption perspective
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Enterprise executives can love your innovative enterprise service but inertia among managers and staff who are needed for adoption may outlast your runway
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How granular is the data that you backtest against? Daily, Hourly, Minute or tick data? I subscribed to another similar service for several years but one thing I always wished they would add was more granular data than daily.
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1. Are you cash flow positive? 2. Growing very rapidly? 3. Needing to hire and manage staff to service fast growth? Unless you can say yes to these questions I don't think you need a CEO. You may need a business development person if you
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by mswen 14y ago
I just tried it with a search for some competitive intelligence. I used the 100K removal option. I found a competitor in another country that had not made the top 2 pages on Google. It confirms that others are launching something similar
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by mswen 15y ago
I always read the transcript if it is available for interviews. It has to be at least 3 times as fast as listening.
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In our B2B start-up the back-end skills needed would be PostgreSQL - solid database design skills, stored procedures, and query writing and tuning. J2EE for the application logic layer in the core system. PHP for rapid prototyping of extens
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I have been working from home for the past 12 years. Some was for a company with about 1000 employees, with about 5% working from home. The second was with a company of about 100 employees again with about 5% WFH. Now I am working for a

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