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by mswen 7y ago
Interesting branding. Clear value proposition. As essentially an alternate interface/version of an off-shore development agency for small tasks this will succeed or fail over the longer run based on whether the developers are competent
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by mswen 7y ago
Thanks. My daughter is a productive novelist. She has published with 2 different independent publishers, as well as experimenting with self-publishing another series. Her current publisher signed her to a 2 year exclusive. However, it appea
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by mswen 7y ago
Thank you for sharing your business journey. I am curious about whether you think the Amy Hoy course you reference would be useful for a fiction author in building their fanbase?
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by mswen 7y ago
I have wondered the same a number of times. Enough that I wrote an article on it. Business Model Fire Insurance:The Phoenix Strategy https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/business-model-fire-insurance... In short I was maki
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by mswen 7y ago
Yes, thank you. Practical significance. You cannot get away with just running statistical test or deep learning models. You often need to ask whether a change in product, service or process to take advantage of some trend or difference betw
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by mswen 7y ago
Having lost my own father to Parkinson's Disease (PD), my mother-in-law to a different progressive neurological disease and now watching my father-in-law walk through PD as well, your comment caught my attention. So I wondered if clini
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by mswen 7y ago
Back in 2015 I did a webinar session for CIOs titled Data Science: Trenches to the Boardroom (10 Lessons) The definition I was using at the time was: Multi-disciplinary knowledge, methods and skills for building systems that acquir
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by mswen 8y ago
I am reminded of a reception at the HPC User Forum back around 2002. There were a number of people in the room from various national labs and intelligence agencies. I was part of the firm that organized and hosted these meetings. I overhe
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by mswen 8y ago
Most of us here on HN have done a startup, been an early employee of a startup or hang out here at least in part because we dream of doing a startup. Given those biases I think the default is leaning that way. On the other hand you already
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by mswen 8y ago
Big company. Large retailers have lots of data and the ability to act on your analytical insights. Fifty percent more money is significant and you should discount any promises or grants of equity from the start-up. Equity in start-ups is fa
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by mswen 8y ago
I have used a service from Octoparse for one of my clients. it costs them a little under $100 a month. Pretty easy to set up. Runs in the cloud and then downloads to client database 2 or 3 times a day. After a couple of problems early on i
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by mswen 8y ago
"Incorporate this however you’d like, either as some future value bonus or future discount factor risk, but the mood of the masses must to be included. And with that, what might be a good investment opportunity in isolation, isn’t.&quo
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by mswen 8y ago
Central points: > focus time and effort on knowledge and skills that endure > read more seriously > think for yourself don't just take the opinions of others > focus in a particular domain so that pattern recognition develo
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by mswen 8y ago
I share your perspective. He got invitations to do early application at both Harvard and Yale (and yes I know that an invitation to apply is not a promise of acceptance) but it clearly suggests that they think he could make a go of it there
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by mswen 8y ago
When he and I have talked projects he has been more inclined toward something on the hardware side of things. Would you recommend the FPGA board from Digilent rather than an raspberry Pi, or other android boards?
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by mswen 8y ago
He finds things interesting but so far I haven't detected a real passion for any subject. I think engineering is his choice because it is at least interesting and foundations in math and science come very easily to him. So it seems lo
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by mswen 8y ago
He is more on the introverted side but he has done some of the people leadership stuff as a team captain and he has developed some pretty close friends the past couple years. Do you have any specific suggestions about activities to broaden
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by mswen 8y ago
I hope I am not cocky. I assume that at some point soon he will hit topics that really challenge him. From my reading and interactions here on HN I kind of assume that this level of intellectual accomplishment is pretty common even though i
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Ask HN: Advice for accomplished but unchallenged high school senior
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by mswen 8y ago
I have a client that has a reverse logistics business buying second hand X, testing, cleaning, repackaging and then selling X as refurbished. They have been doing this a few years and created a multi-million dollar business unit with reason
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by mswen 8y ago
Yes. I mostly believe this as well. I have little or no guilt about it. Especially since the person was not yet hired. But when I think about stuff like this happening at scale across tens of thousands of small private companies it starts t
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by mswen 8y ago
In a related note. I had a new client in fall of 2018. The purpose was to build a system that collected and tracked competitors prices across a portfolio of enterprise products. When we first started talking the Director of Operations indic
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by mswen 8y ago
There are several variations that are sometimes called intermittent fasting or IF. Daily time restricted feeding, alternate day fasting and 5:2 approach are each sometimes referred to as intermittent fasting. I have the most experience with
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by mswen 8y ago
>"Marketers have been behind the times" I have to laugh. I learned psychographics from Bill Wells back in the mid 1990s. He had come back into academia in after spending years at DDB Needham creating one of the first psychograp
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by mswen 8y ago
If I am hiring this sounds great. I get a test of programming skills before I invest any of my time and effort. And, the final step validates that you can absorb, learn from and apply leading edge academic findings and also talk about your
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by mswen 8y ago
I empathize with the CEO who wrote this. Heartbreaking in many ways to let go and shut down when it seems so close to making it to profitable status. I was an early employee of a venture funded start-up that also had to face up to the fact
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by mswen 8y ago
I came from a research background - PhD dropout and although I made money selling my time in consulting there is part of the research mindset that stuck around. One of the best ideas that didn't really work out came out of a casual con
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by mswen 8y ago
Edges and intersections are always more interesting. This is true across multiple domains. Coastlines, roads, music, business and academic fields to name a few. Starting a business that relies on the edge of the frontier raises the stakes,
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by mswen 8y ago
The author makes some really good points about the complexity of the often stated goal "hiring the best." Shifting the focus toward what would it take to close the gap between candidate's current state and what the company se
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by mswen 8y ago
Some people greatly prefer the challenges and joys of building new products and companies to the challenges and joys of operating companies over the long haul. Selling the bootstrapped company locks in a financial return for that past effor

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