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by mswen 10y ago
No Advice but a few diagnostic questions: What is not happening that "should" be happening? What is happening that "should not" be happening? What is the specific source of your discontent? How do you reconcile that with
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Interesting article about the feasibility of extending gig economy to the c-suite. I ran across someone on LinkedIn the other day who was labeling himself a Fractional CFO. That caught my attention. He seems to work PT for more than one sm
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by mswen 10y ago
Clearly you have built something that has some product market fit. Hope you find your path through the next few months without falling hard into burnout.
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by mswen 10y ago
If you really have a 75% conversion rate once you start talking to people that is outstanding. Next you should validate your intuition that spending relatively modest amounts of money on adwords will double or triple your flow of customer l
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by mswen 10y ago
First, I just want to compliment you on getting this far with customer acquisition. And, getting some customer traction before considering talking to investors is great! I have personally been an early employee at a venture funded start-up
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by mswen 10y ago
This was posted a few days ago - will repeat my comment here Quotes: > All human activities can be described by five high-level components: data, prediction, judgment, action, and outcomes. > When the cost of a foundational input plum
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by mswen 10y ago
I was also curious that there was no mention of health insurance. I have observed that my own family is paying considerably more for health insurance while actually getting significantly poorer coverage when compared to a decade ago. An emp
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by mswen 10y ago
They believe recruiter X understands the role and company well enough to do the grunt work of reading through and filtering down candidates without disrupting everyone's work flow until it gets to the final set of candidates. They are
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by mswen 10y ago
Quotes: > All human activities can be described by five high-level components: data, prediction, judgment, action, and outcomes. > When the cost of a foundational input plummets, it often affects the value of other inputs. The value g
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by mswen 10y ago
Clearly location and fairly granular skill profiles would help. Other factors that might help include the type and size of the company. Can you think of other factors that would help?
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by mswen 10y ago
That is fine but don't later ask why the system has 10 different customers for Commers Ltd I ended up building another table and logic just to do roll-ups and account for name variations. But I told the client that they really need to
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by mswen 10y ago
Had it in a start-up a few years ago. It felt like it wasn't real. Not a clear culture about taking it and exactly what we needed to do to cover for ourselves when there are so few people in the company overall.
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by mswen 10y ago
In spite of assurances from business process owners that the underlying data sources are clean ... they almost certainly are not. Multiple legacy systems with no consistent cross reference to unambiguously identify the same customer. Assure
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by mswen 10y ago
Awhile back I reserved the domain developersalarybenchmarks.com HR departments can purchase salary benchmarks from companies like Mercer. Everyone on the developers side would like better benchmarks that are free or nearly free to even the
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by mswen 10y ago
You might find this interview with data scientist Tim Hopper interesting. He works remotely and comments on tools his company uses to enable remote work. http://computationalimagination.com/interview_tim_hopper.php
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by mswen 10y ago
I think you should make the switch: [1] Cash portion of compensation is significantly better [2] Diversification of experience improves. You have big enterprise, start-up and now would add trading/finance to the mix [3] If you keep a t
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by mswen 10y ago
Another possibility is to counter-offer with an offer like the following. We will sell you the IP for $XXX,XXX (USD) and 2 months of PT work from each of the founders to ease the transition. Founders will stay on 3 days a week for the fir
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by mswen 10y ago
I recall talking to some DEC guys about the time it was acquired by Compaq. In the High Performance Computing world DECs UNIX based OS (Tru64)for Alpha workstations was very highly regarded. We got talking about Linux which was still prett
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by mswen 10y ago
You are asking HN ... as a community we are pretty biased toward start-ups. In many ways you seem ideally set up for technical leadership in a start-up. [1] You have led teams creating key portions of really successful tech. [2] Money is n
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by mswen 10y ago
Obviously you need to have a heart to heart conversation with your boss about the personal toll that this is taking on you and that you need to return to your first love, that is R&D. Don't wait until you are so frustrated that you
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by mswen 10y ago
What is really striking to me is that I encountered and read Hinton's earlier work in 1994 after coming across it in the stacks at the University. I was doing a lot of quantitative social science research in my grad program. Once I lef
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by mswen 10y ago
Lets say that the annual liquid compensation difference is $200K. At minimum, I would ask for equity that matches $300K (18 months at the difference) at the same valuation as investors in the seed round received. Coming on as an employee at
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Software Sins of Omission (John Cook, 2010)(johndcook.com)
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by mswen 10y ago
Make sure you have headphones and some good text to speech tools. Keep working with specialists in learning disabilities to develop strategies for working around and overcoming your particular set of challenges.
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I went through a phase in late teens where I read a couple different speed reading books and tried out the techniques as well as actively practicing and pushing my eyes and brain to move faster. After going through that phase I backed off a
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Where are you at in the lifecycle of family? What does your partner/spouse think? Are you disciplined enough that the extra 25% plus will actually go toward building savings and retirement funds or will your day to day lifestyle increa
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by mswen 10y ago
I submitted this - I have no connection to the company but I was just curious what the HN community thinks. Has anyone tried one of these out? What were the good points? What compromises are being made? What workloads does this seem part
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90 X86 Servers in 2U No Cooling Needed(teamdgs.com)
2 points by mswen 10y ago|1 comments
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by mswen 10y ago
Math - Khan Academy has it mapped out all the way to calculus - Simon can go as fast and far as he wants if that approach interests him. Music - I assume he is taking lessons - keep doing that and maybe get him exposed to someone that teach
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by mswen 10y ago
In theory anything contained in an employment contract is negotiable. And, they have already signaled that this negotiable by including the clause > and will not (without [company]’s prior written consent) carry on One question is wheth

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