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by noodle 8y ago
Depends on your definition of "big $$$" probably. I don't have many specific examples, but the cases where it would work tend to be focused around investing in people with track records doing capital intensive things.
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by noodle 8y ago
For selling the book, or for the book itself?
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by noodle 8y ago
> except that one highway exit on 101 that kills you The conversations on the topic that I've heard involve building special, dedicated exits, sort of like truck weigh stations. And having them live not particularly close to urban
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by noodle 8y ago
AFAIK this is the accepted path forward (minus the side hustle aspect). Automate that which is easier to automate: the long distance highway driving. For the first/last mile, let a human do the work.
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by noodle 9y ago
> that HN mentality Is that the HN mentality? It might lean more that way now, I suppose, but I've always felt it was more in the "scratch your own itch" territory and less in the "complete industry outsider disrupt
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by noodle 9y ago
There are also comparatively very few people who live in the Redmond area and who commute to work downtown Seattle. It probably shouldn't be a heavily serviced path, realistically speaking.
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by noodle 9y ago
> The housing being built in Portland over the past handful of years is of a specific type and a certain price range. This is true for every city. Developers don't really build low-end units. They build high-end units and rely on
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by noodle 9y ago
Levels knows how to code too. Now, maybe he's not as good as others, but he's even live coded the creation of new projects of his.
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by noodle 9y ago
Levels is a digital nomad who has consistently posted in-depth articles about his businesses and codebases for years. People like him and his travel lifestyle the same way we like Patrick.
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by noodle 9y ago
Some will have to be in the JS, but that isn't really any different from non-SPA web apps. They still serve up JS files that have business logic. JS and business logic are, to some degree, inseparable. If you're giving trust to
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by noodle 9y ago
> Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city I'd be more interested in how "prime" is defined here and what the percentage looks like if you include what they're presumably de
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by noodle 9y ago
Eat a variety of foods in your diet and most of the micronutrient stuff works itself out. You have a problem when you stick to a regimented meal plan, always eating the same sets of foods. If you're worried about it, grab a multivita
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by noodle 9y ago
> My uneducated guess was that these pictures represent the "official" and branded street culture. It represents the prevailing trend of an entire year. Which is to say, what is the most popular. So yeah, its going to trim aw
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by noodle 9y ago
But that's really flexible, though, right? If a lot of people lost their jobs from minimum wage increases, wouldn't you expect the unemployment rate to increase at least temporarily around the same time while they initially look
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by noodle 9y ago
To add to this conversation, you can parlay consulting into software without a ton of problems. Do work for customers. While doing work, try and find a shared pain point across your industry/customers. Build software for it and use y
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by noodle 9y ago
So low wage workers are getting cut but unemployment is still at 3.2%? Which is ~1.5% lower than the national average? Kind of sounds like this study might be looking at only half the story.
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by noodle 9y ago
Is the core argument here is that SaaS enables the success of software companies that have little value and that "post-SaaS" means that those companies die? That doesn't really ring true to me. That already happens, doesn&#x
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by noodle 9y ago
There are still plenty of people who regularly play in a casual way. I regularly play and have a number of friends who do. The people who played and quit with the hype weren't the people paying money in the first place. The people wh
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by noodle 9y ago
Everything I've read and everyone I've talked to about it have told me that there's a perception of startups being perceived as crazy, crazy risky with real life implications (finding housing without a salaried job is suppose
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by noodle 9y ago
While your statements aren't wrong, there are other large companies that are doing this type of thing. AT&T for example is running incubators and is on the order of magnitude of size as SoftBank.
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by noodle 9y ago
> why does SoftBank invest so much money in existing companies, instead of doing something a la YCombinator? IIRC, Japan isn't particularly culturally friendly to startups. That probably surfaces itself in the leadership's bus
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by noodle 9y ago
If you've been around HN for a long time, you'll have watched him take the path of a salaryman, to a small-time app, to a SaaS product, to consulting, to productized consulting, to a new and better SaaS product, to selling a compa
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by noodle 9y ago
> I'm not sure how we have a reputation for being "dominated by business types" Two things: 1. Atlanta's tech scene is largely b2b. Its driven a lot by people who worked in industry and then had a great idea for a co
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by noodle 10y ago
I feel like the question is, if an Uber driver takes longer to arrive due to unforeseen/unforeseeable circumstances, does Uber pay them more than price X? Or is their comp always capped at X? If they pay more than X, then what Uber&#x
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by noodle 10y ago
> But in some circumstances it's not necessarily that the consumer is trying to cut time and effort. > I just decided spur of the moment to get some. No, that's still cutting time and effort. Okay you want something spur of
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by noodle 10y ago
You can apply that argument to basically any convenience or luxury. The answer being, some want mangos and value their time and effort more than the the difference in mango price and sliced mango price.
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by noodle 10y ago
Yeah, I've run high margin deals before and even those aren't really worthwhile. For it to be successful you have to be fairly sophisticated with your methodology, and most small business owners (the people who tend to use Group
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by noodle 10y ago
A lot of people around here do "invest" in this type of tech by working for companies producing that tech. For the average person, you can't throw your money at a random startup. And generally, its not exactly a safe bet eit
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by noodle 11y ago
As others noted, the declaration happened before the weather hit. People could reasonably move their cars. All of the affected spaces are super clearly marked and people who park there regularly should've had very ample warning about
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by noodle 11y ago
> A less "grow fast and explode like a Unicorn" business model would probably make it work better for participating businesses. I know a few more local versions of groupon who went into the game with this game plan. They all f

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