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by pardner 15y ago
Best. Ever. Corporate happy holidays card.
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by pardner 15y ago
Nice addition to HN thanks. I particularly liked his suggestion re: companies publishing key failure rates for employees to see. People can gauge whether they are aiming high enough. And it removes some of the fear of failure that impedes p
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by pardner 15y ago
As an "old guy" founder with multiple exits, may I suggest you consider reframing the question in your own mind, perhaps to something like "If I join an 8-person startup, what are the daily qualities I need to exhibit to become indispensibl
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by pardner 15y ago
So... next you'll add Twilio support so people can do it by SMS, right?
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by pardner 15y ago
Bingo. As soon as possible after building a product that starts getting traction I build teams of people who are far better than me in every relevant discipline who can sprinkle true awesomeness on their respective areas. From that point my
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by pardner 15y ago
Really great question, Daniel. I can see where it might often be the case that someone 50+ might not know people able to devote startup-level time to a new project. I've done solo deals from time to time, but having great partners is infini
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by pardner 15y ago
Don't disagree. Tropo does some extremely cool stuff... having a single app handle IM, SMS, tweets, voice is kinda magical. Seems to have better local number availability as well. The lack of any rate limiting handshaking for handling sms b
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by pardner 15y ago
I would add that the kids eventually leave home which, in my case, un-filled things considerably. A lot of friends my age (54) choose to re-fill that time with charity boards, golfing trips, etc. But some of us choose to go right back to th
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by pardner 15y ago
That's a superb article re: real-world Twilio. We did a head to-head with twilio and tropo and twilio won hands down in terms of actual "production-worthiness" despite tropo having "more" features including speech reco. http://pardner.com/
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by pardner 15y ago
Thoroughly brilliant example of relentless execution of a vision with a higher purpose.