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by paulhart 16y ago
Real estate agents are in business for themselves (the companies they work for are really providing a federation-like environment, with shared services). I suspect many of them see themselves as entrepreneurs too.
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by paulhart 16y ago
I was going to develop an iPhone app around the 5BX/XBX programs. Related to that (and especially because I'm a Canadian citizen), I contacted the Canadian government about receiving the rights to use the information in a commercial product
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by paulhart 16y ago
A monthly salary is either an addiction or a catalyst for change. Perception is reality.
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by paulhart 16y ago
A person in my friend list has decided to friend a bunch of people based on a simple "attractive person of the opposite gender" criteria. The actions of this one person have significantly polluted my suggestion list. I'm tempted to just de-
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by paulhart 16y ago
I think you're most likely to succeed if you can provide a quality service in a constrained market. In my specific case, the choices available are to either go to the vendor and pay more than 100k to get all the training for 10-15 people si
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by paulhart 16y ago
I asked a question recently in relation to an industry I know well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396541 I'm specifically looking at providing a video-based training service for a very-well-known vendor's product that many companie
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Ask HN: B2B Pricing Guides?
2 points by paulhart 16y ago|0 comments
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by paulhart 16y ago
Said it there, will say it here too: I’d love to see a “trip report” several months after you move in that talks about how you actually use the space, rather than how you think you’ll use the space. Just because something looks 'cool' in th
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by paulhart 16y ago
Fellow Canadian here. Incorporating a federal corporation is easy and can be done online. If you want to have a named corporation you need to do a NUANS search first. As far as I'm aware, the cheapest NUANS searches are from here: http://w
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by paulhart 16y ago
That's true from a rational perspective, but people aren't rational. They have expectations of a nice, consistent experience that doesn't bounce them from one service to another. I'm working on a business-oriented startup that requires cred
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by paulhart 17y ago
Where are you based, Dave? My day-job company is actively seeking a technical recruiter for internal and client placements. (Oh, and I should add that we're pretty damn good at communicating with the people who apply for jobs).
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by paulhart 17y ago
LTACHE and RTACHE is a lot less to type, and has some consistency with LPAREN and RPAREN which I recall from "back in the day" when I was at university and learning about lexers and parsers (go dragon book!).
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by paulhart 17y ago
Cloning an existing service is a sure way to fail. Looking at how existing products service a market, finding their collective blind spot, and then kicking its ass; maybe you'll be successful.
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by paulhart 17y ago
This is a great point. I'll need to talk to some accountant-types before going forward with this so I can understand what I can and can't book as revenue in this model. It seems clear that spent credits are revenue, but unused credits live
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by paulhart 17y ago
This is a good point. There are a few examples like this where people buy credits and they expire at some point in the future. The same can be done with a subscription credits service by tracking aging Accounts Payable.
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by paulhart 17y ago
Agreed, this is my "cynical customer" perspective, the "breaking point" I alluded to above.
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Ask HN: Psychology research on value perception of different pricing models?
17 points by paulhart 17y ago|11 comments
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by paulhart 17y ago
Yes, the recording of the call is also available through the web interface. I haven't attempted to make it available through the customer IVR side of things yet (if you call your RingThink number from your cellphone you get an admin interfa
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by paulhart 17y ago
I built this in two weeks of spare time. The app is written with RoR, voice stuff is handled by Twilio, and payments are by PayPal via ActiveMerchant. Thoughts, comments etc greatly appreciated.
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[Ask HN] Please review RingThink.com - Virtual receptionist for your cellphone.(ringthink.com)
4 points by paulhart 17y ago|4 comments
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by paulhart 17y ago
Twilio took my money quite happily, and I'm in Canada. Probably depends on who provides their merchant stack.
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by paulhart 17y ago
Read this through earlier today. Ryan's done a good job covering the contents of the book, and it sounds like Mark has done a bang-up job of describing Python 3. I'm not the target market for this book at the moment, but if I find myself he
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by paulhart 17y ago
He sounds like a very emotionally mature individual. He's living his life his way, and though he notices the reaction of others to his creations, he doesn't define himself by them. Think about a project you're really proud of. Now, think ab
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by paulhart 17y ago
I've been in this kind of situation, but with less expertise on the client's side. My (successful) angle of attack was to review the documentation provided as a kind of "requirements dump" rather than a "this is how it should work" definiti
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by paulhart 17y ago
Recently I was at a meeting with our company's marketing director and the channel director of partnerships for a multinational corporation. We were meeting due to a specific skill set we're developing and the corporation's strategic decisio
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by paulhart 17y ago
Left a comment there, but may as well copy-paste here: A few years ago I was working on a competition with a grand prize of several new SUVs (part of a product launch for the vehicle). We did a very basic version of the “riddler.com” model
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by paulhart 17y ago
Don't forget the very-quickly-renamed Shemail library! http://blog.purifyapp.com/2009/12/30/mailstyle-a-html-email-...
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by paulhart 17y ago
Looks like SFE is going to have a fun customer experience situation on their hands - how they deal with the collapse of their website will go a long way towards burnishing (or burning) their "friendly neighbourhood electronics supplier" bra
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by paulhart 17y ago
In Canada at least, CostCo only accepts AmEx credit cards.
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by paulhart 17y ago
For those that hadn't already heard, the QR Code on the back of the device decodes to http://www.android.com/holidays

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