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by petervandijck 10y ago
Just apply already.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Few thoughts: 1. Add a fourth plan, call it "enterprise" (call your third plan Business or something), and add unlimited phone support as a differentiator. Don't put a price on it, say "call us". 2. Your basic plans
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Some relevant numbers could be: - size of backlog - overtime - time new requests spend in queue - cost of delays to the business
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by petervandijck 10y ago
We define it as: Junior: requires supervision. Mid: individual contributor: can take stuff and get it done. Senior: goes beyond their own individual code, more involvement in larger project (process, architecture, people, client, ...)
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Let's see, a few questions: 1. How much equity has already vested, in USD: 1. 10K-ish, 2. 100K-ish, 3. 1M K-ish+. 2. How many years away would an exit be where your equity would be worth something? 1. 1-2y, 2. 3-5y, 3. 5-10y 3. How goo
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Ask HN: If finding great engineers is so hard, then why
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by petervandijck 10y ago
As in https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/music
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Yes this is quite common. I would try telling them what you said here - "I know from my past experiences that my enthusiasm for the job is directly correlated with the degree to which I perceive their projects will be both meaningful &
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Set goals, set them high, make them specific. If you don't achieve them, don't worry, at least you've gone some of the way. You could try out OKRs (Google it) for yourself.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Yes it's just a scam.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Take the money. Calculate like this: job1 pays 100, and imagine you get a 10% raise yearly for the rest of your career. Calculate your total income over your career. Job2 pays 15, calculate same. How much difference is it? In other words: a
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by petervandijck 10y ago
1. Social proof. Can you find an independent party with a name/reputation to vouch for the value of your invention? It would be great to say: here's so-and-so, who works at X or teaches at Y, who looked into my solution and is hap
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Instead of resumes, ask for the names of the senior tech people you'll be working with. Then look them up online (LinkedIn, ...). Second, ask what they're working on/what you would be working on.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Perhaps this helps: 1. Landing page with your names, contact info, and experience/skillset. Answering the usual questions like what kind of work, etc... 2. Email everyone you have worked with or talked to, say "hey hope you don&#x
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by petervandijck 10y ago
At the top, remove the large photo (or make it smaller). Then write: "10 years of software development experience ranging from low level C all the way to front-end web dev. 7 years of data science experience. Startup founder." The
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by petervandijck 10y ago
They should send a bottle of wine to Peter Merholz :) http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000205.html
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Hey, why don't you talk to the YC company again? Ask them why they advised that, there might be a very different and valid reason, say you're tempted to apply. Nothing like shining some sunlight on things to clear everything up.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
You don't charge developers, you charge either their boss (SaaS), or people trying to hire them (recruiting).
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Plus one for Elixir, it's what my smart friends who would learn Scala 5 years ago are doing now.
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by petervandijck 11y ago
Try Airtable.com, you might turn this into an "app" in an hour.
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by petervandijck 11y ago
This is absolutely the best approach, and I say that as an employer. Do this.
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by petervandijck 11y ago
I read the Chinese room argument, it seems really naive. It's like saying "my neurons aren't conscious therefore I am not conscious", which is clearly not the case. We're made of matter, computers are made of matter
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by petervandijck 11y ago
Here's something you could try. 1. Find some reputable investors active in China. Start talks with them. 2. Contact the CEO and say "Thanks for pointing out to us the value of the Chinese market. We will now 1. move into the Chine
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by petervandijck 11y ago
Why don't you look for another job? Instead of spending 75K on living expenses while figuring out your "startup idea", why don't you do this: 1. Take 40K, and spend 4 months traveling some part of the world (Asia, South
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by petervandijck 11y ago
My first question is: do you have 1 real potential user that would actually pay real money for this? If so, have you provided the service to them and have they paid? You could do that. My second question: do you have 10 users that have paid
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by petervandijck 11y ago
Sounds intriguing. Some questions: - Who is the team behind this, and are you working on this full-time right now? - How much work have you done on the software? (Planning, research, building?) - Why this specific product? Why do you think
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by petervandijck 11y ago
Huge | Medellin, Colombia | Full time | Onsite We're hiring React, Java, AEM, Android and iOS native engineers and designers. Email pvandijck@hugeinc.com with a link to your linkedin or github. Medellin is awesome you'll love it,
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by petervandijck 11y ago
No, it's 500$ "at the time" approval. (Companies are simple-minded.) If I am a manager and my credit card gets charged 399$ each month, that registers as 12 separate purchases in pretty much everyone's rulebook. The way
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by petervandijck 11y ago
Generally: - 79$ (solve a business problem and its worth it. There's no difference between 29 or 39 or 79 for a business user with a credit card.) - $399 (basically max to buy without approval if you're a manager, anything below 5
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by petervandijck 11y ago
Does it apply to the other co-founders as well? If not, then you're not on equal footing.

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