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Short-Cycle Recurring Revenue(philipkiely.com)
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by philipkiely 5y ago
Gotcha. So, legally speaking, the victim of the crime here is Netflix, and if the exec had performed the same activities with the express permission of someone within Netflix with the authority to authorize such things (IDK, board of direct
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by philipkiely 5y ago
Ok cool, for others reading I found it: Substantial Investment is $250K of funding or $100K of grants (Just YC funding would not be enough to qualify on funding) The qualified investor must be a US person or entity who regularly makes this
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by philipkiely 5y ago
Hi Peter, Taking a look at the IEPP webpage, I saw some vagueness that is common when looking at entrepreneurship visa programs in the US and elsewhere, for example: "The start-up entity has received a significant investment of capital
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Redesigning an Information Product Landing Page(philipkiely.com)
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Cold Email for Interesting People, Second Edition(philipkiely.com)
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Friendship Cards(philipkiely.com)
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Who Will Write Your Company’s Technical Content?(philipkiely.com)
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by philipkiely 6y ago
In my opinion, you're absolutely correct to write a focused, narrow book as that's the only way to stand a chance of addressing a topic completely. The information available on the internet is vast, as authors it is more often our
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Hi HN, Eight months ago, I posted an ugly little webpage listing 40-odd publishers of technical content that I had thrown together in an hour, discussion here [1]. With permission, I'm reposting the full version of the site, with more
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Show HN: Who Pays Technical Writers (1.0)(whopaystechnicalwriters.com)
2 points by philipkiely 6y ago|1 comments
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Also, the core benefits (health insurance, retirement, etc) are better than most companies. Sure, you don't get the perks, but the core stuff is there. For example, I'd rate access to Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Progra
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Check out Constellation Software and Mark Leonard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_Software It is the closest to the Berkshire Hathaway model that I know of in software.
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Last Year in the Creator Economy(gumroad.com)
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by philipkiely 6y ago
It really depends and I don't track my time all that well, though one of my 2021 things I'm doing is trying a bit of time tracking, just for my own sake / more visibility on how I spend my day.
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by philipkiely 6y ago
I won't discuss other people's rates but I personally earn ten thousand USD per month.
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Not porn, mostly, see https://gumroad.com/company Here is a small sample of things of interest to an HN audience that you can buy with Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/fullstack https://gumroad.com&#
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by philipkiely 6y ago
I work at Gumroad, mentioned in this article. Sometimes, I read things by CEOs about how a company works on the inside and I wonder if it really looks like that, or if it is a view from the top that doesn't reflect what it's reall
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by philipkiely 6y ago
MF DOOM did a song called "Iron Rose" with Cannibal Ox that, per Spotify, I listened to more times in 2020 than any other song, and I listen to songs I like on repeat a lot. R.I.P.
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by philipkiely 6y ago
This is a great question. I really have no idea. One thing I wonder is as you get older, do you get better at predicting what will happen / does your life get more predictable? If you had asked me this question a year ago, I would have
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Thanks! I suppose you must have some sort of automation that notifies you when the same comment is posted twice, or at least posted twice on submissions of the same name & url? I submitted earlier without a ton of success, so when I saw
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Lining up this interview was a process that spanned the latter half of 2020. Professor Knuth has not maintained a public email inbox since 1990, so I typeset a letter in LaTeX, printed it out, figured out where to put a stamp on an envelope
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Asking questions that elicit new answers is the #1 thing I focus on in an interview, so I'm glad to have accomplished it here. I think that if you're doing an interview and don't cover new ground, it just wastes everyone&#x27
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Lining up this interview was a process that spanned the latter half of 2020. Professor Knuth has not maintained a public email inbox since 1990, so I typeset a letter in LaTeX, printed it out, figured out where to put a stamp on an envelope
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Donald Knuth on Writing and More (An Interview) [pdf](philipkiely.com)
6 points by philipkiely 6y ago|2 comments
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The Lifetime Dividend Earmark(philipkiely.com)
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Hi HN, In my job at Gumroad, I get to work with inspiring people to build resources for creators. Previously, these resources were spread across our blog, our YouTube channel, our own Gumroad page, and more, so I wanted to collect the best
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Show HN: Gumroad University(gumroad.com)
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by philipkiely 6y ago
Hey, welcome to HN! Just so you know, the HN guidelines [0] say "Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion.&quo
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by philipkiely 6y ago
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