pxue

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1-person agency: lessons on negotiation after 6 years
18 points by pxue 3y ago|2 comments
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by pxue 3y ago
Toronto DEV SEEKING CONTRACT WORK in Go, React/JS, Devops, Data warehouse Full detail: https://spacestation.github.io/ Who I typically work with: - Seed/Series A startups in the US with big ideas. - US companies w
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by pxue 3y ago
They'll just incorporate in Canada.
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by pxue 3y ago
11 star customer service?? I got stranded without a place to stay at my destination and reaching out to their support took 10h in total. I ended up just rebooking another listing on airbnb only to learn I don't get any compensation if
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by pxue 3y ago
This is an act of war.
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by pxue 3y ago
select all open issues, Tag: won't fix, close. Restart cycle.
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by pxue 3y ago
poached from a competitor, they tried to sell the exact same service i provide to my product company, and they did a great job.
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by pxue 3y ago
poached from a competitor, they tried to sell the exact same service i provide to my product company. 80k base, 20% commission
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by pxue 3y ago
Founder of a solo dev $500k/year agency here. 10000%. I topped out around $500k/year. Just naturally settled there after aggressively optimizing my process. This is with 1 dedicated sales person who's entire job is to minimiz
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by pxue 3y ago
This is chinese government subsidizing youth unemployment. My 60yo mother gets messaged every day on wechat from young Chinese ppl asking her to buy stuff on temu, they're all unemployed otherwise.
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by pxue 3y ago
because the whole point of starting a business is to get it to run by itself. Eventually you (the founder) won't be needed anymore.
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by pxue 3y ago
what's not being said: unless you're rich, it's much better to aim for a small, profitable business within the first 3 months and a low 7 figure exit. If you can't figure out how to do this, work for someone else until y
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by pxue 3y ago
you got this
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by pxue 3y ago
I pay my sales person 80k base and <20% commission. Rest i pocket. I have literally no expesenses besides email and domain subscription.
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by pxue 3y ago
Yes people do think like this - I was one of them
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by pxue 3y ago
Made a list a while ago that got me started on my freelance path, YC work for a startup job board is one of them https://github.com/pxue/awesome-startup-communities/blob/mai...
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by pxue 3y ago
Mehdi been explaining EE concepts since I was in school a decade ago. What a legend.
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by pxue 3y ago
Hit nested reply limit. Reach out to me on twitter I'll give you deets. Links in my bio
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by pxue 3y ago
Reach out to me on twitter. Links in profile
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by pxue 3y ago
I do it mostly for legal purposes.
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by pxue 3y ago
Yeah. I have a dedicated outbound sales person who pings their network for referrals every few weeks. Their job is to weed out noise + educate + convert hourly to project based billing Went into a lot of detail on Reddit a couple years back
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by pxue 3y ago
100k: - network 200k: - high signaled / luke warm outbound on dev communities (YC work at a startup job board is one) - referrals 300k++: - dedicated outbound tech sale person
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by pxue 3y ago
You'll be surprised by how many people want what she have.
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by pxue 3y ago
As a solo dev contractor who got my business to $500k/year during the pandemic - I echo a lot of the sentiment in this post. An extension to the post I want to touch on is that VC funded startups are not the only way to break free from
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by pxue 3y ago
Adyen is pretty legit
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by pxue 3y ago
called consolidators I believe. It's pretty genius. Entire model is about buying dental practices with cash, profit share with the dentists and then do all back-office work with economy of scale. Pocket any efficiency gains and reinves
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by pxue 3y ago
I'm feeling a bit of this with all the AI stuff lately. I went all in on AI back in 2017 trying to build a chatbot for ecommerce from scratch and it went nowhere. Maybe a bit sour grapes on my end.
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by pxue 3y ago
The author went from "trust them to do the right thing" to "Set clear deadlines and regularly check in on their progress. Make them accountable for those deadlines" real fast
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by pxue 3y ago
RSU have immediate tax implications, while options may not (and mostly do not) until time of exercise.
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by pxue 3y ago
How far away are we from "type in a prompt, get an animation" generative style UX? What are some roadblocks of making that a reality?

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