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Its Not Just About Obama(nytimes.com)
1 points by raheemm 12y ago|0 comments
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by raheemm 12y ago
Most founders have a sense of entitlement to their companies and understandably so. In fact, it becomes a generational entitlement, as can be seen with family businesses and family fortunes. Gates displays advanced thinking in divesting his
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by raheemm 12y ago
I loved reading these stories, and your writing style is excellent! Also, your approach to problem solving is a great reminder of how persistence is the underlying key. Please do write more if you can, it was such a pleasure to read. I&#x27
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by raheemm 12y ago
But he is getting paid to look for another job, instead of getting fired without any notice, which is the usual norm.
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by raheemm 12y ago
Surprised at all the hostility towards the CEO. She did the right thing by giving him notice and paying him to look for another gig.
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by raheemm 13y ago
This is an innovation that is great for entrepreneurs. AngelList is certainly thinking out of the box.
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by raheemm 13y ago
DK's letter is from 2002. Which makes it even more admirable.
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by raheemm 13y ago
Andrew congrats and thanks so much for making so many awesome interviews available for free. You are in a way responsible for my own evolution into startupland. I watched Dane Maxwell's two interviews on your site (among many others),
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by raheemm 13y ago
Even though voluntourist may not be the most useful addition to a team, I imagine the money that is spent to travel and spend time in the volunteer country also helps the local economy a great deal. An unintended benefit but nevertheless he
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by raheemm 13y ago
If he focuses the entirety of MS on cloud and mobile, while offering some level of innovation, he will have done a good job. I think the real challenge is how do you make a company whose flagships are non-mobile and non-cloud products like
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by raheemm 13y ago
Congrats ChargeBee! Will be checking you guys out for my startup's billing needs.
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Can a Complete Novice Become a Golf Pro With 10,000 Hours of Practice?(tampabay.com)
1 points by raheemm 13y ago|2 comments
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by raheemm 13y ago
Hey, this is v. helpful! Thanks!
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by raheemm 13y ago
Im looking into moving the marketing page to wordpress. The app is most certainly not moving to wordpress. It's staying in rails.
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by raheemm 13y ago
Here is one way you could structure this. Create goals for him to reach. If he repeatedly fails to reach them, then you can ask him for compromises such as giving up equity, etc. If you do it in the right way (that is a win-win, helping him
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by raheemm 13y ago
The API exposure is a good benefit
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by raheemm 13y ago
Example, email users who joined in the last 30 days who have not used our service. That is something you need to build yourself for your specific product no matter what back-end you are using. Exactly, that's a great example of why k
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by raheemm 13y ago
I dont have any specific plugins. But the initial thought was that instead of coding up integrations with rails for various 3rd party marketing stuff, lets just use wordpress and save ourselves time.
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Ask HN: Should I use Wordpress to power the front end of my Rails web app?
13 points by raheemm 13y ago|26 comments
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by raheemm 13y ago
Better the tax breaks go to startups and new businesses than to bureaucracies and large corps.
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by raheemm 13y ago
True, this system could lead to the above. But it will more likely lead to leadership by competence. One of the great failings of traditional management is that so many incompetent folks become managers. Another benefit of this system is t
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Crowdfunded documentary exploring the startup scene in Dhaka, Bangladesh(youtube.com)
1 points by raheemm 13y ago|0 comments
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by raheemm 13y ago
How come you are skipping NYC?
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by raheemm 13y ago
Go ahead and have this conversation with her.
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by raheemm 13y ago
Bill Gates should come back.
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by raheemm 13y ago
That looks so great! I'm going to give it a try!
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How To Build A Multi Million Dollar Online Business In Nigeria(ventures-africa.com)
1 points by raheemm 13y ago|0 comments
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by raheemm 13y ago
This article and Conan is advising the same sentiment as being discussed at the current #1 post on HN (Fucking Sue Me) --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366912 . TLDR: Just do things even if you are scared about t
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by raheemm 13y ago
My point is that risk is often perceived to be greater than it actually is. So taking action in spite of the risk has two benefits - the real risk is exposed and often less than what we imagined and progress is made from taking action. True
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by raheemm 13y ago
My risk-averse nature has been the #1 challenge in my startup life of the last 11 months. I was worried about taking on a partner for 3 months. Finally I just decided to skip that - it meant I'll grow slower. I was worried about sendin

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