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by rjurney 17y ago
In my experience, the way it works is - at first everything in the foreign culture is great. Its all novel, the language and culture, and every idiosyncrasy is fascinating and every difference is a new challenge. In time you adapt, and th
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by rjurney 17y ago
That may be - but in the case he described he has already been paid as a direct contractor.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Reposted from the blog itself: This is a very interesting idea, and a great discussion of its merits. There is something compelling about the idea that seed financing is such a fundamental part of wealth creation in our new economy that it
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by rjurney 17y ago
And that LinkedIn is the best data set there is on this matter, however sparse the data is.
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by rjurney 17y ago
I met people in Dharamsala/Mcleod Ganj India that were doing this - supporting themselves with light contract work over terrible internet connections. They were pretty happy. I even heard of one contractor couple way up in Manali/Leh with
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by rjurney 17y ago
Are you at risk? The law exists to protect you from exploitation - worst case they'd have to pay your self employment tax (7.5%), give you benefits, etc. right?
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by rjurney 17y ago
TechCrunch's outrage is increasingly absurd.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Why would Google make this acquisition if there was no value in the product, if they intended to do nothing similar, if they could make no use of the work done to date, of the outcome of the experiment, of the experience of the team? They w
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by rjurney 17y ago
In terms of the Apple acquisition of NeXT, Steve Jobs is not an outlier. Founders leaving big companies, often in groups, to found starups that are later acquired by big companies - often one they previously worked for, is common. Its the m
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by rjurney 17y ago
Yes. People go off, try new things, then get acquired and brought back into the mothership to incorporate their experiment. Its a very valid model of R&D.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Oooh look at the gotos
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by rjurney 17y ago
I lived both places. The average block in Moscow is like some shady alley in Old Delhi at night ;)
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by rjurney 17y ago
It really is true. You can travel by train across India as a foreigner, everyone staring at you, and not have any problems. That doesn't mean common sense does not apply, but overall India is very safe - crime wise. You'd better look out
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by rjurney 17y ago
Yeah, don't buy it. Not at startups.
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by rjurney 17y ago
I wonder if other city-states during the Renaissance sat around plotting, "How can we have our own Florence?"
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by rjurney 17y ago
India is perfectly safe. There is also a vibrant technology economy already in place in many cities - albeit service based. This is a very different circumstance than Russia.
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by rjurney 17y ago
There was an ISP in the first floor of my building in Moscow, and you got broadband delivered by ethernet run up the stairwells. There was a sign in the stairwell offering a reward for turning in whoever kept cutting the ethernet wires. T
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by rjurney 17y ago
Airbus had massive state support - hardly an even playing field. They're an example of what a good state-private collaboration can do, not of productivity of the private sector in general.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Ever had your project interrupted when a European decides to take six weeks of consecutive vacation? I'll take puritan productivity any day.
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by rjurney 17y ago
There's a spectrum. Lots of companies have that policy - response within 24-48 hours after an on-site interview. Its sensible.
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by rjurney 17y ago
The google style long-term interrogation is a major turn off. I wouldn't even consider working somewhere that interviews in that style. One six hour white board grilling is bad enough. Two is the limit. More than that... seriously, piss
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by rjurney 17y ago
Yeah.
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by rjurney 17y ago
A failed startup with experience doing cutting edge product R&D could have a lot more value in the job market than two years in school and a master's degree. Its worked out well for me - failure after failure, learned a ton, career doi
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by rjurney 17y ago
Given how easy it is to scale an Erlang app to provide incredible reliability in concurrent systems - as that is what the entire language is optimized for - this is pretty unlikely.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Thanks!
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by rjurney 17y ago
I don't know what you just said, but I'm glad someone is on top of this stuff. Keep up the good work!
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by rjurney 17y ago
He's 17. Think of the dumbest thing you did at 17. Now imagine it made TechCrunch. What a joke.
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by rjurney 17y ago
He's 17. Think of the dumbest thing you did at 17. Now imagine it made TechCrunch. What a joke.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Agreed. Its much easier to ask for $100 with a track record at $50, a reference, etc. Then ask for more as demand dictates. The ideal situation is to build your demand and clientele to the point that you get $200+ for the most demanding
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by rjurney 17y ago
But he was the nice kind :)

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