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by robbiea 12y ago
probably a plugin / chrome extension issue.
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by robbiea 12y ago
Agreed. Principal works great if you want to brand yourself as someone who is looking for longer term projects and you can do multiple things.
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by robbiea 12y ago
You don't. You can give your input with the known challenges, but you don't tell him to stop doing the idea. People learn by failing and your best friend's idea may never work, but what he learns from that and what spawns fro
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by robbiea 12y ago
Agreed. Ship it for the sake of shipping it and using it as a portfolio piece. I remember one app in particular that I spent a LOT of time on including meetings with others, etc and I never launched it. It still makes me mad and haunts me.
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by robbiea 12y ago
To be honest, this is great news for you. All this means is that you are on to something. Think about it. You have another company who has a million dollar investment, and the people behind the money must be OK with the path they are taking
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by robbiea 12y ago
As some others have said. Focus on technology consulting if that's the life you want. You probably won't be a software dev, but you will lead software development teams who are often remote or offshore. Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, C
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by robbiea 12y ago
try Angel List https://angel.co/jobs
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by robbiea 13y ago
I have worked for Accenture & Deloitte as a consultant and for many years and have implemented software used for internal teams. It surprisngly works very similar to any other industry company. The software to be used internally comes f
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by robbiea 13y ago
Form a company with a generic consulting name, and brand yourself as yourself. That's what I do now and it works fine for me. When you bill give them your company billing information. If your freelancing does get bigger than you can ju
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by robbiea 13y ago
Take a look at these articles from Mark Suster about enterprise sales: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/03/19/one-of-the-big... http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/on-selling/ (loo
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by robbiea 13y ago
Love the writing style of this post. He may be in an introvert but he's a damn good writer!
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by robbiea 13y ago
I was scared in the last email I sent to over 30 people. Like /u/taternuts said, you have to be a little scared. But yes, you will get over it, but if it's a big push to prod - you will still be scared.
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by robbiea 13y ago
Work gap is fine as long as it is right after school. You have an easy story to account for the gap, and it's a good time to take a break.
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by robbiea 13y ago
Agree with all the comments so far. Take the interview, build great relationships with the people that you are interviewing with. The good news is that you've only been on the job for a month, so if you do take the new job you won&#x27
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by robbiea 13y ago
| the only other thing I would try is reaching out to one or more of their investors / board members I think that's what he is doing right now :)
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by robbiea 13y ago
Could you clarify what your interview process is to get a wholesome picture of a candidate in a 30 minute interview? That would help me understand what your viewpoint is.
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by robbiea 13y ago
Why would you want to be less confrontational in an interview? The point is to see if the candidate is good or not, not "let's see how I can ask this question in the nicest way possible so I can get a nice and safe response that t
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by robbiea 13y ago
A chrome extension for twitter that: 1) Tells me via a % of what type of things they post (text only vs links, vs images, etc) 2) Tweets to followers % (If someone has 10k tweets and only 100 followers, that usually means they aren't w
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by robbiea 13y ago
amazing.
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by robbiea 13y ago
ahh, I just read this after I wrote my post. What you said above would bother the hell out of me too! Try Austin. It's a much different place. Wait for the football season to start and go to a UT football game.
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by robbiea 13y ago
I've travelled quite a bit because of my previous IT Consulting job and I basically "lived" in one place for 6 months at a time. I've also spent time in Seattle and Denver so I'll explain those just so you can compa
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by robbiea 13y ago
It's not the same URL. Yours was the mobile version (it has a m.) and his was the normal URL. I think this one got more traction just because of the timing of the post too being in the morning and getting enough traction to make it to
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by robbiea 13y ago
You can also post something on reddit/r/<yourcity> if it's a large city. They can probably help you with other local resources for you to look into.
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by robbiea 13y ago
I think the issue that Will Blythe might face now is that he has now alienated himself against future employers. Here is a guy who is willingly going to criticize a company he leaves (or maybe even currently employed at), just because he fe
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by robbiea 13y ago
I'm planning on my ebook at the end of january ( http://firemeibegyou.com ), based on a post I wrote that was #2 on hacker news (Fire Me, I Beg You) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837264 I am not goin
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by robbiea 13y ago
I've been through the same exact situation and was able to get out of it. There are a lot of great tips here that detail how to organize your schedule tactically, but I'll give you a little different insight on how to convince you
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by robbiea 13y ago
This is a reddit type comment, but I upvoted anyway.I look at what was posted and I thought to myself that I'm just glad other people know what it is, and I really have no interest in learning it.
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by robbiea 13y ago
Congratulations! I made a similar jump about 20 months ago. My only advice to you is to keep doing the freelance gig thing on the side, as I see you are doing based on your comments. The things I've learned about surviving: 1) As one c
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by robbiea 13y ago
If you haven't seen No Red Ink (noredink.com), you should check it out. They do something similar. Best of luck!
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by robbiea 13y ago
Thanks!

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