rscale

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by rscale 15y ago
Seeking Work: Mostly Remote (based in the US, will travel to project kickoff / milestone meetings if preferred) Ruby on Rails Engineer, using Ruby since 2002 and Rails since 2005. Expert in SQL (primarily PostgreSQL and MySQL/RDS.) Stron
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by rscale 15y ago
1) People. People are incredibly expensive. 2) Promotion. Especially in winner-take-all markets, where it's especially important to be the first player to reach scale, and in markets with high customer lifetime values. 3) Capital expense.
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by rscale 15y ago
I agree with you completely. It's rational for a "hungry" founder to prefer a 50% chance of a $250MM exit to a 20% chance of a $2B exit which is exactly wrong for the VC. I like that some investors are wising up to the reality that you can
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by rscale 15y ago
If customer service is important to you, DropBox isn't a viable option either.
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by rscale 15y ago
Let's take this from the realm of the abstract to the concrete: Let's imagine an absolutely top-notch consultant with excellent hard and soft skills that mesh nearly perfectly with your current and projected needs. How much would you offer
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by rscale 15y ago
This policy rubs me the wrong way, because I believe in value-based pricing. If I generate $1m of value for your company, I should be able to negotiate the capture of a reasonable chunk of that value. My decision to live in a high or low c
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by rscale 15y ago
I'm a big fan. My only concern is figuring out how best to interact with my google spreadsheets to avoid creating a lot of redundant data.
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If you use Ruby, could you please fill out a short survey for me?(spreadsheets.google.com)
2 points by rscale 15y ago|0 comments