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by rysmit 13y ago
I had a startup called lowpenny.com that was very similar to CarWoo (before CarWoo) except we charged the auto dealers to use our system instead of charging users which is what CarWoo did. The process of buying a car needs to be disrupted b
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SQL Server: Understanding Performance Mysteries(sommarskog.se)
1 points by rysmit 13y ago|0 comments
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Libertarianism Makes You Stupid(sethf.com)
6 points by rysmit 15y ago|1 comments
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Morten Lund: Life of an Entrepreneur (youtube.com)
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by rysmit 15y ago
Ian, Braintree is inexpensive, I would recommend you bite the bullet and integrate with them from the start. If a customer is willing to invest their data with you or rely on your services then you should reciprocate and show your dedicatio
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by rysmit 16y ago
It would not surprise me if there was a correlation between the two. I was a professional recording musician (saxophone) before I was a professional programmer. Writing music can be like programming, however I don't think playing a written
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by rysmit 16y ago
I am really surprised the by the reception here on HackerNews. Tim has a few hacks for the human body and knows how to market it well. That is all.
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by rysmit 16y ago
I work from anywhere in the world and can move to most large cities and get a job! Life is pretty cushy and safe. Irony is I reject this security for starting companies and working for no pay.
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by rysmit 16y ago
The comments on the bottom of this article are worse than the pictures.
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by rysmit 16y ago
Depends on your product. A 37signals strategy would be to bootstrap it and charge for your product (works well with b2b). Or do what Facebook initially did which was start with no monetization strategy and scale it. I would say if you have
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by rysmit 16y ago
There was an interesting Ask HN poll and disucssion on this a couple weeks ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1584863
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by rysmit 16y ago
Metaconginiton or as the author calls it, "thinking about thinking" sounds like intelligence to me. Self-control is mentally controlling yourself. It takes an active, thinking, controlled mind to put off what is self-indulgence now for one'
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by rysmit 16y ago
Mike Rowe spoke on this during his TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...