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That's why they call it work. Start planning do you want to start your own business or just get a better day job. Start listening to this . . . http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Rob has had an amazing journey. h
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@DHH Start Up School Talk 2008 The Secret to Making Money Online/A Secret to Making Money Online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY Still my favorite talk.
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Most people don't finish in 4 years . . . When you build out your resume just list the year of graduation for your CS degree, which is standard. Don't include HS or other dates where they can see it took more than 4 if you're
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Languages: If you're not using it already check out the Laravel (php) framework. It's growing fast, similar to Rails, easy to use, lots of great tools and the hourly rate on Laravel projects is comparable to the rate on Rails proj
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Here is some inspiration/good information and a service that sends you a SaaS idea per day: http://StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com (Rob has went from drop shipping beach towels to selling his SaaS GetDrip for $XX million(just a
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I'm working on a fantasy football(NFL) app. You might need to write an importer that parses your xml, cleans it up. I just setup an importer for weekly game results. I cut the data off the website that hosts our league and paste it int
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you can use an exercise ball part of the day, I'm 6'1" and use a 75cm one . . . you can pick one up at Target. Ikea has some decent chairs, go in and test them out. The one I liked best was one of their least expensive ones.
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Definitely get a lawyer . . . y agree with smt88, C corp is prob. overkill and could introduce tax issues go LLC first. I would just have each of you track what you invest as expenses for the LLC, then get reimbursed once you are profitable
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Go back to the branch where the atm is, talk to a manager. Explain the situation as a concerned customer. Be polite, appearing worried and scared they won't straighten this out might help too. They should have record that the ATM was o
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Is this person dangerous or threatening? If so you could meet with the police, give them a heads up and ask for extra patrols in your neighborhood. Be on guard when you're leaving coming home any place you're alone. Resetting all
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Definitely . . . Team Treehouse Railscasts Laracasts Pluralsight YouTube CS Lecture Videos More than enough. And more being added everyday.
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There is lots of inspiration, inexpensive starting points here: https://themeforest.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=CV&referr...
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GetDrip.com A Startup Acquisition Story
(startupsfortherestofus.com)
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10y ago
Is it still in the return window where you could return it and start new fresh out of the box?
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How valuable is your other friend to the startup? It might be easier to start this on your own without including any friends in the same circle. It's always going to be awkward if you're talking about how great your startup is goi
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I wouldn't worry about it too much. Any chance you can obtain a contract position or freelance work during that time so you can just list it as contract position/work. But I really wouldn't worry about a small gap especially
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I moved from Rails to Laravel (PHP). If they are moving to Laravel it's a great framework, go for it. Some parts you will like even better than Rails. Hopefully it's Laravel, it's by far the best php framework. (my opinion).
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You'll be super busy with law school, focus on that, make sure that's a priority, do your best and finish top of your class. That said lots of people build their idea with full time jobs, while going to school and even with a fami
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I would offer them a discount and think about donating to them once a year a portion or all of their subscription if you like the cause. Free accounts could become a burden over time and could lead to people just trying to sign up for a fre
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Think about something that would be useful for you and bring you value. That will be something you enjoy building most. For the portfolio portion maybe tie in something that would be valuable to your typical client. That said here are some
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I would test the waters with a contract employee first and have them work remote. If you build a small remote team and things are going well you could think about an office. You could even run an agency style business with remote employees
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This covers some general information about Digital Nomad in an Airstream (with kids) http://bootstrappedweb.com/80-brecht-palombo-on-longterm-tra...
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don't suspend his accounts yet . . . keep trying to contact him maybe he's unplugged from work over the Holiday week. Email him Sunday, saying hey are you ready for the meeting on Monday, how was your holiday?
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As far as pushing the queue further out I think one solution could be a plinko style entry at the beginning of the security system. Build it so that passengers get separated and spread out. Make it out of a blast resistant material. You cou
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@DHH has the answer(s) and sounds like you already do as well. Startup School Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
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forge.laravel.com Even if you're not using Laravel(PHP) it works for quickly spinning up a vps on digital ocean or AWS. You can setup multiple dev/test sites on one droplet. Deploy repo via github bitbucket. It's super fast a
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Laravel (PHP) has been a great experience. Composer Valet/Homestead (Local Development) Forge (Builds Servers/Deploys Repos) Envoyer (Zero Downtime Deployment) Spark (SaaS Application Starting Point) It keeps getting better and be
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For ticket management or knowledge bases I would lean toward using open source or paying for a service. For CRM (or anything else) if it's something unique/valuable to your business where spending some development time would bring
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How much value are you providing/time savings. I expect you could have a few plans starting out at $99, $249 and $499. Tiers by users/api calls, etc. Construction industry software typically seems to command a premium price so may
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Stick it out . . . if you're well paid and they have funding see what happens, save for a rainy day, learn and be productive.
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