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by sivers 17y ago
Fans of this will probably also like Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties. ISBN: 0123693799 It's unfortunate that a lot of new programmers are relying on their framework's ORM to abstract the SQL away from them, weakening their understanding of it
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All this learning means nothing until you make something happen(sivers.org)
81 points by sivers 17y ago|22 comments
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by sivers 17y ago
Heheh... it's amazing that little confirmation email I wrote in 1999 is still in use today. When I started CD Baby, I just wrote the typical "Your order has been shipped to the following address..." type email, but after 6 months thought, "
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by sivers 17y ago
Damn. You're on to my master plan. :-) No really maybe I've just forgotten, but I just don't remember starting my company to be very hard. Just lots of little “taking care of business” things in a row, that were all pretty interesting.
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Doesn't feel like work (or I've forgotten)(sivers.org)
14 points by sivers 17y ago|6 comments
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by sivers 17y ago
This is the best book on that: http://sivers.org/book/EMythRevisited Then this: http://sivers.org/book/UltimateSalesMachine
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by sivers 17y ago
I left the day-to-day operations in 2002, and had been living in California and London (while the business is in Portland Oregon). So it had been running without me for 6 years. Yeah I might have made more if I promised to stay with the co
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by sivers 17y ago
Completely out of mind. For me, it was total detachment on that day described. Like moving to a new home, your mind and time is best invested in your new place, not your old. That was part of my condition of sale I told the 3 companies befo
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by sivers 17y ago
Isn't that a lot of what Y Combinator is about? It just means access to someone whose opinion you really respect, that also knows you well enough to give you wise customized advice.
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How I knew I was done with my company(sivers.org)
144 points by sivers 17y ago|17 comments
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by sivers 17y ago
I used to post longer pieces that looked at a subject from a few different angles. They didn't seem to be getting through to many people. Maybe because a quick glance at a longer article make you say, "I'll read that later when I have more
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by sivers 17y ago
Great idea! Wish I would have thought of it years ago. :-)
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You should feel pain when unclear(sivers.org)
123 points by sivers 17y ago|25 comments
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by sivers 17y ago
"Strong opinions are very useful to other people" - Brian Eno Very opinionated people, even if narrow-minded or wrong, are useful to conversations. If you don't have an opinion, you can just say, "Wow. Yeah. I agree with him." If you do hav
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And if only 1% of those people...(sivers.org)
210 points by sivers 17y ago|43 comments
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by sivers 17y ago
This isn't serious journalism. It's just passing on an idea worth trying. Terry McBride from Nettwerk talked about this at a music conference I was at, and while I didn't write down the exact numbers, I think these are correct. Since the e
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Is there such a thing as too much freedom?(sivers.org)
18 points by sivers 17y ago|9 comments
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Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step?(sivers.org)
22 points by sivers 17y ago|5 comments
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Entrepreneurs, does it help to be desperate?(sivers.org)
39 points by sivers 17y ago|24 comments
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by sivers 17y ago
Since I sold HostBaby, and signed a non-compete, I'm not allowed to do this anymore, but I hope someone does. :-)
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Business idea: Musician's own website as definitive source of all info(sivers.org)
13 points by sivers 17y ago|12 comments
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Ideas are just a multiplier of execution(sivers.org)
9 points by sivers 17y ago|1 comments
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"I miss the mob"(sivers.org)
6 points by sivers 17y ago|1 comments
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The power of no reward (affiliate fees may backfire)(sivers.org)
14 points by sivers 17y ago|5 comments
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Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.(sivers.org)
181 points by sivers 17y ago|40 comments
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Semi-experts: profit by saving us time(sivers.org)
1 points by sivers 17y ago|0 comments
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by sivers 17y ago
You can read the cliffnotes from the book, here: http://sivers.org/book/HowToGetRich (Though it's very worth getting the real book.) One of my favorite quotes: "Money is exactly like sex. You think of nothing else if you don't have it, an
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by sivers 17y ago
Just a random photo from Flickr of a lo-fi solution. :-) I was hoping I had an old photo of a CD Baby booth at a conference but couldn't find any.
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Nothing to waste: The advantage of being under-funded(sivers.org)
10 points by sivers 17y ago|2 comments
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Version 0.1 = Start lo-fi(sivers.org)
2 points by sivers 17y ago|0 comments

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