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by skowmunk 16y ago
I agree, its a depressing pattern but there is a a ring of truth to it - when a species/civilization gets to a certain point of sophistication and intelligence, the motive to keep expanding (or even reproducing, apparently) stops, and they
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by skowmunk 16y ago
its literally a catch 22 situation, its a matter of what perspective (regarding the time factor) one is looking at. Over population will cause pressure on the sustainability of resources on the planet, not to mention inefficient use of reso
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by skowmunk 16y ago
It's having enough intelligence(or education/awareness) to know that high cost of living would put more pressures on the parents and even the kids, if more kids were to be born, coupled with the existence of free will to take a decision/act
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Out of my reductionist tendencies, I would say - can this question be reduced to "Can one post to a blog without opening an application?" If one would like to not open an application (browser) to be able to blog what would make them like op
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Having followed such a detailed long term plan from almost 14 years ago to realize my dream of starting a business, when I thought I didn't have the resources, the personality, the network, the background, the support or the backup, having
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Start now. Start a start up or go execute an idea or help somebody else execute an idea and use that as a tool for learning relevant stuff that is required to successfully execute an idea. Whatever reason you are not able to execute it, tha
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I agree, great book. Especially for somebody who is not the 'people' type or comes if one comes from an introverted family. Its like learning a new language, you suddenly start getting more information about people and situations. Another s
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Thanks for the great advice - gives me one more very good option to consider (used to drive taxis, before and after getting jobs). Without implying that the advice before the edit was any less useful - because that was definitely very good
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I agree with both the excellent points made by motothemax: Don't back off from bidding higher than the disered "quotes" mentioned by customers. Once I went for a designer who was quoting more than twice my initial upper limit for that job.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I second what boonez123 and aeden said, that was indeed wise advise. In addition, I would say, as soon as you see a need (but, validated through market research, formal or informal) go after it. There are lots of intelligent people thinking
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Where was that $500/day washing windows job? If i don't get funding, I might need something like that when I would quit my job and start working on my start up full time Would hate to drain up my resources by not having any cash flow.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Have you tried odesk.com, elance.com, rent-a-coder.com? You might find some good competition from East European, Russian and Asian Coders on these sites- some of them are terrific coders/developers, but you also have some inherent advantage
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by skowmunk 16y ago
That is true, quite often time and work gets wasted because the right specs are not decided or not communicated or the right questions not asked up front . As a supplier of data analysis and reports to cost cutting/six sigma projects, I hav
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by skowmunk 16y ago
If its such a burning desire, then you owe it yourself to quench it by trying it at least once (but definitely not half-hearted). All you need to do is make sure that you have some savings for the family to survive and some more, if it does
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by skowmunk 16y ago
hmm...so its like the opposite of the concept of a mall - where some people sell and others hang out. this would be = where some people hang out and others sell I wonder, which of the retailers won't adapt fast enough to this, lose out, wit
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by skowmunk 16y ago
.... exhaustive communication, especially about details ..... and ....communicating. Not micromanaging, not ... I agree with some of your points, but aren't the 'details" and 'not micromanaging' statments conflicting in what you say?
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I would agree, that the people who set up the system should have atleast reviewed the work of the newbie, if they don't have a proper process documentation for managing it. (I often found, that excel based worksheets, though used extensivel
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Pretty good list of management wisdom. I would have to disagree about one point though: 6. Praise people publicly, but discipline people privately I used to completely agree with this earlier, but somebody(can't recall who) pointed a prob
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Would like to add in another factor into this question - How long do you want that unity to last? the moment the question of commercialising the output of the project comes up, the competition will come out in the open and the unity will br
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Hi, I was going over your past comments and it looks like we have very similar views (though, mine may be nowhere as extensive). Right from your views on whining about paying taxes, realities of globalization, the tendency to be blunt and d
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by skowmunk 16y ago
while completely agree with your point, the emergence of such corporate biggies can damage some local small businesses, I would like to present a different side of the same argument (can't help being a devil's advocate :)). Such big compan
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by skowmunk 16y ago
"Do you focus on rich, internet savy countries like Holland or Belgium? Or, do you focus on the next two largest languages online: Mandarin and Spanish? " - Good question In biz speak (or probably in non-linear programming too), i guess it
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Great explanations, you have put the gist of the issue here in the most succint way while covering almost the entire breadth of the problem. I know I may get downvoted for posting just an agreement/appreciation. But sometimes, it just feels
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I agree, people from a local region or at least those originating from that region can always localize a product better than somebody from half way across the world (unless they are really good at soaking up foreign cultures, even there, th
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by skowmunk 16y ago
True, Business arrangements like whilte labelling do involve written agreements. But having a written agreement is just one factor, how robust the written agreement is in protecting the rights of the IP owner, hmm that would depend. And usu
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Why would somebody whose success depends on safe guarding their IP and developing their IP, share it, especially when they are still small and can't hire an army of lawyers to make sure that their IP is protected even if its shared? why wou
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by skowmunk 16y ago
If one has a low cost back end that can do the translations, do the legal matching work, set up the conditions tables for these things to work seamlessly for different regions while reflecting the options, choices and legalities of the diff
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Ask PG: Who looks at the demo sites listed in the YC application form?
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Would healthy people ever willingly replace their eyes with bionic eyes?
3 points by skowmunk 16y ago|3 comments
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by skowmunk 16y ago
That's true, the health care industry is a massive opportunity waiting to be tapped. Not just in the western world, even in the developing world, where the incidence of insurance is increasing. Many developing countries have had none or nex

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