spiggytopes

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by spiggytopes 3y ago
'Your call is important to us.' Yeah, but clearly not important enough to justify hiring enough staff. This drives me crazy!
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by spiggytopes 6y ago
Mostly good advice. Having done Australia-UK five times last year (pre-COVID) I can speak with some experience: - Noise-cancelling earphones are a must. I have some expensive cordless Bose headphones that can be worn for hours, even when th
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by spiggytopes 7y ago
Solvitur abulando - 'it is solved by walking' (Diogenes of Sinope). Great tool for solving hard problems.
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by spiggytopes 8y ago
Robert Heinlein, 'Between Planets' 'A few hundred yards further on Lazy shied again, not from a snake this time but from an unexpected noise. Don pulled him in and spoke severely. "You bird-brained butterball! When are y
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Training an AI to write BuzzFeed clickbait headlines(dataskunkworks.com)
2 points by spiggytopes 8y ago|1 comments
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by spiggytopes 9y ago
Good questions! For the first: I'm fortunate enough to be regarded as a guru in my field. 9-5 are promised to my employers, the rest of the time is available for the startup. For the second: we have a robust product but sales cycles in
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by spiggytopes 9y ago
I'd been working on the startup full-time for 2-3 years. Software is complete, tested and documented. Design is robust enough that I hardly ever get support calls or emails. So rather than watch daytime TV I thought I'd go back to
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by spiggytopes 9y ago
I'm doing exactly this. Making a consistent income from a fairly hands-off fintech startup, but wanted to leverage my time so am working full-time in a related area. Made full disclosure on all my interests and activities with my emplo
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Crazy investment offers
11 points by spiggytopes 14y ago|6 comments
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Copy protection for enterprise software
1 points by spiggytopes 15y ago|0 comments
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When angels can’t understand what your business is about
23 points by spiggytopes 16y ago|16 comments
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by spiggytopes 16y ago
This all looks like superb advice - again, thanks! - I will order 'Selling to Big Companies' tonight. - Will make sure we all have a clear idea of the sales pipeline, targets - Yes I have looked at the legal and trading issues - am being ad
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by spiggytopes 16y ago
Thanks - that is excellent advice. I particularly appreciate the warning about salesmen being better at selling themselves than the product. I have sold related systems quite successfully in the past and will likely continue to do so. My vi
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What to offer my first salesperson?
9 points by spiggytopes 16y ago|13 comments
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by spiggytopes 16y ago
Read anything by George Orwell. Seriously.