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by stevenkovar 11y ago
Alternate week-to-week. One week, you can go for your hike. The next, you spend the day at home and let your do what it is she wants. Maybe even plan out every third week for you to hire a babysitter and explore the world together.
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by stevenkovar 11y ago
Since you're self-employed, it's very possible to incorporate a 4-day workweek. You'll want to: * Be more greedy with your time. In other words, start delegating more and place more trust in the people you delegate the work t
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by stevenkovar 11y ago
I'm curious how things change when moving becomes a routine; i.e.: moving 5+ times whilst growing up—to the point where it becomes an expectation of the child. This was the case for me, and I notice I grew up with a much different pers
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by stevenkovar 11y ago
The first phone on a plan costs the same as what you're paying; it's adding phones that's cheap.
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
The "worst case" scenario (in terms of this current company) is that you are let go or quit—that's not so bad in the grand scheme of things. So, what experiments can you try to either improve your reception or learn as much a
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
Don't quit your job. There's no reason to unless your real motivation is to feel like you're being an entrepreneur. In which case, I urge you to reconsider. Create a project and work on it in your spare time. Get people using
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
My superficial suggestion: Sleep, diet, and exercise. Cut everything else out until the task is done, provided the task holds that level of importance to you. Sleep will help your brain, exercise will energize you (even if it's just a
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
That's similar to saying a toddler is less productive than a recent college graduate. That is to say: WhatsApp is much further along its individual trajectory than SpaceX is. In decades, the value of SpaceX is likely to eclipse WhatsAp
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
My vision felt "wavy" for a bit after viewing this. Pretty cool.
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
I can see the merit for enforcing more vacation; but is more vacation the solution to burnout, or is working less overall?
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
Surround yourself with beautiful language. It will find its way into your lexicon and, more importantly, your thoughts. Write for yourself frequently. Long form, poetry, small notes, one-liners, it doesn't matter—just write. Eventually
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
A sad clown, even. It seems odd to me that something with such an altruistic sounding name is nothing more than business software. I don't doubt the sincerity and scope of the company's mission to deliver the best product possible
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
Side-thought: different tiered subscriptions. Restaurants as the base, best-value option with tiny businesses (dog walkers, etc.) and agency (design, architecture, etc. firms) as the higher tier. You can adjust features, pricing, and market
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by stevenkovar 12y ago
Not a critique of the design overall, but if someone responsible for the home page design is reading this: it might be worth applying a slight translucent layer over the background images/videos to help make the white text more readabl
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Replacing the PC(dcurt.is)
49 points by stevenkovar 12y ago|77 comments
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
Congratulations to Andrew! I've learned a lot from watching Mixergy, but more importantly from doing a little role-reversal and interviewing Andrew myself. I took a 'Principles of Interviewing' course in college and one of ou
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
Be mindful, be grateful, and fail forward. By that, I mean to take a step back and give yourself a 'big picture' view of the world around you to gain some perspective. Some call it meditation; some call it getting some fresh air.
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
It would be interesting to see SparkFun introduce their products with their own red color to brand hobbyist equipment as its own segment—compliment Fluke's reliance on color to connote the primary qualities of the brand. Red = accessib
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
Burnout is like being sleep deprived; you can be wildly successful and still burn out if you don't give yourself time to mentally sort through all the ideas and toss out the trash, even if just subconsciously. When you've been wor
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
Learn to enforce boundaries. If you let your job walk all over you, it will.
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
No matter how sharp your blade, your steel must be tempered. Life is about balance. You will break if you don't give your mind and body the rest it deserves. Often, great ideas find me when I am cooling down.
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
ViralSweep Co-founder here, The $13,000 figure is only applied to the new customers they picked up with their promotion, based off of current LTV figures JewelScent has. Your second question raises a good point, which is hard to substantiat
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
This resonates well with what Tawheed Kader (founder: Toutapp) wrote recently, saying how things only started coming together for him after 3 years of building his business. Great intuition develops from bruises and bloody knuckles–time in
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Be Happy With Yourself(stevenkovar.com)
2 points by stevenkovar 13y ago|0 comments
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
To me, a founder's age and experience has less bearing on salary than circumstances of the business itself. I'd be interested to see: * Salaries of funded vs. unfunded founders * Salaries compared across age of the startup
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
Make sure to double-check your contract with the company to make sure there is no clause stating that any work created (in the office or not) belongs to them; if so, double-check to ensure your project was listed as prior art. If the contra
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
Is there a release date established? I don't freelance anymore but when I was paying my bills with client work the biggest hold up was always waiting for feedback or deliverables. When juggling 2-3 small projects at a time, a hold up i
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SaaS Analytics For Stripe(baremetrics.io)
3 points by stevenkovar 13y ago|2 comments
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Leverage the situation(stevenkovar.com)
1 points by stevenkovar 13y ago|0 comments
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by stevenkovar 13y ago
I think it would be interesting to make it free to use, until you want to start collecting your royalties. Perhaps give them the option to apply their first $19 in royalties to the service (or at some discounted rate, as you can potentially

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