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by sunir 15y ago
Conversations are back and forth. They will make it obvious what they are passionate about by their answers. Start with easy questions. Talk to them about anything. Have you been to this kind of event a lot before? What did you think about
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by sunir 15y ago
I used to be a curmudgeon until my early 20s, wondering how everyone could be so dumb. Then, enlightenment! I learnt I didn't know everything. I am just curious. Everyone acts rationally from their point of view. Why do people do what they
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by sunir 15y ago
My title is literally Chief Handshaker at FreshBooks. I wheel and deal for a living. When walking up to people randomly, I find it is immensely helpful to be genuinely interested in people. They will often pay you back the favour by being g
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by sunir 15y ago
Getting an assistant makes a lot of sense in most cases, but there is one area that you should never use an assistant. Never let an assistant mediate meetings or contacts with clients, partners, investors, or anyone else. If you're at a sta
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by sunir 15y ago
You are looking for http://Shoeboxed.com plus any of its various integrations. The Shoeboxed part is hard. The reporting is less hard insomuch as it is a UX challenge, not an operational challenge.
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by sunir 15y ago
It would be completely reasonable if they sold equity to take money from the round. Alternatively they could offer a retention bonus to everyone based on current salary.
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by sunir 15y ago
Not really. I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that is not the case. Employee stock options are meant not to be exercised until they are saleable. When you can them early in a private company your capital is locked up in a dead asset yet
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RIM reportedly bails on PlayBook, considers exiting tablet market(bgr.com)
66 points by sunir 15y ago|59 comments
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by sunir 15y ago
Also excellent (I would claim more excellent) is http://brandstack.com/
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Don't lead from the bottom line(sunir.org)
1 points by sunir 15y ago|1 comments
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by sunir 15y ago
No code has no bugs. (A koan.)
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by sunir 15y ago
Thank you (sincerely!) for the clarification as well as taking the time to check for a response and reply!
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by sunir 15y ago
The motivation for you to patent is that someone else can file before you even if you invented it first. That's new in the United States and common in other jurisdictions. You make money by licensing your inventions to companies that have m
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by sunir 15y ago
You're supposed to cite prior art in the patent application and describe how your patent is novel compared to that prior art. Now, as I understand, there will be a process after the patent is granted for the public to invalidate a patent. H
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by sunir 15y ago
I quite dislike that this bill places greater onus to locate prior art onto the public rather than the patent filer. I'm not sure how that protects the mythical small inventor. I mostly dislike that there is no move to make patents only def
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by sunir 15y ago
Google. Before them, Amazon. Before them, Microsoft. Before them, IBM. The industry always wants to emulate the current leader, forgetting that there are a myriad of different strategies available. That's because collectively, given the lim
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by sunir 15y ago
The correct idiom is delete list head until list is empty. The iterator may become invalid if the collection it derived from changes. Iterator delete methods are crazy to begin with since iteration does not correlate with deletion. But anyw
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by sunir 15y ago
I agree. This weird phrase is still an exposed 'system code'. There still is no reason to expose a system code, no matter how cute. If you've managed to log the error and displayed a payment page, you are in a good enough state to automatic
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by sunir 15y ago
Where is the benefit? Don't forget that he has to sell the customer on RCAs as well! Earn higher interest from your checking account. Get a reward checking account from your bank and use MicroMaximus to meet the minimum transaction limit.
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by sunir 15y ago
The key point: everyone needs to up vote good comments more. Garbage in, garbage out. If you don't upvote good stuff, other people will upvote bad stuff. P.S. Sorry, I never tl;dr but it's important to highlight this key point.
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by sunir 15y ago
There are a couple important biases where just changing something results in a positive result. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_effect (everyone loves seeing something new!) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect (being
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by sunir 15y ago
Alexander the Great won Persia, but only after 10 years of dire struggle. His was unable to reproduce this success in India. The meta lesson is that anecdotes are not wisdom. Smaller armies sometimes defeat bigger armies, but they mostly do
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by sunir 15y ago
I believe this is the major force. The reason why medicine equalized first was that it is the highest status profession. Law, business and accounting are similarly equalizing faster. Low status professions are losing women. Usually low stat
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by sunir 15y ago
The more interesting hidden nugget in this post was the analogy to Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme primes their line up with free donuts and a visual display of how they make the donuts. The lesson for startups is that put a teaser on the sign-u
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by sunir 15y ago
Sorry. I hear what you're saying and I think you are deeply wrong. (Oh no, someone is wrong on the Internet! :) Carmack, Gates, Zuck and Woz are the real deal. Saying they aren't because others toil in obscurity is some hopeless romanticism
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by sunir 15y ago
The first papers I read on the subject were based around LambdaMOO. I've seen economic treatments of Ultima Online, AlphaWorld, and Second Life as well. Here's an interesting book that discusses some of the spatial economics of game worlds:
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by sunir 15y ago
If someone is really more important than you, they will get really frustrated if they have waste time driving the tiddly bits of the relationship. I cut down useless steps so I didn't waste time. I remained polite; I asked for the time, I d
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by sunir 15y ago
Hey jackpirate, I see you are trying to figure out the best way to schedule business meetings. I do this all the time as Chief Handshaker at FreshBooks. Are you free Monday at 2pm CST to discuss this? I can call you at 321-555-1212. Che
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TechTalksTO Underground (Toronto, August 13)(underground.techtalksto.com)
21 points by sunir 15y ago|0 comments
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Everyone wants to buy(sunir.org)
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