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by timedoctor 14y ago
Building my entire business around the idea of remote teams and there are few valid reasons why you should have an office and hire locally versus hire in any city or any country around the world
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by timedoctor 14y ago
I have two reports of people having their accounts frozen for 6 months at paypal for no apparent reason, no recourse and no explanation. I also have severe problems paying with paypal. Why is it that I can pay on amazon, apple, expedia etc
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by timedoctor 14y ago
Creating jobs for 10 US citizens is a ridiculous requirement. Creating 1-2 jobs would be more reasonable. Also US residency and citizenship is such not a wonderful asset. I for one would never want citizenship because it means that you now
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I'm basing my entire business around this idea of hiring people remotely, and now have a new startup staff.com which is about hiring people from any location. LOTS of problems to be solved with remove hiring and remote working: 1. Are the t
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by timedoctor 15y ago
The article doesn't put it strongly enough. If you run a tech company and only think about hiring people locally you're crazy. Why hire only locally when you can draw from talent anywhere in your country, in fact, anywhere in the world. Lik
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by timedoctor 15y ago
yes agree with this, basically even if there is a link it's not that important or relevant to your risk of dying.
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by timedoctor 15y ago
This is interesting but doesn't prove there is no link, as brain cancer is very infrequent, trying to show the incidence increasing by studying hundreds of thousands of people is actually not the most accurate method. It's more logical to i
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I would say one thing that they miss is the equalization of opportunities between countries. Right now if you are born in the US you have 10 times higher income than if you are born in the Philippines (for equal abilities). In the future, i
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I have a different process that is I think more efficient: 1. Hire remotely in any country and region of the world 2. Don't even look at the resume 3. Give the candidates a short but difficult unpaid development test 4. Everyone who passes
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by timedoctor 15y ago
There is one reason why the US cannot go bankrupt .... it can just print more money to pay the debts. This is very different to Greece which does not control it's own currency. This is one reason why Euro states are more under threat than t
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Not at all. There will be different types of jobs. For example: massage, hair dresser, more beauty salons, personal assistants etc
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by timedoctor 15y ago
The government will get the money eventually through increased taxes or through printing more money and deflating the value of the apple "cash" pile. All the Government has to do is to print money and they can take Apple's money without App
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Tried to sign up and got this: THERE'S BEEN A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX – (500 ERROR)
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I'm sure they are doing usability testing on it and so your opinions that it is "bad" are really useless unless you have access to the same usability data
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Totally agree. The point is that you can have the talent in India and service the US or any market. However you can hire an Indian team from the US in any case. I personally have 45 staff in 9 different countries. Thinking about your busine
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Agree with a non technical founder needing to do everything. Also it depends very much on the type of business. Some businesses have complex technical requirements and so, just a technical co-founder may be necessary. Other times if you are
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by timedoctor 15y ago
The only real solution for these companies is to incorporate offshore (or to have no money). This could be a significant long term issue for US companies, and makes me more hesitant about incorporating in the US where I am vulnerable to pat
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I totally agree with this article. You can get much better information from actually working with people. You don't have to expose them to your system, you can create a small project for them that is related and tests their skills.
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Skype IS Free, and a replacement would need significant improvements not just to be a bit less expensive to make calls.
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Definitely agree with the problem that this site is trying to solve. For most large projects it is impossible to spec out the idea accurately and what the client wants changes as the person starts to code. So I think that in many cases an h
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I think the idea of people leaving Silicon Valley to go to India is ridiculous, unless they want to take an 80-90% pay cut. However the idea that companies don't need to hire just from Silicon Valley and in fact can hire from anywhere in th
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I think you might overestimate how easy it is for people to switch from Skype. With all your Skype contacts, friends on Skype, the fact that many users would not even fully understand how to download another software program and install it,
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by timedoctor 15y ago
What's really interesting is how much they split test and experiment with their interface. I doubt that Yahoo and Bing to it to the same degree?
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Actually I think there is a far greater bubble in many other investments than VC. US government bonds and paper currency for example. The US government pays 3.6% interest only for 10 year bonds and the government has huge debt, increasing e
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I would like to know how to find the great engineers. So far have hired fantastic engineers in the former soviet union and in the Philippines, but have not had one good experience in India. I believe that there are some phenomenally good en
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by timedoctor 15y ago
I've been working with a virtual assistant for more than a year and it's really amazing. Saves me a huge amount of time, mostly booking travel but could be anything really. I think the job of a CEO is to constantly develop systems such that
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by timedoctor 15y ago
Totally agree that you should not separate the web from desktop applications. The user doesn't care. They just want a fast response. Looking at an application like workflowy.com it looks and feels like a desktop app when using it. This is d
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by timedoctor 15y ago
This validates my diet: Zero added sugar (essentially means no processed foods) Zero deep fried food
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by timedoctor 16y ago
I think interviewing altogether is an ineffective way of evaluating people. And the whole process of interviewing and hiring staff members is an outdated, slow bureaucratic way of doing things. Instead why not work with several people on sm
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by timedoctor 16y ago
A large number of programmers in silicon valley come from India, Russia etc. So if you say that offshoring doesn't work are you saying that the only good foreign programmers work in the US, and all of those working overseas are no good? Of

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