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by tkiley 11y ago
Hey philip - nice work! Have you looked at going into the healthcare industry in particular? I've been working in the patient scheduling space for almost ten years, and people are constantly complaining about the sorry state of staff s
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by tkiley 11y ago
You've mentioned that co-founder fallouts are one of the most biggest problems facing companies at YC stage. Do you see any useful correlates to this problem? What types of teams tend to have infighting vs. those that don't?
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by tkiley 11y ago
One person's "bullshit" is another person's "positioning", and positioning is arguably one of the most important communications skills for founders. I sympathize with the author but I'm not really sure wha
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by tkiley 11y ago
I agree with Sam's message, but I sympathize with founders who make mistakes here. Founders are told to hustle, to aggressively push themselves and their visions in order to build momentum for their businesses. Founders are encouraged
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by tkiley 11y ago
Sounds like they are trying to manufacture startups like Lou Pearlman manufactured musical acts. I doubt there will be a tech startup equivalent of the Backstreet Boys, though.
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by tkiley 12y ago
I'm the technical co-founder. My bizdev/sales co-founder found me when he read an article about my product. He'd considered building a business in the same market space, but lacked the technical resources, so when he discover
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by tkiley 12y ago
"Profitable side-project" might be an unstable equilibrium. If you're doing something without scale, it will die when you lose interest. If you're doing something with scale, perhaps it should grow into a bootstrapped st
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by tkiley 12y ago
This tendency toward defensive communication is a problem for me both online and offline. Although to be honest, I see the exact opposite extreme as a problem as well: hustler-type startup people tend to adopt an "offensive" hyper
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by tkiley 12y ago
I'm intrigued by the parallels between software engineering (scripting, really) and legal work. In a sense, a legal agreement seems like a cross-platform piece of software that is "executed" in the minds of the signing partie
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by tkiley 12y ago
Heh, yep. Good times.
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by tkiley 12y ago
When I was eleven years old, I discovered a star wars themed lpmud. Mudding led to creating, which led to mudlib hacking, which led to software development. I still get goosebumps when I think about the impact that community had on my life.
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by tkiley 12y ago
I almost quit my startup too soon. In February 2009, I quit my job to go full time on my startup in anticipation of closing an angel round. The next week, the financing fell through. For the next six months, I was teetering on the edge of r
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by tkiley 13y ago
I'm not a crypto expert but I find the arguments of this article (and tptacek et al) convincing. The one thing I still don't like about /dev/urandom is this: urandom's proponents say that it only fails on first boot
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by tkiley 13y ago
Best case, what is the societal function of derivatives? As a relatively ignorant layperson, my guess is that derivatives allow productive businesses to hedge against uncontrollable risks. A business with less risks requires less capital bu
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by tkiley 13y ago
I was a derivatives trader, and it occurred to me the world would hardly change at all if credit derivatives ceased to exist. Not so nurse practitioners. Is this statement (from the article) true? I'm under the impression that financ
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by tkiley 13y ago
Good point. On second thought, I think the more important issue is the one 7Figures2Commas raised: If you have a lawyer who does the worst of this stuff, you have the wrong lawyer. With that said, my blood pressure would definitely climb if
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by tkiley 13y ago
If I were still an IT consultant and a client raised even half these issues with me, I would probably terminate my relationship with that client, because I don't want to be nickel-and-dimed. If I would find this sort of pushback so irr
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by tkiley 13y ago
At the bottom of the page: "REMOTE - the eventually-bestselling book about working remotely." Cheeky.
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by tkiley 13y ago
Now might be a good time for circleci customers to pick up a code analysis tool such as brakeman and look for obvious security holes in their apps. If the attackers have hundreds or thousands of web apps' source code, I'd expect t
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by tkiley 13y ago
It's interesting to contrast the evolution of NYC with the (lack of) evolution of SF. This article cites a net increase of 170,000 housing units from 2000 to 2010. I can't find an exact comparison for SF, but it looks like SF has
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by tkiley 13y ago
I like Andrew's rules here, and reading over one of my recent node.js projects, I can see how they would have helped. My code becomes cleaner and more maintainable when I am forced to name each chunk of 5-10 lines by putting them into
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by tkiley 13y ago
In May of this year, my development team went on a 1-month work-cation in Panama. The internet was fast enough, but we quickly discovered that we couldn't access google analytics (google.com/ANALytics) without a VPN or socks proxy
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by tkiley 13y ago
It seems like the earliest investor in a multi-party round invariably gets shortchanged in the literal dollar value of the deal. If committed investors raise the valuation of a startup, would it make sense for a startup to offer a slightly-
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by tkiley 13y ago
If they are operating according to the laws of the land, they have "nothing to hide" from Edward Snowden and his ilk. This move looks pretty suspicious to me... ;-)
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by tkiley 14y ago
On solution to this problem is make sure your social circle is weighted with people who spend money in the quantity and manner you wish to spend it. I don't think I would ever naturally consider a luxury sedan a necessity, but if all my fri
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by tkiley 14y ago
Better Off inspired me to move to a small cabin on Vancouver Island; for the past year and a half (and the past order of magnitude of revenue and team size growth!) I've lived and worked in this cabin. That book helped me stay sane during a
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by tkiley 14y ago
Before my wife and I got married, we had a very intense year-long running argument about this exact topic. She told me I could do anything I wanted to do; I told her that was bullshit. I think this argument may have delayed our marriage sig
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by tkiley 14y ago
The "MIT syndrome" thing is crucial. I think the most important trait in a startup leader is humility. To build a kick-ass sustainable company, you absolutely, positively must be comfortable working with people who are (in some or most resp
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by tkiley 14y ago
I feel uncomfortable with the level of arrogance that is becoming commonplace (and encouraged) among technical founders these days. On the other hand, I think the underlying vetting mechanism endorsed by this post is good. In many situation
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by tkiley 14y ago
The Flash history lesson is cool. However, the idea that Adobe has "admitted defeat on mobile" is just plain wrong. In spite of the massive hype differential vs. appcelerator and phonegap, Adobe's AIR is one of the best ways to build &

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