trevmckendrick

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Faceless Publishers(stratechery.com)
2 points by trevmckendrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
This is the future: https://stratechery.com/2017/the-faceless-publisher/
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
The response tweet from NYU: "This is our login option for visitors. NYU community and consortium members are able to login with their school IDs. If you require assistance please use the Ask a Librarian chat on our homepage."
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Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X(daringfireball.net)
45 points by trevmckendrick 9y ago|8 comments
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I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by trevmckendrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
"Class" http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light or a Slate Star Codex summary: "Staying Class" http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/30/staying-classy/ A
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
Thanks for the reply dagw
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
Why was this killed? 192 points in 2 hours and it's on the 3rd page
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
+1 for Icarus. Excellent, fascinating documentary. Don't get distracted by the weird title.
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
Hi, I'd love to chat but your email is not in your profile :)
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
I sold my Bible app company a few years ago, and it was mostly a PITA (e.g. took 7 months for a relatively small deal) Now I acquire small SaaS businesses at CapitalAcademy.org and make it a point of making the process as painless as possib
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The Iron Yard Coding Bootcamp Is Shutting Down All Its Campuses(theironyard.com)
14 points by trevmckendrick 9y ago|1 comments
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by trevmckendrick 9y ago
Hard to compete against things like Lambda Academy where there's no up front cost and you only pay if you get a job: https://lambdaschool.com/computer-science
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Be Suspicious of Epiphanies(trevormckendrick.com)
1 points by trevmckendrick 9y ago|0 comments
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Efficiency Is an Excuse to Not Do the Actual Work(trevormckendrick.com)
1 points by trevmckendrick 9y ago|0 comments
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How I built, grew, and sold a mobile app(indiehackers.com)
4 points by trevmckendrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by trevmckendrick 10y ago
This is not true. Prices vary widely, and 2-3x is definitely within range of prices you'd see selling through brokers. The price also depends on the product/company itself: how stable are revenues, what's churn, how diversifi
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by trevmckendrick 10y ago
Thank you for writing this. It's incredibly important and basically no one talks about it. I can only reiterate what you've said: - Selling your company in an asset sale as a C-Corp increases your taxes 20-30% or more - Unless you
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by trevmckendrick 10y ago
This is a much more interesting story than you make it out to be! "College kid learns to code building sketchy Amazon Affiliate sites, gets job at AWS."
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by trevmckendrick 10y ago
It seems whenever I do anything successful it always started as a small thing. No grand plans, just a small task or two done over and over until it's much larger. It seems like good lives are built the same way as good companies: one s
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by trevmckendrick 10y ago
The Economist comment came out of the blue. Why does the author believe that will help one improve?
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WP Curve Acquired by GoDaddy(wpcurve.com)
3 points by trevmckendrick 10y ago|0 comments
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by trevmckendrick 10y ago
I ran into this exact problem when selling my company. It's horrible. How far along is the product? Have you talked to any lawyers about it?
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Reproducible research: Stripe’s approach to data science(stripe.com)
3 points by trevmckendrick 10y ago|0 comments
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What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers(thelaunchcampus.com)
1 points by trevmckendrick 10y ago|0 comments
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by trevmckendrick 10y ago
Quit my job as an accountant at a big firm with no next job or prospects lined up. Ended up creating a successful iPhone Bible app.
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How to Succeed with Brunettes 1967 US Navy Training Film(youtube.com)
1 points by trevmckendrick 10y ago|0 comments
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by trevmckendrick 11y ago
Why in God's name does the CIA have a VC fund?
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by trevmckendrick 11y ago
This is being way overblown IMO. If you've worked at a big, regulated company, you know there are tons of trainings that you have to do. Often said training provide little to no value, other than covering the ass (CYA'ing) of the
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by trevmckendrick 11y ago
:) Yes you are correct. I try to avoid details when higher levels of abstraction are sufficient for my audience.

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