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I think the best predictor of being a good hacker is products you have built. I was a Electrical Engineer in undergrad, but then went to go for a PhD in microbiology. When the .com boom hit I wanted to get back to technology, but had been o
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Cool, congratulations!! 1) For existing software a total rewrite is extremely risky and will most likely fail or cost significantly more than you are prepared to spend. Rewrite portions of it instead and modularize it. 2) The biggest proble
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What kind of conversion rates are you getting? What do they get for registering? Could you post a link?
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For any burgeoning community, the hard part is to get people to come back. Apps like vbulletin are great when you already have people, but seeding them is hard. If you can create a mailing list which automatically posts to the messageboard
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Maybe have everyone sign up to water and care for the plants, then petition your boss and explain how you are solving the problem. Things like this show leadership so have side benefits as well. giving a study which shows how the boss is wr
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I just looked at it and I think it is a very cool idea!
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how much money do you have to spend? How many users are you trying to get? What is the right demographic (age range, interest etc)? If it is fun, you might want to try to get hooked into universities. Pick one and just try to get some penet
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You can be up and running in just a few days to weeks if you just start doing it on your own. You dont need to go to school. There are some fundamentals of computer science that would definitely be useful like basic algorithms and data stru
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How many upvotes before you can post your site?
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When I have had more money than time, I put multiple developers on the same task and use the best solution. The fastest way to get a good developer is to ask everyone you know.
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Also people have been trying to do electronic medical records for ages. I worked on an electronic patient system in high school in the mid 80's (on macs!) Some guys I know sold a startup for around 10M that did analytics for hospitals on me
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IBM is doing some things with watson around expert systems for disease diagnosis that are pretty interesting. Basically doctors are not very good expert systems as they dont know the real probabilities and can't factor in all the variables
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Im probably older than most of you at 40 and so far there isnt anything that I havent been able to fix (so nothing is "way too late"). The only thing might be have kids when you are young because the probabilities drop a lot as you get olde
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bubbles shake out all the weak hands so when it is over everyone left standing hits it big. We barely made it through 2009, but we have more in sales in 3 months than all of last year. It is difficult to internalize how hard you need to wor
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Im based out of austin and we have a group called bootstrap-austin. http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page It is part of something called the bootstrap network which is in 10 cities but I cant tell if they are in the bay
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One other thing, try to recruit from people your current employees know to get the passives vs. job ads
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there are multiple types of candidates, most likely the ones you are getting are active job seekers and you need to be finding the passive job seekers. The passive job seekers are secure at their job, do a great job, but might jump ship for
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Hmm maybe Im not understanding what you are asking for, but doesn't gmail do this via contact groups? I checked my account and it really does exist http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30970 This is a pain and not really wi
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i think this is a great idea. In austin there is a company convio which provides a platform for non-profits. It might be helpful to talk to them to see if you can form some kind of partnership - they have a lot of connections to non-profit
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The issue is if you want to read 50-60 news sources you have to aggregate them using a reader. I use google reader which works fine and sort of works on my android phone. Sometimes I click through but it depends more on the article. Twitter
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We use a combo of github/heroku. What has been especially nice is how easy it is to transition between people working on the project. As people come and go I can give/takeaway access and they can easily download the code, make some changes
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The great thing about web 2.0 is that it doesnt cost that much to get something up and running. You can get ruby devs for 70-90/hour. They wont necessarily create the app that can scale, but scaling is a feature for later. My first iteratio
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The issue with finance is that people are using huge amounts of leverage to place bets. If they werent allowed the level of leverage that they are using (i.e. 1:30) there would be a whole lot less "money" in the system. The financial system
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My experience with F500 companies is that they are extremely political. This means that lots of ideas get funded without any analysis of the value. The dynamic in each company and potentially each division will be different. Ultimately you
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People don't change. However I think it would still be professional of you to talk it over with your boss and then work out when would be a good time for you to leave on good terms. I would give a minimum of two weeks and offer to train the
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You may actually be making a lot of money, but cash could be tight. It may actually be hard to tell, because it is easy to let your receivables get too large. If everyone is busy, maybe no one is bothering to collect the $. Or at least you
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You need to make a minimum of 50% gross margin in services. This means if the team members make 50/hour, then you need to charge at least 100/hour. One way around this is to do fixed fee projects, but this is risky without strong processes.