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by waivej 17y ago
We should turn this into a startup/programmer decathalon. So far I've done 4 of these...to a kid with a hammer the whole world looks like a nail. Maybe I should write the others for fun.
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by waivej 17y ago
My entrepreneur energy has definitely changed (also in mid 30s). Ten years ago it was all about the "great idea" and working really hard. Now it's about strategy and observing the way the world works and choosing where/when to work hard.
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by waivej 17y ago
This article really made me want to go work for Google. Is it possible to get tours and meet real employees?
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by waivej 17y ago
Would a good CRM program help with the girls? You could maybe use a good forecasting and sales feature to line up new ones.
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by waivej 17y ago
Having been down that path, I would recommend an app like an old copy of QuickBooks, an online app like Freshbooks, or an open source equivalent. (eBay?) It makes it easy to be organized and establishing a good system early on gives you tim
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by waivej 17y ago
I really like the changes that you made and immediately wanted to see what you would do with my website's design. Though I stumbled when the "Have a tip which site should I redesign next?" link took me to Twitter. I missed the "Hire Me" li
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by waivej 17y ago
I think it just takes discipline to not change too much at once. I worked with two companies that tried to port from 16bit-32bit code. One did a rewrite. The other did it in sections. Neither survived the transition. Technology wasn't
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by waivej 17y ago
Yeah, that's cool. It's like the movie "Sleep Dealer". They looked for someone watching a feed and dropped a bomb on his house.
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Stop Trying To Be Smart...? Goal for 2010
21 points by waivej 17y ago|40 comments
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by waivej 17y ago
Ok, maybe they didn't intend it, but what about the psychological warfare side of it? Didn't whistling WWII bombs further scare the folks on the ground? Today's wars are more psychological than ever. The enemy probably watches and gets sc
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by waivej 17y ago
Yeah, sites like this get under my skin. Virtually every project I work on involves CSS. I've had trouble with "CSS Designers" lately. - "CSS Designer" integration projects take 2-3x as long. I get blamed because it "looked great" as a st
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by waivej 17y ago
I've done quite a few, and remember fondly a double all nighter my first startup pulled to release 1.0. Sometimes it makes sense, but it is better to be avoided. -Feed yourself well. Avoid sugar. Drink water. -Marvel at the sun, people
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by waivej 17y ago
It took 5 years before my start-up started paying off the debt I had accumulated. There were a couple of "dark" times where I decided to give up and get a job. But I messed up the interview each time. It's like my heart knew it wasn't rig