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by bsdpython 12y ago
How to attract a technical cofounder? Have several of the following... 1. Previous success at starting a company 2. A budget 3. Previous success at raising funds 4. If it's B2B, have industry connections and sales experience 5. If it&#
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There are two basic types of companies: (1) technology companies and (2) companies that use technology. There is a gray area of course but you are likely either one or the other. Most companies fall into category (2) so in general your tech
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It's not just entrepreneurs - working professionals who work long hours can overdo it. Pro tip: if it's Saturday night and you can't think of anything to talk about besides work, you are boring your partner and ruining your r
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Translation: they want a Python expert who can come in on day 1 and fix all of their buggy code and churn out massive amounts of Python code. Since you love Python so much you won't care if the product is boring, you won't care if
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by bsdpython 12y ago
Why did you turn down the offer? You are in a MUCH stronger position to ask for a raise with another offer in hand.
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by bsdpython 12y ago
Standard definition video is the new black and white. At this point when I see sub-HD video it looks like an old artifact of history.
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As a business if you want to encourage your developers to improve by exposing them to more different types of languages and technologies then I am all for it. You can fund a weekly Haskell class. You can implement a 20% time initiative and
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This makes no sense from a business perspective. Letting developers work using any languages and technologies sounds like a good idea to individual developers maybe but how do you intend to maintain it? If you stick to a few core languages
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If you have to hire someone to sell to your first customers then you might have a problem
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When I read that line - "nearly two decades as a professional hoop-jumper" - I pictured in my head a guy in his early 40s. Professional means you get paid for your work. Hoop-jumper is a strange way to describe your education.