chloealpert

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Practice your VC pitch(practiceyourvcpitch.com)
3 points by chloealpert 11y ago|0 comments
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I think the question is a bit more along the lines of using people instead of working with people. There's a clear distinction. Do you view your engineering hire as a tool for a means to an end, or do you consider a qualitative relatio
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I think it depends on the scale of the project? I do a bit of freelancing for front-end projects, and the sweet spot has been for landing pages and projects that people want to move fast on. I think in general it's best to work off of
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I agree. If you're asking someone to sign up for something, the opportunity cost is huge. $60 for a good development team is terrible. The point I was making is that it's an unscrupulous way to found a company, and it was advice t
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I seriously couldn't image that there wouldn't be? Outside of just being a horrible person, you would be firing a perfectly good employee. I feel like there's a wrongful termination suit right there. I don't know how peo
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I considered deleting the article, and you may be right about that. But if I can't take criticism, and can't be accountable for what I write, I'm not a very good founder. What I was trying to discuss was the fact that this s
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I don't think I made it very clear that these are not my opinions, but simply advice that I got from other founders that I found shocking, and wanted to discuss. I've amended the article with what I hope is a clearer representatio
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by chloealpert 11y ago
Thanks for pointing out the typos, I'm surprised I missed them. Also, I did attach my personal name to this because I'm looking to talk about controversial subjects and not hide from them. I'm disappointed you felt the need t
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I agree. I had this advice from more than one person, which was literally shocking to me. The ratio of people offering me this advice was on a 3/10 scale, but it really made me wonder? Do we need to be horrible people to succeed? I don
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by chloealpert 11y ago
I really appreciate everything you've said, and I think you've deconstructed it much better than I did. The first point about asking advice on the matter was meant to be a rhetorical question. I had the same abhorrent reaction you
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Hiring a technical co-founder; Do I want to be the asshole?(medium.com)
12 points by chloealpert 11y ago|20 comments