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by chrishacken 7mo ago
Google loves doing stuff like this. At my last company, before we sold it, I had to reverify our Google Business page about once a week because it would constantly just remove the verification for seemingly no reason.
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by chrishacken 6y ago
It’s this way because of how regulated everything is. You have to jump through hoops to get permission to do anything here in the U.S. in other countries you just do it.
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by chrishacken 6y ago
How do you plan for these things to get into buildings? Sewer, water, and power utilities are anywhere from 20’ deep to 2’ deep, so unless you want these robots aimlessly digging into utilities, you still need to disturb the ground above.
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by chrishacken 6y ago
To be fair, microtrenching sucks. It’s extremely difficult to dig around lines that have even micro trenched without damaging them. Our “micro trenches” are still 16” deep, but we stopped doing that. Our new stuff is a minimum of 24”, ge
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by chrishacken 6y ago
Well you need conduit to run fiber generally; so you would be doing both.
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by chrishacken 6y ago
Are you in Hartford County, MD by chance?
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by chrishacken 6y ago
Generally looking at around $200,000 for one of those. They work great in certain areas. If you’re doing urban work like we are they’re not so great because there’s a utility every 10 feet.
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by chrishacken 6y ago
The problem with this is you can name a “kickback” by anything else, like “rent”, and that makes it legal.
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The War on Upstart Fiber Optic Internet Providers(chrishacken.com)
29 points by chrishacken 7y ago|2 comments
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by chrishacken 7y ago
I'd love to know where you can get a fiber circuit for $500/m. (And even if you can, then you probably can't compete with whoever's selling you that circuit anyway.) When we started we haggled considerably.. (had to sig
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by chrishacken 8y ago
We're a profitable company doing over a quarter million a year ATM. We aren't running fiber on a whim.
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by chrishacken 8y ago
I’m already well aware there’s fiber on poles here. The difference is, their network isn’t built to support FTTH, it’s built to support a few larger enterprises that are willing to pay $3,000/m for a circuit. Name one person that doe
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by chrishacken 8y ago
I think the key difference is that infrastructure is more of a long term investment. We can return 10x’s but it’ll likely take a little longer than a software company would. However, i can make the case that we have a higher guarantee of
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by chrishacken 8y ago
Both. Our latency is better than cable in most cases.
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by chrishacken 8y ago
That it is.
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by chrishacken 8y ago
Fixed the grammar :p
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by chrishacken 8y ago
You would think that. Unfortunately many/most people care more about their precious roads than they do about infrastructure.
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by chrishacken 8y ago
So Mimosa, one of the hardware vendors we use, does actually have this built-in to their firmware. The issue is, from what I've seen, is that it hops around too much. It also moves to congested channels sometimes. I'm sure ther
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Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber(chrishacken.com)
276 points by chrishacken 8y ago|63 comments
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by chrishacken 9y ago
This is why we're starting to run fiber. 5G and tree's don't mix well.
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Understanding an algorithm or concept is not a world-class talent.
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Hence.. the "not everyone can" bit still applies.. but not everyone will. So that's not even relevant.
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Given enough time and training, anyone who puts their all into learning it, is capable of understanding that. It may take them 20 years to learn math from the ground up, but they can do it. Saying someone can't do something is bullshi
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by chrishacken 9y ago
You're completely missing the point. Being an asshole is a choice. My point is that anyone can be a consultant that puts their all into it. Being an asshole isn't in your DNA. A Drill Instructor being a dickhead is also a choic
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Personalities are built; you're not born an introvert. Anyone can be built into a leader; go join the Marine Corps if you don't believe me.
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Not everyone can; but anyone can.
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Based on what he wrote, it seems like he's just guessing and doesn't actually know where this stuff is hosted.
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by chrishacken 9y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of solo-founders. Obviously if you can afford to pay employees, you can afford a 401k. Which brings me back to the fact that you probably still need money to pay employees; which generally means you sti
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Does anyone running a startup actually put money in a 401k? (Serious question.) I do not, nor do I know anyone else who does. I also don't see how that's enough money to tip the scale.
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by chrishacken 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something. I don't see how that would reduce anyones need to fundraise. No one can wait around 10 years for others in their class to become liquid to fund their company.

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