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by markfer 6y ago
That's ridiculous. Collaborating with clients should almost always be free. Just out of curiosity, what kind of collaboration are you doing with clients? I'm the CEO of a platform specifically for businesses and their clients, and
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by markfer 6y ago
Whoa, this is great. Thanks for putting this together! Could you do something similar to PG's and Sam Altmans essays?
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by markfer 7y ago
Any tips on replicating the same results? Would love to hear more
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by markfer 8y ago
This is the exact advice I was going to give. - Take the job in SF, you'll be a couple hour drive from LA - Start working on a lifestyle business immediately - Once you reach some initial traction (whenever that is) move to LA
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by markfer 8y ago
- Strip away 80% of the B2C website and launch an MVP in 2 months (if you can't, maybe create a B2B solution instead?) - Try lining up contract work before taking the plunge. It's a new skillset and you may find that you can'
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by markfer 8y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | New York, NYC | Remote or onsite okay Looking for an somewhat-experienced freelancer to make constant updates to SaaS wweb app built in Elixir/Phoenix, Postgres, and React (built using brunch). Work will include in
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by markfer 8y ago
Most successful SaaS companies operate on a payback period of less than 1 year. Aka spend $100 today, and you'll get $100 from the customer within 10-12 months. After that, it's all profit, which works out really well if your chur
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by markfer 8y ago
As someone that's very familiar with App Academy - this is incredible.
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by markfer 8y ago
That's such a minute chance of happening, it shouldn't be a concern in the slightest
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by markfer 8y ago
- Recapped.io ( https://www.recapped.io ) - Go from Sales Proposal to Project Management in one dynamic page - Launched and post-revenue (just applied to YC) - AppSumo featured us yesterday as the next deal ( https://app
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by markfer 8y ago
I went through a similar situation when I created an Indie game studio with friends. We worked for a year and made a cool $5,000 but it was a "failure" by all sense of the word. We learned a lot and had a ton of fun. Some feedback
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by markfer 8y ago
Rejected at first and then accepted into Advisor Track with www.recapped.io. I quit my full-time job about 6 months ago to focus fully on this venture.
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by markfer 8y ago
Background: Born in Russia, grew up in NC, live in SF currently, moving to NYC next week. Incredibly excited to leave SF, to say the least. The good: Innovation and energy everywhere. You can feel it in the air, especially since every billb
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by markfer 8y ago
What's the product?
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by markfer 8y ago
Go raise that round!
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by markfer 8y ago
That's exactly what we're doing. The problem is, those aren't generally exciting stories to print. "Ex-google 20 year old founder raises $73 million Series A to build Uber for Cats" would raise eyebrows and gain cli
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by markfer 8y ago
I'm the founder of https://www.recapped.io , a collaboration platform between buyers and sellers. You can streamline the entire sales process (or freelancing/contracting negotiation) with an evolving page that guides bu
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by markfer 8y ago
Hey everyone, author here. Hope you enjoy!
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Confidence: how to build the most important life skill(medium.com)
2 points by markfer 8y ago|1 comments
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by markfer 8y ago
I imagine it's okay to share our own - we've gone through lots of iterations for ours at https://www.recapped.io . There are a lot of improvements that can be made (as with most sites), but we're pretty happy and g
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by markfer 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. Anyone know if you can play a modern update to this on Mac?
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by markfer 9y ago
I love it. Any chance for a HN discount? ;)
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by markfer 9y ago
For someone looking to learn to code web-app's from scratch, would you advise Django over Vanilla JS, Node, or Vue?
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by markfer 9y ago
This is great - messaged.
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by markfer 9y ago
Sure. Usually for sales you enter in as an entry level role, and then progress based on attainment and success. After a few years it's easily possible to be a Manager, Senior Manager, or even a Director (if you're amazing). I actu
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by markfer 9y ago
You should look into Sales. Incredibly high earning potential, and one of the few industries where higher education doesn't matter. Feel free to PM if I can help at all.
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by markfer 9y ago
Similar vein to my startup actually, but we're more aimed at sales reps & teams [1] www.recapped.io
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by markfer 9y ago
For what it's worth, I do weekly consulting and coaching with founders who don't have sales experience. If you're interested, we can talk a bit further.
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by markfer 9y ago
Love Videri! Used to work across the street, they used to host great wine and chocolate happy hours.
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by markfer 9y ago
Any alumni here? Would love to get a referral if possible

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