redschell

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by redschell 10y ago
I think there's a great opportunity for bootcamps to help people like me. I'm currently a pre-sales professional, and have been for a few years now. I'm closing in on 28, and while I've been served very well by develop
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by redschell 12y ago
Wow, I saw his post earlier on the Stellar subreddit and thought he was full of it, but would you look at that. Here's the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/thestellar/comments/2cebkm/selling_1... Some
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by redschell 12y ago
Is it normal to carve out two whole hours for exercise every morning? Seems excessive. And the email. The email! A whole four hour block at the end of the day? I'm no CEO, so someone else has to tell me if this is standard operati
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by redschell 13y ago
Neat. What lead you to decide on Ruby? I feel like Python used to be the most common beginner language, and maybe it still is, but it really seems like Ruby has gained over the past few years. Which is fine, because it's a great lan
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by redschell 13y ago
I read it twice, but I still didn't catch a motive beyond "it wasn't fun." I'm thinking he couldn't stomach the process of building a company: the day in, day out of keeping a fledgling venture alive. On the b
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by redschell 13y ago
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine seems to have your back: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2012/01/17/phsycists-... A full-body CT scan results in 12 mSv; a mammogram 0.13 m
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by redschell 13y ago
I don't know. I can't tell if the phenomenon of ageism in tech is under or overrated, but I do think that techies have the advantage of never truly being out of work, so long as they're hacking away at something. In fact, ol
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by redschell 13y ago
Kevin Rose, Digg founder and VC, just made a post about Bitcoin's fall on /r/bitcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rutkt/bitcoin_is_f...
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by redschell 13y ago
There are similar barriers to the procedure in America, though they are negotiable. The main issue is that people are fickle, and reversing a vasectomy is very difficult, so they need candidates for the procedure to be absolutely certain i
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by redschell 13y ago
You're always welcome. You've got a long road ahead of you, but that's not a bad thing. That means plenty of opportunities. Work hard, take advantage of the awesome opportunities in this thread, and push for others. If yo
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by redschell 13y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
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by redschell 13y ago
>The rule of thumb among venture capitalists is that some 20 percent to 30 percent of companies fail, returning nothing to any investor, including the venture capitalists. Earlier in the article, it mentions the statistic that I'm f
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by redschell 13y ago
I think it comes back to something we talk about quite a bit here: the advantage of the youthful entrepreneur. It's not that inexperienced 20-somethings and college dropouts are in any way superior to their older, credentialed, experi
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by redschell 13y ago
The whole "8 kids" thing is off-putting for a lot of people. It's certainly not a great idea, but I feel that, even for people with few or no children, catastrophic failure is still lurking in the shadows, ready to reach out
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by redschell 13y ago
Hey, I remember first hearing about them on 4Chan /g/ back in late 2011, when they were maybe $6 a pop. We used to call them "Buttcoins" and laugh at all of the people mining them. Of course, we look pretty stupid at th
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by redschell 13y ago
"The MIT startup has no sales to customers, but possibly a DARPA grant to develop their technology. The team has 9 PhDs and just hired an MBA to start finding customers." That sounds like an exciting setup to me. Also gives me
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by redschell 13y ago
Seems to be a case of career osmosis. Uncomfortable with the growing popularity of the tech sector, and noticing a distinct exodus of Wall Street-types (who will arrive late to the tech gold rush), they swoop in to fill the gap. Hopefully
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by redschell 13y ago
Management consulting firms and Wall Street banks have employed somewhat strict GPA and SAT/GMAT cutoffs for quite some time, but even they can't resist the allure of brainteasers during the interview process. Google, on the other
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DeVry Lures Medical School Rejects As Taxpayers Fund Debt(bloomberg.com)
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by redschell 13y ago
It's always been a gamble. If you achieve even a modicum of success or notoriety, your "drop out" status becomes incredibly valuable. You're a trailblazer, a rebel who blew past convention on her way to glory. If you f
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by redschell 13y ago
Wow. That board of directors is a sight to behold. Looks more like a panel at the World Economic Forum. How on earth did the founder manage to get such high-profile backers?
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by redschell 13y ago
I hope someone can correct me here if I'm wrong, but wasn't this the purpose of the Volcker Rule? Wasn't it designed to put a collar on HFT?
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by redschell 13y ago
The implications of this have always fascinated me. It's hard to go back to being a worker when you've spent time as a boss, but we also know that 75% of venture-backed startups fail. What happens to the failures? Can they go ba
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by redschell 13y ago
If anyone wants to see HR done right, you should read about People Operations at Google: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/... I know it's a bit demanding to ask what
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by redschell 13y ago
Buffett is an interesting character. From this article, it would appear that he sees himself as some kind of entrepreneur/investor/manager hybrid than as a pure money manager. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012&#x2F
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by redschell 13y ago
I don't think that the MBA is so important that it could be blamed for so many ills in the world of work, but I do think there are two fatal flaws with the modern MBA: Demography and intent. 1.) Demography: Who is the ideal MBA candida
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by redschell 13y ago
It seems like some people actually take pride in their technical ignorance. They boast to coworkers how unfamiliar they are with CRM platforms and lead generators, and they laugh at the notion of using very basic coding skills to script so
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The Jockey(nytimes.com)
2 points by redschell 13y ago|0 comments
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by redschell 13y ago
How about a designated "policy" section, up there with "ask" and "jobs"? It might be nice place to discuss the legal ecosystem for startups, too.
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by redschell 13y ago
The blog's author, later in the comments section, doing a great impersonation of my mother (sans the anti-immigrant bit): All of the smartest Americans are going into more lucrative fields like finance, medicine, and law. As much as you th

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