rmATinnovafy

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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Good timing on the pre-release promotion. Now keep us updated in a weekly basic and you will sell a lot of copies here. I'm glad you are writing the book. It seems like a worthy addition to my bookshelf. Will you be blogging about specifics
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Could somebody tell me what is Facebook's intrinsic value?
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
How do you plan to make money with thise service?
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Typing in my phone is frustrating. I end up writing differently. It makes me compress ideas into short sentences to avoid the pain of writing with the poor UI. It may seemed like I was trying to debate your point, but I agreed from the star
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
The basis of a product is design. But design is not art. Design is engineering. Even UI design, a process commonly thought of as artistic. That is where I disagree with your point. I don't reason anything in a startup is about art. The diff
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Just do your best. I'm sure you will do fine. Your attitude towards the intership is very good. I wish you the best of luck. BTW, update me on how it goes. Email in profile.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
They are neither art nor design. Startups are businesses. And a business exists to profit. Nothing else. Also, a startup does not aim to solve a problem in an industry. That is a common but rather poor approach. A startup aims to profit by
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
They fail because they're not losing sleep over how well they execute their sales funnel. As someone who is losing sleep over the same issue, I appreaciate the fact that you understand it. I never get why so many startups focus on the min
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Exactly. Maybe the CEO got a not so gentle nudge from the investors to hurry up and hire somebody and you were the one they were interviewing next. Stuff like that happens a lot. The process is more about outside factors than the actual int
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Oh, I'm not disagreeing on the opportunity available. You are, to quote Hermes from Futurama, technically correct (the best kind). I do think that this problem is up there with world peace.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
I don't have a beef with it. I also think that of you apply to the jobs posted on HN, you will get my point. Sadly, I don't use Paypal. You can make a donation to your local hackerspace with the $100 that you will soon lose. Good luck. PS.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
The problem is not the software. The problem are the employers. Everyone wants the perfect candidate. But no candidate is perfect. Everyone has good skills and bad baggage to carry from job to job. The aim should be to find people who will
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
I'd like to see software engineers who are part of the hiring process in their company apply for their own position anonymously. Go through the whole enchilada: the phone interview, the code tests, the puzzles, the questions regarding optim
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Same with the 1541 disk drive on my old C64. I could "feel" what it was doing by the sounds coming from it.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Its not that people hate receiving mail, they just hate mail that tries to make a quick buck out of them. You should really email your customers and prospects. But don't just send them a boring borchure. Approach them in a personal way. Ask
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
It is in his biography where it appears. Though it is not talked about a lot.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
I'm building a digital magazine called !session. It targets the HN crowd, with a touch of marketing. It debuts soon. Keep posted for the announcement.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Raise your prices until they leave. Give them a 30 day notice before raising the prices. Enjoy your new found peace. Don't explain anything to them. No tutorials. Nothing. These people can't be taught.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Buffett was into bodybuilding as a teenager/young adult.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Yes to both?
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Since you are so green (read: young) this will teach you a lot about business. Not the good parts (mostly), though.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Aside from the points the author makes, this would also improve Facebook's advertising model a lot. They would have purchasing information from basically every segment/product/niche/market out there. You put an ad on Facebook. People click
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
May you provide an email address?
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
You make a good point to not be pushover. Some people fall for such tactics because they are just afraid of pointing the client towards someone else. The best way to deal with this is to use the facts (like you showed). People cannot win ag
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Yes, that is true. Not only the click, but the mechanism to bring out the actual lipstick usually requires more effort.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
From where I'm sitting it looks like he makes both points. Though your last sentence brings up another point. If you have people requesting a lot of support for the simple stuff, then your sales process needs work. The sales process not onl
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
I don't have access to a computer at work.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
The tool does not define the problem. It goes the other way around.
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
Use what you know best right now. But keep learning other things on the side. Forget about choosing frameworks. Pick the one with good documentation (code igniter in PHP) and hack away. Build it already. The more time you waste "deciding",
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by rmATinnovafy 14y ago
To what degree am I allowed to focus on my startup at work? You are being paid to help their business grow, not yours. Give it a little perspective. If your startup succeeded, would you want employees planning their own startups while you

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