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by rufusjones 10y ago
You can flag my comments all you want, but it doesn't change the facts. There isn't ANY link to evidence that this thing works. The Valley turned a con artist named Elizabeth Holmes-Madoff into a paper billionaire by not checking
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by rufusjones 10y ago
In high school, I had a poster that said "EAT SHIT-- Five Billion Flies Can't Be Wrong!!!" Your approach reminds me of that. You upvote things you don't read, because you figure they're probably pretty good? How abo
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by rufusjones 11y ago
There's a scene in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER where the producer halts the recording session after Loretta Lynn starts singing and says "We need to get some more pickers." "What do you mean more?" her husband says.
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by rufusjones 11y ago
Where is the video teaching basic spelling? (Peronsal)
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by rufusjones 11y ago
Elance and Odesk merged to become Upwork. What you heard about those sites is incorrect-- or, more precisely, incomplete. It's like my saying "A lot of the people on GitHub couldn't build a program to display 'Hello Worl
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by rufusjones 11y ago
1. What part of the phrase "might or might not" wasn't clear to you? 2. Where in "introverts who lock themselves away and aren't great at self-promotion" do you see any assertion about talent? What you're
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by rufusjones 11y ago
You have to be kidding. And I mean full John McEnroe "You cannot be serious." First of all $150 for a 750-word article would be a good payment. Assuming you aren't asking for more words than that ("blog post" sugges
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by rufusjones 11y ago
Use it to serve PHP pages. That oughta do 'er.
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by rufusjones 11y ago
And you are peanut butter. Making false statements with conviction doesn't mean they become correct. If Boober were a lead generation company, it would charge a flat fee for leads and the people who accepted the leads would be free to
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by rufusjones 11y ago
No, you aren't "good enough to do consulting." Skills are important, but attitude matters. If you charge $200 an hour, you have to BELIEVE that you can add $400,000 in value if they keep you around for a year. Note that &quot
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by rufusjones 11y ago
Neither-- it's pronounced "Gif".
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by rufusjones 12y ago
Dwight Lundell had his license to practice medicine in revoked in 2008-- his fifth disciplinary action in five years by the Arizona Medical Board. This does not prove his ideas are wrong, but it did earn him a lengthy profile on Quackwatch:
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by rufusjones 12y ago
So customers know why they should buy you, as opposed to the 14 other companies offering the same thing. Unless you are building life-size replicas of people out of tuna salad and Swedish Fish, other companies will do what you do. What make
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by rufusjones 12y ago
You send letters to your brother Theo, cut off your ear and hope to be recognized as a genius someday. You say "you're not the managerial type so leadership positions... requiring people management are a far stretch for my natural
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by rufusjones 12y ago
TaxPal, by a wide margin, because it's short and very close to being self-explanatory. When people say "What?" you can say "It's an online bookkeeping service provider" and they'll say "Oh, right!&quo
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by rufusjones 12y ago
Of course you can learn online. So what? Here;s why you need to saddle yourself with $125,000 additional debt-- even though it might become useless soon. Let me explain how companies hire. If you want a job done, there are two things you c
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by rufusjones 12y ago
Hi-- Rufus Jones. Pleased to make your acquaintance. I live outside of Germany-- in fact, I live outside of Boston. There was a 3-year period when you couldn't pick up a computer magazine without finding a 1-page or 2-page spread on 1&
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by rufusjones 12y ago
Absolutely look for an internship. What would a job offer you, other than money (which you say you need) and experience (which you absolutely will need if you ever want to get hired)? In the business world, you are judged on one thing: WHAT
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by rufusjones 12y ago
Facebook, Google or Twitter, because I don't think those companies know enough about me yet. Sane people use Abine's Maskme things they think they might want to use and Mailinator or one of the other disposables places for those t
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by rufusjones 12y ago
He probably imagines that they can 3D-print the shirts. If I remember right from talking to a tailor, collars, cuffs and buttons are almost all of the construction effort. If the idea behind "standard" configurations was "We
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by rufusjones 12y ago
It is if you use underpants gnomes, eg: 1. Order shirt online 2. ? 3. $30 dress shirt in 48 hours with profit!
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by rufusjones 12y ago
Thanks for filling in some details. I don't have any expertise in the apparel business either, but general principles indicated how badly thought out this was. Really, a functioning brain stem is all you need. If this were a workable b
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by rufusjones 12y ago
You ought to be able to get at least $100 million for this idea. Look at how well it corresponds to your typical dot-com: 1. You have absolutely no understanding of the size of your market, the frequency with which they buy shirts, the pric
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by rufusjones 13y ago
There's no such thing as a "student developer". If they pay you, you're a pro. There are only good and bad pros. Get into the habit, right now, of thinking and acting like a consultant running your own business. If they&
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by rufusjones 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Language is relative-- it depends on who you want to sell to. For marketing professionals, you use one set of words. For CEOs, you use another. For engineers who think marketing and selling is a lot less important
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by rufusjones 13y ago
My first impression was {CRINGE}, to be blunt. You seem talented-- and you asked people to tear you apart-- so let's see if you mean it. Let me give you about $1,000 in free work. 1. The first thing you need to understand is what you&#
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by rufusjones 13y ago
Because it could just be doing this by mistake, right? Dan, I need to show that I'm over 18 on a couple of sites, and they want me to verify by entering a credit card number. But I pay everything in cash, so I don't have any credi
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by rufusjones 13y ago
I worked as a management consultant for four years-- I can say or type anything with a straight face. Give me a decent bill rate and enough hours and I'll explain why SF startups should have outing where they kill homeless people with
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by rufusjones 13y ago
Absolutely right-- always leave pricing off your home page. Also omit a product description and features list. And for god's sake, don't include a link to a live demo. In order to build synergistic relationships with a customer wh
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by rufusjones 13y ago
None of them are very good. He cherry-picks stories and research (sometimes misstating it) and his logic is filled with myriad fallacies. One of his biggest is the "survivor fallacy", where he talks to five successful people, iden

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