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by soundlab 10y ago
Wait there's 17 megawatts of solar on this thing? Would love to hear more about how this integrated into the facility. That is an immense PV array.
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by soundlab 10y ago
100%- what an abomination it is moving beyond one machine. Moving to the hosted Enterprise version was a complete nightmare. Finally pulled the plug and went with Xero and a series of API-based add-ons and it's like being handed the
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by soundlab 10y ago
I feel pretty strongly that managerial accounting is a MUST have skill if you're running a business. Part-time book keeping is not very expensive and if you sit down routinely and review your chart of accounts, pull financial statement
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The Million Dollar Homes of SF Tech Execs Have Slower Internet Than You(blog.rfvenue.com)
2 points by soundlab 10y ago|0 comments
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by soundlab 10y ago
"The stock market doesn’t reward big acquisitions in these categories as they often do with Silicon Valley giants, and they’re expected to justify these purchases, at least partially, on financials. This massively constrains the realm
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by soundlab 10y ago
Fellow self-funded biz here, definitely agree with this. Go with a small local/regional bank. Start small and grow with the LOC. Depending on how involved the loan officer group is, you may get some great CFO-type advise / dash
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by soundlab 11y ago
For decades Dr. Bose held an aggressive "not invented here" bias, which they are now finally moving on from. It's great to see Bose becoming active in the startup scene in Boston, including a sponsorship of the MassChallenge
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by soundlab 12y ago
This is so refreshing to see on HN. People looked at me like I was out of my mind in the ancient days of 2011 when I told people I was working on a hardware startup. I would only take issue with the author's advice to reconsider what
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by soundlab 12y ago
Aside from a salesperson, I wonder if Patio11 has considered a dedicated content marketing person to build on that SEO and maintain some level of growth for both businesses? I get it that the goal is to not get buried with work and to achi
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by soundlab 12y ago
Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business This is a great book for anyone running a bootstrapped business. It is based on the Corelytics software product, which is a financial analysis tool that syncs with Quickbooks to provide
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by soundlab 12y ago
Have you ever manufactured anything? A shitload of technology, engineering, and creative financing at huge risk is required. I'm not going to debate the semantics of what defines a tech company but I'd say their business model d
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by soundlab 12y ago
--If you want to scratch your head, I won’t stop you. At a time when capital is easy to come by for buzzy startups and valuations are frothy, some will view this news as another signal that the tech bubble is real.-- I find this angle in th
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by soundlab 12y ago
Pretty amazing. Are the founders/management team working towards what might be considered a high rate of growth or an incremental one? In other words, is the staff level, revenue, expenses, and earnings in some way optimized at the cu
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by soundlab 12y ago
As a HW entrepreneur starting to move into software-enabled devices, his comments about the opposing forces of rapid iterating software teams and slower more conservative release hardware teams is really on point.
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by soundlab 12y ago
> “We issue cash bonuses at the end of a good period, whether it’s a month, quarter, or year. It actually ends up being a better outcome for most employees."< With all the obsession we see over the stock options/startup lott
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by soundlab 12y ago
This kind of seething diatribe is what's wrong with HN.
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by soundlab 12y ago
>make an exit or die trying. Or grow a sustainable business from something small to something huge that produces a lot of cash along the way while your enterprise value increases ahead of a large exit (or die trying).
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by soundlab 12y ago
--startups do not fall into the category of traditional businesses with strong P&Ls and great balance sheets-- So as a bootstrapper are you still taking this approach past year 3 or 4? At a certain point you need to hone in on that rep
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by soundlab 12y ago
Sounds like you've had some negative experiences with your bank. I would beware of "specialized finance firms" that have "sprung up overnight". Typically their lines are very limited and come with huge rates. I d
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by soundlab 12y ago
I think one of the distinctions is that for bootstrapping you can start with something (very) small and end with something big over a long period of time. Whereas when you take on venture capital the expectation is to build something very b
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by soundlab 12y ago
I run a bootstrapped manufacturing business that sells through a large network of resellers- I'd say I'm squarely in your target market :-) I have looked a lot at this space and there is a surprising lack of software to handle thi
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by soundlab 12y ago
I think it also illustrates that going into business with your family can ruin not only your business but your family relationships as well. Obviously Market Basket is an outlier case that progressed over decades but some of board meeting
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by soundlab 12y ago
As a bootstrapped startup I was a bit skeptical of their pricetag but once I dedicated a full time person to train and exclusively work on it I've been incredibly impressed. Huge ROI and a strong increase in inbound leads requiring us
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by soundlab 12y ago
Agreed- it's also driving a lot of new construction housing in the South End- cranes all over downtown it seems
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by soundlab 12y ago
Seems like they're leveraging the buzzword "full stack" to build an email list for a product that doesn't exist.
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by soundlab 12y ago
From someone running a growing hardware business and living these headaches I'd recommend you take a close look at your systems- accounting, order management, shipping, billing etc and see where there are opportunities for automation a
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by soundlab 12y ago
Does the new Compute Module share the same increased USB ports (with more power available)? Have had nagging issues prototyping Pi's with cell modems due to power consumption and was looking at the Compute for an embedded application
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by soundlab 12y ago
Agreed- all the more reason to not apply mass market, VC-backed product economics to your niche technical application. We are working on a niche desktop OSX app that we will price +200 USD. It's for business users with a budget and h
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by soundlab 12y ago
>>But...why is it paid? Because he wants to be rewarded in a small way for his efforts? Geez it's 99 cents - 30% Apple cut.
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Bold Effort to Re-Invent Polaroid 4X5 Film- Kickstarter Campaign(kickstarter.com)
1 points by soundlab 12y ago|0 comments

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