wushupork

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by wushupork 3y ago
Chai or tea
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by wushupork 3y ago
A friend of mine worked at a public airline and whenever they had a bad quarter, things like coffee would get cut so people would feel it. But those types of industries operate on razor thin margins.
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by wushupork 6y ago
This would be the most awesome troll of SV startups. Own the directory of help for all SV tech companies and create an AdSense for that.
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by wushupork 6y ago
A private equity firm's incentives are almost always not aligned with what's best for the customer of the company and its people. I've witnessed a P/E firm gut a pretty big firm, ship all the tech work to India, layoff m
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by wushupork 6y ago
I was an engineer as well early in my career. As an entrepreneur now, I've been doing sales for the last 8 years. I've never been formally in any sales role prior to running my own business, so I mostly learned on the job and on m
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by wushupork 6y ago
We must be around the same age. It was the same for me. I must have played all 3 houses so many times. I loved being able to control the units.
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by wushupork 6y ago
That is factually incorrect. In fact Bangkok has two Apple stores now: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-central-world-o...
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by wushupork 6y ago
I agree, but I should not be surprised if they terminated me because of it.
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Twilio Cofounder Jeff Lawson a New Billionaire(forbes.com)
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by wushupork 8y ago
I own a small dev shop and I thought this was a great idea for recruiting. No need for cynicism.
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by wushupork 8y ago
Very few people work on open source. You will find that most people trade their hours for money.
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by wushupork 8y ago
Great analogy. I'm going to use that. I'm currently the "healer" in my "party"
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by wushupork 8y ago
I avoided the 9 to 5 by quitting my stable job and starting my own business. Now I have a 8-2AM.
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by wushupork 9y ago
Especially in Silicon Valley, where people tend to take the "fake it till you make it" to the next level because of pressure.
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by wushupork 9y ago
Product, Design | SF Bay Area | Pek Pongpaet | pek@impekable.com
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by wushupork 9y ago
If you had a restaurant, and you don't feel comfortable having Nazis/neoNazis at your place of business, would you serve them or would you feel like it's your right to choose not to do business with them.
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by wushupork 9y ago
doing really really well :)
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by wushupork 9y ago
I agree. If your goals are to make money on your side project, you'll have to invest time into sales, bd, or the marketing aspects of these projects rather than purely the technical aspects. I don't think they are worthless, you l
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by wushupork 9y ago
I had a serious side hobby which was performance art related. I took gigs when and if they came. If that was my full-time job like most aspiring artists, I would have been a starving artist. Also while being fully employed as an engineer, I
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by wushupork 10y ago
Started on my consulting firm around 5 years ago - quite organically. (I was a freelancer taking on more work than I could handle so I hired help). Now we have around 40 people, a pretty remote team, some big Fortune 500 clients as well as
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by wushupork 10y ago
And that's the issue. Immigrants gladly do the work that Americans won't do.
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by wushupork 10y ago
I would love this
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by wushupork 10y ago
At different points of my life I spoke Thai, Malay, Italian, French and a teeny bit of Mandarin. I would say the ones I became extremely fluent with were the result of total immersion (living in that country - being fully immersed in it for
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by wushupork 10y ago
Yeah a better comeback would have been something like "yeah, after you give this land back to the natives". I don't know how to handle these types of people.
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by wushupork 10y ago
You could substitute "Pokemon Go" with "Clash of Clans", "WarCraft", "Angry Birds" or any popular game where the money flows back to the company rather than the local economy.
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by wushupork 10y ago
This. As someone who hires interns, it takes a lot of time and effort to train them to be effective. It takes away our resources, and we're essentially PAYING them to train them. (I have not done unpaid internships). To have a bunch of
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by wushupork 10y ago
These people have no sense of responsibility or owning up to their decisions.
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by wushupork 10y ago
I couldn't totally agree more. Private school at $30,000 / year, private university at $53,000 - who does that? When my sister and I went to college, we had no delusions that we were going to go to in-state public universities whe
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by wushupork 10y ago
Glad someone mentioned this. It's extremely condescending. I would consider myself a wantrepreneur at some point because I didn't know what I didn't know. I didn't even know how to start until I started reading, but I di
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by wushupork 10y ago
Love the reference

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