FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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Failed founders don't learn much (show some studies)

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So, after doing that, I scraped the initial hospital contact list from several different sources, and I paid $500 to have a team of people …

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Ask HN: Will I ever find a job?

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I tweak the sales pitch; I have tried dark, inspirational, humourous, surveys, contests, promotions (buy a resume, get 1 hour of interview coaching), etc. …

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Ask HN: "So... What happened to the last guy?"

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(and I suspect in any human organization, but my experience has been mostly in the academic/non-profit sector thus far.) Expect to run into budget issues, …

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Siasto Attempts the Improbable: Making Enterprise Software Beautiful (YC W11)

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Rather than focus first on design (which certainly factors in--it's a new user interface for Salesforce) I focused on improving the speed of specific tasks …

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Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups

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Our company costs $3,000/mo to run, including living expenses for two people, and we technically have a staff as well -- we just pay them …

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Going Serverless with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

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An added benefit is I can be fairly liberal with deployed lambdas because I'm not thinking about machine/hour costs.

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Show HN: Simple Alternative to Complex Project Management for Freelancers

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So, we built EnkiTask.com to keep things clean, simple, and easy to use, with flexible pricing that doesn’t penalize you for having a dynamic team.

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Ask HN: What is consulting and how to start?

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4.0.0. e.g: we we built machine learning products for enterprise clients.

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Ask HN: What keeps you away from starting startups?

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I had more insight at the time, it still lasted over 5 years before I took a job for general IT support (which led me …

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