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Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic failures?
Original EnglishBUT even the worst decisions I've made HAVE paid off in some way.
How I went from idea to profit in under 24 hours
Original EnglishOn second thought, maybe I should pay him the $99 to run my clients through the sign up process...
Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking for "a job" do?
Original EnglishA few months back I tried asking for programming advice (language, direction, and even job aims help) but it was barely paid attention to and …
Highest funded US Startups from 2006 to 2008
Original EnglishTheir fixed costs are high, but usually VCs invest to pay those fixed costs, after the startup has already started getting traction.
Apply HN: WedWell - Vendors bid for your wedding
Original EnglishIt's all super grass roots right now; face to face meetings, wedding events, also we're incentivizing new clients with $100 back and $100 for anyone …
Ask HN: Best "entry tech" jobs to learn coding?
Original EnglishEventually I started going deeper to try to find what part of the codebase was broken, then eventually I tried actually fixing the bugs myself.
12 things I learned from pitching VCs this past week
Original EnglishWe paid more than we would have liked for the legal work a year ago but it's paying dividends now in terms of introductions.
Ask HN: Where do you get ideas to build side-projects?
Original EnglishI tried lots of stuff in the beginning but I needed a 'good' notebook (I think I paid around $25) to get me consistently recording …
Ask HN: Have you ever been “poached” internally? Is this even a thing?
Original EnglishI started at a company where the engineers hated the customer support team and refused to do any work for them, because they would ask …