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Funding your startup with a "one week on, three weeks off" consulting setup
Original EnglishWe would work on our product for the first 8 hours of the day, and the remaining 4 hours, we will work on our client …
Ask HN: How do you find a good corp-to-corp tech recruiter?
Original EnglishI had a question about a corp-to-corp SharePoint migration contract I learned of from a different recruiting company.
Ask HN: Cloud vs. Dedicated Hosting
Original EnglishI pay 258 euro/mo at Hetzner where I paid about $2000/mo at gcloud for databases and Kubernetes.
Ask HN: How to setup a merchant account for a new startup?
Original EnglishAnd instead of then billing every 30 days like a traditional subscription, you make set it up so it only charges once (no repeat).
Back of the Envelope: How to Estimate the Annual Revenues of Any Private Company
Original EnglishThe author states 50% profit for companies, but some are much lower and some are higher.
Ask HN: Deadbeat Client – Owes us 25k – What are my options?
Original EnglishBtw, I have worked contracts larger than 25K without a lawyer and using the client's "master contract".
The Math of Daily Deals: Can Businesses Profit From Groupons?
Original EnglishSo much so that we weren't going to make a lot of profit, however, we still wanted to pursue the business.
Ask HN: Who were you before you were a silicon "valley-type techie"?
Original EnglishInstead, I finished college, got into YC, failed at my startup, then moved back to Dublin, got that compiler job, and then moved to SF.
OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
Original EnglishHowever, that is not the case and I have doubts this will ever be a reliable solution.