Thanks for your article, for someone outside of Europe it helps a lot to get insight on the process in the US.
Ironically, albeit a super interesting write, it's your link to why it doesn't feel right that got my attention!
Good luck for the rest :-) good things come to those who work hard !
Wow, this is impressive! It brings me back to an article on a French programmer who refused to live in the "rat race" and make more money than he needed. People who live in extreme poverty don't have a choice,. This so reminds me that whatever we have should be used to the best of its potential.
Thanks to the two entrepreneurs who asked themselves if living in that extreme poverty was possible and going all the way to live it firsthand. Hats off to both of them!
It's all about perspective. As physician and entrepreneur I like what I'm doing and enjoy my life. The money is a side effect that grew over time (when I started in the ER I was paid less than $200 for 24 of work).
Money isn't the objective, but creating a meaningful lifestyle, being a good husband and leave something positive behind is what really matters.
My two cents of happiness :-)
Wow, really nice. I was looking for a tool to try out some code when working away from my workstation. This fits the bill, its fast and agreable to use. Thanks!
Steve's death just underlines how real his Stanford commencent speech hits home.
His life certainly had its ups and downs, but through it all he persevered and fought for that he felt was true and was worth it. Although his accomplishements went beyond what anyone would have possibly dreamed (aside from himself) there are so many people around us who are also heroes of the real world.
We mourn today a great man and in a sense we hold hommage to all of those people who strive to make this world a better place.
Rest in peace Steve, may God bless you and your family
Wow, great list thanks!
For CRM you can also add Nimble, they integrate with google app, linkedin and facebook. If you use google apps its really good.
We rely on heavily on timezone databases and when designing our app had a a lot of debate on what would be the best way to go. We opted for a hybrid solution implementing several options with redundency
Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine that the Unix TMZ database would be compromised in such a a way.
Just goes to show that you can never think of all contigencies, but good planning and foresight is essential.
Interesting article and I wanted to comment on the bit on outsourcing.
Our project needed an extra hand and that's where we turned to oDesk and some good old word of mouth.
Very quickly we found some coders but we stayed only with one group.
The relationship moved from outsourcing to co-founderness with Tomas after a few months.
He's Slovakian and studies in Poland and needed a way to get some income during his last year at university.
We've been working together for more than a year, and he's used this project to write his thesis and make some money.
It raises an interesting point, as finding founders is sometime a question of good luck and great people.
Regardless of where you look, its all a question of feeling, mutual trust and being open minded.