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I've done this before (and it wasn't successful btw but ymmv)

* dedicate x hours a day for a specific time period (say 8pm-12pm) every day.

* Let friends and family know that they can help by
leaving you alone during this time

* make sure you still get enough sleep.

* use your lunch period at work to plan your next work period

* reward yourself, friends and family at the weekend by being extra sociable. Host BBQ's, movie nights anything so you stay in contact with humanity and don't lose those your care for.

* realise that you can only keep this up for 6 months before you will start to become too tired.

* be ruthless with features and only aim to implement the absolute minimum to get you where you want to go.

* pick a set of friends who are 'go to' friends when you need to bounce idea's. They should be used when you think you are procrastinating. They don't even need to understand what you are doing, the act of explaining will add clarity to your situation.

For me it failed because wasn't ruthless enough and I over spec'd and under estimated time.

good luck.
I agree with most of what he writes, other than his dividends vs share buybacks commentary. I'm glad he published the descending comments though. A few quick thoughts:

1. Dividends are taxed, share buybacks are not. This is why in cases where a mature Company is sitting on a large pile of cash with little to no long term debt, share buybacks provide more value by avoiding the tax man.

2. If the management team truly believes the company is undervalued, buying shares back makes a lot of sense, especially for mature companies. However, if the buy back leads to incentive bonuses for the management team I'm 100% against it. Also, it's a lot more telling when a Company does this during a recession than a boom.

3. As alluded to in the comments, corporate earnings are relatively worthless without a cash flow statement for the same time period.
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He might have reproduced that much content due to the NYT registration nag screens
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You will hire cheap programmers from abroad who will work for a fraction of your salary. For example, you earn $3000 a month and spend $600 a month on your startup. You still have enough and more left over.
I would say no, but instead give a longer-term period of free upgrades, such as say 3 to 5 years. This is long enough to be seen as a benefit by the customer. Saying "for life" means little when you are a smaller software company, as most have seen one of their favorite applications die on the vine due to the company going out of business.
The spreadsheet is included. Run your own numbers.
>price for "lifetime use"

But how do you know how long the life of the product will be?

Also, the higher up-front cost might put customers off.
haha which is why all companies were startups at some point but not all startups will be companies.
Give up the day job.
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Thiel was definitely nervous, but what he did say was awesome and interesting. I wish Arrington wouldn't have interrupted him EVERY OTHER SENTENCE. Christ. I wanted to hear what Thiel had to say, not Arrington's cheap shots about Slide and Chess.
"Tend to" is a nice statistic on a population level but has little relevance to you or me as individuals.

I live in the UK were basic health care is free so perhaps I don't have the experience to comment but healthcare wouldn't be somewhere I would be trying to save a few pennies/cent.
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That's TechCrunch editorializing - they're all about publicizing big exits. It makes for more page views.
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Title should be: Automatically detecting client speed--prices as low as $20,000!
oh I get it...I just don't feel like broadcasting to the world every little thing that happens in my life
just don't launch while still employed like that mob wars guy
Infosec Update Site Launched - Feedback Please
Hi,

We're launching our new startup, Infosec Update today. Just as HN is for 'classic' hackers and startups, IU is for Information Security news. I'd really appreciate it if those of you that are infosec minded could take a look and post feedback. For those of you that aren't infosec minded, I'd really appreciate any feedback you can provide on ease of use, layout etc.

The URL is http://news.mandalorian.com

Thanks,
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the problem with Ford is that they just stopped trying. Sure they can't import the diesel version...but the Fiesta is a very light car, throw a tiny engine in there, and you'll get a 45-50mpg 100hp commuter. Sure it won't have as much torque, but at this point people are willing to sacrifice power for mpg.
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I wouldn't, the whole point of software is to sell it. Every time you upgrade, you get to sell once again to your entire userbase. If you give away the farm, your possible market will shrink as you sell to more and more people, and your expenses will rise as you get bigger and bigger.
Restaurant, music and book recommendations alone have been worth it. Also, it's an easy way to keep in touch with people without much work.

But you're right - if you don't have a solid group of friends using it - it's retarded.
You can also ask your employer for an explicit exemption for whatever you're working on. I've had all of my side projects cleared before doing serious work on them (although that did kill one project, since it was too close to something my company was doing)
Ah ha, here come the other old ESR pieces.
Norvig himself instead recommends people read AI: A Modern Approach (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/), though PAIP is supposed to be rather good as a Common Lisp book.
Maybe the best CEOs for startups aren't "proven." I.e. first-time CEOs. I'm pretty sure I've read another VC saying that's exactly what they look for.
"...those extra cycles could be used to game the system so efficiently that you can sit in a hammock for 164 hours a week while people in India write birthday cards to your friends."

What's funny is: even though there is a ton of of things to criticize Tim Ferriss for, he chooses something that is actually pretty awesome: outsourcing repetitive, mundane tasks. The point of 4 hour work week is not to lay in a hammock the rest of your life; it's to do what you enjoy. I think Tim's an epic dbag (auto responder? - please.) and even I picked that up.

Sidenote: What the heck are those "digital nomad" ads? Those people sound like they should be writing the sequel to the Secret. Ugh.
a link would be good...?
I've been reading about stock trading over the last couple months, as time allows, thanks to Metlife managing my 403b to a phenomenal 1% growth over 5 years. Hands down the best book I've read so far is, Fire Your Stock Analyst: Analyzing Stocks On Your Own (Definitive Guides (Financial Times/Prentice Hall).*

All other books I've seen are "get rich quick." FYSA is the only one that has told me what the terms mean, how to calculate the "fundamentals", and where/how to research a company. It also gives examples of value and growth strategies. It doesn't, ever, tell you what you need to do to get rich, but rather, what you need to do to make informed decisions.

Mix in "common sense" and your own opinions and your off!

* Yes, I've read (most of) a Kramer book, too. Avoid at all costs. The only useful advice: buy and research (not buy and hold), it is possible to make money in down markets too, and sometimes its better to be in cash instead of stocks while you find your next position. The other 350 pages is about how EASY it is too make MAAAAD MOOOONNEY. Don't you want MAAAAD MOOOONNNNETY??!?11
Perhaps it's a secret - you know security and that...
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This "ambient awareness" thing is a phenomenon that exists only in the bay area... the rest of the world still lives in a twitbook free world. Maybe this article is slightly out of touch with whats really going on.

And why would you want to "constrain your identity"? The ability to revinvent yourself is a great gift.
Find a place other than work or home to work on the side job. School library, coffee shop, something like that.
Great question. I'm currently "struggling" with this exact issue. I have a great day job which I put a lot of focus into but after hours I really want to focus on my other projects (and still have a life).

I agree with a lot of what dazzawazza said, but here's some more

- Along with dedicating x hours of time to work on it, create a TODO list for the week, or a specific one for the day that is actually reasonable and will get you somewhere on your project. I make a weekly todo as I only spend about 3 days a week at most on my projects.

- With your limited time, follow the whole principle of launching early and often. Unless you're the king of hype, no one is going to hurt your feelings about your simple, slightly broken prototype of a system until you're closer to the end.

- Have somewhere that you can work peacefully. Make an office area at home away from kids/wife/girlfriend and let them know you need some time to work. Coffee shops also work great for you laptop folks.

That's just a few more, hope it helps you out. It's a tough thing to do but oh so rewarding.
I worked on NewsCred for 6 months while keeping my day job. I'm glad I did that - we weren't obsessed with time to market. If you are or have a product that is dependent on getting out there immediately because of 100s of competitors, then you probably should give up your day job (and find a new idea?!). But most startups can be nurtured and grown while holding a day job. You'll know when you need to give up the day job. Either you have way too much startup work or way too many users, and both cases are good.

So don't sweat it. For me, 6 months was a nice overlap. I quite my job after that and haven't looked back since.
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I've been in this situation for six months or so and it worked well for me.

My best advice is to surround yourself with people who are excited about your product and can give you feedback.

In my case, I had a customer who was very excited about the product, technical peers who I would bounce ideas off of, and a supportive family that wants me to succeed.

Plus, you need to have the drive to make the startup a reality. If you don't have drive, nothing will get done.
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* Pay off your bills so you don't have so many financial pressures. I've spent the last few years paying off debt and getting ready to start my business. That way the barrier for me to quit my main job and work at my own company is a lot lower.

* Talk with your employer to see if you can flex your time. I happen to be able to work 32 hours a week in 3 shifts. That way, I have 4 days a week to code.

* Be patient with yourself. If you're serious about doing this, be in it for the long haul. Don't think that you're going to be able to bring the next "______ killer" to market in 3 months. Think in terms of years and not months.

* Focus on a business that will bring in revenue as opposed to building a business that attracts eyeballs. If you can bring in more cash, you don't need to work as much, allowing you to focus more time on your own company.
You probably shouldn't hire extremely cheap programmers if you want a product that, besides barely functioning, is also extensible and scalable.

No matter what country your programmers are from, if they have spent enough time working on various projects to know what they're doing, they probably also know what they're worth.
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After looking over the tasks in the Mechanical Turk, I really wondered about the motivation of Turkers. They sure aren't doing it for the money.

I suppose it gives people an outlet for the remarkably common desire to help others. The pricing must function primarily for signalling the difficulty of the task.

It's a very surprising and interesting phenomenon to me.
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If you spend an hour every day reviewing the code and making design decisions, you could very well hire monkeys and they would come up with good code. You have to micromanage the code to get good results.
We are located in France, at Roanne, 1h from Lyon.

( The 4+ is basically a filter on non-coders. I completely agree with you about overtime. )
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The site (http://www.gamr7.com) has more info. Don't hesitate to ask if something is not clear tho.
My comments:

Looks good. Design fits to the target market, it looks pretty easy to use, great logo.

I'm not at all interested in computer security, but I imagine for those who are, your tool would be excellent. It also will drive traffic to your product, which I guess is the real reason for this.

Great job, well executed.
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I like the way you've used slinkset, but it'd be better with tags. I'd also like to be able to hide posts that I've read.
Great post! Incredibly useful for those of us that have never used MT. Love the human element. lways be good to others and treat them with respect...
> I don't think pricing is a signal.

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Slinkset doesn't report tags, but this has been submitted to the slinkset team and they are working on it.
Thanks for the feedback. One of the sub-goals is to drive more traffic to our main site as well as to raise general awareness. There is a staggering lack of decent information aggregation for our niche, hopefully this site fixes it.
You're on to something, but I think there might be another factor at play: love of using the Internet. It sounds a bit silly, but I think people love going to sites and search engines and finding information. To make it more interesting, they prefer to do it (1) when the work has a point, (2) the work has low commitment, and (3) it gives a sense of accomplishment.
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Ford doesn't have any interest in maintaining that myth -- they only have one hybrid model. Toyota is the only company currently getting rich off that particular myth.

They couldn't sell it in the US because by US standards it's tiny, underpowered and expensive.
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Thats not usually the case. Many infomercials find capital from investors or are backed by companies that are experts in direct marketing on TV. Proactiv, for example, shared a portion of their company to begin working with a well known marketer who launched their successful TV campaign.
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I'm doing this right now. I don't believe there to be any secrets. Just do it.
There was a spike in fuel-obsessiveness about six weeks ago, but now prices have flattened off people care much less. People only care about saving fuel when fuel prices rise suddenly, not when they're flat-but-high.
Are there no female CEOs or are there no women on twitter? I know the answer to both. 18 CEOs and business week can only find males.
Per the "read code" suggestion, I often come up with excuses to browse through the Linux kernel code: http://lxr.linux.no/linux

It's clean, discoverable and it does interesting things. Although it might help to first go through a book like Understanding the Linux Kernel: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005658/
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We've just launched our niche site, Infosec Update (check it out at http://news.mandalorian.com). Slinkset (http://www.slinkset.com) helped us go from idea to launch in 19 days!

With it being that easy to set up, what are your thoughts on reddit/digg style targetted niche sites? If you have a niche product, would you use slinkset to promote it?
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Not sure. Traditionally I would say no but after seeing what you did with your site I can see how I could use something like this if I needed a FAQ site or support site as well as just something to promote the main site.
How's the Infosec Update launch working out? Any info you'd care to share? Do you plan to put adverts on there?
Interesting that this is not a question on younoodle, a Thiel portfolio company (although previous salary is considered).
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