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Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal?
Original EnglishI sat in fixed income origination for years and the only reason I used it was to find some obscure pricing details which are now …
Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.
Original English10 years ago I wrote a sales system in Perl with a couple of friends.
Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week
Original EnglishIt generated over $200,000 in sales in the 18 months leading up:
Quant Job Interview Questions (2009) [pdf]
Original EnglishI've worked for small shops that weren't very profitable and didn't really make a lot those years, but still loved the work.
Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue
Original EnglishYour free competitors do this, as I learned the other day when on a sales call organized by somebody who would have happily dropped $50 …
Google Fiber now allows servers for non-commercial use
Original Englishbut I'll re-state it to try to clarify what I mean : "Real price" is not an 'epistemological problem', it's simply the cost of dedicated …
Ask HN: How to learn to sell?
Original EnglishFor my next businesses, an e-commerce store, I used Facebook/Instagram ads to generate $1M in sales.
Pains of building your own billing system
Original EnglishIn the spirit of OP's link, we work alongside existing billing solutions rather than try to reinvent the wheel there.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Original EnglishI browse a little, but 99% of my time spent in front of the computer is spent working on product or replying to customer emails.