FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic failures?

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BUT even the worst decisions I've made HAVE paid off in some way.

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How I went from idea to profit in under 24 hours

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On second thought, maybe I should pay him the $99 to run my clients through the sign up process...

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Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking for "a job" do?

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A few months back I tried asking for programming advice (language, direction, and even job aims help) but it was barely paid attention to and …

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Highest funded US Startups from 2006 to 2008

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Their fixed costs are high, but usually VCs invest to pay those fixed costs, after the startup has already started getting traction.

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Apply HN: WedWell - Vendors bid for your wedding

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It'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 …

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Ask HN: Best "entry tech" jobs to learn coding?

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Eventually I started going deeper to try to find what part of the codebase was broken, then eventually I tried actually fixing the bugs myself.

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12 things I learned from pitching VCs this past week

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We paid more than we would have liked for the legal work a year ago but it's paying dividends now in terms of introductions.

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Ask HN: Where do you get ideas to build side-projects?

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I tried lots of stuff in the beginning but I needed a 'good' notebook (I think I paid around $25) to get me consistently recording …

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Ask HN: Have you ever been “poached” internally? Is this even a thing?

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I started at a company where the engineers hated the customer support team and refused to do any work for them, because they would ask …

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