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More of a specialty shop, not a one-size-fits-all RingCentral competitor. Targeting specific industries with use case specific solutions (ie. going after car dealerships with overhead paging, DECT wireless handsets, etc.) -- yes, they can get all this with RingCentral or 8x8 or anyone else -- but your positioning, marketing, and niche expertise is what will win the deal. Can also offer more of a white-glove service, on-site install, etc. that the big guys simply don't offer. You don't even need to have local presence - just find good folks on FieldNation that can perform the job and pay them for 3-4 hours of work. $500 to secure a $18K contract is a no-brainer.

Overall RingCentral and the other top-10 providers are shifting their focus away from SMBs to large enterprises. There is a big hole to fill. They are losing customers as fast as they gain new ones. This is a huge opportunity for smaller operators.

If you get just one 20-person office customer per week (or multiple small ones adding up to 20 users total), after 1 year you are at ~$22K MRC at standard prices. And this is the bare minimum that you will be getting with bare minimum effort... people don't realize how big the opportunity is in this double digit billion dollar market.

Launch a boutique VoIP provider. Yes there are many out there, but the market is crazy big (and growing) and there is plenty of room for you. Big margins, low overhead if you know how to do it right. A 20-person office customer is $18K in revenue over 3 year customer life (and avg. life is higher if you provide good service). Go after niche verticals and dominate those.

Said the unsuccessful entrepreneurs.

Who cares if it's staged? Taking on a giant like Google requires some hassle and maneuvering.

As a business owner it's your responsibility to do whatever it takes to succeed. This harms no one.

He just needed to influence the public opinion over the tax situation.

Definitely Google. There will always be "promising startups" and once you have Google on your resume you will either be starting that startup or getting a bigger chunk of it.

It's much harder to climb the corporate ladder if you are one of the only remote employees in a company.

Too many people get hung up on the perfect scalable tech stack. Most people don't need to waste more time watching another tech talk. What they need is more business skills and how to make money.

The reason I will not be convinced is that in the last 20 years I have seen first hand hundreds of people cure such diseases from Crohn's to many types of cancer by fasting.

The only times people have not been as successful as others is when fasting was preceded by chemotherapy/radiation which frankly destroy the body and for the most part is a death sentence one way or another.

And you are flat out wrong about your last point. Fasting is the biggest gift you can give your body, including and especially when it appears weaker due to a disease.

No. Absolutely not true. There are no 100 types of cancer. This is just the medical world concept of selling you on the equivalent to 100 types of morning cereal. There are of course different locations in the body where these damaged cells are located, but that's all there is to it. We turned a very very simple concept of damaged cells that the body cannot repair using the lymphatic system and flush out of the kidneys due to constant state of acidosis into a trillion dollar boogieman.

And people still wonder why it is taking so long to find a "cure". Everyone invovled is incentivized to never actually get to a point where "cancer" is a solved problem.

Of course, that is beside the point. One of the most effective treatments remains a series of prolonged dry or water fasts. ~10 and ~40 days respectively. But because no one can patent it or make $3M a year in kickbacks, I doubt it will ever be known to the mainstream in my lifetime.

Panda Express is high up there in the list of nastiest fast food places. Pure garbage food. And as you probably know, they will gladly dump a fresh batch of Orange Chicken on top of a 3 hour old batch and so some portion of their entrees are kept on the hot plate for half a day. Nasty. What they do is criminal.

Same goes for Google, YouTube, and Twitter among others.

Not to worry, these companies that were left out will be let in next year once they pony up the correct bribe amount to the relevant decision maker.

I repeat this on related threads: taking over any US phone number's inbound/outbound SMS traffic with the ability to intercept inbound SMS as well as send SMS originating from a particular number is dangerously easy. It takes one minute, and ALL numbers are vulnerable. Worse, there is no fix for this. Never ever use SMS for authentication, or sensitive communication of any kind.

I believe this is being exploited on a regular basis and people just have no clue. This is likely used for anything from gaining access to email accounts to insider trading to political leverage to who the heck knows what else.

The only time you should be working 80 hour weeks is to build your own business, not someone else's.

That brings me to the second point, the only time you should be working is to build your own business, not someone else's.

A lot of people fail at both.

They use Freeswitch for a lot of their new offerings, they just don't advertise it. 8x8 too.

Each year I do 2 dry fasts of ~7 days each, in addition to one or two water fasts of ~25 days each time. It's a great experience, and best gift you can give to your body.

Now they can afford the Dialpad.com acquisition they have been after.

We use GCP heavily. It's really great.

Latency between Google Cloud Functions and other GCP products improved significantly in the past week, as did start up and execution time.

However we only use GCFs for background tasks and not for any web API/micro services, etc. Still too much latency for that use case.

I have many friends and family members that frequently complain about the high cost of their health care and insurance premiums. Yet most of them are leading unhealthy lifestyles, a mix of bad diets, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, etc. There seems to be a big disconnect in their head between how they live their lives and how much it affects their health spending.

Sure, it would be nice if pharmaceutical drugs cost less, and if copays were cheaper. But it would be much better to not need either of those to begin with.

Even 2FA that involves you receiving a call is more secure than 2FA that involves you getting a text, but of course that too should not be used, ever. It's just that SMS is that much worse. I wish I could share on HN the technique anyone anywhere can use to take over any mobile number's SMS traffic within a minute so we can discuss it at great detail, but obviously I know better and would never do it. Unfortunately this knowledge is not limited to myself and many people out there know this especially after being in telecom for a while.

In the US it is trivial to hijack any mobile number's SMS traffic. It takes less than a minute. SMS as 2FA should never ever be used by anyone.

YouTube is also still full of ElsaGate predatory pedo accounts and YouTube is happy to play ads to the millions of views each video gets. But Alex Jones? Sorry, can't have him or a few other conservative loud voices on the platform.

He represents free speech. He is just one of several conservative leaning voices silenced by Big Tech in recent months.

One of the most troubling aspects of the Alex Jones ban is the obvious coordination among Apple, Facebook, YouTube and others to completely take him off their platforms at the exact same time. How this doesn't bother HN is crazy.

It's truly crazy how YouTube takes down Alex Jones easily but ElsaGate pedo like predatory channels are still thriving on their platform, with millions of views and comment threads full of cryptic information exchange of the worst kind one can imagine. And it's still up. Insanity prevails.

That's not my point. I don't like or listen to the guy, but your reaction shows precisely why they chose him. Who is next? If they can take down someone as vocal as Alex Jones, they can take down anyone.

Not drawing anything, just adding color in case people still pretend or truly believe these companies don't engage in censorship in the US.

Exactly. And look at the uproar that the bakery caused with the constant mainstream news coverage back then. But now? Silence, and if not silence, total justification and questioning why Big Tech didn't do it sooner.

Why are we going as far as China? Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, among others need to come clean about their censorship of conservative voices right here in their back yard. All the folks who rallied for net neutrality are now cheering for the coordinated Big Tech assault on free speech. This needs to be talked about. Agree or disagree with the voices they are silencing (ie. Alex Jones), what is happening these days is a dangerous precedent.

It is used. Very very successfully. And you are being incredibly naive thinking that governments and big corporations want people to actually get cured of their diseases for good within 30 days. Also one of the absolute best things a diabetic person can do is fast. It's quite sad the amount of misinformation you managed to condense into one HN comment.