calbucci

I wrote a book adapting Amazon Working Backwards PRFAQ framework for founders, product managers, and innovators to use it.

My friend, you just won the Best Comment Ever award!

This is a great observation. Google could have turned all this frustration into energy for Google+, but they didn't.

It's a Galaxy Nexus (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Galaxy_Nexus_H...). I see the picture has the Chrome as the browser, but somehow this phone doesn't. It's running Android 4.2.1.

That's exactly why I get things done fast. Always connected. :)

1) This post is not about technical skills or competency, it’s about a person-company fit and motivation. If you hire an average developer you expect average results, and if you hire an awesome developer you expect an awesome product. But what if this developer has the skills but not the motivation? What if after he joins your startup he realizes it’s not what he was really looking for? The impact on your team will be huge, if he stays or leaves. Get the cards out on the table before you join forces.

2) Some people on Hacker News are talking about the absurdity of taking a below Market Rate salary. I don’t know where you got that from, but on the post I said startups would pay less than Microsoft. I think some people on HN don’t really know how much Microsoft pays (or Google, Amazon or FB). It’s a lot more than you are thinking. A 10-12 year veteran at Microsoft has a base salary of $140,000-$180,000 and 20% bonus (pretty much guaranteed). That’s between $170K-$220K in comp, excluding Stock Awards, unbeatable health care coverage, and many other perks. Yes, no startup that I know of can afford that.

3) I’m not rejecting “Pete”. I’m asking him to do a self-assessment (a side project) to understand his own interest in building products end-to-end and to “get” what doing code at a startup might be like.

4) For the people attacking me or my startup, you should look yourself in the mirror and try to find the source of so much anger.

5) My post lacks context in the sense of who I am and why do I get so many Microsoft developers that want to talk to me. And just to clarify, I’ve worked at MSFT for 7 years, I left to do a startup, which I did for 4.5 years and I failed and I was very public about it. I set out on a mission to help educate others who were following a similar path, to help them avoid the similar mistakes I’ve made. I founded the Seattle 2.0 organizations to help that mission. Over the last 4 years, I helped approximately 2,000 people who went through some of the events I put together. You can read the full story of my first startup here:

http://blog.calbucci.com/2009/07/anything-and-everything-abo...

You can read the story of Seattle 2.0 here:

http://blog.calbucci.com/2011/12/seattle-20-from-humble-begi...

Maybe this is the revolution we need to give a chance to the next generation to have fun programmable robot. I was promised that as a kid and I still don't have it!

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Wire transmissions are less likely to error because they have more checksums and other self-correcting mechanisms. A bad bit over the wire will get the entire data package dropped.

Build a website and launch it. Nothing says you can do stuff more than showing the stuff you've done.

Works for me on Chrome, FF, IE.

The code is HACKERNEWS.