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I wouldn't buy a Samsung anything given my experiences. That said... the LG washer and dryer I bought 12 years ago have been awesome and the LG fridge I bought a while back has been very good too. Enough that my partner pushed to buy a new LG dishwasher from Costco rather than springing for the Bosch that I wanted. FWIW: My mom has had an LG fridge for a few years now too and raves about it.

Cloud costs, basic incorporation fees, etc are nothing compared to labor costs, for example, or what it will cost to keep a roof over your head while you build out your product and get traction. Those credits et al are peanuts by comparison.

To be clear - my original comment wasn't really intended to disparage incubators, accelerators, etc, but rather to say that you can spend a lot of time playing the whole startup game where often you are better off to just keep your head down and focus on your own work.

I'm in full agreement with kingnothing here...and in fact if your industry / niche is such that you need to do these things, you need to gain domain knowledge even more than you need to talk to a lawyer.

Can the SBA advisor point you at a lawyer? Are there lawyers in your area that partner with the SBA? In my state, there are law firms that everybody knows has focus on early-stage companies, and surprisingly their fees are reasonable (though they may put you with a junior lawyer).

Often people are scared to talk to other professionals - accountants, lawyers, etc - because they think it will be crazy expensive. I've been really pleased with how affordable their services can be for basic consult, documents. It's only when you are in litigation that it gets crazy (don't ask me how I know). So - it might be just a couple hours (let's say $600 or so) for some of their time to get all your questions answered. In fact, I've found a brief coffee with a lawyer will often answer all my questions and that only if we have to do something with them after that point does the meter start running.

Point being: Get comfortable talking to these people, they are your allies.

why are you wasting your time with accelerators? Listen, this whole game about VC, accelerators, startup events, finding a co-founder... all the noise you hear around early-stage / startup companies is just that: noise. Go build something, but more importantly, get it in front of customers. If you can't get someone interested and shouting "take my money!" then you need to keep iterating until you do. Realize you need other talents and help on your team? Great, bring in a co-founder. Need Money? More importantly, ask yourself "*Why* do we need money? What would that money do for us?" If you can't answer that for yourself, then keep on bootstrapping and selling product.

Key points here: Ignore what you see other people doing. It's about 99.9% an illusion.

This sounds like keeping up with the Jones' more than anything... these are not middle America public schools or even middle class neighborhoods where this family is residing - these are feeders to the upper echelon of American society. Do I wish my public school rural America kids had different homework? Yes, we could make many points about quality over quantity. But, if this guy and his kids feel the work is too onerous, there are plenty of regular public school options that will be a shocking step down in terms of rigor, but that might be more in line with their expectations.

Between high school and college I was a camp counselor. Had a camper who had been adopted out of a horrific situation somewhere in Central America. Was put into a home where I'm sure they were well-intentioned, but completely in over there heads as to the level of mental and emotional trauma this little guy had been through. I don't think he even made it through the full week of camp, and I would strongly suspect he ended up institutionalized somewhere.

I bring this up not to give anyone a free pass, but simply to say that I can well imagine there are cases where well-meaning people discover they are in way over their heads. Clearly it should be the goal of the system to not place a child into that situation in their first place, but I can see where it happens. As for some of these other stories where the adults are clearly just a bunch of jerks... again, would seem like the system should avoid that situation, but there is such a backlog of kids needing homes that it isn't hard to understand why it happens.

Take a weekend to learn Smalltalk, then it will all make sense. Objects composed of other objects, all passing messages to each other. Whether you can then take that knowledge and have it make sense in a Java, a Python, a C++, etc is hard to say...

You know what I miss from that era? The extension that would allow Oscar the Grouch to pop out of the trash can. What I mean is - Macintosh really had this different vibe back then. You could easily customize everything about your experience in a way that was very exploratory. How many hours of my youth were wasted screwing around in RezEdit or in making cool icons? Yes, it's super cool there are things like Swift Playground these days - I'm glad we live in an era where I don't have to pirate Symantec Pascal like I did when I was 13 and wanted to learn how to code. But, I wish the overall user experience were more the fun and creative feel we once had rather than a very slick but overly corporate one.

Years ago I was in my ancestral village and met a man (with same very distinctive family name) countless generations removed who looked exactly like my grandfather. Even the same physical, stocky build... and yeah, I had to just kind of mind my manners because it was super surreal. Guess it's kinda like the Old Spice commercials - if your granddad wasn't good looking you wouldn't be here?

Here's what I thought was really great about this: My family originated in a European country not included in the list. In the 1600s (maybe even late 1500s) we took refuge in one of these countries that allowed a degree of religious tolerance in a specific area. Over the next century, many picked up and came to the new world.

Anyway, point being it was really neat to see my family name still in that very specific area, despite it being a name that would automatically stand out even today as "not from around here."

Karat represents everything wrong with how we interview in the tech industry. After being in tech for dozens of years and having interviewed and hired hundreds of people, an interview with Karat was one of the experiences that shook me to the core and told me It was time I retired. I’ve seldom felt so dehumanized.

I did business in PDX for a number of years... while I love the city, the startup / tech scene there was absolute fubar. It was fake it until you make it taken to an extreme. Weirdly insular, cliquish...so many snake oil salespeople. Couldn't find any actual hirable talent at any price. Some of the weirdest encounters of my career, where you looked at all of these "companies," Treehouse included, and knew they just didn't pass the smell test. Everything in that whole town was like a cult of personality.