scottbartell

If you want to get work you need to have more than just a skill set, you need to learn how to sell yourself. If you're able to prove that you know what you're doing and that you can provide serious value, someone will hire you.

hilarious. "To get even... Oh, to heck with it, getting even isn't working."

You shouldn't be asking startups this. Call small businesses and ask them.

Regardless, I worked for a small business while I was getting my BS in Business Admin. One thing I realized from this experience was that a lot of what I learned in business school was focused on the corporate world and not small business. A small business is much different than a corporation and I could argue that advice from an MBA would not be that helpful to a small businesses (to an extent of course).

Also, while this is only one data point, I can tell you that the small business I worked for would not use this service. This is because the owner would not seek out such help because he believed that running a business was something that couldn't be taught and that an MBA (who has never actually had a business) was not qualified to give any advice.

Edit: I reread your post and I think you might be considering startups and small businesses the same. I think you need to pick one of the two because they are significantly different.

Pretty good points. Some people don't seem to realize how important amazing content is.. It's not just about putting keywords in an article. It's about creating a resource (article, graphic, video, etc) that provides so much value that people need to share it. And that isn't easy.

Anyone else wasting a lot of time typing "File:///" into every input in every program...? Just because they were told not to.

"barely tested" seems to imply that they... barely... have written any tests at all. While I can understand that even full coverage doesn't guarantee anything, it sure can help. I'm not advocating full test converge, I'm just saying that if I wrote 50k lines of code, I really wouldn't want to be able to say that I have "barely tested it".

"50,000 freshly written and barely tested lines of code"... it sounds like they're doing it wrong.

I am really sick of corporations getting away with treating people so poorly. Amex screwed me out of ~$250 and there's nothing I can really do about it besides share my story.

It was $59 and the price was increased by $11 to $70. I read it wrong at first too.

So you don't think a ~640% pricing increase rather large? I'm not saying the software isn't worth $70. But relative to it's previous price, I think it's a pretty significant increase.

Edit: My mistake - I just can't read. It was an $11 increase in price.

> The price for a Sublime Text license key has increased by $11 to $70, the first price rise in Sublime Text’s five year history

That's a pretty big jump. Not saying it's not worth it.

One very important part that this strategy seems to ignore is one's passion towards the startup's vision. I think it's essential to work on something that you really believe in, and everything else is secondary.

The power of lobbying. The legislation that can bring candidates the most money always seems to take priority. This goes to show that the common man has far less power then is ideal.

Life will get better my friend. There are some good people out there.

I'd like to be a "Problem Person". People (myself included) tend to fall in love with their solution and once it gains some traction they continually make incremental improvements. It seems that significantly more time is spent on your solution rather then fully understanding what the problem is.

Favorite Bucky quote: "Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

Yes, startup CEOs will have a better understanding of the problems that a startup faces. Breakthrough.

That title is very misleading... Google is not funding Firefox OS. Google basically pays Firefox for traffic. Firefox is free to do whatever they want with their own money.

I would say that in most cases early stage startups should not give away equity but should stick with donation/preorder crowdfunding. I see crowdfunding as a tool for startup that can be used to validate their MVP.

Look into crowdfunding. You don't have to give away any equity and a successfully funded campaign basically validates your MVP.

Beautiful, sad story.

Atlanta has a decent size rails community.

You should consider looking more deeply into the positions that are available. Companies who use .Net tend to be older and more mature businesses (likely because .Net is not open source) and I am not positive but I would think that they are looking for highly experienced developers. I would take a close look at the entry level positions that are available in the area that you want to work and possibly even contact those companies and ask what exactly they're looking for.

Also, a possible imperfect way to determine the ROR community size in a city is by searching for Ruby / Rails meetups in the area.

Just the sound of 50% equity makes me cringe.

I suppose it's a pretty good approach in order to help avoid upsetting website owners and possible lawsuits. While I'm not too sure I agree with it, I can appreciate that they have provided a very easy way for websites to opt-out.

My personal MVK cost a lot less than $970...

I've been averaging about 4hrs/night for the past month or so.

Steve's course is a great starting point for web development. It helped me build http://votersentiment.appspot.com :)

It's a pretty meaningless measure - that's all I'm saying.

Active G+ user = an active gmail user?

Stripe is a pretty awesome company. Much more easy to integrate with compared to Paypal and their support blows Paypal out of the water.