sganesh

I am interested. And would like more information. My email is in my profile.

Secrets of Consulting & More Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg.

Getting Started in Consulting - Alan Weiss

Your Marketing Sucks - Mark Stevens

Listen First, Sell Later - Bob Poole

E-Myth Revisited - Mark Gerber

Call Vanguard :) Or find a fee only financial planner. Do not use commission based financail planners.

This guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. Mises institute has a bunch of crackpots that are not respected by actual economists:

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/market-economics

Sridhar Vembu is a fellow hacker here :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu

Thanks for the info. Never heard of you guys before. Done.

Use Microsoft Shared View if you're using Windows. http://connect.microsoft.com/site94

One option is moving to another country for those six months. Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina if you want stay in the Americas. Thailand, Philipines, India, China if you want to go to Asia. If you don't own a house, this is a good option. Sell your car & you'll have the money.

Kind of skewed to software startups :)

Lose the dresscode.

Use Best Tools.

Dual Monitors. Period.

Listen, Sell Later.

Ignore Everybody, Create.

Limit the features.

Live = Real Test.

No C Levels.

Distribute Authority & Accountability.

Don't over engineer.

Don't debate forever.

Share the Champagne.

www.dontbreakthechain.com

Depends on the pay. If you're paying market, < 1 %. If you're not paying market, match the difference to a max of 3%. Either way, make sure it is vested 1/36 every month for a period of 36 months. But if you get bought out, or go IPO before that time frame, make sure all of that is vested. And also, if you get funding that pays out the founders in some way, find a way to pay something out to the employees too.

It's on the lines of Tao Te Ching, a great book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching

I usually take off a few weeks, leave my laptop & phone, pack a backpack, and find a remote beach or mountains :) Even if i have to take a paycut, I do this every three to four months. One way this helps me relax and rejuvenate, on the other hand I'm forced to finish the projects I take, so no one needs me during this period of time off.

Pretty much costal cities and islands in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Philippines.

That is a great strip :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=5f375a86

Desktop - Custom Built, Core-i7, 12 gigs of ram, Solid State Drives, Dual 21.5" monitors, Dual boot - Windows 7, Ubuntu

Laptops - Dual boot XPS 13 , Macbook Pro 13

Cloud - Windows Azure, AWS

Windows Home Server - Backup

As far as I know, women date by "how you make them feel?" not how a guy looks :)

Some of these jobs look like a good place to start in the field.. http://www.bioinformatics.org/jobs/ The best way to get in is to find what these companies are looking for and start honing your skills in that direction.

If you're in the US, you can become a foreign service officer as they need a lot of information technology people in different areas. If you're interested in living in different parts of the world, this would be a good career path.

http://careers.state.gov/officer/index.html http://careers.state.gov/specialist/employment.html#IMS

Here's a businessweek slideshow.. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/02/0212_how_to_collect/...

Congragulations !!

Maybe the guidelines should be '0'th or the '1'st post once or twice a day.

And the comment gets automatically deleted if it reaches a flag threshold.

Try doing the samething on the google reader. You will get the Ninja !!!

Excellent !!

I have the same issue with gmail. I have fn.ln@gmail and all of the emails for fnln@gmail shows up in my inbox. Oh, the info that shows up are his pay information, job offers ... I don't use this address often, but when i do log in, hilarity ensues :)

The rule i usually use is take your yearly salary and divide by 1000 (not 100) and add another 10% to 15% to it.