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tmshu1on Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?

salaryproject.com for (mostly Software Engineer currently) salaries

tmshu1on Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business

https://indiehackers.com is a community for solo entrepreneurs that I've found helpful and interesting. They also organize meetups in different cities. I hope it grows because there are a lot of solo entrepreneurs like us out there!

tmshu1on Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business

Thank you for sharing your experience and recommendations! Definitely going to check out The Great CEO Within.

How much time would you say you spend on consulting vs. product, per week, and how do you find your clients?

I tried consulting for a little, with the same goal of wanting to work with and learn from lots of different companies while working on my own product on the side, and found myself struggling to dedicate time to my product, with finding clients taking up a lot of my time (outside of working for my clients). Granted I was in very different circumstances than you--not nearly as much as 5-6 years of expenses saved up, I'm also pretty inexperienced, hey I'm young so yolo--but I'm still interested in hearing what's worked for you!

tmshu1on Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset

No worries! Gotcha, that is indeed very helpful! I appreciate it, will be in touch if I have more questions in the future :)

tmshu1on Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset

Great perspective from someone on the ground, thanks for sharing!

tmshu1on Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset

Hey etrautmann! Author here, thanks for reading! I agree with you, most payments do seem to be for legitimate purposes (sorry if it seemed like I implied otherwise). But I believe that some types of payments--e.g. industry paying for research--creates incentives with potential negative effects--e.g. on the quality of research; whether these incentives actually do result in negative effects is another question that others have done research on.

tmshu1on Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset

Super fascinating analysis! I'm a complete newb/just starting to explore all things Spark, what kind of set-up have you found works best? Did you just run Spark locally for your analysis?

tmshu1on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)

Bond Street | Full-time, Onsite | New York City, NY | Front End and Full-stack/Product Engineers

Bond Street (http://www.bondstreet.com) is a startup focused on transforming small business lending through technology, data and design. Small business owners are the foundation for growth in our economy, and yet today’s banking system has left them behind. We’re building a better future where access to financing is simple, transparent and fair.

Recently, we raised a $10m Series A from investors like Spark Capital and Homebrew, and a $100m lending facility from Jefferies, an investment bank. We’re looking for exceptional front-end and full-stack engineers to join our dev team of 5. You’ll be responsible for helping to transform the business lending experience for over 25 million small business owners in America.

Projects our engineers work on include designing algorithms for instant risk assessment, creating intuitive and delightful user interfaces for our online loan application, and constructing dashboards for internal and customer use that resurface small business data in ways that can inform credit use and business growth.

Send an email to our CTO at peytons@bondstreet.com if you’re interested!

Can arrange visa as needed.

tmshu1on Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?

Bond Street