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AKhoo

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About AKhoo

Full-stack software engineer. Helped build a top coding school (1000+ students/year), a $23M ERP system for an aviation company and an airfare search engine featured by the International Business Times. Founded a software development agency. Also an experienced project manager, marketing leader & management consultant. Profile @ http://akhoo.strikingly.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhoo/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #19789196

    I came across a guy on IndieHackers who called this "Maker Paralysis, which is like the equivalent of writer's block for makers". He put himself on something he called "Ship Therap…

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    Comment #19695401

    IT HAPPENED. I clicked the wrong button on my phone today and lost a few months of notes. Instantly thought of this message haha. Going to transition to Google Keep instead....

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    Comment #19660175

    Having some structure and more than anything, intention and persistence is key. IMO most people blame the lack of the Personal CRM, but really the bottleneck is they're not recordi…

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    Ask HN: Founders, have you ever mentored someone or been mentored?

    I've read that having a mentor can really help when you're a startup founder. But how do you set up an effective relationship? Do you have regular meetings? How often? Is it helpfu…

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    Comment #19606667

    Absolutely. I come up with a lot of crappy ideas, but there's usually something worth exploring every now and then. (1) I have an asana project called Ideas. Each task is an idea. …

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    Comment #19606632

    Ask him if he's talked to prospective customers and keep urging him to! The risky assumption in this whole venture might be whether customers have the problem and want their soluti…

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    Comment #19600912

    One's a school alumni group, and one is a subcommunity of the same group.

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    Comment #19599197

    Haha, that's a great point. Entrepreneurship is a big focus for me right now, so here's what I log every day: In the AM: (1) What are the current goals for different areas of my li…

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    Comment #19599159

    I'd encourage a multi-pronged approach: * Job boards make it easy to find jobs, but it's a volume game * If you find a job or company you like, you can go the extra mile by cold em…

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    Comment #19599123

    For me: HN, Reddit, Indiehackers and a few private Slack groups.

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    Comment #19599121

    Two things have helped when I've felt adrift in the past: * Reflection: Think about what activities are really useful for introspection (this is person-specific) and do a lot of it…

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    Comment #19599045

    I used to absolutely hate it, to the extent where I would actually take the time and effort to switch to old.reddit.com whenever I got served the new redesign. BUT after a few mont…

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    Comment #19588502

    Yes! I've told people about this before and people either hate it or love it: "Holy Shit - An Incredibly Epic Playlist" | https://open.spotify.com/user/ruhin94/playlist/0bG1EMQkukE…

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    Comment #19588469

    I've found that I don't bookmark for the sake of bookmarking -- What I'm really trying to do is to build a knowledge bank on something; like a blog post formed by snippets of artic…

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    Comment #19588443

    Quantitatively, there's two things I track daily: (1) My progress at the gym (which, surprisingly I track in an ongoing draft email*) and (2) the number of productive work hours I'…

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    Comment #14080684

    Absolutely, but it depends on the skill level of the grad. Not all bootcamps or their grads are alike. A great point of reference is the super transparent outcomes data on http://c…

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    Comment #8199590

    lol I am the aforementioned co-founder. This is definitely a flight booking hack with costs and benefits that have to be weighed. I don't personally book this way for savings of ju…