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Yes. Lots of people have built successful businesses with just a phone.

Best shared content on HN in a long time. I love the thoughtfulness and thorough analysis of the winners and losers of each strategy.

You should try to join an established later stage startup. Think about the skills that you have acquired and the experiences that you have been through. Very few people are able to…

Look carefully at the number of jobs created. Some companies have less than 100 employees with >100 million valuation. I believe that Heroku had just 40. It’s amazing how small the…

Humans

I think that the Whole Foods acquisition now gives Amazon a physical footprint to compete with CVS, Rite-Aid, etc. Imagine ordering online and picking it up at a Whole Foods. After…

Some things to consider from this article. 1. Olin gives free tuition or reduced tuition leading to almost no debt. There is probably a positive correlation with not having school …

They won't do that. The current arrangement with Google is quite good for both parties. It's not smart to start another battle with Google unless there is some to gain. 3 billion i…

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Sounds like a terrible way of doing work. If you are expected to react to everything sent your way you never get to do any deep and meaningful work. Furthermore, running around and…

He helps resolved complex litigation issues out of court. Litigation can take 1 to 2 years in the court and cost millions of dollars. In a 1-day session, he can resolve 95% of thes…

The most successful one-man business is not in software. I know of a successful mediator. He charges $18000 to $20000 per day and has always been booked for the last 20 years. http…

>"My startup had to deal with payment processing (at least initially before I pivoted) so I thought I needed it." You generally don't need a payment processor when starting out. Th…

Depends on what you want to do. Each language has an advantage in its own domain. If you want to build for the web then I would recommend learning Javascript. You really can't avoi…

Meditation and exercise. Sometimes the best thing for you is to focus on other aspects of life. Mediation allows you to deeply examine yourself and helps you think more critically …

Software development takes a long time because of the users. If you think about every piece of software that has ever been written, they have been created to solve a human problem …

My brother reads on average 0 to 1 book a year and he is a better code than me. I personally read about 50 books per year. There is nothing about programming that requires you to b…

Someone should do an analysis of past companies on these metrics. It would be interesting to know how Microsoft and Google's business comes out of the equation. On the flip side, w…

I wrote a paper on how to control the project cost escalation that is relevant to this discussion. Typically 90% of construction projects are completed over budget with median bein…

I think that the data available here is a good start. To make an informed decision about which school to attend, it would require the students to identify the factors that are impo…

They also have very high overhead costs. Most law firms have very nice offices in very prominent parts of the city. This is not cheap so they need to charge a very high price to ju…

Yes. There is no academic requirement for publishing research papers. Anyone can submit a paper for the peer-review process at most journals. However, as an outsider it would be be…

Since no one else is respond to this post, I will offer some very quick advice. Firstly, what you are suggestion is very doable. You might want to look at Jquery UI draggable eleme…