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I have built two startups while working fulltime and raising 2 kids. The first startup failed once my co-founder left town, after the business model and app were about 90% complete…

Thanks for sharing this inspiring story. Having been to India previously, I can imagine somewhat what you and your parents have struggled to overcome/achieve. "They slogged their w…

I have a question related to personal income and budgeting. My significant other and I have been vexed by this so I would love any input. What percentage of your monthly income do …

"50 hours a week @ $25/hour" I believe its 100 hours a week, which frankly sounds absurd. My comment is not ignoring either of your points since: 1. I state the salary will go up. …

"You still have to work 100-hour weeks" Assuming they are working 50 weeks a year. 50 * 100 = 5000 hours $125,000 / 5000 = $25/hour Thats half what I make per hour. Sure they might…

I really like this quote: "The way we measure profitability is in ‘tons of money’." I couldn't help but hear a loud 'cha-ching' in my head when reading this. I makes sense though, …

After college I started doing some web development on the side, which really took off. I spent like 100's of late nights hacking and learning. I think there is really no other way …

I have a social science degree from UC Berkeley and am a self-taught programmer / Entrepreneur. I currently work as a Senior Software Developer. The best programmers I have worked …

I graduated from college with no loans. Then got married and had kids...thats when reality kicked in and life got waaaay more expensive. Who can agree with me?

"Why were you pursuing these loans in the first place?" As much as I wish I had $250K in the bank.... "Did you need to buy a home? Or did you want to buy a home." LOL - as a marrie…

"they're just not necessary" I am 29 years old. I thought the same thing as you until about age 25 when someone explained to me that CC's are a great way to build your credit ratin…

Sage advice I heard somewhere: "Weeks of coding saves hours of planning."

If I could upvote this multiple times I would.

I am a technical co-founder for a new startup in the midwest. I am curious what tech stack others have used to initially launch their product and how that changed as their audience…

You should post a link to portfolio/resume/github account to better market yourself on this thread

"If you can't do some kind of code, at least learn HTML5, CSS and a little Javascript, and maybe some other server-side scripting languages" But take 5 years of solid work/practice…

It doesn't hurt. Though an impressive Github repo might make more waves with developers. Depends on who your trying to impress/appeal to.

Thanks for your answer. In this case the entire company works remotely, similar to 37signals. So its a distributed team.

Highcharts is my fav and default charting library. http://www.highcharts.com Highcharts is not open source but is free to use for non-commercial use. I have paid the $80 to use it …