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Pud is Phil Kaplan. He made a few bucks on AdBright, got married and still hacks up wild ideas that mostly whiff. Plays the drums.

Find a product manager in the business to champion you. There are many regional meet ups for product management professionals such as this - http://www.svpma.org/

Just emailed you with a great opportunity to stretch your skills and make a mark for yourself in the consumerization of enterprise software, one of the hottest markets for designer…

I had lasik in my late 40s and , while I had great medium and long range vision results, I could not see thing 3 feet in front of me - including a computer monitor. Now I have to c…

We have an interesting and challenging web application that needs a bit of redesign. I promise this will stretch your skills to new highs! Ray

Older founders are more likely to tell you to shove your advice. Hence insecure investors choose an audience they can control more easily.

Would like some input on choosing the best business model for our app. Some details about our company: Biz type - B2B Sector - Mobile Value Prop - Cost reduction, time/effort reduc…

We take PDFs and convert them to XML, CSV or put them in a DB and provide an access API. Can anyone think of a use case for this type of system?

It's not what you know, it's who you know. Invest in your network and everything else will fall into place.

This article is so wrong, on so many levels it's hard to imagine that this was in a respected newspaper. The idea that some folks should not go to college is, at best, quaint. This…

Just looked up this company on Glassdoor. As I suspected this jerk has created a company culture of suspicion and hate. He himself is not respected by his team as is proved by his …

This ain't Baseball, it's a horrible result. I would NEVER hire a manager or leader that fired a full 1/3 of his hire. It just shows a lack of any kind of management skill and beha…

Exactly! This concept of "firing" is the purview of assclowns. People that have no management skill yet who lust after director or VP titles after a year in the industry. These peo…

2 years Nope, didn't apply as I'm not 22 Nope again. They aren't exactly funding many companies right now... www.smartscalesystems.com

There are no absolutes. Sometimes early is good. Sometimes not. Next Question?

Except that is NOT what happens. Take the case of a large Chinese network company that now competes with Cisco. This company stole intellectual property from Cisco via a corrupt In…

Why can't the venture capital go there. Every article on Venture these days says American VCs are looking overseas more than here. Surely they'll find the best and brightest with g…

Geez, I had a similar experience with a guy named Ryan. I think this is some rouge clown masquerading as a lot o different people.

This is great except one still has to manage on a machine by machine basis. Not scalable. Why do we move the ball forward with cloud computing only to go right back to old habits?

1/5th of the worlds population. 0/5ths of the worlds killer apps. Nothing of any value has come from India or Indian nationals.Except more Indian Nationals... India is a factory, n…

This is a really good idea. VCs sort of do this but they exact to high a price. YC sort of does this but they are more focused on funding. Then there are the legions of consultants…

The H-1B program has been discredited by study after study. US Innovation did not suddenly begin with the presence of foreign "talent". Indeed if you examine the impact of this tal…

This article is about age discrimination in high technology. It suggests a number of reasons for it not the least of which is foreign immigration under the flawed H1B program. Othe…

First of all forget the "humble" requirment. Anyone that is senior and has crew knows what his value is and is not going to be impressed with a suit. Second, if you have a M$FT bas…

Why do you need servers on the West Coast? Ray