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Ask HN: What kind of due diligence do you do on prospective employers?

A question that's always bothered me...Why don’t prospective employees of early-stage startups get the same access to analysis/info that potential investors do?There are probably a number of reasons for it, but this information asymmetry feels like it's starting to shift.Plug: We're trying to help solve this just a bit by releasing due-dillegence 'memos' for startupssee:...

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Ask HN: What side projects ideas are you thinking about building?

Over the years i've learned from personal experience about some of the different failure modes for getting side projects off the ground:1) Focusing too much on making money: A side project doesn't have to be a business and probably shouldn't to start with. Once it reaches a certain level you can try to make it a business afterwards.2) Not enough focus on learning: Side projects only focused on...

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Show HN: A good excuse to explore that side project idea

If you're like me, you have at least a half-dozen (half-baked) ideas for side projects sitting on your "idea shelf" waiting for the right opportunity to come along and give you that spark to get started.At my day job (Bridge.Academy), we found that many of the incoming developers entering our program shared the same experience so we decided to do something about it and formalize the process of...

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Not necessarily true, i know entry level engineers earning well above $100k in the Bay Area who are barely getting by because they are paying $5-$6/mo in rent alone which is post-tax.
Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks? on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:42PM (#16787909)
+1 for Blockstack
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