mikekarnj

I used those numbers as an example. Not to be taken literally.

We promised Ed Nacional we would never publicly release the rate but I can say that the the majority of the $5K was spent on both the brand identity and URL.

While I was going through the process of selecting a designer, I went through a very long list of portfolios and selected Ed who was an up-and-coming designer at the time. He's much more expensive today as his portfolio and design skills have matured.

Great point. We still have that list to this day and we keep adding to it.

We even structured our whole company around solving problems. We assign major problems to our teams, they come up with a solution, we pick the best one collaboratively, and those turn into tangible projects.

@swombat Gotcha. That makes sense. I originally wrote the post in 20 minutes after watching "The Inside Job" so that's probably why it seems like I'm one of the "reddit-style omg banking is evil" type."

Yes, I wrote such a broad generalization, which I will definitely not include in future posts. So, thanks for the clarification. Learn something new everyday.

Will look into the CSS. Have no idea why it didn't load for you?

Have had a couple of posts get upvoted before so this isn't the first one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503064 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2250554

I agree. All companies should dream big and then break it down into actionable and realistic steps.

If you can clarify why this post is a "piece of trash", it would help me understand how to write better articles. I already changed my post from "zero" value to "arbitrary" value to make it more clear. I also linked to the Rolling Stone article for people that want to dive deeper into the topic. And yes, I shouldn't have generalized an entire industry and refer actually to a specific piece. It's also my opinion, which a lot of people may agree/disagree with it.

The derivatives market is an arbitrary market where money just moves from one place to another.

Real engineers build things like bridges and websites. Bankers build dreams and leverage the shit out of it to put the whole country in debt.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...

I actually presented all 193 slides in less than 15 minutes. The format was a huge hit with the audience.

Starting a company is really easy. Building a company is really hard.

I'm going to have to steal that phrase!

So true. I think the overarching problem with that scenario is that the engineer is building the product for himself, and not for the team and end users. Rather than caring about what's best for the product, he/she thinks about his personal ego.