Actually I would bet hiring on skill rather than personality, relationship with an employee and culture fit are responsible for more company kills than vice versa.
Exactly, I am more efficient working remotely and not dealing with the BS, so I am not sure what it would take, but the result would not be worth it for the company hiring me.
Why do so many operate under the assumption that remote workers are a handicap?
I have a separate dedicated office building, and don't work from my bedroom, living room, etc.
The driving force behind most of the new languages I have adopted; is a friend with experience who plants seeds, then can offer support and answer simple questions as I am learning. I have no friends that I know of who use Erlang.
I went through the interview process with a major startup and was basically told the same thing. "You will get bored as a software engineer for our company. Looking at your past history, you are probably not a good fit for this position. We like you and are more than happy to support you in any way we can with your next endeavor."
We have extensive experience implementing and teaching lean principles.
We primarily handle backend work, but have a designer and UX guy at our disposal. We love analytics and customer feedback.
so wait, your domain expired, you ignore the emails sent, then after the redemption period is over, GoDaddy legally sells it. Somehow they are the bad guy.
I know that is an oversimplification, but do their terms and conditions say they guarantee to change the nameservers during redemption? That way if you happen to ignore the other methods of communication, you will notice that?
I thought the article was intriguing and understand the underlying principles, but the photos look so obviously photoshopped. I don't understand writing the story and faking the photos. Did any of it even happen?
1. Pick a niche or industry you want to work with.
2. Get in touch with owners/managers in your chosen area.
3. Take them to lunch and discuss their business. Watch their face and when they show you a pain point, try to pinpoint the cause.
4. You should discover more than a few problems they would spend money to have solved if you talk to enough of them.
5. Follow up with an email thanking them for their time and mention again how you have been giving some thought to a particular pain point. Try to find an article, software package, etc that attempts to solve their pain point and send them the link.
6. Build a true MVP (should be embarrassing, yet offer value to them), and follow-up with an email. Tell them you have been thinking more about their problem and wrote up a quick dirty app that might help them. Offer to demo it for them. While demoing discuss how much their pain costs their business.
7. Iterate based on their collective feedback.
8. Based on the discussion about pain costs, come up with a value-based price for your solution.
9. Refine your MVP, follow-up with another demo. Sell them a subscription to your solution. It may still be rough, but you should be able to demonstrate value and savings compared to their pain costs. CLOSE THE DEAL.
If you actually read the story you would see that this happened in South Africa. USA may in fact be worse than Russia for gays, but your proof needs to be more thoroughly vetted.