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data engineering and science; interested in solving problems with data and making complex topics seem simple.
http://dfrieds.com
Location: New York, NY Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (SF or Bay Area preferably) Technologies: Python, AWS, Spark, Airflow, Docker, Terraform, SQL, Pandas, Matplotlib Resume: dfrieds.com/about Email: dan @ website name above
Congrats Eric, Rob and Ed!
I tried Magic and it took a lot of back and forth to set up a laundry service over txt. How is Miley gonna streamline txts to cut right to the chase?
Google Analytics - definitely look in-depth at the amount of features available.
Katie was like all of us at one time. She sucked at something. People are often too afraid to admit it or persevere past the suckiness. But Katie did. And she's in inspiration to me.
I absolutely love riding the Boosted Board. It's an amazing vehicle that goes up to 20MPH and weighs just 15lb. I plan on solely using my Boosted Board to commute around SF.
I'm happy to answer any questions or concerns about this service.
I can't get enough of this site! It's so fun
Love hearing this! I co-founded the first MHacks and after going to 10+ hackathons, I think this will become a trend. Hackathons are held in nearly every major city and every college now. More prize winnings, more hackers to meet potential cofounders and you're ripe to see just a few more startups.
Love the post, Alex! Looking forward to the re-designed Fetchnotes.
My issue is I take notes and never get back to actually doing them. I need smarter notes to remind me of next steps to get stuff done!
With more and more app developers trying to monetize their apps, Emulos will be so critical!
Alex is the real deal! Never have I talked with someone and been so inspired! He has influence to source deals and has heard thousands of stories from entrepreneurs. I trust his expertise.
Great points by Michael here. Kickstarter has opened the doors as a tool to gain initial funding to meet producing an exact product or service.
What I loved most about Michael's post is he talked about the importance of outreach - tweets from other relevant organizations, guest blog posts and contributing to online forums. Though Kickstarter is a "marketplace" - it likely won't get you all the backers you need without doing your own outreach to potential customers and backers. It's essential to understand their pain points and meet it with your product, just as Real Python did.
ok thanks Alex!
If the person you want to get intro-ed to is too busy to currently help you out, is it typically OK to follow up again just a month later? Or would you recommend trying to get intro-ed by someone else?
why is the only way to contact you through Twitter?
Excel is a challenging tool to learn. It's not necessarily Excel that's the problem - it's called "human error". It happens everywhere.
Wow! Very inspiring story! I'm glad to hear you stuck to your strengths and didn't desperately force a non-programmer to learn programming. It was a critical part of your business but your full-time employees focusing on their expertise worked out for the best.
No man! You can accept payments directly in-stream on Facebook and Twitter to leverage your social networks for selling your product or service. And today the pricing model was lowered to just 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction - very affordable for all sellers.
It's open to the masses and online. It may not be the traditional style of a course in which you're assigned homework and have exams, but it seems to qualify for the loose definition of a MOOC. I love that you can ask him questions in real time and he's readily available here! Saves so much effort on my behalf to get to know him.
Creating a community around an app is very difficult. Getting traction and sustaining is numero uno on gaining "success". Looking forward to what Alexis has to say!
So impressed with this hackathon! To have 127 hacks submitted for 550 hackers is unreal! The recruiter at Facebook said he was most impressed with these hacks at a student hackathon over any other one.
Ihanks for sharing your story. It was very inspiring to know you can learn at such a high rate and get a job you enjoy in roughly a year of programming.
This is awesome! I constantly look for live editors but haven't found a good one for front-end. I tried Adobe Brackets, Firebug (for in-window editing) but all had their complexities and constraints. Scrathpad.io is by far the most intuitive and best one for HTML and CSS out there!