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- Sales and Marketing go together, but the paths diverge once you know the importance of each function. It is good to get a broad idea of both. You can do some courses on coursera/MooCs, and try to get hands-on with running some marketing campaigns. - "The Challenger Sale" is a fairly easy and good book to read in general. - Have a look at SaaStr channel, there are some nuggets there https://www.youtube.com/c/Saastr/videos

All the best. Try out a lot with short feedback loops so that you can course correct suitably. Always respect the customer and their needs.

Stumbled on this which I felt was a very good compendium - https://dancres.github.io/Pages/

Would also recommend reading VLDB and DB it shows how distri algorithms are applied - http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9.html - http://www.redbook.io/

Disclaimer: I used to work at Couchbase(distributed NoSQL database) as a PM and launched Eventing.

Efficiency? Not sure how one measures fairness.

Is there any good paper on Consistency Models across different Network Partitions types?

How did you manage to get the movie posters?

'more' in terms of value? Then, take a break and roam the world. You can sustain for 2-3 years and do a RTW at a slow-n-steady pace and also make some money in the interim :)

'You see what you choose to See'.

With experience, I have seen that people get the knack for reading what they are interested in and know to understand & appreciate the content on the Web. One need not be easily influenced the thoughts being shared, but form their own opinions after careful examination of the facts.

Skimming content is a desirable skillset to have, especially in the era of information overload. HN is a sinkhole and one can spend hours on it, or selectively chose the topics/comments(to know whats-where) and move on.

Curious: how did you come up with that pricing?

Do writers 'actually' follow this kind of a structured process? I thought the ink just flows when in the mood!...atleast that's what happens with me, when I want to write. Else, I need to learn this process.

I did not get a chance to login and play around; but something along the lines of 'automatic' clustering(tip:ML) will be a definite value add.

Alos, do include some Features, Solution etc sections to the website...helps in SEO and also your prospective customer ;)

How is it different from logstash for syncing between 2 data sources? Or is Singer primarily meant for data extraction from SaaS sources?

one piece of advice that stuck onto me till date: "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

Write/Re-write/optimize is a good cycle to be in.

Architecting applications for the cloud is a non-trivial problem. Lot of forethought needs to go in place while choosing a particular infrastructure component. And the ideas of resiliency, robustness (what can be bucketed into 'graceful-degradation') etc along with the most important Monitoring needs to be put in place right from the initial days of the app, so that rearchitecting is does NOT end up being a costly affair.

pix2pix is has loads of potential! If productized well, this can create some amazing customer experiences.

Management is not easy as it sounds. Leading people and setting strategy needs a lot of experience. The culture of the company to take calculated risks should gel with your thought process when you are higher-up. You are also responsible for the people who report into you and need to make sure that all are 'taken care of'.

Being in Management has nothing to do with Coding; you should be a good manager of time/tasks, so that you can afford to code atleast a few hours every week, if you dig such.

I have moved from being a Principal Engineer, to Product Management and now am leading Engineering. Must say that I have enjoyed the journey so far, and the learning has been exponential. I was hands-on when I was a PM, and am still. As a PM, quick PoCs helped me get across my idea quicker and when you lead Engineering, complete understanding of the details is the most important so that course corrections and strategy can be defined well.

Being hands-on keeps me sane.

Did a 1-year part-time Management course in one of the top BSchools, at the end of my tenure as a PM - wasn't of great benefit, as I think that the idea of a MBA is becoming largely irrelevant. I think a good selection of courses in MooC helps; in fact, for me, I was so much fascinated by courses in Coursera that led me to do the part-time Exec Mgmt course. But I must say that the experience of the Professors and getting back to school after almost a decade was enjoyable. Just listening to the lectures of the Profs was much needed.

During the whole journey, I cultivated the habit of reading and writing(a lot!) and I can personally see my thought process mature. But I know it's just tip of the iceberg.

I think the most important trait is not to stop learning whatever you do. I know it sounds cliched, but it is what it is.

Am always on the lookout for smart people with whom I can work with and learn.

I would agree. Shit happens; deal with it without wasting more resources on it. [BUT, If you can afford the legal fees and more importantly -- the TIME -- go for it, but do not go with the idea of vendetta in mind, but rightful compensation.]

I somehow like the idea of 'Let Go', though easier said than done, this will make you realize many things in life and prepare you for the Future than continue to lurk in the Past.

(Or is it the Buddha in me talking!!)

"Wat" has influenced me so much that, whenever I hear some cliched or meaningless argument, Watman projects himself onto my retina.

Start attempting Data Science competitions; the learning rate just exponentially explodes.

Also, look at the solutions from past exercises, it really helps in how different people solve the same problem with different approaches.

You might have to embed yourselves in the company(/Customer) as a contractor and show them the value-prop, build confidence and then take over complete projects. The first customer is primarily though word-of-mouth!

(Sorry, but this is pretty much the standard advise for any consulting gigs)

Your reply was EXACTLY what my pals who started a similar firm gave me!

If you cannot monetize from Day-1, then it's going to be very difficult unless you repivot and change your biz-model; and also, ofcourse if you are not too keen on monetizing itself.

Hotels will not list unless there are network effects. Already there are tonnes of listing services. An average hotel in South East Asia lists in Agoda, TripAdvisor, Booking.com and many more!!

I would recommend this : take a few months off and travel across South East Asia(or atleast Thailand & Vietnam - as they are well connected to Internet) and hear the challenges faced by hotels and guesthouses. You will be surprised to hear what they say. Remember that whole of the Western World descends down in this region to escape winter.

(Call me short-sighted, but making money from Ads is not 'monetization' as per me)

From my experience, there are 3 kinds of traveller: 1. People who know where they are going for a stipulated period of time 2. People who know which region they are going to over a long period of time 3. People who have taken a sabbatical or couple of years off or have decided that they are going to be on road for a long period of time.

For #1 - hotel and flight deals matter the most For #2 - they figure out most of the stuff while on the move and do not want to plan much. they pretty much buy to-fro tickets from their base and figure out everything else on the move.

Monetizing the idea of 'where should i go' looks pretty tough to me. My pals tried a venture wherein based on the region of interest the website would come up with an itinerary, they couldnt do well and had to fold.

Travel industry needs technology and some disruption; it hasn't seen anything 'interesting' other than the known Skyscanner, TripAdvisor, Agoda etc for a long period of time now.

I did a 50-books project last year. http://theuforce.blogspot.in/p/reading-list.html

http://theuforce.blogspot.in/2016/01/the-50-books-project.ht...

Some charts from the data : http://theuforce.blogspot.in/2014/05/visualizing-executed-of...

I had thought about this problem(and more) earlier - a single portal that does Knowledge Management, SRs, Collaboration, Workforce Management etc. Let me know how it goes...

Other than the usual books, I dig the most recent innovations (on Twitter) by subscribing to these lists :

https://twitter.com/BrianBBrian/lists/data-visualization https://twitter.com/venkasub/lists/viz

Also, collated a list of libraries almost 3 years back: http://theuforce.blogspot.in/2010/12/data-visualization-char...

Should I saw 'wow'? Or am I missing something?

Some other reasons for keeping mute in addition to what you have cited are: - not wanting to break bridges. In this close knit world, you often stumble on the same set of people again and again. - Legal hassles. IF you are up against a big company, chances are that they ignore you or they really take up the fight. - Fear of emotional stress due to all the above. Instead just quit silently.

This trend is indeed catching up as a 'tourism' venture. The island nation of "St Vincent and The Grenadines" offers this for quite sometime now.

Popularly known as 'de-tech or digital detox holiday'

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