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How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?
credit Having been back in the freelance world for a while now, I once again have to deal with quoting my clients an hourly rate for long-term contract work on an ongoing basis. I've been able to...
Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way?
CEO @strongholdpay. Alumni of @500GlobalVC @stellarorg @Walmartlabs. Fortune Ledger's 40 Under 40. #payments #fintech
The Benefits of Being a Female Software Engineer
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
Leaving Google
After seven years at Google, I'm leaving. Cue the inevitable 'what's wrong with you?' Before I get to the gripes, though, there are a few popular narratives I want to push back on: that Google has gone evil, that the good engineers are all defecting to Facebook, that 20% time was always a myth. Part one of three. The…
How I Dealt with Student Plagiarism
Panos Ipeirotis , a colleague at the NYU Stern School of Business , received considerable media attention when, in a blog post he subsequently removed , he discussed how his aggressive use of plagiarism detection software on student assignments poisoned the classroom atmosphere and tanked his teaching evaluations. As…
Android Developer Income Report #10
Last month has been looking like some slow down in my income and traffic. Fortunately it was only temporary as it is getting better with each day now. Anyway I still made quite nice income and as u…
Ridiculously Transparent
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
Joi Ito Named Director of the MIT Media Lab
Cambridge is booming with innovation, food, music, and history, highlighted in detail by the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s “Unpack my Cambridge” video series.
Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
Hack Week at Dropbox
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
Coders Who Don't Job Interview: Zed Shaw
I wrote a piece about the current state of job recruiting from a coder looking for work . I wondered:
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First Time vs Serial Entrepreneurs
I've been thinking a lot about the differences between first time and serial entrepreneurs. We invest in both and do not have a preference betweeen the two. But there are significant differences. The best first time entrepreneurs have been stewing on their idea for quite a while. It is a personal passion of theirs and…
My ICT teacher can’t mark my homework
Three years ago in August 2009 we ran the first ever Young Rewired State – a hack weekend aimed at the young developer community. I was determined to try to engage them with the exciting (sic…
Preparing To Fire an Executive
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The