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Must...resist...from spending my entire lunch looking at all the videos and wikis.


It's a lot of fun watching a child learn how to interface with a touchscreen for the first time. Even better to see them interact with something like a flatscreen tv or a toy feature phone after they understand how a touchscreen works.

When my son was 3 he was very frustrated with my tv since he couldn't swipe through channels.


From Brad Feld regarding contractors (see #3):

1. Shut down everything including taking all the existing sites offline.

2. Set a new launch date of July 14, 2014.

3. Fire all of the contractors.

4. Hire Harper Reed as CTO of Healthcare.gov, give him the ball and 100% of the budget, and let him run with it.

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/10/how-to-fix-obamacare...


2. Is way too late for the millions losing their insurance as of Jan 1.

In theory anyone who had a policy before Obamacare was passed should have been grandfatherd, but HHS wrote regulations so strict, such that if anything changed like deductables, copays, or benefits, their policies are toast (per NBC: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-...).

These people are truly screwed; only something that allows others to calculate or get subsidies calculations would accommodate them, and since those become are direct payments from the Federal government you can understand why it wants a great deal of control over them.


Isn't founder/co-founder a good enough indication that you do everything? and if its not implicit enough maybe I can just make my title CXO to get the point across :)


This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Pres. Obama deported more immigrants his first term than Bush.


for the original post: there's not much more i can add other than what others are saying worked for me, too. Got sick of fundraising, moved to marketing. Got burned out of marketing, took up a side project (print-only diy zine) and then i discovered the startup scene and my love for marketing came back. im still at the same organization and love it.

for @hluska: im 27 but as of last year started experiencing the "aging is weird" phenomenon.

btw, i listened to kriss kross in 3rd grade, in high school became a straight-edge 70s revivalist (only listened to zeppelin, sabbath, doors and other typical gateway artists). oddly enough, i then went post-punk and partied my brains out. i love business and the startup community but still love dk, misfits, screamers (and canada had a killer music/movie scene in the 80s!)


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