Even if you're a FT employee, you are always selling yourself -- to your one and only client. The only difference with self-employment is you wake up to this fact (or starve, go back to selling yourself during a FT employment interview) and may have more than once client at a time. Even some FT employees work two or more jobs to get by. Self-employment is similar.
Want to get excellent at sales (even if you're going to stay with FT employment)? Read and re-read: Socratic Sales.
A lot of people believe that start-ups succeed or fail because of cash (enough or too little). Certainly cash flow is king when it comes to staying in business. However, the reality is: You either have time or you have money. It takes time to develop a clientèle through carefully crafted product fulfillment and good service. Or you can accelerate this process through expensive advertising. You can burn through a lot of cash if you solve everything with it. Or you can be more creative and leverage time, including other people's time, and spend from less to zero. Time and persistence can pay big dividends.
So, hone your skills. Sell them. Watch your cash. Develop relationships (clients vs customers). Bank!
Apple: Government Top 1%: "Job creators" Bottom 80%: The poor saps
Apple takes 33% from 100% of all developers.
USA: Government Top 1%: "Job creators" Bottom 80%: The "poor" ([rolls eyes] have you visited Bolivia? Somalia? Haiti?)
USA takes 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33% and 35% from citizens -- generally, depending on income level.
The highest tax brackets have been in decline since 2000: 1993–2000: 39.6% 2001: 39.1% 2002: 38.6% 2003–2007: 35%
Coincidently, so have incomes for the bottom 80% of US citizens (especially if one considers cost increases e.g. health care, interest rates on personal credit).
In the USA, 1% of the people are millionaires. In the US Congress, 48% of members are millionaires. Who do you think is duping who? It was once a government By the people, For the people. Now it boils down to, "Corporations are people, too, ya know!". So our once great country is now in tatters -- as far as people are concerned. Yet it remains a fantastic playground for corporations. Yay!
So, let that be a lesson for you, China. Oh... I'm sorry. Too late. You see, you will never grow to be the great country the USA once was because you are trying to emulate the wrong version of our government. Too bad for you.
Make the leap to Consultant. Consultant is just another word for "continuous, steep learning curve". At 30 it's a setup for failure. At 50 it's just right. Am on my 8th year, strictly corp-to-corp (including via regular recruiters) and it pays incredibly well. Corporations just want solutions. You just want to code. Perfect!
Really? Do I really need to enumerate for you the virtually endless list of hyper-corrupt small governments? Oh. I get it. You're just trolling. Cool. (No one could be that full of BS.)
"OTOH, who usually cleans up any messes that happens with it? Who gets blamed if the cloud provider has an outage?"
Precisely the stuff of why more IT professionals are moving to cloud vendors: Most people want to be seen as valuable contributors to the success of something.
More than three thousand died in the Twin Tower collapse that occurred 2001-11-9, including Canadians.
Hundreds of thousands converged in South Africa for the World Cup opening ceremonies, including Canadians.
Overwhelming amounts of aid have poured in to Haiti from around the globe, including Canadians.
'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians.
I CARE TOO This asteroid has been poised for millions of years, ready to strike Earth in 2098, and the story has made it to/. just now? Come on editors!
In a new study (that took 15 seconds to pull out of thin air, because its conclusions are so damn obvious to the casual observer) it was found that 64 percent of scientists are either sports-unaware (34%) or sports-aware (30%). But only five of the 275 in-depth interviewees actively oppose sports fanaticism; and even among the third who are sports-unaware, many consider themselves 'healthy.' 'According to the scientists I interviewed, the academy seems to have a "strong culture" that suppresses discussion about sports in many areas,' says Ecklund. 'To remove the perceived stigma, we would need to have more scientists talking openly about issues of sports where such issues are particularly relevant to their discipline (i.e.nowhere).
There are certain core ingredients typically required for success:
* Marketing -- finding out if there is a need for a product, creating requirements for a new products based on emerging needs in a market
* Sales -- getting the word out, building relationships and closing deals
* Distribution -- fulfilling orders, positioning goods for easy access and generally getting products into the hands of your customers
* Support -- keeping the brand alive in your customer's mind, keeping the relationship positive and creating secondary opportunities to, say, up-sell or repeat-sell
* Accounting -- getting paid for all of the above, keeping current with accounts payable (esp. taxes) and paying employees and shareholders
* Product Development -- (the easy part) research, design, testing and documentation
* Production -- parts procurement, assembly, verification, bundling and shipping (on time and under budget)
* Human Resources, Legal and Staff -- people named "Peter"
Does you company have all of these in place? If it's missing even two or three components, you may be headed for real trouble. If Megacorp can fill in some of the blanks, consider being bough out a real win-win!
Most important: Decide quickly. Also important: Try to put as little emotion into the process as possible. When you have made your decision, consider the following:
If you decide in favor, make certain the process moves as quickly as possible. Make sure you have put in place -- before taking each and every step -- provisions for backing out (at no cost to you). At the slightest sign of foot-dragging, stop the process and pull out. Decide from the beginning what your triggers will be for backing out. Then stick to the plan.
Being bought out is time-consuming. Think of it as a huge distraction to your business. A huge distraction could be the only thing Magacorp wants to "buy". If they're earnest, they'll understand and appreciate caution as well as haste. (Time is money.)
If you decide against, let Magacorp know immediately. Then get back to work, pronto. Looking back, second thoughts and re-negotiations are distractions, too. Let Megacorp know that your decision is final.
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Even if you're a FT employee, you are always selling yourself -- to your one and only client. The only difference with self-employment is you wake up to this fact (or starve, go back to selling yourself during a FT employment interview) and may have more than once client at a time. Even some FT employees work two or more jobs to get by. Self-employment is similar.
Want to get excellent at sales (even if you're going to stay with FT employment)? Read and re-read: Socratic Sales.
A lot of people believe that start-ups succeed or fail because of cash (enough or too little). Certainly cash flow is king when it comes to staying in business. However, the reality is: You either have time or you have money. It takes time to develop a clientèle through carefully crafted product fulfillment and good service. Or you can accelerate this process through expensive advertising. You can burn through a lot of cash if you solve everything with it. Or you can be more creative and leverage time, including other people's time, and spend from less to zero. Time and persistence can pay big dividends.
So, hone your skills. Sell them. Watch your cash. Develop relationships (clients vs customers). Bank!
The math works like this...
Apple: Government
Top 1%: "Job creators"
Bottom 80%: The poor saps
Apple takes 33% from 100% of all developers.
USA: Government
Top 1%: "Job creators"
Bottom 80%: The "poor" ([rolls eyes] have you visited Bolivia? Somalia? Haiti?)
USA takes 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33% and 35% from citizens -- generally, depending on income level.
The highest tax brackets have been in decline since 2000:
1993–2000: 39.6%
2001: 39.1%
2002: 38.6%
2003–2007: 35%
Coincidently, so have incomes for the bottom 80% of US citizens (especially if one considers cost increases e.g. health care, interest rates on personal credit).
In the USA, 1% of the people are millionaires. In the US Congress, 48% of members are millionaires. Who do you think is duping who? It was once a government By the people, For the people. Now it boils down to, "Corporations are people, too, ya know!". So our once great country is now in tatters -- as far as people are concerned. Yet it remains a fantastic playground for corporations. Yay!
So, let that be a lesson for you, China. Oh... I'm sorry. Too late. You see, you will never grow to be the great country the USA once was because you are trying to emulate the wrong version of our government. Too bad for you.
Make the leap to Consultant. Consultant is just another word for "continuous, steep learning curve". At 30 it's a setup for failure. At 50 it's just right. Am on my 8th year, strictly corp-to-corp (including via regular recruiters) and it pays incredibly well. Corporations just want solutions. You just want to code. Perfect!
Why won't Google just use the Force?
New study out shows a distinct correlation between desktop preference and IQ.
Preemptive: Looks as though it might have been a hoax.
Really? Do I really need to enumerate for you the virtually endless list of hyper-corrupt small governments? Oh. I get it. You're just trolling. Cool. (No one could be that full of BS.)
"the battle for second place is neck and neck" Hey, if you're not first, you're last -- Ricky Bobby
Anonymous programmed one Gigabyte of data from NATO Huh...
"The AnonymousIRC software development organization have claimed this afternoon that they have programmed into NATO servers" Programmed into?
Hate to be a grammar Nazi but the message is a bit twisted. What did they do again?
"OTOH, who usually cleans up any messes that happens with it? Who gets blamed if the cloud provider has an outage?"
Precisely the stuff of why more IT professionals are moving to cloud vendors: Most people want to be seen as valuable contributors to the success of something.
So... Win, win?
I know a guy from La Paz who's first name is Pier? Yeah, that's the ticket...
"Researchers at the the National University of Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina"
Pier reviews or it didn't happen.
"I have always liked... Cowabunga."
"So, what, we solve this problem by voting for the dudes that say they're honest and working for the people?"
No. Just convince Glen Beck that patents are the spawn of the Devil. Congress will fix this inside of a week.
De Icaza? You're back?
Learn lessons much?
"KDE? Fuck that shit, who wants a desktop with a smelly foot on it?"
Um... OK, I give up. You do?
When they say, "software pirates hack reputable legitimate websites" it means the number of web sites that have fallen victim is: two
Oh, and in between those two are The Doors...
More than three thousand died in the Twin Tower collapse that occurred 2001-11-9, including Canadians.
Hundreds of thousands converged in South Africa for the World Cup opening ceremonies, including Canadians.
Overwhelming amounts of aid have poured in to Haiti from around the globe, including Canadians.
'Striking' evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians.
I said LASERS! Sharks with LASERS... Not livers. LASERS!
I CARE TOO This asteroid has been poised for millions of years, ready to strike Earth in 2098, and the story has made it to /. just now? Come on editors!
In Kubuntu:
* Ctrl+Alt+Esc
* Watch for skull/crossbones mouse cursor to appear
* Click Left mouse button
In a new study (that took 15 seconds to pull out of thin air, because its conclusions are so damn obvious to the casual observer) it was found that 64 percent of scientists are either sports-unaware (34%) or sports-aware (30%). But only five of the 275 in-depth interviewees actively oppose sports fanaticism; and even among the third who are sports-unaware, many consider themselves 'healthy.' 'According to the scientists I interviewed, the academy seems to have a "strong culture" that suppresses discussion about sports in many areas,' says Ecklund. 'To remove the perceived stigma, we would need to have more scientists talking openly about issues of sports where such issues are particularly relevant to their discipline (i.e.nowhere).
There are certain core ingredients typically required for success:
* Marketing -- finding out if there is a need for a product, creating requirements for a new products based on emerging needs in a market
* Sales -- getting the word out, building relationships and closing deals
* Distribution -- fulfilling orders, positioning goods for easy access and generally getting products into the hands of your customers
* Support -- keeping the brand alive in your customer's mind, keeping the relationship positive and creating secondary opportunities to, say, up-sell or repeat-sell
* Accounting -- getting paid for all of the above, keeping current with accounts payable (esp. taxes) and paying employees and shareholders
* Product Development -- (the easy part) research, design, testing and documentation
* Production -- parts procurement, assembly, verification, bundling and shipping (on time and under budget)
* Human Resources, Legal and Staff -- people named "Peter"
Does you company have all of these in place? If it's missing even two or three components, you may be headed for real trouble. If Megacorp can fill in some of the blanks, consider being bough out a real win-win!
Most important: Decide quickly. Also important: Try to put as little emotion into the process as possible. When you have made your decision, consider the following:
If you decide in favor, make certain the process moves as quickly as possible. Make sure you have put in place -- before taking each and every step -- provisions for backing out (at no cost to you). At the slightest sign of foot-dragging, stop the process and pull out. Decide from the beginning what your triggers will be for backing out. Then stick to the plan.
Being bought out is time-consuming. Think of it as a huge distraction to your business. A huge distraction could be the only thing Magacorp wants to "buy". If they're earnest, they'll understand and appreciate caution as well as haste. (Time is money.)
If you decide against, let Magacorp know immediately. Then get back to work, pronto. Looking back, second thoughts and re-negotiations are distractions, too. Let Megacorp know that your decision is final.
Good luck!