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BrandonWatson

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Managing Director at KOM Partners Founder of InterviewAt.com

Formerly of Oracle, Datalogix (sold), Kindle at AMZN, Windows Phone & .NET at MSFT, IMSafer (sold), Soros Private Equity, and AskMe.com (sold).

Part time hacker and product manager, most time private equity operating partner, as often as I can time endurance sports nut (mountain bikes, road bikes, triathlons, trail marathons, XC skiing, DH skiing, and snowboarding), and full time husband and father.

  1. Ask HN: Indie Hacker, Solopreneur, Entrepreneur Achievement Milestones

    For those of you who have jumped off the corporate train (or never got on) - what would you consider the key "achievement" points in your journey? I started thinking through what I would put on such a list but then…

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  2. Ask HN: What Do You Hate About the Hiring Process?

    For the past 2 years I have been running free and paid mock interviews with hundreds of candidates who are primarily targeting tech companies - free content on YT under InterviewAt if interested. The follow-up meetings…

    2 points 8
  3. What's it like to get a “?” email from Jeff Bezos? [video] (youtube.com)

    Hey HN: I've pulled together a video for one of the most common questions I get about Amazon: What's it like to receive a question mark email from Jeff Bezos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RD-UDE0rQ I've never found…

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  4. Show HN: InterviewAt – mock interviews by a real exec with real feedback (interviewat.com)
    3 points 1
  5. Show HN: Mock Interview Service (interviewat.com)
    1 points 1
  6. On What We Value in and from Work (medium.com)
    2 points 0
  7. Ask HN: Build 2017 roll call

    Registration for Build 2017 just opened: https://register.build.microsoft.com/register This will be my first time attending a MSFT developer event as a bona fide customer, and not working for them or as a partner…

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  8. Amazon Attention to Detail in TOS (aws.amazon.com)
    7 points 2
  9. Ask HN: Best holiday gift this year?

    You can only pick one, and you can pick whether you gave or received, but would love to hear what people are geeked about this year for the holidays.

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  10. Turning Points in Life (manyniches.com)
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  11. Amazon Kindle Matchbook is live (amazon.com)
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  12. Ask HN: Any Chemistry hackers here?

    There's a project I want to undertake. I want to do it out in the open. I've been inspired by a few Maker projects as of late. I keep hearing "you should file a patent right now" when I have shared this idea with close…

    3 points 8
  13. Manti Te’o’s Dead GF is a Hoax [social engineering? social media ruse?] (deadspin.com)
    1 points -1
  14. The World I Plan to End (manyniches.com)
    1 points 0
  15. Warm Inside With A Blanket [startup CEO parable] (manyniches.com)
    1 points 0
  16. On Working At Amazon (manyniches.com)
    5 points 0
  17. New Ad Model for Facebook (manyniches.com)
    1 points 0
  18. Facebook Valuation - Public & Private (manyniches.com)
    1 points 0
  19. What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You? [corrected link] (manyniches.com)
    1 points 0
  20. Facebook IPO Food for Thought (manyniches.com)
    3 points 0
  21. Facebook and Instagram - 37 cents to 19 billion dollars (manyniches.com)
    12 points 0
  22. Amazon Instant Video Now on PS3 (amazon.com)
    2 points 0
  23. Heisenberg's Cat (manyniches.com)
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  24. An Experiment in Silence (manyniches.com)
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  25. Ask HN: Who is HN-black-armband worthy? (very classy move Paul)

    I must admit, the passing of Steve Jobs effected more emotionally than I would have thought. So much so that I had an email exchange with some of my friends about who else of our contemporaries would elicit anything…

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