You can flag my comments all you want, but it doesn't change the facts. There isn't ANY link to evidence that this thing works. The Valley turned a con artist named Elizabeth Holmes-Madoff into a paper billionaire by…
So is it "Best cancer diagnosis system", or "Breast cancer diagnosis system"... or did you mean that he was from the UK, and this is a portmanteau word, like "Brexit"? Also more to the point, Elizabeth Holmes-Madoff and…
In high school, I had a poster that said "EAT SHIT-- Five Billion Flies Can't Be Wrong!!!" Your approach reminds me of that. You upvote things you don't read, because you figure they're probably pretty good? How about…
There's a scene in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER where the producer halts the recording session after Loretta Lynn starts singing and says "We need to get some more pickers." "What do you mean more?" her husband says. "I can't…
Where is the video teaching basic spelling? (Peronsal)
Elance and Odesk merged to become Upwork. What you heard about those sites is incorrect-- or, more precisely, incomplete. It's like my saying "A lot of the people on GitHub couldn't build a program to display 'Hello…
1. What part of the phrase "might or might not" wasn't clear to you? 2. Where in "introverts who lock themselves away and aren't great at self-promotion" do you see any assertion about talent? What you're saying is a…
You have to be kidding. And I mean full John McEnroe "You cannot be serious." First of all $150 for a 750-word article would be a good payment. Assuming you aren't asking for more words than that ("blog post" suggests…
Use it to serve PHP pages. That oughta do 'er.
No, you aren't "good enough to do consulting." Skills are important, but attitude matters. If you charge $200 an hour, you have to BELIEVE that you can add $400,000 in value if they keep you around for a year. Note that…
Neither-- it's pronounced "Gif".
Dwight Lundell had his license to practice medicine in revoked in 2008-- his fifth disciplinary action in five years by the Arizona Medical Board. This does not prove his ideas are wrong, but it did earn him a lengthy…
So customers know why they should buy you, as opposed to the 14 other companies offering the same thing. Unless you are building life-size replicas of people out of tuna salad and Swedish Fish, other companies will do…
You send letters to your brother Theo, cut off your ear and hope to be recognized as a genius someday. You say "you're not the managerial type so leadership positions... requiring people management are a far stretch for…
TaxPal, by a wide margin, because it's short and very close to being self-explanatory. When people say "What?" you can say "It's an online bookkeeping service provider" and they'll say "Oh, right!"-- and NOT say "Now…
Of course you can learn online. So what? Here;s why you need to saddle yourself with $125,000 additional debt-- even though it might become useless soon. Let me explain how companies hire. If you want a job done, there…
Hi-- Rufus Jones. Pleased to make your acquaintance. I live outside of Germany-- in fact, I live outside of Boston. There was a 3-year period when you couldn't pick up a computer magazine without finding a 1-page or…
Absolutely look for an internship. What would a job offer you, other than money (which you say you need) and experience (which you absolutely will need if you ever want to get hired)? In the business world, you are…
Facebook, Google or Twitter, because I don't think those companies know enough about me yet. Sane people use Abine's Maskme things they think they might want to use and Mailinator or one of the other disposables places…
It is if you use underpants gnomes, eg: 1. Order shirt online 2. ? 3. $30 dress shirt in 48 hours with profit!
Thanks for filling in some details. I don't have any expertise in the apparel business either, but general principles indicated how badly thought out this was. Really, a functioning brain stem is all you need. If this…
You ought to be able to get at least $100 million for this idea. Look at how well it corresponds to your typical dot-com: 1. You have absolutely no understanding of the size of your market, the frequency with which they…
There's no such thing as a "student developer". If they pay you, you're a pro. There are only good and bad pros. Get into the habit, right now, of thinking and acting like a consultant running your own business. If…
Thanks for the kind words. Language is relative-- it depends on who you want to sell to. For marketing professionals, you use one set of words. For CEOs, you use another. For engineers who think marketing and selling is…
My first impression was {CRINGE}, to be blunt. You seem talented-- and you asked people to tear you apart-- so let's see if you mean it. Let me give you about $1,000 in free work. 1. The first thing you need to…
You can flag my comments all you want, but it doesn't change the facts. There isn't ANY link to evidence that this thing works. The Valley turned a con artist named Elizabeth Holmes-Madoff into a paper billionaire by…
So is it "Best cancer diagnosis system", or "Breast cancer diagnosis system"... or did you mean that he was from the UK, and this is a portmanteau word, like "Brexit"? Also more to the point, Elizabeth Holmes-Madoff and…
In high school, I had a poster that said "EAT SHIT-- Five Billion Flies Can't Be Wrong!!!" Your approach reminds me of that. You upvote things you don't read, because you figure they're probably pretty good? How about…
There's a scene in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER where the producer halts the recording session after Loretta Lynn starts singing and says "We need to get some more pickers." "What do you mean more?" her husband says. "I can't…
Where is the video teaching basic spelling? (Peronsal)
Elance and Odesk merged to become Upwork. What you heard about those sites is incorrect-- or, more precisely, incomplete. It's like my saying "A lot of the people on GitHub couldn't build a program to display 'Hello…
1. What part of the phrase "might or might not" wasn't clear to you? 2. Where in "introverts who lock themselves away and aren't great at self-promotion" do you see any assertion about talent? What you're saying is a…
You have to be kidding. And I mean full John McEnroe "You cannot be serious." First of all $150 for a 750-word article would be a good payment. Assuming you aren't asking for more words than that ("blog post" suggests…
Use it to serve PHP pages. That oughta do 'er.
No, you aren't "good enough to do consulting." Skills are important, but attitude matters. If you charge $200 an hour, you have to BELIEVE that you can add $400,000 in value if they keep you around for a year. Note that…
Neither-- it's pronounced "Gif".
Dwight Lundell had his license to practice medicine in revoked in 2008-- his fifth disciplinary action in five years by the Arizona Medical Board. This does not prove his ideas are wrong, but it did earn him a lengthy…
So customers know why they should buy you, as opposed to the 14 other companies offering the same thing. Unless you are building life-size replicas of people out of tuna salad and Swedish Fish, other companies will do…
You send letters to your brother Theo, cut off your ear and hope to be recognized as a genius someday. You say "you're not the managerial type so leadership positions... requiring people management are a far stretch for…
TaxPal, by a wide margin, because it's short and very close to being self-explanatory. When people say "What?" you can say "It's an online bookkeeping service provider" and they'll say "Oh, right!"-- and NOT say "Now…
Of course you can learn online. So what? Here;s why you need to saddle yourself with $125,000 additional debt-- even though it might become useless soon. Let me explain how companies hire. If you want a job done, there…
Hi-- Rufus Jones. Pleased to make your acquaintance. I live outside of Germany-- in fact, I live outside of Boston. There was a 3-year period when you couldn't pick up a computer magazine without finding a 1-page or…
Absolutely look for an internship. What would a job offer you, other than money (which you say you need) and experience (which you absolutely will need if you ever want to get hired)? In the business world, you are…
Facebook, Google or Twitter, because I don't think those companies know enough about me yet. Sane people use Abine's Maskme things they think they might want to use and Mailinator or one of the other disposables places…
It is if you use underpants gnomes, eg: 1. Order shirt online 2. ? 3. $30 dress shirt in 48 hours with profit!
Thanks for filling in some details. I don't have any expertise in the apparel business either, but general principles indicated how badly thought out this was. Really, a functioning brain stem is all you need. If this…
You ought to be able to get at least $100 million for this idea. Look at how well it corresponds to your typical dot-com: 1. You have absolutely no understanding of the size of your market, the frequency with which they…
There's no such thing as a "student developer". If they pay you, you're a pro. There are only good and bad pros. Get into the habit, right now, of thinking and acting like a consultant running your own business. If…
Thanks for the kind words. Language is relative-- it depends on who you want to sell to. For marketing professionals, you use one set of words. For CEOs, you use another. For engineers who think marketing and selling is…
My first impression was {CRINGE}, to be blunt. You seem talented-- and you asked people to tear you apart-- so let's see if you mean it. Let me give you about $1,000 in free work. 1. The first thing you need to…