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  1. Jon L

    Degree vs Trade

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I'm genuinely curious about your response to this question: How is your suggestion to improve things any different from communism? And, is central planning better than the market? Why? Consider that central management of infinitely complex stuff like this results in 5000 tons of extra...
  2. Jon L

    I want to offer accessibility certification services to employer company, as a vendor. How to go about it?

    You need to read through all the paperwork you signed when you started working for this company. Some companies make you sign an agreement when you're a software developer that basically says the company owns everything you make regardless of whether you did it on company time or not. Some...
  3. Jon L

    Going fastlane in Legal (Lawsuits & more)?

    HOT! 
    To successfully prosecute a class action case, you have to be really, really, really, really good at what you do. You're going up against companies with unlimited budgets, and the incentive to use it. I built a case management system for a class action case. There were 100-200 users of the...
  4. Jon L

    What's going on with Elon Musk? Eccentric or going mad?

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    Seriously. Just take ONE of those companies. I'll pick the 'easiest.' His satellite based internet company has been done before, but incredibly poorly. He's looking at increasing the bandwidth by orders(!!!) of magnitude, and latency by an order of magnitude. All while making the thing...
  5. Jon L

    First Mini Exit and Retirement on $500k. Possible?

    HOT! INVESTING 
    I think you'll get bored with not much to do. Is it possible to automate your business so that it runs itself, or runs with minimal input from you? If you can, I'd bet that you can make significantly more than $25k/year with it. From there, you can build something else that interests you.
  6. Jon L

    Buy to Rent Out & Rent Where You Live

    The advantage of renting your residence is it removes the Home-Depot-itis that comes with home ownership. If you buy a place to rent out, you'll only make improvements to it that make sense financially. In your own place, 'gosh, this $750 kitchen faucet sure does look nice...'
  7. Jon L

    Let's Talk About Entrepreneurial Depression

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    For some people, antidepressants can be really good. For me, I've tried almost all the various types of antidepressants. One of them made me suicidal. It was horrible. Several made me really tired. One of them worked amazingly well for a week and then quit working. One worked quite well...
  8. Jon L

    MVPs are they advisable or not (Minimum Viable Product )

    I think the point of an MVP is that it each word in the acronym matters: Minimum - don't do more than is necessary Viable - It needs to have a chance in the market. Producing a functional, but crappy looking product when customers will expect it to be spit-shined means that it is NOT viable...
  9. Jon L

    What to do with a lot of land on the island in Croatia?

    HOT! 
    How about "SMOAK" instead ... goes with the cannabis theme, too.
  10. Jon L

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    What this will do is put the kibosh on people selling their businesses. Why take a 43% hit, when, come the next time Republicans are in office, it will go back down? Who this will really hurt are people who *need* to sell their businesses now.
  11. Jon L

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    exactly. And, those 100,000 that died? How old were they, what other ailments did they already have, and how much longer would they have lived without the virus? Probable answers: "Pretty old," "several other ailments that would eventually kill them," and "not much longer ." My kids have...
  12. Jon L

    I said: "The website is $3000". They said: "Too expensive! I was thinking $500!"

    HOT! MARKETING 
    One way to phrase this to them is this: "I did say that I could do this for $500 (or whatever it was). That is for a quick and dirty website that is slapped together. I've thought about this, and your business won't benefit from such a site. We need to carefully think through how to talk to...
  13. Jon L

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    That's my least favorite kind of problem to solve. Usually, its a programming related thing where there's some stupid spelling error, errant semicolon, or something else stupid that take hours to troubleshoot.
  14. Jon L

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    I think there are two scenarios, one where you shouldn't talk, and the other where the police are your best friend: Scenario 1: Something bad happened to someone else (anything from a cop pulled you over to someone was murdered). Unless there's no possible way you were a suspect (you were out...
  15. Jon L

    Software consulting SLA recommendations

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    The insurance is about $100/month, and worth it.
  16. Jon L

    Audit agency for Software vendors

    Have you made much progress on this? I'm not sure how you would create software that would help with this. Its possible for a project to look great on paper, and fail miserably. Look how many lines of code we're writing every day! Look at how many tasks we're finishing per hour! Look at all...
  17. Jon L

    Software consulting SLA recommendations

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    include as little as possible. You will perform software consulting services for x dollars per hour. Invoiced weekly. Don't offer any warranties, don't offer to indemnify them. etc. I'd also purchase business insurance - E&O, plus general liability. I use Hiscox. PM me if you want more as...
  18. Jon L

    Delegating database admin access

    This requirement sounds like a mess, and it doesn't sound like you've thought it through in nearly the amount of detail you need. Simple monitoring is NOT a good solution. If the data is truly that important (think SSN, protected health information, etc), then a well-thought-out, and rather...
  19. Jon L

    Why don't manufacturers sell directly to consumers?

    Customers are a pain in the butt. the fewer you have of them, the better. if you have a ton of customers, you have to develop processes to handle them. Most companies focus either on dealing with end customers, or making product. not both.
  20. Jon L

    website development

    I'm not sure what the OP's question was. Seems the question was specifically about the price of the Terms of Service document - you can find those for free online. If you have a lawyer write it up, it will be a few hundred, plus or minus. On a business website in general: You can spend...

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