mollylynn's comments

On: Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Pitch Their Ideas To Ventu...

[mollylynn]

Sometimes intense people need to be reminded of the obvious as the obvious is too often overlooked

On: Hands-on Techniques To Avoid Hiring Wantrepreneurs

[mollylynn]

I totally disagree. "Accomplishments" are what you rely on when hiring someone for a big company. When hiring entrepreneurs, their resumes are often misleading / worthless.

See this article for a more complete discussion of this thought: http://infochachkie.com/hiring/

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Accomplishments totally matter. Being able to show some work you've done is huge. How can anyone argue with success?

On: Pawn Stars Teaches Entrepreneurs How To Not Negoti...

[mollylynn]

Exactly!

On: Intellectual Property - Worthless To A Startup, Pr...

[mollylynn]

Agreed - Intellectual Property is usually overvalued by larger companies. However, it still makes sense for startups to protect their IP, without basing their success on the novelty of their IP.

Nice article.

On: Ask HN: Should I go to Startup School?

[mollylynn]

Not worth it!

Learn on the job and network for free (or very little money). Such 'orchestrated' startup events tend to be populated with consultants, accountants and lawyers who want your business.

Good luck.

[iamelgringo → mollylynn]

Such 'orchestrated' startup events tend to be populated with consultants, accountants and lawyers who want your business

Ummm... Startup school is a bit different. It's pretty much all geeks who are neck deep in their own startups, or soon will be.

On: How GoToMyPC Devistated pcAnywhere & GoToMeeting P...

[mollylynn]

pcAnywhere's market share has plummeted, from well a dominate position of the SMB remote access market to a fractional, minority share.

What word would you use?

On: Ask HN: Explain AWS

[mollylynn]

If you haven't done so already, check out RightScale (www.rightscale.com). They offer a dashboard that helps users access AWS.

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Or you can just use Amazon's console.

https://console.aws.amazon.com/

[mindhacker → mollylynn]

Create a free RightScale account and check out their shell scripts. One can get good ideas of automation from them.

On: Consultants Can Destroy Your Startup

[mollylynn]

Sorry guys, I did not realize that the prior link redirected to the page in which the article was originally posted. My mistake.

The first link seems to have been pretty well received before it was taken down, hence the post to the original link.

On: Consultants Can Destroy Your Startup

[mollylynn]

Love the joke - never heard it before, so certainly worth repeating.

Too bad that it is oh so true...

On: What Are Your Startup's Core Values?

[mollylynn]

Agreed - but I think part of the point of the article was that the 'non entrepreneurs' that were being hired 'didn't get it'.

I a perfect world, there would be no need for Core Values to be written down. However, as the article points out, at some point in a venture's life, it grows big enough that you can no longer assume everyone is 100% aligned.

Creepy to an entrepreneur, no doubt. However, potentially very necessary for non-entrepreneurs to act in the proper manner.