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It was wrong to subvert security protocols, but this employee was genius if he could spend 1/5 of salary to outsource his job with no one noticing any change in the level of the code being delivered.

There are literally hundreds of companies that should hire this individual to manage an entire team of outsourced developers.


I read it differently. I don't see any proof that he has any particular talent for managing entire teams of outsourced developers, but rather that he was being paid 4/5 too much for work easy and unimportant enough that he seemingly never had to communicate about it much with anybody besides his employee.


So managing an outsourced team is worth nothing? The China group probably wasn't working during his 9-to-5.


Cool technology, but not what I really want to see as an audience member.

The 3D, transitions, and movement make me too cognizant of technology involved in the presentation, which serves to detract from the presentation content.


Twitter Bootstrap recently Replaced Placehold.it with Holder.js, a client-side and retina-ready placeholder image tool.


Reminds of Leftronic (https://www.leftronic.com/)


@MrDrone - I hear you. And it took me a while to frame the discussion (@PG's email was sent to me on Oct. 16 & post was created Dec. 5).

I wanted to share the experience, because it would be helpful to others and also uplifting that we can make personal connections on the web. However, I was not proud that I was once banned and I didn't want this post to generate backlash from the community at large.

Ultimately, I decided it was a story worth sharing.


Is the Google+ integration as evident as the web client?

I really don't want the distraction of G+ inside my mobile clients.


@JackMorgan - what's the best way to contact you?


Want a future in campaign management?

Cut your chops with an e-commerce company. While there learn big data, how to test, and read into behavioral economics, and you're set.


I'm sure you're glad you over-prepared for the interview process instead of the other way around.

BTW, this is most promising company I've heard of originating from Startup Weekend event, including Zaarly ($1.3M raised), specifically because they have great technology and business model.


Most of my paid SaaS plans are closer to the $9-$19 dollar per month range.

Examples: Freshbooks, HootSuite, MailChimp, KISSmetrics, Dropbox


And all of the above are B2B products, whereas the OP described B2C products.

That's a very important point to make: There's a comfort zone of about $5 a month that the typical consumer will pay for SaaS software. There really is no cap for businesses, as it's much easier to gauge the ROI of software that eliminates a position vs. software that tracks your runs.


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