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Hey Breck, I was one of those staying on your couch. Had a great time and yes, without AirBNB wouldn't have been able to connect to great people around the Bay Area.

Specialized Accounting / Bookkeeping Services.

Anyone remember the movie: One Hour Photo with the late Robin Williams. That was the first thing which came to my mind.

Using Ubuntu in our development and production environment. It's rock solid. However might switch to Kubuntu as it appears to have better HiDPI support through plasma compared to gnome.

In Stephen King's book 'The Stand', he comes to the same conclusion: Doctors and surgeons to keep people from dying. Mechanical and civil engineers trying to get electricity back up etc. Groups of people will fiercely fight for 'this talent' and do whatever it takes to keep it.

In my case, I believe I managed to identify the root cause: 90% of the work I do is slightly over my head. As a bootstrapped solo founder and to stretch out the money I saved up I must do a lot of the tasks myself, which you would usually hire a specialist to do. This is not restricted to the technical aspect of my business but also concerns the legal, financial and sales side. So, imagine you’re a top of the line DBA with many years of experience and I ask you to take care of the front-end of the app as well as the backend, deal with the GDPR (without the help of a lawyer) and figure out sales in a market where traditional sales don’t work, you will eventually spread yourself thin. Now, this is how I overcome the challenge: as soon as I get a task which I don’t know how to tackle e.g. getting a firm grasp on double taxation avoidance agreements and procrastination sets in because I’m unsure where to get started, I break everything down into a single task and try to conquer it. Depending on the complexity of the task and lack of my knowledge how to tackle it the greater the procrastination. That procrastination, however, helps me, in turn, to process the task in ‘the background’ until I find a way to get started. Not sure if this makes sense, or if it is just me. On the other hand, constantly working on different tasks across professions has helped me to quickly learn the fundamentals of each sector/topic/issue/field. If it is really needed I can still consult with a specialist and save some money, because there is a baseline for discussion and I know exactly what I need/want.

Like us. We started a newish project on Rails and couldn't be happier. 90% of the app's job is to do CRUD. Wouldn't want to use any other framework for that job.

Contrary to the advice which is out there I believe the focus shouldn't be on friend or none-friend, but the 'person' and the 'relationship'. Being a founder is incredibly stressful, so you need to find someone who's got your back. In my case, it's my brother because I wouldn't trust anyone else with it, besides our parents.

Despite being a native German, I've lived seven years in Scotland. Probably the craziest time of my life. I'm currently enjoying the last drops of a Laphroaig PX Cask, triple matured. I also have a 1993 Edradour Cask Strength, which I've set aside for that moment I hit a million in profits with my little SaaS. May take a while though...

Yes, please expand. We're using encrypted secrets part of our Ansible Playbooks. It hasn't let us down yet.

As of 2017, I'm using Winamp v5.66 on my Windows 10 box and am scrobbling songs since 2004 through Last FM's plugin for Winamp. Both do a great job for me!