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    Decent techie, shit at business

    I think I am a decent techie. I have been working as an IT Freelancer for 15 years, in IT total for 25 years. I know IT infrastructure from datacenter to cloud inside out and I am a decent IT security guy, too. But I suck at business scaling. I could try to find and rent out brains and bodies like myself and scale that way (aka consulting firm). But I’m really terrible at networking (the human...
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    Is IT Overwhelming You?

    As a startup, is the complexity of the IT-Infrastructure overwhelming you? Is it too complicated to run your services? Is it too expensive?
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    What is the first thing in the morning you think about?

    When you get up in the morning, what's the first business thing you think about? What are you worried about, what do you look forward? What's a problem you need to be solving?
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    If you need free help with bootstrapping your cloud for your product, this is your chance

    If you're trying to bootstrap your product in the cloud (or don't know, what you need - not everything works best in the cloud), I will help the next 5 people for free. Background: I'm about to launch my IT-Infrastructure agency .techStack (check my profile) which helps companies designing, deploying and operating their cloud, hybrid or on-premises architecture. You don't need to leave your...
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    What was the biggest mistake you made in your career?

    Share your story. I'll start: I once rebooted a whole production cluster in Google, while implementing an upgrade. 10,000 servers went down. A few alarm bells went off. My team was awesome. Everyone chimed in, drained the traffic to the cluster in a couple of seconds, some customers saw a 403 for a few seconds, that was it. We changed processes and procedures and had a good laugh. And I...
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    Hiring a senior expert in 20 minutes and get results the next day - how valuable?

    Especially in IT, real talent and expertise is rare. So companies are desperately looking for experts, often as contractors. But the process is lengthy, cumbersome and time consuming. You need to write the profile, get candidates, interview. And once you found someone, onboarding can take a month or so, so before you get the first results, you may have spent the better part of 20k $/£/€ - or...
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    Hiring freelancers in Startups

    I would be interested if some of you have hired external freelancers for your startup, and if yes in what capacity? Where you happy with their performance? Did they boost your growth or were they a drain to your company's budget? I would love to hear about your experiences.
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