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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 30
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      Most technologists who build websites for local businesses should stop doing so. They in the main cannot afford professional labor, and should move to platforms like Shopify, site builders, etc which can amortize engineering costs over 100,000 similarly situated accounts.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 30
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      I struggle mightily when talking to people who have optimize their freelancing practice to expose them to e.g. locally run coffee shops, cranking out $250 or $500 websites. This is a poor business decision relative to serving firms who can comfortably budget professional labor.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 30
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      "But what about the local cafe?" I am in favor of the local cafe! Spend your money there! Even teach a pro bonus Get Started With Shopify Or Whatever office hours weekly, underwritten by being a successful local business owner yourself.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 30
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      An extremely common failure mode is running a business as a charity. This is self-evidently a bad business; it's also a bad charity. (If you were to rank order all people in the world in need of charitable help, where would local business owners in America be on that list?)

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 30
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      "But I don't live in the big city." Yes, but you live on a big Internet, connected to all the big cities, and the viability of consulting remotely was fine in 2010 when I was doing it and has only increased since then.

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        1. Brian  🇲🇽 🇮🇱‏ @SpeakingBee Jan 30
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          Evidence indicates that the viability of tech consulting remotely without a pre-established big city client base is zero.

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        1. Jeffrey Richman  😷‏ @jcrichman Jan 30
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          A lot of professionals waste their time solving problems for one person instead of solving the same problems for many people. Tech lets you do both, so you might as well use it to help the most people possible.

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        2. Ian Littman‏ @iansltx Jan 30
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          Catch is, on that big internet there are tons of folks struggling to differentiate the services they provide. An easy differentiation is a personal, local touch because the internet can't do that.significsntly all of my clients are local despite me effectively working remote.

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        3. Ian Littman‏ @iansltx Jan 30
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          So you end up with right place, right time constraints due to the way that people...and discovery of services...work. The perceived technical constraints are largely a non-issue; I got a decent chunk of useful work done 35k feet over the Atlantic on Sunday.

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        2. Brian Weisberg‏ @bmweis Jan 31
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          This advice can be applied more broadly. There are many things small business owners should learn to do themselves in the early days. They don’t need to own it all in the long-term, but knowing a bit about everything will make for a better ROI when you start to hire specialists.

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        3. Brian Weisberg‏ @bmweis Jan 31
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          Spending all your money on specialists before you have a good sense for your business and where you should outsource vs insource can prevent you from ever building a profitable venture. Especially in today’s age where there are plenty of tools and apps at your disposal.

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        2. Nick Williams‏ @WickyNilliams Jan 31
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          Absolutely. I live in a small town in a quiet corner of the UK. Far away from tech hub. Despite this, I've worked with startups on both sides of the Atlantic to build their platform from the ground up. I'm currently consulting for the largest insurance company in Finland

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        3. Nick Williams‏ @WickyNilliams Jan 31
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          For me, open source work was what got the ball rolling. Being smart about networking along the way kept it rolling. And of course, doing the job as best I can

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