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Tim O'Hearn

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Using Stripe for Your Startup

Tim August 15, 2018 Entrepreneurship No Comments
Using Stripe for Your Startup

I became involved with a SaaS startup last August. Stripe was the natural choice of payment processor. It’s been a learning experience. Rather than mindlessly recount the myriad benefits of using Stripe, I want to provide some of my personal

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Move Fast and Break Things Review

Tim December 24, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Weekly Review No Comments
Move Fast and Break Things Review

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: December 24th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon This book wasn’t what I was expecting. I guess that’s what

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Chaos Monkeys Review

Tim December 1, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Weekly Review No Comments
Chaos Monkeys Review

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 1st, 2017 Reading Time: Ten days; Audible Liar’s Poker—remember that book? I wonder how it was received in 1989. It’s now

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Myths of the Gig Economy: Freelancing

Tim November 21, 2017 Entrepreneurship, Essay No Comments
Myths of the Gig Economy: Freelancing

If you spend enough time on the internet and enough time pondering ways to make money, you’ll become aware of freelancing. More specifically elancing, though I’ll use the terms interchangeably. Elancing is the practice of performing freelance work that is usually both

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The 4-Hour Workweek Review

Tim October 15, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Weekly Review No Comments
The 4-Hour Workweek Review

4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss Rating: ★ Date Finished: October 15th, 2017 Reading Time: Three days A seminal propagandist work poisoning the minds of Americans young and old. Though Tim Ferriss dedicates more than a few sentences to his musings

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Hello, Startup Review

Tim September 13, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Weekly Review No Comments
Hello, Startup Review

Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams by Yevgeniy Brikman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: September 13th, 2017 Reading Time: A week What’s special about Hello, Startup is how thoroughly the author is dedicated to his craft.

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Good to Great Review

Tim March 16, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Weekly Review No Comments
Good to Great Review

My review of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by James C. Collins. Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: March 16th, 2017 Reading Time: A week I enjoyed reading Good to Great. The author’s writing style

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The Millionaire Real Estate Investor Review

Tim November 5, 2016 Books, Entrepreneurship, Weekly Review No Comments
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor Review

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan, and Dave Jenks Rating: ★★ Date Finished: November 5th, 2016 Reading Time: Ten days In a bull market, everyone seems like a genius. Though the advice contained in this book

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Disrupted Review

Tim August 3, 2016 Books, Entrepreneurship, Weekly Review No Comments
Disrupted Review

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: August 3rd, 2016 Reading Time: Two days If the bubble bursts in the next few years, this will be shelved in the hall of fame. Since

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Starting Small

Tim July 27, 2016 Entrepreneurship, Essay No Comments
Starting Small

At risk of reiterating a common piece of advice given by those who run out of things to write about on their blogs, I want to talk about starting small. In a world of unicorn startups and child prodigies making millions in the

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My Most Recent Books

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony C. Sutton
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman
Slaughterhouse-Five
it was amazing
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Pulphead
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Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
by Taylor Larimore

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