17:[[5698307,{"by":"SeckinJohn","descendants":2,"id":5698307,"kids":[5698785,5702770],"score":2,"text":"I want to learn more about the business world and how to do business/investment(esp. in the tech world but not necessarily).

I want to learn from the greatest business people and I don't want to have to re-invent the wheel myself.

I am a software engineer and I already had a startup experience of my own (and I am currently working at another one in SF) -- so I am not exactly a beginner.

I am really interested in books where the writer is talking about why certain tech businesses failed or succeeded. (I'd also be interested in biographies of great business leaders). Do you know any such books?

Any help is greatly appreciated!","time":1368448726,"title":"Ask HN: What are some amazing business books to read?","type":"story","url":""}],[5692061,{"by":"manglav","descendants":14,"id":5692061,"kids":[5692071,5694366,5695317,5694178,5692339,5692334,5692945,5692959],"score":11,"text":"I've been trying to find small online businesses to purchase, but can't find many websites devoted to this purpose. Does HN have any ideas? The only one I could find was flippingenterprises.com.","time":1368305429,"title":"Where to buy an online business?","type":"story"}],[5679294,{"by":"krudnicki","descendants":7,"id":5679294,"kids":[5718763,5680179,5686176],"score":9,"text":"Hi! My name is Kamil, co-founder of TimeCamp, I'm from Poland, Europe. I'm planning to visit Silicon Valley for one week.

How to get most of my time there?

* What is best days to be there?\n* Where can I find meet ups?\n* How could I arrange meetings with interesting people? :)","time":1368086046,"title":"Ask HN: I'm going for a week to Silicon Valley, how to get most of it?","type":"story","url":""}],[5472748,{"by":"whoishiring","descendants":149,"id":5472748,"kids":[5472993,5472886,5474926,5483753,5476558,5475441,5476134,5521294,5481902,5472885,5473361,5474349,5474237,5473370,5472817,5475035,5473991,5473541,5478081,5472888,5474581,5472911,5473409,5472891,5474443,5472842,5477487,5489734,5474346,5519085,5473710,5474462,5472750,5479556,5472899,5472763,5473689,5476445,5473210,5474905,5473182,5472931,5474751,5474896,5475976,5472971,5472754,5492772,5475980,5494619,5472945,5472935,5477500,5477046,5477232,5473024,5475103,5472814,5473059,5497853,5475563,5475232,5474388,5478275,5485123,5474615,5510215,5473089,5484600,5474720,5475908,5472866,5476033,5472975,5478034,5475314,5477454,5476604,5472898,5473002,5472976,5474325,5475542,5473129,5478384,5472775,5475362,5491136,5472844,5475366,5507910,5476135,5474299,5473141,5476164,5476854,5522386,5509731,5473721,5474179,5474567,5478252,5472887,5472915,5472992,5472855,5474266,5472964,5472835,5477069,5476209,5473459,5473103,5474363,5472793,5477026,5473504,5473063,5474943,5472801,5510829,5511211,5474240,5472909,5521633,5473142,5477413,5517499,5472994,5528779,5473177,5474736,5473829,5472923,5472789,5473042,5481852,5475182,5525635,5472858],"score":106,"text":"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.","time":1364821387,"title":"Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013)","type":"story"}],[5509433,{"by":"maxbrown","descendants":1,"id":5509433,"kids":[5509656],"score":4,"text":"I'm looking for a capable sysadmin to help me out with issues I have with some Ubuntu/Apache/Wordpress sites (permissions, FTP, etc.).

I do design & front-end development and would be happy to trade services, or help out with biz-dev/marketing ideas.

Please let me know if you're interested.\nThanks.","time":1365382467,"title":"Ask HN: Will trade design/front-end/biz for sysadmin help","type":"story","url":""}],[5479307,{"by":"thekillingtree","descendants":30,"id":5479307,"kids":[5480126,5480430,5480097,5479524,5490233,5480349,5479712,5479456,5479356,5479730,5482328,5479600,5481865,5479411,5479770,5480092,5480329,5479571,5480772,5479362,5479645,5479624,5483682],"score":20,"text":"I've been looking for someone to build a site for me and after emailing a dozen people, I've gotten no responses.

As a non programmer or a non billionaire, it seems like it is extremely difficult for average joes to try to get their idea built without resorting to the race to the bottom sites. ie: elance. Why does it have to be this difficult? I can't imagine that developers are so busy that when I'm saying \"TAKE MY MONEY\", no one wants it (despite saying they are looking for work). I've tried emailing the full idea with a detailed list of what I want vs emailing a quick summarized note and the results are the same. No response.

Am I missing something? Is there some sort of secret code I'm not using?

edit: Wow, thank you guys. I'm getting a crazy amount of information and can already see a few things I had been doing wrong.","time":1364911500,"title":"Ask HN: Why is it so hard finding a Freelancer?","type":"story","url":""}]]

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