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I have failed on 5 different ventures. Now going to try a 6th. I am in the Bay Area. If we share a common grocery store. I'd be happy to send you a gift card f

I have failed on 5 different ventures. Now going to try a 6th. I am in the Bay Area. If we share a common grocery store. I'd be happy to send you a gift card for some groceries.

bdcravens 13y ago
How are you still eating and have a roof if you failed five times? Did you take gigs on the side, or get back on your feet via work in between ventures?
- jason_slack 13y ago
  it hasn't always been easy. I have taken contract work when things are slow or I am struggling to achieve the goals for the startup. I have also taken time off between and worked for companies. My wife has always worked full-time too.
jason_slack 13y ago
EDIT: Some of the ideas, for the curious, not in correct order 1. I thought that I could use Trolltech QT, when the green phone was coming out, to write apps, etc. The green phone never took off and was horrible to program with 2. I was writing backup software, OSX, successfully. Took on a partner for sales and he essentially killed everything. Sold the source code after a few years of it sitting idle for a few macBook's and misc hardware. 3. Started a 501c3 for storing information and could never get to writing the product with all the administration duties, compliance issues, etc. 4. Started an ISP back in 2003-2005 when I lived in a small town in NY. It was pretty successful. I broke even with all the bandwidth expenses, racks of hardware, etc. Eventually sold for very cheap when I just couldn't keep up with the company that had been in town for ever. 5. I bought a popular text editor and worked on it for years and just couldn't get it to where I wanted it. I always had more to do and just couldn't get versions out. I still have this code and consider getting back to it some day.
- chipotle_coyote 13y ago
  I thought your name looked vaguely familiar, then read bullet point 5 there. This editor wouldn't have happened to be Pepper, would it? I always wondered what happened to it after it had been bought. (I may have bought a license for Pepper; I know I had one for its BeOS predecessor Pe.)
  - jason_slack 13y ago
    Pepper indeed!

I have failed on 5 different ventures. Now going to try a 6th. I am in the Bay Area. If we share a common grocery store. I'd be happy to send you a gift card for some groceries.

bdcravens 13y ago

How are you still eating and have a roof if you failed five times? Did you take gigs on the side, or get back on your feet via work in between ventures?

jason_slack 13y ago
it hasn't always been easy. I have taken contract work when things are slow or I am struggling to achieve the goals for the startup. I have also taken time off between and worked for companies. My wife has always worked full-time too.

jason_slack 13y ago

EDIT: Some of the ideas, for the curious, not in correct order 1. I thought that I could use Trolltech QT, when the green phone was coming out, to write apps, etc. The green phone never took off and was horrible to program with 2. I was writing backup software, OSX, successfully. Took on a partner for sales and he essentially killed everything. Sold the source code after a few years of it sitting idle for a few macBook's and misc hardware. 3. Started a 501c3 for storing information and could never get to writing the product with all the administration duties, compliance issues, etc. 4. Started an ISP back in 2003-2005 when I lived in a small town in NY. It was pretty successful. I broke even with all the bandwidth expenses, racks of hardware, etc. Eventually sold for very cheap when I just couldn't keep up with the company that had been in town for ever. 5. I bought a popular text editor and worked on it for years and just couldn't get it to where I wanted it. I always had more to do and just couldn't get versions out. I still have this code and consider getting back to it some day.

chipotle_coyote 13y ago
I thought your name looked vaguely familiar, then read bullet point 5 there. This editor wouldn't have happened to be Pepper, would it? I always wondered what happened to it after it had been bought. (I may have bought a license for Pepper; I know I had one for its BeOS predecessor Pe.)
- jason_slack 13y ago
  Pepper indeed!