Elfan

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by Elfan 20y ago
You're going confusing two things here. Raising investment for your company is not the same as having a business model dependent upon acquisition/exit strategy. You are correct, the two need not come together. I was thinking of the traditi
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by Elfan 20y ago
That would be ideal. That is usually not feasible but the title did say "dream".
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by Elfan 20y ago
No one. I would prefer to be able to grow a business that is profitable, not one desperate for an exit strategy before funds run out. I've seen what happens when a company tries to gamble on getting bigger and fails (investment bankers ar
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A Call for Entrepreneurs who wished to be interviewed(iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
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Less programming, more skill?(moishelettvin.blogspot.com)
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by Elfan 20y ago
A Google employee and Pine contributer (Ryan Barrett) compared the two and gave his thoughts on the matter: http://snarfed.org/space/gmail%20vs%20pine
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Large companies and 'A' talent(moishelettvin.blogspot.com)
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Software and craftsmanship(moishelettvin.blogspot.com)
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by Elfan 20y ago
One idea that has been on my mind recently is the Arts Digita (and other) system where you have small teams that work directly with the customer. If they do well, they will get a bonus, if not, then everyone knows who is at fault and thing
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Sun at 25: Where are the founders now?(infoworld.com)
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Being the Averagest(steve.yegge.googlepages.com)
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Ben Franklin's Advice to a Young Tradesman(getrichslowly.org)
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by Elfan 20y ago
I cut and pasted the title and it was displayed as "Ã¢ÂÂcloud OSÃ¢ÂÂ?". On a tangent, I thought it interesting that Google has been hiring up Plan 9 engineers.
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Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with cloud OS?(blogs.zdnet.com)
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Asking All Young Entrepreneurs: Are You Absolutely Sick of College Yet?(mindpetals.com)
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by Elfan 20y ago
What's interesting is that FF3 may allow you to use webapps offline.
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Interview With a 13 Year Old Entrepreneur(sitelead.com)
1 points by Elfan 20y ago|0 comments
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by Elfan 20y ago
I think that ties into what the author said about the advantage of mediocre teams for long term projects. Its sometimes better to having something kludgy and understandable than an elegant hack that no one else will understand.
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Why great coders get paid far too little(codecraft.info)
9 points by Elfan 20y ago|8 comments
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Study: firms whose managers have more social relationships with peers at other software start-ups have a better chance of surviving external shocks(informs.org)
2 points by Elfan 20y ago|0 comments
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by Elfan 20y ago
When posting this I managed to create a state where the title was displayed as "A startup's best friend? FailureA startup's best friend? Failure" but if I clicked on edit in the form it was only "A startup's best friend? Failure". I am not
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A startup's best friend? Failure(money.cnn.com)
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by Elfan 20y ago
I'm in college so I don't have that many direct connections and its how I have managed to stay in contact with people from summer work. I'm not sure how it will scale for me in the future. But I'm *awful* at maintaining friendships, networ
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"Success comes from good judgment, good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Arthur Jones, founder of Nautilus and MedX(spineworks.com)
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by Elfan 20y ago
There happens to be a social networking site for old fashion networking. http://www.linkedin.com/
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by Elfan 20y ago
The genius of Facebook was getting students at elite universities to divulge lots of potentially profitable information for advertising. They did this because Facebook was an exclusive place just for elite college kids (and later just coll
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U.S. Says Hedge Fund Regulation Is `Working Well'(bloomberg.com)
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Google revamps Summer of Code for 2007(trends.newsforge.com)
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The inverse relationship between efficiency of your tool and your understanding of what it does(headrush.typepad.com)
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by Elfan 20y ago
Such a thing would be far more useful than the other online docs in my opinion. I can't remember if I've attended a power point presentation that didn't have technical problems of some sort.

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