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by NSX2 19y ago
Useful implies nothing but useful. People don't "want" to pay for anything. People want to keep their money in their pockets. They reluctantly pay for things whose usefulness, real or perceived, substantially exceeds the asked price. Gm
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by NSX2 19y ago
Patentable and useful doesn't necessarily mean good business. I'm assuming the "bored developer" wants to start a business around whatever idea he can't think of. There are ideas, some useful, some even patentable, but to make a business
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by NSX2 19y ago
Careful there! That implies that the best way to come up with solutions to a problem in an industry would be to get outside of it so you can get an external, top-down perspective on emerging trends and unmet needs. Then if you get an idea
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by NSX2 19y ago
I know how you can get an idea for your next startup. Call your favorite VC firm and ask them, "You know how VCs are always lamenting that great business ideas are a dime a dozen? I can't think of any ideas for now - but I have 30 cents!
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by NSX2 19y ago
This is sooo funny. Almost every week there's a "Ask YC" type of post where a business idea is seeking programming talent, and almost all the time the response is, "Why should I partner with you? What will you do for the startup while I c
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by NSX2 19y ago
AT&T is too broad and I don't know what you mean specifically, but from a common-sense business perpective, the problem Intel works on is "how to keep making smaller faster better processors" and I think again that's another idea that,
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by NSX2 19y ago
No, I mean just Google. Apple in my mind = present an OS GUI according to the needs of the human brain. A lot more than 6 people were/are/will be interested in that. Microsoft = make big business computer functions possible on the home com
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by NSX2 19y ago
It would be empty. The second somebody with technical ability came up with an idea, they'd think, "Hey, why don't I just build that myself ?" If someone without the ability to develop the idea had a good idea, they'd wonder why they sho
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by NSX2 19y ago
IN GENERAL this is a great frame of mind to come up with ideas for a non-programming mind; I think, however, that as a developer such a perspective would lead to technically interesting stuff that few people would use / pay for. As time re
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by NSX2 19y ago
BTW ... let's say you get the help you want. Do you offer anything in return?
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by NSX2 19y ago
OMG - I just looked - I'm up to a new high of 70, surpassing my highest over of 56. You just made my month!
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by NSX2 19y ago
I see. Thank you. How's that?
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by NSX2 19y ago
Thank you for your generous point-granting kindness, sir.
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by NSX2 19y ago
But I get downmodded no matter what. It seems like there's a conspiracy to make sure I never get above mid-50s. Heck, I think if I add all the 30-to-50 variances I'd be up to at least 500 by now. Okay. Fine. Um, "Me too. I agree. Wha
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by NSX2 19y ago
Oh no, downmodded by the army of down-modding ninjas tracking my every move ... oh no ... now they'll down this post too!
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by NSX2 19y ago
Okay, I'm talking about energy for a state of practical human affairs, not building a death star / second sun or whatever that thing is.
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by NSX2 19y ago
> send resumes to > healthcarestartup at google's email service.com The irony of this is beyond comprehension. You're a healthcare startup about to revolutionize the industry that USES Google mail, and Google, too wants to get in o
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by NSX2 19y ago
What the hell is the basis of downgrading this post? Seriously I come across posts like, "It depends" that have like, 46 points next to them. I put up a post, short, long, on point, off point, boring, interesting, and there's like a 24-ho
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, if we use energy for stupid, wasteful projects then of course energy is scarce; if we use it more effectively/efficiently, then less so. It's all based on how/what we use it for. >We can't build superstructures, even if we got ri
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by NSX2 19y ago
>> I'm speaking of successful entrepreneurs in general and not just of successful internet ones (even then there were a lot of successful internet entrepreneurs that came after them) The tech boom was setup over half a century ago w
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by NSX2 19y ago
> well a lot of them tend to join big established corporations... not to mention many successful entreprenuers don't have MBAs let alone degrees Exactly. Hence, track records are useless. Unless you have a track record of starting big
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by NSX2 19y ago
"I could be wrong but have you ever thought that maybe since you had trouble convincing/selling your idea to the programmers themselves that they logically concluded that you'd probably have a hard time convincing/selling to other people to
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by NSX2 19y ago
> but they do need competent business people But most business competence is recognized in retrospect. How many Harvard MBAs with awesome corporate track records do you see starting awesome companys which make products you love? Like,
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by NSX2 19y ago
Right. Downgrade my post. I made a perfectly valid, succint point, insulted nobody, pointed to a flaw in the logic, supported the original logic, and just because you disagree and can't defend your own logic you click off a point. Feel p
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by NSX2 19y ago
"not every country with a capitalistic leaning economy has the debt our country has - many are in the black... That's actually technically impossible by the very nature of interest-rate-based distribution of continous fiat currency, but tha
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by NSX2 19y ago
Energy isn't that scarce, actually. If we eliminated our military, for example, there would instantly be a 100% surplus as the military accounts for about 50% of the fuel this country uses. As for why we abstract energy with bills, it's b
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by NSX2 19y ago
Um ... I think they covered that already in "Mad Max" ... didn't work out too well if I recall the movie correctly.
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by NSX2 19y ago
You do realize that people have weddings in exotic locations, which = travel ... and then right AFTER the wedding they go on these things called "Honeymoons" which involve travel, right? So then, yeh, weddings and niche travel would tend t
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by NSX2 19y ago
Underestimating "the other's value" is a sign of immaturity and lack of experience. The more I learn about life, the more I appreciate everyone around me more. I'm sure lots of people underestimate civil engineers, car designers, pilots,
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by NSX2 19y ago
Yeh, that's an awesome idea - let's get rid of the insights Ford gained from the assembly line and toss out about a century's worth of industrial progress and all drop what we're doing and waste time re-inventing each other's wheels. That

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