blakeweb

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by blakeweb 18y ago
I agree that following their advice of essentially ignoring the legal entity question for a while is the way to go short term, until you're ready to grow. I should have been more specific and said that the fact that they neglect to mention
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by blakeweb 18y ago
This post is targeted at people starting a one-man shop, not entrepreneurs in the sense of the word as used on hn. If you've got partners and plan to grow and/or are planning on hiring several employees in the next few months, you should do
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by blakeweb 18y ago
I'm pretty sure the timing is planned rather than coincidental. He mentions the "busts" of both Bear and Lehman in the notes on figure 2. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding you and you mean the timing of his release of 'black swan'. If so, I sti
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by blakeweb 18y ago
Reading this essay through completely has done more for my understanding of the current crisis than other single thing I've read, I'm pretty sure. You have to be willing to deal with terrible grammar, but aside from that this essay makes t
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by blakeweb 18y ago
Interesting to me that their site (dreamitventures.com) is a dotnetnuke portal (based on the favicon and linking structure). Didn't think that was being put to use by people positioning themselves on the cutting edge these days.
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by blakeweb 18y ago
I disagree with the comments so far--I think he makes a solid point. The bootstrap model requires you to be good at both innovation/experimentation and sustained management/maintenance. He's says people have different strengths, and theref
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by blakeweb 18y ago
If you've got an extra 9 minutes, there's an entertaining clip over at ted also about our safety craze that I just watched last night with my parents, who got a kick out of telling me about all the dangerous stuff they had when they were ki
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by blakeweb 18y ago
It's clear from your post and comments that you're a very smart guy. I can tell you think so too, but I'd bet you're even smarter (relatively) than you realize. I agree that if you follow your plan, you're likely to be successful, if you