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by hitechsites 15y ago
It may be a good idea to have a weekly/monthly contest for the best startup pitches, and get some judges to evaluate the ideas/bus plans, and give some sort of award - maybe mentorship, or access to an angel investor or VC or even a seed in
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by hitechsites 15y ago
While this is incredibly embarrassing for Sony, as it exposes gross incompetence, can someone explain why the FBI/law enforcement is not able to shutdown the hackers by filing criminal charges against the owners/operators of lulzsecurity.c
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by hitechsites 15y ago
The success of Airbnb and many others like it raises the interesting question - How many other billion dollar ideas, never got off the ground because investors thought they were awful ideas? We may never know. But it should give every entre
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by hitechsites 15y ago
Airbnb joins a long line of startups that became big in spite of initial rejection. In fact, it almost seems that a necessary - though not sufficient condition that your idea maybe the next big thing, is that it is initially rejected by ev
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by hitechsites 15y ago
Totally agree. Ultimately the only test for your startup idea is market acceptance and resonance - and experience repeatedly shows that no amount of prior experience and knowledge helps in predicting correctly what the next big thing will
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by hitechsites 15y ago
"Entrepreneurship is like science in that experiment is the sole judge of truth." - well said!
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by hitechsites 15y ago
In a startup, most of the time you do not even know what the variables are that can affect the outcome; so you have to guess and hope for the best. The learning comes from examining the outcome and then discovering all the variables you nev
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by hitechsites 15y ago
A startup is like a science experiment because its product design is a hypothesis about its market and its product is the experiment to test that hypothesis. And you the entrepreneur are the scientist conducting an experiment.
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by hitechsites 15y ago
I really do not buy the oft repeated maxim that ideas are cheap. I think one reason for this thinking is because unless an idea is converted to an actual product there is no way to tell if it is good. But just because we can't judge whether
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Why a Startup is Like a Science Experiment(arunshroff.com)
22 points by hitechsites 15y ago|9 comments
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by hitechsites 15y ago
Read this book by Will Durant : The Story of Philosophy. Considered a classic and one of the best introductions to philosophy See : http://www.amazon.com/Story-Philosophy-Opinions-Greatest-Phi...
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by hitechsites 15y ago
While one specific benchmark may not sway your decision on which programming language to use for your own projects, it should certainly be a factor when designing a large web application for hundreds of thousands of users. Unless of course
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Which programming languages are the fastest?(shootout.alioth.debian.org)
18 points by hitechsites 15y ago|22 comments
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by hitechsites 15y ago
Just checked themoviedb.org - but it does not seem like it has a lot of data. How many movies does it have and is it comparable to imdb in size?
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by hitechsites 16y ago
Would you be interested in working with me on a couple of Twitter related projects? Currently outsourcing on ODesk, but can definitely consider using you. Let me know!
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by hitechsites 16y ago
Elance is a bit harder - since they charge for premium placements to appear in search. Have you tried Odesk, Rentacoder (and a few more sites). Or even Fiverr seriously. The key is not to give up - getting the first job is the hardest, afte
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by hitechsites 16y ago
There are literally hundreds of ways for someone with programming skills to earn money online - and make more money than hourly wages. Here are just a few to get you started: 1) Setup a profile on Odesk / Elance. Showcase your programming