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by mauricio 18y ago
I wonder if we can set up a private forum for all of us this summer that develop our idea anyway. Maybe we can share ideas/thoughts and beta test each other's stuff. At the end of the summer, if we get a lot of us, we could create a a big p
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by mauricio 18y ago
Though this seems really obvious, it feels like just building a really awesome product is occasionally lost in all the marketing hoopla. Apple's marketing is great, but I wonder how great it would be without a killer product at the center.
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The Amazing Computer Science Diet(vonahn.blogspot.com)
1 points by mauricio 18y ago|0 comments
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by mauricio 18y ago
I like this quote in the article: "...if you launch something you're not at all embarrassed by, then you've waited too long."
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A Crash Course on the Economy [video](chrismartenson.com)
2 points by mauricio 18y ago|0 comments
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by mauricio 18y ago
http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_inv... My point is this: Though they may have taken Jeff Bezos on for his expertise, Bezos made his investment to earn a return. You don't invest in private or public stocks in a ca
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by mauricio 18y ago
I'm sure their investors would disagree.
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by mauricio 18y ago
I'm not particularly working in that type of space, but we are generalizing here. If you look into startups in the medical, pharmaceutical, chemical and energy fields, you will see very high startup costs while sharing the high risk attache
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by mauricio 18y ago
I think you make the assumption that the tech you are creating here is inexpensive. If you can make your idea with $5k and a few months time, go for it. Make up prices and make up numbers. What if your new product, that has never been done
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by mauricio 18y ago
The "we did it and we do just fine" argument to me is really what's overrated here. How do you know you are doing just fine? How much of the market have you captured? How big is that market? What if you had created your business plan 5 year
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by mauricio 18y ago
Not creating a business plan and making up prices out of thin air is definitely the most fun and least time consuming. I think DHH nails that aspect of it. But, how feasible is it to start companies this way? Sure it may have worked well fo
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by mauricio 18y ago
Doesn't Google even use script.aculo.us themselves?
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by mauricio 18y ago
Google seems to generally ignore customer support altogether. My company used to pay $750/yr for their anti-spam enterprise scanning package they sell as a separate product from Google Apps. When I contacted them, via email, about a bug I h
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John Carmack on Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone(idsoftware.com)
9 points by mauricio 18y ago|0 comments
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by mauricio 18y ago
Exactly. This is what Jason seems to miss. No one sets out for failure nor do they think failure is a good thing. The axioms and other well-known phrases were designed to keep you going after failure, not to inspire you to fail.
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by mauricio 18y ago
How long though before a company like Google throws their weight behind number porting?
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by mauricio 18y ago
I think their determination is very commendable, but let's wait and see what happens. The important thing to note here is that Google is not just competing with them now, they've commoditized the service altogether. This means that people a
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Linus unveils new "Tuz" logo
2 points by mauricio 18y ago|1 comments
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Designing the Human Mind [video](seedmagazine.com)
10 points by mauricio 18y ago|1 comments
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by mauricio 18y ago
I think it should be argued here that what you are trying to sell also really matters. 37Signals sells business software. I don't think you can get away selling social network software or search engines to consumers. Also, social network-