mixmax

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by mixmax 17y ago
Hey thanks :-) It's not updated as as often as I'd like though...
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by mixmax 17y ago
Absolutely. The way I see it is that there are a number of ingredients involved in successfully doing a startup: Marketing, sales, finance, people, luck, ambition, domain knowledge, etc. You can be weak in one area but then you'll have to c
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by mixmax 17y ago
Of course a non-technical founder can run a startup. Just look at Richard Branson. Or some of the many startups in greentech, biotech or anything else not directly related to the internets. However, I don't recall any startups without a fou
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by mixmax 17y ago
Write an e-mail, you can find the address on his blog.
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by mixmax 17y ago
I've shared an apartment with three jazz musicians, and I can assure you that they're not boring.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Sorry for not making myself clear. What I meant was without any classes, courses or people to help. Google was my best friend :-) Basically my approach was to find a project I wanted to do, then simply do it, and ask Google as I went along.
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by mixmax 17y ago
* I've arranged big underground raves with international DJ's * I've successfully started a bar in Ibiza from scratch * I learnt PHP, javascript, SQL, CSS and HTML from scratch without any help * I hold three patents * I've done three start
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by mixmax 17y ago
A very American perspecive :-) There are millions of opportunities that will never make you fuck-you money, but will afford you a decent living. They are often less risky because there's less competition. Patio11's Bingocardcreator is an ex
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by mixmax 17y ago
I'm European and I agree somewhat with the author. It appears that Americans are indeed more focused on the one big platform or opportunity, whereas Europeans are more focused on the smaller untapped opportunities. It's a broad and sweeping
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by mixmax 17y ago
Probably circumstance.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Could a moderator please disable this account, it's spam. http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=therealist
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by mixmax 17y ago
This is interesting, and there's a lesson to be learned. Your profile shows that you've been a member for 352 days, and yet you don't quite understand the karma system. You've also spent some time trying to figure out how it works, but have
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by mixmax 17y ago
If you take a look at successful companies you'll find that the ideas behind them are in no way unique, and more often than not they're not based on an idea but on a market. Here are the ten most profitable companies in the Forbes 1000 list
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by mixmax 17y ago
Cars. Making a box that will carry 4 people around at 80 mph is a pretty neat accomplishment. Doing it comfortably, safely, and at a a competitive price is an amazing feat of engineering and optimization.
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by mixmax 17y ago
This is genius. 37signals is already a strong brand, but only in a relatively narrow niche. This is an excellent way of marketing their new book to a much broader segment that doesn't necessarily know that they're behind ROR, or read their
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by mixmax 17y ago
They did around 8 years ago, I don't know whether they still do. It's Denmark.
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by mixmax 17y ago
I've always thought good ideas were a dime a dozen. Maybe I was wrong.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Some years ago I had an office in an incubator, and me and a guy from another company had a competition on who could come up with the most ridiculous yet somewhat believable pitch. He won with this: Dogwalking is big business - there are mo
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by mixmax 17y ago
Offtopic, but did anyone ever find out what happened to nickb?
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by mixmax 17y ago
A friend of mine needs a small project done (videocompression and storage with a webbased frontend) and has asked me where to get it done. I referred him to rentacoder and elance, but I'd much rather refer him to someone from HN. If you're
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by mixmax 17y ago
He's got some money, and he wants to safely invest them without too much risk so he buys bonds. Then he states his opinion on the risk of the historically low rates we're experiencing right now. How exactly is that corrupt and supports reve
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by mixmax 17y ago
I spoke to my patent attorney about this some years ago, and he confirmed that this is indeed the case. Very often similar or identical patents are being filed within a very short timeperiod. Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Grey's filing o
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by mixmax 17y ago
your assumption is correct, I would say that a publicly available government approved list of child pornography sites is a really bad idea. I agree that there should be more transparancy though. Maybe through some sort of intermediary, maki
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by mixmax 17y ago
Nobody notices the links on the bottom of the page though. I've seen comments asking about RSS and guidelines for the site even though they're in the links at the bottom.
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by mixmax 17y ago
There's a similar filter in Denmark. The good thing is that I don't stumble into illegal sites by accident, since they're blocked. I have absolutely no problem with child pornography sites and the like being filtered out since it deprives t
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by mixmax 17y ago
Get a bike. It's healthy, it's cheap and it's environmentally sound.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Don't forget to check out Wally's 118' 16.000 horsepower carbon fiber poweryacht that looks like something Darth Vader would love. http://www.wally.com/jumpch.asp?idChannel=44&idUser=0&#3...
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by mixmax 17y ago
Yes, it's equally hard to operate.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Or if anyone looks by Copenhagen I'll treat them to a homemade Smörgåsbord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord
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by mixmax 17y ago
Thousands? That's one for every working day ten years in a row. No need to exaggerate to make your point.

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