sarbogast

7 ms·

31.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Thanks. Unfortunately not a lot of numbers in there. Just like always: a few examples of companies, but not good enough for investors...
32.
Ask HN: Where can I find market numbers about Collaborative Consumption?
2 points by sarbogast 15y ago|6 comments
33.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Now that's what I call a very awesome MVP!
34.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Makes sense. But if I should delay fundraising until I have enough traction, how do I fund the development of the product. Should I keep a day job with a high risk of slowing down development a lot? Or should I just jump for it, reduce my e
35.
by sarbogast 15y ago
There's an app for that. It's called Dropp
36.
by sarbogast 15y ago
For me, their main problem is that they relied on traditional bank accounts and government-certified IDs to check identities. And we all know those ID's are easy to fake. Collaborative consumption needs a stronger identity, certification an
37.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Now that's a very interesting concept!
38.
by sarbogast 15y ago
OK, now thanks to Wikipedia, I have a vague idea of what a higgs boson is and why it is important. But could someone explain to me what those sigma's are (in non Sheldon Cooper terms)? Is it a measure of the degree of certainty of the parti
39.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Nice indeed!
40.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Then we need a tool that mashes up domai.nr, twitter, facebook and Google+ API's and tells us which name is available on all 4.
41.
by sarbogast 15y ago
If I were you, I would try something like a Startup Weekend. They are a great opportunity to meet other entrepreneurs and potentially see interesting concepts. They are also a great way to experiment some of the ups and downs of entrepreneu
42.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Of course, they won't say otherwise right away. But they're contributing the Flex SDK to an open source foundation. Knowing that the Flex SDK is already open source, why would they do that if not to let the community decide of the future fa
43.
by sarbogast 15y ago
and sirisays.com was pre-booked by GoDaddy the day of the announcement.
44.
by sarbogast 15y ago
I have the feeling that this will become a new meme and a few tumblr's will be created about it.
45.
by sarbogast 15y ago
The real lie in those events is the promise to create a team in 48 hours. And I say this from my own experience. Kodesk won the grand prize of the jury of the Startup Weekend Brussels in last January and a week after the event, it was clear
46.
by sarbogast 15y ago
And it's not because you anticipated the "No True Scotsman" defense that I will refrain from using it as it is totally relevant. Using one specific case to disprove an entire methodology, be it such a poor counter-example, is "shaky evidenc
47.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Your total absence of humility and your absolute disrespect for field people like Ambler and Poppendieck are simply staggering. I wish you luck.
48.
by sarbogast 15y ago
oh, and it must be even more lonely, down in that rabbit hole where everything is scammy, consultantware, bullshit and anecdotic in comparison with your huge experience of everything. I just wish you could enlighten us with better alternati
49.
by sarbogast 15y ago
I didn't say anything like that. I never said you didn't know your thing about industrial engineering, but if you had practiced lean software, you would know that beyond the name and a few key concepts, it has been greatly adapted and cleve
50.
by sarbogast 15y ago
It's only "sweeping hyperbolic pseudo religious" if you discard the facts that ARE there: http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileFebruary2008.html#Figur... Scott Ambler has been running these surveys for a few years now, and they are consis
51.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Lean Software and Lean Startup are two different things. I have experienced lean software first hand and I can tell you it is no fad. I have set up Kanban in companies a couple of times and the results were excellent, even better than Scrum
52.
by sarbogast 15y ago
In fact, Lean Startup includes agile methodologies for product development. Both work hand in hand. The last thing we miss to complete the perfect environment is Lean Investment. But in a sense, isn't it what YCombinator, 500startups and ot
53.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Hum... just saying... the guy was a co-founder at IMVU. That's at least one real project. You should really read his book.
54.
Ask HN: who wants to participate in a problem interview for Kodesk?
2 points by sarbogast 15y ago|0 comments
55.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Certainly not. But on the other hand, without those 41 million dollars, they would not have been able to spend six months developing a brand new product (that looks much more interesting than the first one) without generating a cent of reve
56.
by sarbogast 15y ago
Indeed you are right. That is what I meant. And building a product that reaches market fit takes some time and quite a few iterations.
57.
by sarbogast 15y ago
It's your "Period" that reveals something to me. Like there's no best way than TDD to enforce better design. Like it's the ultimate thing you can do, and behind that there's nothing. Like higher expressivity or code generation cannot even c
58.
by sarbogast 15y ago
The problem is that most TDD advocates are so dogmatically strong, that blanket accusations seem to be one of the best ways to trigger debates.
59.
by sarbogast 15y ago
What I call a "good MVP" is a product that fits a market, something people want and are willing to pay for.
60.
by sarbogast 15y ago
I have been using a themeforest theme for the first version of http://www.kodesk.com and it gets very cumbersome to update very quickly. Too many jQuery plugins I don't know about, to many dependencies and you end up not really understand

More ›