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by twidlit 15y ago
Mr. Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation says that if his children would start companies, he would advise them stay the hell away from investors and bootstrap!
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Only 14% of the fastest growing 500 US companies were venture backed(blog.businessofsoftware.org)
17 points by twidlit 15y ago|4 comments
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by twidlit 15y ago
Wow, not any of the tech blogs saw the smoke before the fire? Could be a hardware + patents play...
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Musk: Starting a company is like eating glass [video](techcrunch.tv)
1 points by twidlit 15y ago|0 comments
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by twidlit 15y ago
I don't have any issue on the aesthetics as these are subjective. On any point on the spectrum of utilitarian and flamboyant you win/lose some audience effect. The trick is to rest on the spot where your target audience's visual preference
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by twidlit 15y ago
Its fairly early when you compare the install base of the dumbphones vs. the smartphone. (1.4 billion vs. 450million) but i agree that late 2012 will be where the window for 2nd/3rd places will be locked up until the next big disruption.
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by twidlit 15y ago
My best hack around this is commuting instead of driving a car and doing something mindless like cleaning the house or laundry after being stumped by a problem. Its in these times that ideas & solutions get formed or destroyed.
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by twidlit 15y ago
There is always hope for Microsoft based on the following points. 1. Its early days for the smartphone market. 2. Nokia+Wp7 has a good chance of not flopping due to Nokia's reach, relationships and repeat customer base in countries outside
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Lady Gaga & Kanye West invests in Turntable.fm(businessinsider.com)
1 points by twidlit 15y ago|0 comments
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Interview about Euclideon's 3D atom-based rendering engine(gamesindustry.biz)
1 points by twidlit 15y ago|1 comments
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by twidlit 15y ago
very interesting. I wonder if there are behavioral difference between Non-africans and Africans that can be attributed to the difference in genetic makeup.
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Google+ experience from a Normal user(blog.agrawals.org)
7 points by twidlit 15y ago|1 comments
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by twidlit 15y ago
Was thinking 'delirious' but hyperbolic can be used too.
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by twidlit 15y ago
Rohrer is one of the few game-artist around. I'd encourage everyone to check out his life, career or works of art.
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by twidlit 15y ago
Aren't APIs kinda sorta built for this?
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Ask HN: Who will be at Echelon 2011 Singapore?
2 points by twidlit 15y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs: Thank you for disobeying me(folklore.org)
156 points by twidlit 15y ago|30 comments
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by twidlit 15y ago
oops. sorry (lack of sleep), thanks!
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Ask HN: How do you contact the person behind 24in60?
2 points by twidlit 15y ago|3 comments
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Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad(vimeo.com)
1 points by twidlit 15y ago|0 comments
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Will Apple Launch a Home Games Console?(gamesindustry.biz)
1 points by twidlit 15y ago|0 comments
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by twidlit 15y ago
So 'developing country' would be the correct one for Thailand then?
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by twidlit 15y ago
Wasn't aware of the connotation and have used both interchangeably.
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What it's like to be a startup in a 3rd world country(thenextweb.com)
47 points by twidlit 15y ago|21 comments
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by twidlit 15y ago
I would be more curious to know the number of successful bootstrapped businesses vs. VC-funded ones...
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by twidlit 15y ago
I think this increases the possibility of something like Square being built into the next iDevice with Apple buying Square first. If Square doesn't sell, then expect Jobs to build his own.
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by twidlit 15y ago
To me , the classless one is the Tumblr guy getting incensed with a barely-related-possibly-in-the-near-future-if-they-dont-pivot startup that was getting funded.
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by twidlit 16y ago
We love their image editor widget but need something faster (it understandably lags when sending images to their server). Aviary has promised to offer the source code 'soon' but the problem is they said that last December. Here is to hoping
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by twidlit 16y ago
Honestly curious, are existing PHP frameworks hopelessly complex and rigid to have this problem?
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by twidlit 16y ago
I wanna know what is the one thing it is aiming for? simplicity? speed (ala Yii PHP framework)? or modularity? Its not clear on any of the page...

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