vintya

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by vintya 5y ago
Mudflap | Multiple Roles | Remote (US) | Full Time | https://www.mudflapinc.com/ We're building a marketplace that helps truckers save money on their #1 business expense -- fuel. Most truckers are small business owners
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by vintya 18y ago
Yea, I realized that :D
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by vintya 18y ago
I realized my own folly - I certainly haven't built a profitable company or a popular product yet. I'm in the process but far from it yet. So I should stop commenting on what it takes to build one :)
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by vintya 18y ago
I'm an idea guy, I'm also a coder. I can write code, that works. But I'm by no means a hacker. I'm not an MBA type, will never be. Once you're done writing some code, the prototype, something that works decently well - and to do that you do
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by vintya 18y ago
I wish I could explain my point better.
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by vintya 18y ago
Bezos & Gates are brilliant businessmen. Woz is a superb engineer, a genius of an engineer, but Jobs truly built the Apple that is today. Brin & Page were highly capable and smart researchers and scientists, not programmers or "hack
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by vintya 18y ago
Programmers or hackers don't build companies. Yes, they build a product or a service - the best ones can create magic. But it stops there. You need smart enterprising people who understand the bigger picture and the ecosystem, how different
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by vintya 18y ago
My point is this - the barrier to entry and delivering a decent web product/service has come down a lot over the years. With frameworks such as RoR, countless online articles that literally spoon feed ready made solutions to common problems
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Why the notion here that to be an entrepreneur, you have to be a hacker.
4 points by vintya 18y ago|23 comments