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by wellboy 13y ago
Wtf is pathetic about that. Try out 1000 of things, do a pivot, pitch investors here and there, apply YC every now and then. Nothing pathetic about that.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Linkedin is a horrible, horrible company and very harmful to the startup culture and ecosystem. I don't understand why Reid Hoffman, who I think is a great Angel investor is doing that to the startup community.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Normally, I find Sam's articles maybe interesting, but not that insightful. However, this one is really awesome, it pins down the dynamics happening in fundraising exactly. It actually feels a bit Paul Graham like, very good article. E
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by wellboy 13y ago
It's pretty much fear in my opinion. The main platform Facebook is already not cool anymore, so they have to buy cool things to stay cool. Only problem is, if you're not cool and you acquire cool things, these things automatically
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by wellboy 13y ago
The untraceableblog.com below is a great resource. However, in the end, there is always text analysis though that can give your identity away, which the untraceable blog does not address. That's why you possibly need a ghost writer tha
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by wellboy 13y ago
Mhmmm, but you can't really call that an idea anymore. Then you could also count Einstein's theory of relativity as an idea, since with these two the execution is basically proving things mathematically, no? An idea as it is debat
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by wellboy 13y ago
Hm, can you name one idea, where the idea was so strong that the execution didn't really matter?
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by wellboy 13y ago
There is some truth to it, because there are a thousand ways to implement the idea you had, however only five of these ways will make the idea take off. That's why an idea without knowing exactly how to get 10,000 users without any fun
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by wellboy 13y ago
My armchair attempt would say that a star/moon would only NOT spin if at their creation, the clouds of material came 100% from all sides equally. Normally though, stars or planets are caught from clouds catching and revolving around ea
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by wellboy 13y ago
Mobile, wearable technology come to mind.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Sure, http://fundersandfounders.com/will-i-succeed-with-my-startup... . There are several other numbers out there, but it's all in the 75%-90% range. So 10% chance to become a millionaire, thus free to do everything you
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by wellboy 13y ago
Hm, probably almost everyone wouldn't be able to spend it since they have to build the app for the first 2 months, no?
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by wellboy 13y ago
I think it's about what the 60h is for. As a salary man, completely agree, what are you working for? So that you make $180,000/year in 5 years instead of $100,000? Not worth it. But 60h/week for your own startup? Gosh, when I
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by wellboy 13y ago
But have you never tried to start your own company as creating wealth by working for someone else just doesn't work? Looking at the failure rate of startups of 82% as a first timer, by starting your own company you have just 40-folded
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by wellboy 13y ago
I think it wouldnt be good for Dropbox to push it^^
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by wellboy 13y ago
I think the problem of a shared state is that you're starting the new life with many preassumptions, which is not good. To get the most learnings, you need to be completely open, unbiased.
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by wellboy 13y ago
You only can learn how to program, if you have learned how to code. So learn how to code :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
He sounds more Dutch kind of German actually.^^
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by wellboy 13y ago
< With regards to Facebook, it says that within the last six months of 2012, only a “small fraction” of one percent of its users were the target of any government data requests So with 1%, they mean that over 10 freaking million Facebook
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by wellboy 13y ago
Awesome, I will use that now instead of pastebin to share my code snippets. If you can get this as a plugin into eclipse, xCode and code sharing sites like stackoverflow you have your $100M startup.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Just do the localhost hack and you can use it all for free. Takes 1 min. http://theflashblogger.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-active-ma...
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by wellboy 13y ago
So, did PayPal actually kick-off the Silicon Valley?
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by wellboy 13y ago
Bam, awesome just did that. My pecs are swollen and my abs burn. Will put that in my company culture. Spontaneous workouts during the day hehe. xD
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by wellboy 13y ago
Your idea doesn't define you, you define your idea.
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by wellboy 13y ago
I'd rather advice on spending $20 on an Altcoin. Much less effort and more potential return, since several days of mining will probably return a few dollars of current value.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Grindr was as well and I think still is bootstrapped to 5M+ users. Pretty impressive as a solomo app.
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by wellboy 13y ago
No holidays for the last 2 years. 3 months ago, I started needing the weekends heavily to recover. Now that my startup is up and running, with a couple of thousand users and some trial customers, I will probably take a skiing holiday soon.
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by wellboy 13y ago
No, for each new startup, there are two more startups that can be built on top of it. The funny thing is that rhere are not fewer ideas down the road, idea generation is exponential.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Are...are you Satoshi Nakamoto? :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
You will laugh, but that's why we have Bitcoin now. Someone took on all banks and all currencies ($100T/year industry). In 5 years, everybody will think that Bitcoin is normal, but it was just 1 big thinker that it took. But that&

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