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How to bootstrap engineering process in your startup(opinionatedbastard.com)
1 points by zacker 13y ago|0 comments
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by zacker 14y ago
I'm Zack, an owner of Mission Bicycle. As you point out, the bicycle industry has been around for some time. Bicycle design and engineering has been improving for 100+ years. Mission Bicycles are designed for a specific purpose, commuting i
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by zacker 16y ago
Google IPO'd with a market cap around $23.1B which went up to $33B very quickly: http://www.google-ipo.com/ Google's revenue in 2004 was $3.1B: http://bit.ly/bOQZeZ Facebook's revenue for 2010 is rumored between $1.2B and $2B: http://t
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by zacker 17y ago
Motivation and conviction could have rightly trumped justification.
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by zacker 17y ago
Do you use Intuit software? Have you tried Mint? Everyone I've talked to that has a Mint account and has been forced to use Intuit software in the past is uniformly dismayed and confused by this acquisition. Banker math surely proves Aaron
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by zacker 17y ago
Jason's point is broader than the business deal, he's making a critique of the Silicon Valley culture. While I have the utmost respect for the capabilities of the Mint team, I agree that it's disingenuous for the community to wrap itself in
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by zacker 17y ago
I didn't explain myself well enough. It's assumed that &th audiences of HN and Techcrunch skew very much towards software startups. Given that, it is wrong to assume this survey bears much weight towards the audience of these sites. Tec
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by zacker 17y ago
I think this article is misleading. See Figure 1 on page 8 -- only 30.4% of the entrepreneurs surveyed were in software or hardware start ups, the rest were in other 'high technology' industries such as energy and bio-tech. I would love to