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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. M…

Yea, I realized that :D

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 ta…

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…

I wish I could explain my point better.

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 …

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 un…

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 …

I'm a bit puzzled by the notion and expectation by Y Combinator & folks on this forum that you absolutely need to be a "hacker" to have any shot at being a good entrepreneur. Even …