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How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
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Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#22You see, Justin? We are paying attention.
This is the second comment of this form that I've seen made for a submission from this website. What's the context?
Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#23Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#24I downloaded all the mp3 file for listening later. Here is the list of direct download hope it may help to someone
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-056.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-076.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-087.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-079.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-068.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-004.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-034.mp3
Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#25Q: How do you Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business? A: Don't spend 12 hours listening to podcasts.
I see the digg crowd finally came to HN ;)
Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#26nice
Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#27I made an RSS feed of just these episodes, that way you can download them all with one click in iTunes:
http://files.pierrespring.com/techzinglive_bootstrap.rss
I have also added instructions on how to add an RSS feed to iTunes on my blog, if you don't know how to do that:
http://pierrespring.com/2010/11/19/techzing-compilation-boot...
Enjoy and let me know if you like it ;)
Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#28Q: How do you Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business? A: Don't spend 12 hours listening to podcasts.
Unless you spend a lot of time in the car! :) I listen to 1 hour of audio each day whilst driving. This will be ideal now that I'm about to finish one of the Warren Buffet audio books
Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone seriously considering giving this a go (our consulting business is about to complete it's first year, we have built up a good war chest in the bank without any investment, and we're planning our web app right now), I would be foolish not to listen to the advice and experience (with a grain of salt) of those who have come before me and succeeded. Anything that helps me avoid mistakes that others have figure…
I don't think it was short-sighted. I think his point, while partly intended to be funny, of course, was that spending 12 hours to inject a certain amount of information is inefficient if the same substance could have been gleaned much more quickly in the form of concise, curated chunks of text.
On the other had, you don't have to listen to the podcasts in one session or one day.
Re: How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
#30You see, Justin? We are paying attention.
This is the second comment of this form that I've seen made for a submission from this website. What's the context?
Heh -- Justin is the guy who coined "luck surface area" and apparently thinks no one knows it. I had answered a question in another thread about who made it up, and someone followed that up with "see Justin? they are paying attention" -- so I thought I'd be funny and repeat that.