The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker
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The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker
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#2There's no need to wait for a $100 million dollar exit to do this. If you have a lifestyle business (say, a web design company, or an online agency) that throws off enough cash, you can set up a team of hackers and UI people and start throwing stuff at the wall.
In fact, if they are truly free to be creative, yet have some constraints in terms of time and money, its likely to work better.
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#3This sounds like a really good solution to the classical problem about what to do, once one has made enough money in a successful exit event.
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#4Maybe then, they can focus on 'real' problems like global warming and green energy.
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#5Maybe this is the small-scale return of private research units like Bell Labs or (Xerox) PARC (although both of them still exist, they are not as significant as they once were) for the Web: put a group of awesome guys together and just let them cook a bit and see what's coming out ...
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#6Maybe this is the small-scale return of private research units like Bell Labs or (Xerox) PARC (although both of them still exist, they are not as significant as they once were) for the Web: put a group of awesome guys together and just let them cook a bit and see what's coming out ...
It's more like the classic definition of skunkworks than "official" research. A good example is NuCalc, which continued to be developed after the project was cancelled by Apple.
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#7Sign me up!
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#8Maybe then, they can focus on 'real' problems like global warming and green energy.
I'd focus on the software side of 'real' problems and team up with others project focusing on the engineering side. Still keep to my core area I know best while still tending towards these kind of real worldwide problems.
I'd also love to fund research that misses out because it can't be monetized easily.
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#9Maybe then, they can focus on 'real' problems like global warming and green energy.
I assume you're being ironic? I think the jury's out on both of those things being real problems.
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#10Maybe then, they can focus on 'real' problems like global warming and green energy.
I assume you're being ironic? I think the jury's out on both of those things being real problems.
Correct, with the only qualifier being that this only applies to juries that are composed of anti-reason, science illiterate individuals.