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This post reiterates a few keys points we all know. Don't hire or work with assholes (an entire book on it), and focus.
Warning sign 0: they're asking you to be a technical co-founder before you know anything about the product.
Another one is not being good at marketing. Marketing can be a huge grind. Being able to build buzz about your product, or get mentioned in the press, or find customers is very time-consuming and requires a lot of creativity.
You might not do construction yourself but the more you know the better it will turn out being the non-technical general contractor.
I like the one rule a-lot: Ignore them if they have no expertise in the area they're wanting to startup in. Its fine if they don't program.
If you do get involved with a non-tech cofounder, don't take equity or deferred income. Startups are a little like dating in the beginning, there's no need to get married before you ever work together. Someone should pay for your time instead of expecting it for free.
If being paid for your time is working well it's easy to figure out ownership after. If the non-tech cofounder is not willing to put his money where his mouth is, it might be full of something else.
Even as a developer, when I've gotten help on an idea from a friend or colleague I always pay them and say do as much as you can for me, this is my money out of my own pocket. Since us developers are a egalitarian helpful bunch often they want to just help as friends but I make sure to pay because it's just respecting their time and saying hey, if this goes somewhere, we can always figure that out. I've never lost a friendship/colleage relationship this way.
They want you to go full-time on it but they won't.
This HN meme is getting a little tired.
I generally run from non-software people wanting to be in the software business but not even want to learn or try to understand how software is built. You might not do construction yourself but the more you know the better it will turn out being the non-technical general contractor. I like the one rule a-lot: Ignore them if they have no expertise in the area they're wanting to startup in. Its fine if they don't progr…
In response to this: http://objectcommando.com/blog/2011/10/13/appendo-the-great/
Back in like 2007 at OSNews, they did stories saying FAT is patented. I check MS site and say $0.26 to format memory stick with FAT in factiry. Shit! So I removed it and made my own file system with the one goal of not infringing on patents. How the hell do you do it without FAT table? Chain like Commodore--that'd royally suck. Ticketmaster had contiguous files and allocation bitmap. I did the fixdisk for it. I can't give details on TM, but for mine, I took directories in a tree like FAT but with fixed size 27char names and 64-bit block addresses. I had an allocation bitmap. No way to grow files, but no patent trouble. I did file compression at TM, too. With whole files, I'm able to do file compression with LoseThos, but no way to grow files. You can access whole blocks indexed into a file for speed, but you have to allocate ahead of time.
It's not really a general purpose OS, but it's doing better than all these:
http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects
perhaps it's because I'm humble and I actually get stuff finished... but I'm in prison. Compatibility is the biggest challenge and I'm humble. Not being Unix seems necessary for any kind of success too or people with just use Linux. Windows wannabees competing on price seems depressing.
I checked and Linux didn't remove FAT, so I put FAT support back in. I checked MS site and thought it said no problem. I'm in jail and it's impossible to get sued.
I here for entertainment, not business partners. I'm in jail and only get FBI emails.
God says... C:\TEXT\WEALTH.TXT
are immediately accountable to government, of which the revenue must, in this case, vary from year to year, according to the occasional variations in the produce of the tax; or they may be let in farm for a rent certain, the farmer being allowed to appoint his own officers, who, though obliged to levy the tax in the manner directed by the law, are under his immediate inspection, and are immediately accountable to him. The best and most frugal way of levying a tax can never be by farm. Over and above
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/drone-virus-nuisance...
Come to think of it, there have been some scary-smart people. All I know is I wrote every line of LoseThos and it is not malware and that God talks.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...
10 i = i + 1
15 IF i > 99999 THEN PRINT ".";: i = 0
20 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10
30 PRINT "King James Bible, Line:", i
Line 79673
26:58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
26:59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 26:60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 26:61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
26:62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? 26:63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
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Obviously if this article is talking to me reality is FUBAR.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/autistics-dont-a...
Generosity is a no brainer.
"For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
All is a no brainer when you have proof of God.
I don't like my parents seeing me give a tip at subway. They're not enlightened.
God says... C:\TEXT\SWIFT.TXT
d the most ignorant and stupid person among them. He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his detractors reported, "he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place;" neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposition in the mathematics. He was pleased to show me many marks of favour, often did me the honour of a visit
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http://behindthescenes.midtownrow.com/being-almost-ready-mea...
LoseThos has been launched since 2004. Web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20040606212724/http://www.simstru...
Thousands and thousands of downloads only one email about every 6 months from FBI--you know cause they're painfully unpleasant to read--no joy--stingy on any feedback.
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This little pathetic fucker:
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-...
Sorry, my giants are Peter Gadwa and Denny Denker.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1
These guys are pathetic, too:
Is it actually true that there are founders of companies who haven't bought a domain name? I find that piece of this to be quite silly. GoDaddy buys superbowl ads - buying a domain is very mainstream. I have seen the "multiple startups in the works" thing though- that is definitely not a good sign.
I've come across this exact thing before (where the techie has to do it all - including spending $10 at godaddy). Always with folks who convince my family to get hold of me. The cure has been to get the relative involved in the fiasco, where I'll do the work, but they have to be involved. By the time all the poop hits the fan, they finally got a hefty dose of what we have to go through. In the most recent one-of-thes…