How To Build A Startup From A Beach
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How To Build A Startup From A Beach
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#2Jameson and I spent Mochi's first summer (2005) on Maui, where we built the majority of MochiBot and MochiKit. Worked great for us, although we didn't keep California time or do any planking.
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#3Joyce, Eric, Wynwyn and Caleb were great to work and eat with! Loved the beach. Working in Hawaii now a days is great because of all the coworking spots like The Box Jelly and The Greenhouse. Hawaii is really taking off and will soon be the tech hub of the Pacific.
Side note about working with the SimpleHoney team - One time in the Ko 'Olina house I killed a cockaroach (follow him here - https://twitter.com/#!/householdroach) in the bathroom but was too scared to pick it up. Joyce "The Terminator" Kim went in there and picked it up for me LIKE A BOSS!!!! True Story!
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#4we should do an exchange program, so HI startups get a taste of ground zero in Bay Area.
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#5I was expecting some fluff piece about how to make a passive income on SEO while living a jetset life style. This was not it. The article makes surprisingly much sense actually.
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#6This is exactly what I've been wanting to do. Well done simplehoney; sounds like a great time.
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#7I was an intern in a startup that tried exactly this. It was a lot of fun. We got a ton of VC cash to burn and so why not do it in a nice environment? In the end, the company failed. We all got too much into a "holiday" mood. The webdesigner won a surf contest. The CEO started an affair with not one, but two of the female employes. We all got fat from eating delicious food from the 5-Star hotel and high class Restaurants near by.
Moral of the story? Stay frugal even when you dont have to. It might be better for the company.
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#8I was an intern in a startup that tried exactly this. It was a lot of fun. We got a ton of VC cash to burn and so why not do it in a nice environment? In the end, the company failed. We all got too much into a "holiday" mood. The webdesigner won a surf contest. The CEO started an affair with not one, but two of the female employes. We all got fat from eating delicious food from the 5-Star hotel and high class Restaur…
Sorry but to me the moral of the story was not stay frugal, but to stay focused on the product or company vision.
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#9As I resident of O'ahu, I'm psyched to see this. We don't have enough startup activity here.
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#10I was an intern in a startup that tried exactly this. It was a lot of fun. We got a ton of VC cash to burn and so why not do it in a nice environment? In the end, the company failed. We all got too much into a "holiday" mood. The webdesigner won a surf contest. The CEO started an affair with not one, but two of the female employes. We all got fat from eating delicious food from the 5-Star hotel and high class Restaur…
We didn't and still don't have "tons of VC cash" to burn - only our own savings accounts at that time, so no 5-star hotels or high class restaurants for us.
Also, I would not say we had a holiday mood at all during our time there. We started working the same day we arrived, but being in Hawaii had so many unexpected positive effects on productivity and product vision, we really wanted to share.
And, I could never win a surf contest.