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Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by jelmerdejong »

Working at a software company that builds portal software for banks. We are not a startup, we are building enterprise software, software that runs on premise and is not sold as SaaS.

However, HN is great inspiration and a valuable source. IMHO enterprise software or enterprise is the market place that is missing innovation and real challengers. More and more companies should fight the status quo and challenge the big dominators (e.g. IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, HP). And I hope to see 2013 as the year where we see more Y Combinator startups and also HN discussion around startups that do exactly this.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by cfontes »

ColinWright wrote: post #2

FWIW, from my profile: I'm a PhD in Pure Maths (Combinatorics and Graph Theory) from the University of Cambridge. My BSc(Hons) was in Pure maths from Monash University, Australia. I work in industry as a director of Innovation and Research, helping to create equipment that does the maritime equivalent of Air-Traffic Control. Basically, we provide kit to help people stop 30,000 tonne oil tankers from crashing into nuc…

Hum... interesting I do the same thing but with rail roads and only software (Desktop software) we use other people sensors and GPSs( thanks God our problem is 2D, yours is a lot harder)

The Company software is planning the train routes so 15k tons trains filled with gas don't crash into another 15k tons train filled with iron ore in the middle of a city.

It's not a startup but we are only 30 people and half are administrative roles, so we are pretty small.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by polyfractal »

On the side, I'm building experimental composite frames for quadrotors. If I come up with something usable, I plan on selling them to the quadrotor FPV community. Not really a startup, but hopefully a profitable side business.

Most high performance quadrotor frames are made out of carbon fiber. This makes them expensive, brittle, prone to horrible vibrations and not so great for RF interference. I'm basically tooling around in my garage with new combinations of composites to see if I can replace CF with something else. =)

I'm ex-biology and a year ago worked in a wet-bench neuroscience lab.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by georgespencer »

verdverm wrote: post #4

i just finished my masters in cs, thinking about phd, job, or startup... i've learned a little javascript in the past, looking at haskell for applications to the combinatorics of graph theory to cfg's

Where are you based? I'd love to talk to you about a full time role.
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