How To Build A $30M Startup Without Spending Any Of Your Own Money

I hate it when I hear people who have probably never coded in their lives, saying how easy it is to build something. From the outside everything seems like a piece of cake, but software engineering is more than that. It takes time, concentration, dedication and creativity.

Re: How To Build A $30M Startup Without Spending Any Of Your Own Money

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Post by drakaal » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 11:16 PM UTC

shonuff wrote: post #4

For Step 5 - let's not forget Nick D'Aloisios favorite tactic of spamming reporters. http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...

Author makes reference to that at the end with "tips" "Lie."

Re: How To Build A $30M Startup Without Spending Any Of Your Own Money

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Post by jkuria » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 11:17 PM UTC

One thing they forgot to add: Be 15 years old so that it makes a good sensationalist medoa story. A 40 year old doing this wouldn't get anywhere even if he lined up the Ocean's Eleven cast on his board! Terrible article by the way.

Re: How To Build A $30M Startup Without Spending Any Of Your Own Money

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Post by zinssmeister » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 11:17 PM UTC

byeworld wrote: post #6

I hate it when I hear people who have probably never coded in their lives, saying how easy it is to build something. From the outside everything seems like a piece of cake, but software engineering is more than that. It takes time, concentration, dedication and creativity.

amen.

Re: How To Build A $30M Startup Without Spending Any Of Your Own Money

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Post by shonuff » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 11:21 PM UTC

drakaal wrote: post #7

shonuff wrote: post #4

For Step 5 - let's not forget Nick D'Aloisios favorite tactic of spamming reporters. http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...

Author makes reference to that at the end with "tips" "Lie."

Ah, I see it now. “I try to maintain a level of humbleness” HAHAH - yeah right.