Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.
19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
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That would be my fault. I meant to say that Patio11 suggested that Emil should talk to his customers. Emil was more focused on building the product than communicating with his potential customers, which was why he faltered in Picopy.
Unfortunately, that's something that is automatically done through the platform. I'm not used to it yet and I'm still trying to figure out how to turn it off.
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#13Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.
It suggests a lot about print journalism when an article in Forbes clearly hasn't received even basic proofreading, much less proper editorial vetting.
It's a cool story but my experience reading it was diminished by the grade school sentence structure and bizarre grammar and punctuation errors. Stray commas in Forbes! Seriously now.
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That would be my fault. I meant to say that Patio11 suggested that Emil should talk to his customers. Emil was more focused on building the product than communicating with his potential customers, which was why he faltered in Picopy. Unfortunately, that's something that is automatically done through the platform. I'm not used to it yet and I'm still trying to figure out how to turn it off.
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#16I'm just eager to see how long will it take him to fail in Bosnia (not because he's not capable but the Bosnian legislature is shit for anyone not doing illegal work, same goes for Serbia, Croatia and maybe even Kosovo.)
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#17I'm just eager to see how long will it take him to fail in Bosnia (not because he's not capable but the Bosnian legislature is shit for anyone not doing illegal work, same goes for Serbia, Croatia and maybe even Kosovo.)
Thanks for the comment, it's very helpful for anyone looking to do business in Bosnia.
Doing business in Bosnia might not be as good as you mentioned.
However, the company is based in US, and I'm also a US citizen.
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#18Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.
It suggests a lot about print journalism when an article in Forbes clearly hasn't received even basic proofreading, much less proper editorial vetting. It's a cool story but my experience reading it was diminished by the grade school sentence structure and bizarre grammar and punctuation errors. Stray commas in Forbes! Seriously now.
This is not a Forbes article, it's from their knock-off "contributors" platform.
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#19Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.
It suggests a lot about print journalism when an article in Forbes clearly hasn't received even basic proofreading, much less proper editorial vetting. It's a cool story but my experience reading it was diminished by the grade school sentence structure and bizarre grammar and punctuation errors. Stray commas in Forbes! Seriously now.
Forbes.com/sites is a bunch of blogs with what seems to be minimal editorial oversight.
I guess a magazine brand probably isn't worth so much these days.
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#20His name is Emil Hajric. A few years back, when Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" discussion forum was at its peak, he used whois records to find the phone numbers of some of the most frequent contributors and to call us personally. I found this rather creepy.
Hey Steve, I do remember those days...and I'm very sorry about the cold call. I figured it was worth at least a shot Really sorry if I creeped you out there. I'm just a 20 year old kid, that's trying the best he can.
Zasto nisi ostao u Sarajevu?