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Your job is to select people who were lucky enough to meet the right people, meet the market, had luck to have enough traction, lived in a country where he could spend time learning and so on...
But when you are entrepreneur, you have to maximize your luck by maximizing number of opportunities.
I agree with you, I don't know the Saleforce history but I'm quite sure that at the beginning of the company, they had lot of luck. I'm sure at least 10 other companies tried to address the same problem on the same market and failed.
Execution is mandatory but lot of the execution is also based on lot of uncontrollable parameters, hire the right guy at the right time.
Look at Evernote for example, they were almost bankrupt even if the execution was good, the market here and so on. It's a pure luck if the are still there and so strong.
I moved to ghost 2 days ago and for the moment, it works quite nicely!
RegUsers = new Meteor.Collection("regUsers");
RegUsers.insert({email:email});
If it's about Mailgun, you can get started for free without any configuration and if you want to send more than 300 emails/day later, you can create a mailgun account and easily integrate your own SMTP credentials into the app using the steps outlined in the blog.
And for some internal/political reasons, Nevrax decided to not freeing Ryzom. But now, it's here!