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acemtp··on What if successful startups are just lucky?
Really love your comment. Thanks for the link, it's really interesting
acemtp··on What if successful startups are just lucky?
Launching a successful startup is luck BUT selecting entrepreneurs/startups who have luck is no random. You can definitively find some metrics to evaluate the current luck of a startup and expect that the founder has enough skill to continue to maximize luck in the future.
acemtp··on What if successful startups are just lucky?
It's not luck for you, it's luck for entrepreneur.

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.

acemtp··on What if successful startups are just lucky?
I'm the author. Thanks for the comment.

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.

acemtp··on What if successful startups are just lucky?
Nice links, thanks
acemtp··on What if successful startups are just lucky?
As you said, we don't know.

I moved to ghost 2 days ago and for the moment, it works quite nicely!

acemtp··on The Night Watch
Only 12 points? Really? Come on, it just so much fun!
acemtp··on CandyBox2 ASCII web game
Cheating is damn easy but it kills the interest in the game.
acemtp··on CandyBox2 ASCII web game
He put this in the "cfg": Feel free to contact me at aniwey@gmail.com if you have any comment or question :)
acemtp··on CandyBox2 ASCII web game
It's a game. When you have 30 candies, a button appears and you can start the game. more and more things unlock when you continue the game
acemtp··on CandyBox2 ASCII web game
"You threw 2 600 candies on the ground" I should stop that but it's really funny, you should try
acemtp··on CandyBox2 ASCII web game
Exact, We should perhaps change the title.
acemtp··on Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
Of course, the best technical talk is WAT by Gary Bernhardt! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEgk1Hdze0
acemtp··on Create a web app from scratch in under 5 minutes with Meteor and Mailgun
On the server, add something like:

RegUsers = new Meteor.Collection("regUsers");

RegUsers.insert({email:email});

acemtp··on Create a web app from scratch in under 5 minutes with Meteor and Mailgun
Get started to Meteor? I never create web app so quickly! For the customization, it depends what are your needs. Meteor is clearly cool to make collaborative web app;

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.

acemtp··on Create a web app from scratch in under 5 minutes with Meteor and Mailgun
Good idea! Let's dok it so I'll not forget :)
acemtp··on Create a web app from scratch in under 5 minutes with Meteor and Mailgun
Thanks
acemtp··on Meteor finally released their roadmap
Meteor told us that the version 1.0 will in more than 3 months and less than a year...
acemtp··on Ask HN: I have a FANSI. What should I do?
Create a LaunchRock landing page and share it to see if your idea is so good.
acemtp··on The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software
Nevrax programmed their engine from scratch and release there engine under GNU/GPL in 2001.

And for some internal/political reasons, Nevrax decided to not freeing Ryzom. But now, it's here!

acemtp··on The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software
Correct, and it's not apparently, but clearly available right now: http://media.ryzom.com
acemtp··on The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software
The code base that is 2 millions code line and also all the assets that is few gb of data!
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