Actually, our customers aren't just funded startups. We've got accounting firms, consumer electronics companies, design firms, law firms, media companies, telecoms, etc.
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Upverter has the potential to make hardware more like software by making it easier to iterate on. That's really cool.
That people are starting to view death as a medical failure is one of the best things that could happen. I personally don't expect to die of old age.
We don't explicitly list that we're looking for developers at the moment, but we're always happy to talk with strong candidates.
I'm reading the Isaacson book, and he reminds me of Steve Jobs. Everything is black and white, everyone is either a genius or a shithead.
We make it easy for companies to feed their people. Think Pandora for food. We're hiring developers, outside sales people, and a visual designer.
The second issue is that someone responsible for ordering food part time isn't going to do it as well as someone who's concerned with nothing else. It's specialization of labor.
The entire article comes off as condescending and self righteous. The suggestion that your company isn't worthwhile if you're not solving 3rd world problems is absurd. As is the notion that founders who are in it to make money are misguided. This sort of thing is typically said by someone with money - in this case a VC.
Done. We've removed it. Thanks for the feedback.
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ZeroCater
Come build a Food AI (FAI).
We make it easy for companies to feed their people. We generate a set of custom orders across local restaurants and automatically arrange delivery, then optimize the selections with customer feedback. Think smart playlists for food.
We have openings for hackers and a designer. http://www.zerocater.com/jobs
I've bootstrapped a business to significant traction as a single founder. I don't recommend it. It's possible, but morally exhaustive.
"The best way to make sure your product meets the needs of your target audience is to expose your designs to the scrutiny of your users. Doing this during every phase of the design process can help reveal which features of your product work well and which need improvement."
I left at 18 when I discovered that evolution wasn't the nonsense I'd always been taught. There was a period where I searched desperately for any credible arguments against it, and found none. When I started talking to the people who had been telling me it was wrong, I realized that they had no idea what evolution actually was. In some cases, they didn't know the distinction between natural selection and the theories of the origin of the universe.
People accuse the JW's of being a cult with good reason: members are discouraged from associating with non-members. They're also told to avoid all contact with anyone who is 'disfellowshipped' (thrown out).
This means that the penalty for disagreement with the church is losing everyone you care about. 'Shunning' is a tactic very common to cults.
This also means the price for being intellectually honest with yourself is very high. That's how smart people manage to continue believing in something so demonstrably false. For me to give up my faith, strong evidence wasn't enough - it took overwhelming evidence, and even then it was a very emotionally trying time.
The reason their income is low is simple: the church has noticed that education is anti-correlated with membership and so they continually discourage it. Very much like a corrupt government tries to bury information injurious to itself.