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chwolfeon Bill Hewlett & Dave Packard (HP) - Early Years

We all start somewhere: "The first products weren't very romantic, I'll tell you. There was a shocking machine to enable you to lose weight; a clock drive for a telescope and a magic eye to turn on a urinal at Stanford."

chwolfeon Is bootstrapping becoming sexy again for web2.0?

Yes.

chwolfeon How much money to set aside for legal work/fees?

Thanks... Did you go the LLC route?

chwolfeon CIOs Spurn Web 2.0 Startups - Enterprises Want Suites and Large, Incumbent Software Vendors

1) Make YOUR users happy 2) Get bought out by big company ABC 3) Let ABC worry about selling it to the suits (They'll be better at it anyway).

chwolfeon GStock - stock market analysis "2.0"

How much of a role will distributed computing play in the continuing evolution of web-based software? Has this method of user involvement been overlooked by web startups or is it just not applicable to many 2.0 products?

chwolfeon Everything I Know, I Learned from Warren Buffett

One of my favorite Buffett quotes: "There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."