Not that I encourage this particular lifestyle, but some people do manage to do this successfully. John Carmack, for instance, works 40 hours per week on iD, 40 hours per week on Armadillo, and still manages to raise two children.
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Here in Orange County, for example, the job market for developers is fairly balanced.
One thing you need to understand is that VC is a networking game, not a capital allocation game. You will get nowhere without access to a couple of trusted connections. Your idea, team, market, traction, revenue, and earnings mean absolutely nothing without "knowing a guy who knows a guy".
The quote, as reported, is so wildly divergent from the actual quote, that I wonder how you can think the reporter was "negligent", as opposed to "intentionally just making shit up for the purposes of creating controversy".
This wasn't a case of one or two words out of place. I count 3 substitutions, 2 transpositions, 11 deletions, and 5 additions. In one sentence. That is not "negligence", no matter how many books written by yellow journalism apologists exist.
Would be interesting to see how you back this up. My experience has invariably been that no good deed goes unpunished.
Idly allowing bad and potentially evil behavior to go unrecognized and unchallenged is by no means being a good person. Not to Godwin the thread, but your attitude is why evil flourishes, and on much grander scales than stock allocation.
FWIW, I not only attended a state university, but I also dropped out of it, and still managed to co-found a few successful companies. I'm not sure what the parenthetical "or cofounders" is supposed to mean, since customers of most businesses don't typically ask for a CV.
I suppose it was an exaggerated choice of term, but I was trying to set aside the specific issue of SAP to talk about the somewhat broader issue of how the tech community often finds technology boring if it doesn't appear in the form of a consumer app.
That said, welcome to my world. It's been an interesting experience working in an industry (ecommerce) that is regarded as a huge yawnfest by most of the startup community. The reality is that there really are very interesting problems to solve. Algorithms to predict demand curves, optimize warehouse pullbox location, and identify product flow constraints are all arguably more interesting problems to solve than sharing photos.
Nonetheless, nobody cares. And that's fine, mostly.
In the unlikely event you're actually asking in earnest, it's the same reason electrical engineers learn about electrons, or chemists learn about orbital shells, or authors learn about Shakespeare, or linguists learn about Latin, or biologists learn about Mendelian genetics, or physicists learn about Newton, or military generals learn about Thermopylae.
I can claim that my business partners are space aliens who read my thoughts and are plotting to colonize the planet all day long, but as long as there's no shred of evidence of this, the fact that nobody appreciates the lengths I go to wear tinfoil hats and research anti-alien combat techniques is meaningless.
Second, it "didn't work" likely because many extroverted bubbly manager types tend to perceive purely factual means of communication to be hostile. In fact, most human beings do this. This is the primary reason nerds with low or no psychological affect have a difficult time making friends, and are labeled "assholes" despite their lack of intention to actually be mean.
1. An authentication daemon crashes periodically due to a bug.
2. "S" discovers that rebooting the daemon's host prevents this from happening for a while, and does so.
3. The author is paged( 5 times ), discovers the problem, and writes a kludge script to keep the systems running until the bug can be fixed.
4. During the post-mortem meeting, she identifies "S" for his role in the events.
5. A thin-skinned manager suggests the author was too hard on "S".
6. The author, without any evidence, concludes that the manager said this because she is a woman, and is hellbent on "pushing [her] out" of the team.
The reality is that thin-skinned managers and managers overly sensitive to maintaining office decorum exist everywhere, and they don't do this based on your sex. Citing anecdotal evidence, I can say that having a penis does not shield you from accusations of being "too hard", and that hearing this from managers, coworkers, or employees, likely has nothing at all to do with sexism or a desire to "push out" women.
...for a todo list.
Yeah, no.
NetSol provides pretty good validation and security options for so-called "VIP" customers, but it's not perfect.
The next step up is paying exorbitant fees to a company like MarkMonitor for domain name management services. This is what the "big boys" tend to do.
My current company started out as a side project. I decided to make it a fulltime project after about three years. We are quite profitable.
Today, we operate a few "premium" domain name businesses, but we started with a rather obscure one, and did well enough to purchase more properties from cash flow.
I don't know. We started up in the shadow of the dot com bust, so there was not really any funding available for ecommerce companies. That said, we never actively sought any VC money, so it's incorrect to say we are an example of what you're seeking.
1. Made a critical hire
2. Completed "holiday rush" preparations
3. Expanded the warehouse and office