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fybeon Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?

That's fair, perspective from actual founders definitely is a more interesting point of view.

Didn't want to give an off-topic anecdote but thought from my experience seeing what can go wrong for founders of a start-up I would share my experience.

fybeon Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?

I was part of a start-up that still exists but it seems to be stagnating. i left due to the founders having almost nothing in common except for making money.

The site is like squarespace but for local shops and businesses. The founders met on an airplane and thought they can make a business. So you had the business CEO with no technical background living in X country and the ruthless CTO with his team in Y country.

I left ship when the CTO cleaned out the bank account and disappeared. The Y country never extradite their citizens or charges them for any international crimes so he got off scott free while the CEO had to "use" his car insurance to get money to keep the business afloat and pay the out-sourced developers. (He set his car on fire to get a payout)

Edit: I guess the lesson is that the founders need a vision and co-operation to make it work. These two basically had a common goal of making money of a fad. Back then the latest craze was to become a market place for other businesses ie. JustEat, SquareSpace etc.

Another would be that the core team better stick together. The founders were separated by hundreds of miles. The business side was in EU while the CTO and the devs where not. This caused communication issues, planning problems and of course money.

I left because of money too I guess. After working 6 months on a "paid" internship which was 50 eu a week I was offered a contract that would give me 0.5% equity, no raise and force me to work full time AND when doing my final year college thesis to be based for something the company can use.

fybeon Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs

>"I thought everybody would be smarter"

I don't remember where I heard it but I think has some truth to it. A bachelor believes he's the smartest A master thinks he's not smart at all A Phd understands no one is smart

fybeon Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning security and pen testing?

CISSP is a bit harder but still entry level and has more credibility

fybeon Stripe won't work with lower than TLS 1.2, starting tomorrow

PCI requirements are TLS 1.1 minimum. Stripe's change is of course is due to PCI certification and 1.2 is strongly encouraged, but 1.2 is not the defacto version required. They could have just disabled 1.0 and keep 1.1. Just wanted to correct the info. (Also happy that they didn't take the minimum and took the extra effort to implement 1.2)

Source: https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/are-you-ready-for-30-j...

fybeon Stripe won't work with lower than TLS 1.2, starting tomorrow

Not necessarily as PCI requires a minimum of TLS 1.1 with 1.2 being the recommended. [0]

[0]https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/are-you-ready-for-30-j...

fybeon I am a “MasterChef” survivor

I knew that reality TV was fabricated (at least the US shows) but to read such detail about psychologists, 'wranglers' and legal shenanigans was really shocking.

15% of all earnings? Giving up all rights, background and medical checks? Scary stuff. But again, not surprising seeing how big and lucrative this segment of industry is.

fybeon China's hypersonic aircraft would fly from Beijing to New York in two hours

One of the worst websites I ever visited. The amount of traffic, cookies, ads and scripts needed to be loaded just to present few images and text is deplorable.