Ah... that's a good catch wensheng, I had the two mixed up. I'll correct this later tonight. Thanks!
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Does anyone know if you can refocus on the camera screen itself? Is it touch screen?
It is understandable from Manu's or other experienced entrepreneur's perspective, ideas are important. I don't deny that. That is because they have been through startups over and over again, these people understand the work that goes into the company months/years post-idea-conception.
I would say a good portion of the people who are reading this site won't fall into that category. As a matter of fact, very few people do. Most of us are just budding entrepreneurs trying to our feet wet and trying to find our way to "make it".
If you feel you fall into the latter category more than the former, read Manu's post with a grain of salt, it's _not_ really meant for you.
I'd argue (with my limited knowledge) that it's more important for young entrepreneurs to know that ideas are a dime a dozen. By the time you come up with it, 10 other people have thought of it as well. What separates great ideas from good ideas is that you have a clear competitive advantage that can allow you to out-execute those other 10 people. This competitive advantage can be your passion, skill set, domain knowledge, connections, etc.
So if I have to sum it up, and to modify Manu's post to fit the eyes of the budding entrepreneurs:
It's not the idea that matters, it's the people + the idea that matters.
My best wishes to Arlo and AJ. What comes around goes around, the valley is a small place and these things don't go unnoticed.
Pretty awesome.
Gosh... the colors so are washed out that you can see any of the amazing colors, hell you can't even read the buttons at times! I cringed at the sight of the reflection of the camera on the screen. *shrug
Come on Adobe... you can do better than this!
Let's be honest, starting a company is not hard, anyone with $300 could file a C-corp in delaware. But how many people have actually built just one business with a few million in revenue, how many sold for even more? Sure starting a company is glorious, but I expected people on this board to value building a successful business more. =\
Mark, if you're reading this, any plans to stick around in one company for a while and build the next Baidu/Taobao/Youku in the US?
This article by Ty turned out to be a great read for me as well. A lot of the things we did, it really wasn't by intention. It is good for me to take a look back and understand what we did right (although I wish he had pointed out what we did wrong as well).
I would highly recommend other HN hackers/entrepreneurs to take a moment and read this article. You might find this helpful in your own search for angel funding.
Best of luck!
This boy won China's Got Talent Finally about 30 minutes ago.
2 quotes stood out to me, loosely translated from my memory:
"Nobody told me I have to play piano with hands" "Die quickly or live spectacularly"
Props to him.
See Tom's hardware guide experiment where they took out the fans and instead dumped the computer into distilled water:
I think we're all spooked by the facebook fiascos lately. But if we all take a step back, businesses similar to CardMunch have existed for years, just check out CloudContact, CardScan, Shoeboxed...
I remember one day this beta user decided to send in a bunch of cards for process. It was nothing out of the ordinary except the stream of cards just kept coming. By the end of the hour, he had sent in 470 contacts. We completed them fairly quickly, but out of curiosity we calculated exactly how much manhours we spent processing his cards.
19.93 HRs.
Arguably that's how much time he saved, because he didn't have to do everything on his own. It was pretty sweet.
So maybe the title of the story would be: "how we saved one user 19.93 hours in one Friday afternoon"?
Is that something you can relate to? :)