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hhm, ok. yes, it's the latter.

sorry, here is the clickable link https://klimmzugstangen.de

I manufacture and sell cool pull-ups bars [1] for fitness ethusiasts and all others, who want to have an allrounder at home for their fitness workouts.

Does not make me rich, but provides in addition work and income for three people doing it also as a side-job. Main problem: the product does not brake and it's a true craft business, so 95% of all customer buy only once.

[1] https://klimmzugstangen.de/

I fully agree and do basically the same. As an expert in some domains, seeing high-content websites pushed back by some marketing driven shitty websites lets me really doubt the quality of google's index, this applies especially fir niche tipics.

this is quiet interesting. two days ago the main stream media here in germany said that the accident would have happened anyways, regardless of the self-driving technology built into the vehicle.

Looking at the video, the quality of the current self-driving technology is really questionable, especially if i recall also the other non-fatal road traffic offences publicized so far.

Thanks Google! Now I know that I am a ML guy, as an economist and econometrician. Yes, we shoot this on all kind of stuff, though with a clear business acumen or economic policy thinking.

This is not correct. We are quite over educated here in the high skilled workforce - nowadays much more students, meister and techniker everywhere, and sure we have created a low wage sector recently as well, but this is another story and represents a much smaller share of the entire workforce.

I was recently at a Microsoft Training Centre, where we also had a chance to test the Hololens. All in all, it's crap. It is pretty heavy, so I can't imagine wearing it for more than 10 min. The latency was ok, but still somewhat disturbing. The gesture recognition was bad. I, and later on also the Microsoft guy, had to tap twice several times to trigger an action. The shown floor shop example was a bad choice. Speed at the shop floor is key, for workers and for other functions, and this is what the Hololens didn't have. During the show off they had to restart the Hololens - a clear fail I would say, but judge for yourself.

good post. add some stories about dealing with lobbyists as an economist, and the post will be even more interesting.

We've bootstrapped https://www.klimmzugstangen.de/xt/ years ago.

It's a one person business, but we actually split it among three people, cause no one of us had all the needed abilities to run it alone.

Since the very start, it serves a niche market for fitness products and pays an average annual income.

This is really nonsense from the economic perspective: The German government can finance its infrastructure (among others) basically at zero costs due to low interest rates. Nevertheless, it wants to privatize the Autobahn (to be correct, major parts of it) in Germany. It seems that good lobbying is here at work. Private investors do not earn currently any interest rates on their capital. So some smart guys think they can get the German Autobahn, raise the price for its use and get so a good return on their capital.

why are these glasses so cheap?

We created these pull up bars [1] years ago and continously try to improve them or introduce some new models, but, all in all, without great success. If you're into something, then it's difficult to think out of the box. So fresh eyes are needed! Any feedback would be a great help. Maybe you see another model, a new feature or a new design that would be cool to make. Thanks!

[1] https://www.klimmzugstangen.de/xt/en/pull-up-bars

Hey, I would not say "little work". Most people at Volkswagen work at the production line and this work is really backbreaking.

The central issue here is also that Volkswagen is going to change massively over the next 10 years. They are about to invest billions in e-mobility, connectivity, and autonomous driving. So the competition among car manufacturers, esp. Tesla and the rest, is going to increase over the next years. Tesla we be on new grounds in 10 years from now.

... save 3.7 bn and invest 3.5 bn in e-mobility, car connectivity and autonomous driving. Conclusion: Tesla will see the brutal force of competition over the next years. Finally, the Goliaths started to move.

Volkswagen plans to cut 30,000 jobs, until 2025 and mainly in Germany.

Pretty interesting to see this. Key thing here is that DJI again times the market debuts of other drone manufactures, here the GoPro Karma introduced last week. But the more important thing is that DJI again raises the bar for all players in the civilian drone market - here with the range of 7 km. I don't want to praise DJI, but the guys appear to be quite good, although 7 km is currently a ridiculous thing - mostly you are not allowed to fly beyond line of sight (bls), i.e. beyond ca. 300 - 600 m.

Source: email from CyPhy Works / Kickstarter

Cool. I remember reading your post. I published also some stuff, that I'd worked on for five years. What a relief it was, when I handed all the files to the publisher. I took a break afterwards, for six months - and this was great also. Whish you all the best!