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teekarjaon Enterprise is sexy now. But B2D is sexier.

One of the teams in our incubator batch had a product for developers. I remember how Mårten Mickos (Founder of MySQL) gave them hard time:

"There are people who will spend any amount of money to save time, and there are people who will spend any amount of time to save any amount of money, and those are developers."

I saw where he was coming from. There is a reason why most developer tools are free, and even Apple charges only 99 bucks for their developer program. Developers are not a huge market and their willingness to pay is really low.

Later this team pivoted towards a much more lucrative space.

teekarjaon The non-technical hacker

Thanks for the laughs :>

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teekarjaon Why Raspberry Pi Is Unsuitable for Education

Well guess it is not very useful for someone studying to become a CPU architect, but for the majority of kids... Definitely a wonderful thing. I'd say that the Headline Is Unsuitable For The Article.

teekarjaon 5 years into development, our music mapping A.I:s are finally out.

Questions? Feedback? Comments? I'm all ears. -Teemu, entrepeneur.

teekarjaon Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch

Strange article. Lots of text but missing the main thing I was looking for. What kind "erroneus trades"? where did the money go? If you buy stock at the market you did not intend to buy, why not just sell them the next day?

teekarjaon How Do Plants Know Which Way Is Up And Which Way Is Down?

did not click cause of one obvious word: gravity

teekarjaon Twitter Completely Down

Twitter is down. The very fabric of modern life is endangered