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Bootstrapping Start-ups

Posted by michael on from the he-travels-the-fastest-who-travels-alone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How many of us wanted to follow our dream and start our own start-up? How many of us thought that it can't be done due to costs, the need of big bucks and convincing some snotty VC? Well it didn't stop these guys. The most current success story is social networking software Huminity which has been on /. before. The recipe for their success was: open source, clustering $100/mo servers, using the web to find native translators instead of using over priced local ones and hiring GUI designers from popular skins download sites."

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  1. Cheaper Labor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yeah, if you use the web to get translators say, in india or canada then you can save money by relocating otherwise american jobs into third world countries where you can get an hour of labor for a dime or so without paying for insurance or anything.

    Good Idea.

  2. "Graphic designers" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    hiring GUI designers from popular skins download sites

    There's a reason these people don't already have jobs. Just look at the software. Or the site.

  3. Easy get SCO investors by memmel2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1.) Get the names of SCO investors 2.) Bilk them for a few bucks 3.) Profit