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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. And we have by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a weener!!!!... or do we!?.. :)

    1. Re:And we have by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hello anonymous coward... what's happening?

      uhhhhh... we got sort of a problem here... yeaah... you appearantly didn't put one of the new GNAA advertisements on your first post.

      mmmh... yeahh.. you see, we're putting the GNAA advertisements on all first posts now before they go out. did you see the memo about this?

      so if you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that would be great.

      and i'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that text. mmmmkay?

  2. start with fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first of all

  3. GNU does this too and I hate it by ObviousGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The website detected that I'm in Japan and directed me to their Japanese website.

    If I wanted to go to their Japanese website, I'd have typed in www.huminity.co.jp.

    --
    I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
    1. Re:GNU does this too and I hate it by ObviousGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That's not it. It's already set to English U.S. as the primary language. It is detecting something else. And, as I mentioned before, GNU's website does it too.

      --
      I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
  4. BASH FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The GNAA is opposed to this topic. Therefore, all True Christians (r) should support it!

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    While we at BASH are yet unable to cure niggerism (or any other such God-inflicted curse of skin pigmentation), we have had record success turning limp-wristed, "Queer Eye" watching nancy-boys and bull-dyke lesbians back in to straight, God-fearing, Republican-voting human beings!

    All we need is your pious financial support, plenty of imprecatory prayer and a good-sized, Leviticus-charged stone or two, and soon the GNAA will be a thing of the past!

    To join, go here and read all about how you can start saving gay Negroes from Satan's clutches!

    This post was brought to you by a Landover Baptist Church Member.

    If you or anyone you know exhibits these signs they may be a homosexual and at risk of joining Satan's Army, or the GNAA.

  5. Japanese Tittys Make Me Giddy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    I love to rub my semen on them.

    It's a warm delight.

  6. IN THE BEGINING THERE WAS FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP is the begnining. The begninning itself is fp.

  7. GANDALF THE WHITE IZ ON TEH SPOKE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goddamit, Gollum, will you stop fucking pimping Huminity already?!!!

    1. Re:GANDALF THE WHITE IZ ON TEH SPOKE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I am not Gollum. I am J.J.R. Tolkien in person, you little clod. And this is my last post for today because I'll be banned (again). I liked the japanese robots.