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Make More Mistakes

Posted by michael on from the easy-enough dept.

prostoalex writes "Eric Sink from SourceGear, well-known in the open-source world for AbiWord Suite, shares his thoughts on starting and running a software business. One of the keys to a successful business, as Thomas J. Watson once said, was to double the rate of failures. Eric Sink tells the story of what mistakes he personally made, what could be avoided, and what's important for geeks to know when starting a software company."

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  1. Re:Fail Fast by herrvinny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Except that /. only got started in 1997...

  2. Re:My first mistake.... by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is not a joke. Opera gets bounced. Does anyone have a mirror?