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Paul Graham Explains How to Start a Startup
woginuk writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay on his website on how to start a startup. According to him 'You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.'
How difficult can that be? So go start them startups."
"one of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? ..... a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it; a PR person who will cold-call New York Times reporters"
So to be a programmer animal Im supposed to work $*#3"! TWICE as hard as the PR and sales people?!!? Thank you kindly for this really insightfull glimpse of just how much the developer is valued within a start-up!! Ill definately pass on working for this #$£"!£
One thing I think is missing on slashdot is articles along the lines of "How to recognise a CheeseBag that will exploit your Geek talent and throw you away like yesterdays pizza box". Good way to identify them is when they think you have HALF the value of their other funking latest-greatest scheme drones!! How DOES this garbage make it to slashdot?
Wow...thanks for the news, Captain Obvious..lets seem an Idea, Good People to work with, an provide a Customer...good thing I read this article, I had no clue...
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omg thats so funny cos windoze suxx and it is totally teh dogshitsicle windows suxx lol lol lol!!!!!!