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by throwaway55671 2y ago
Do you mean hospitals, 911 dispatch centers and other critical infrastructure buys and deploys software without having the legal department carefully analyze the terms and conditions, based on the marketing materials only?
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
Angel investments are small - 10s to low 100s thousands. If the founders were software engineers, they should be able to cover the investments from their savings. And if they got salary from the startup they founded, it's theirs to use
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
I order my food or go to a restaurant every day.
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
It is very fun with small amounts of money.
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
Per capita is a dumb indicator for this, though. USA has GDP in tens of trillions. Ireland has 47 times less than that.
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
> They frequently rank highest on happiness measures If half of young people have low levels of mental wellbeing, perhaps the composite average indicator is not so useful.
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
Free houses sounds very unlimited to me.
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
It's a Unix like OS with great separation of concerns. There probably is a way - their browser runs on Linux - but I don't think anyone has done it yet. Could be a fun project to look into!
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by throwaway55671 2y ago
> Honestly I’m really tempted to try to throw together a 90s style fantasy desktop environment and widget library and make some apps for it. There’s something about that era of computing that feels great. SerenityOS might be exactly what
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Total nonsense about Prague. There are 2 great techno clubs/bars on each Žižkov, Vršovice or Holešovice street, lol. It's mostly locals and expats listening to guys doing it for fun with no managers or marketing (or entrance fees)
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Prague
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
> established or up and coming DJs Well there's the problem. What you should compare is how many unknown new guys just making good music for fun in small unknown clubs visited by locals are there. In my city I can go to a random non
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
I'd definitely be willing to accept reduced output if the price was right. Less income is better than no income. This could significantly increase the value proposition of solar projects in northern areas. Also, nowadays night time ele
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
> Even then, the size of the orbiting reflector would need to be absolutely gargantuan to reflect enough sunlight to be useful. That assumes they try to do it with just one mirror, right? What if they have a system of multiple mirrors pa
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Sure, I agree, this is just my own high level strategy that works for me but might not for you and your situation. From what I saw, marketing is about data and a lot of money. If you don't have that, it's about having a big profil
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
I sell software consulting services - a very saturated market. I bought access to a SaaS/database of companies and key management phone numbers, identified which companies use technologies I can offer from their job posts etc, and star
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Let me repeat the edited-in question at the end of my first comment: How many cold calls with prospective customers do you have daily? How often do you talk to people who might be interested on LinkedIn or other professional forums/soc
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Why not? A large percentage of GDP is about making things other businesses use to do their business. I'm getting spammed by ads from bigger companies doing the same thing - "become our partner / make money with our products &
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Consistency isn't a strategy, indeed. It's not meant to be. It means you have to keep trying - what strategy you use is a different question. You should make one, try it out a statistically significant amount of times, measure and
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
> I'm one step away from claiming that their success is pure luck, as in "being in the right time with the right people", rather than some effort that they've put it which helped them acquire customers, and I'm s
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
They shouldn't get exceptions. There shouldn't be so many laws and regulations that result in EU being so behind economy-, success- and investment-wise.
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
No, that's not true. There are plenty of stable market capitalization, dividend-generating public companies. Their cap-to-EBITDA ratio is much smaller, but that doesn't change the fact. Of course everybody expects the company to t
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Microsoft has massive government contracts in literally every EU country. US is an ally, not antagonist/enemy.
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
The EU doesn't invest, the EU provides subsidies with many strings attached. One of the strings usually is "can't be used to pay shareholders" (as in wages, not just dividends). Also, the subsidies are usually provided a
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Who said infinite? Startup founders that got investments have designed the exit points based on market conditions, and nobody would trust "infinite". It's just like stock investments (unless you "invest" based on fe
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
The US investors just have so much more disposable cash they can risk. EU investors are looking for safety because losing 100M EUR means they lost literally everything. Their "risky volatile investments" part of the portfolio is 1
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Because sustaining is a job, and it's a very hard job. The shareholders might not like that job or want to do a different one, or they just can't do it. Or the market is going down, but someone could use the IP/assets/te
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
385M USD is way too much for EU investors. They usually invest 10x-100x less. So the alternative without US investors would be to have no startup of this kind - great job, that will really help EU grow!
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Few million dollars split by how many people? A small startup that provided a decent exit for me was sold for 50M EUR. I got 100K from that - the company had over 1000 shareholders. That's not really life changing amount of money, was
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by throwaway55671 3y ago
Perhaps the founders want to remain there and grow, perhaps they want to focus on something else or retire. Perhaps the plan always was to sell after X years - I don't see anything wrong about that, still better to innovate&sell th

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