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I built an online payroll service for Canadian families who hire staff like nannies or home care workers, or small businesses that wanted a very simple payroll solution. At the same time I had a day job.

I wasn't raking in money but I had customers and my revenues exceeded my small expenses.

Over the summer I sold the company and went to work for the acquiring company. In retrospect, this was probably the best move for me (I had considered taking investment to move to it full time.)

Like one of the answers above, I don't think I could have grown the business significantly without spending more time on it, and for me (day job, 3 young kids) this was the only way I could have done it.
> it runs on a network with 10 GB switches.

Why is this here, anyway?
Ask me again in 6-8 months. We haven't launched yet. Both me and my co-founder have day jobs.
It's not as bad as it sounds, though 6 hours is quite a while. Platelet donation is done this way (http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/types-donations/...), taking an hour or two each time, and there are donors who make a platelet donation every two weeks. The blood cools while it's being run through the machine so you get chilly, but donors generally just sit under a blanket and read or watch a DVD for the duration.
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What's the point of this question? There are people who did that and that's possible. patio11 is one example and I must say very good one.

I am example of person who has not managed to do that in 3 years but I have learned a lot and my trial contributed to my well-being in many positive ways. Some of those are like salary growing faster than planned and some are small but pleasant things like Nokia N950.
My partner and I started return7 with $800 (mostly design, Apple dev fee, etc.) in 2008 when the App Store opened up. BillMinder, our main app, is profitable.
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That's because the EU is a heterogeneous environment and so there is a big difference between British/German standards, quality of life and mentality and the Greeks. However, it doesn't have to be that way.

Apparently 50 states in the U.S. that are spread across an area that's almost as big as all of Europe and with a population that's racially and ethnically very diverse, can get along.
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It seems to me that the libraries of the world should be at the front lines of the public internet. A mix of Wikipedia, the EFF and Project Gutenberg. Ensuring human information is correct, well referenced, publicly accessible and protected in the interest of the public. Basically, what they've always been, but in digitized form.

The libraries - as a tax-supported public servant - should be internet savvy enough to be top advisor to government on how to move forward in the best interest of the public in regards to the Internet and the media held therein.

The largely one-sided tug-of-war that is copyright and the internet shows that the public needs a larger and louder representative when it comes to our media. "The library" should be front and center of these discussions making sure the decisions hold the public needs in high regard.

With all these things in place, not only would libraries remain relevant, but they would thrive, remaining the important part in human history they've always been.
I must be doing something wrong then. I'm constantly running out of time. I'm always thinking about who to meet, who to talk to, what to change in order to become better. Not to mention optimizing text, updating the blog, doing the paperwork... I don't understand the 'waiting' part really.
I'm not sure if they are considered startups per say, but I've started two profitable companies while working a day job (to the point where I could quit my day job!) http://www.AUsedCar.com and http://www.BudgetSimple.com . I should say I also created a failed startup during that time. The biggest difference between the successes and the failure were that the successes did not require me to answer phone calls, make sales etc... In other words, completely passive income businesses are the easiest to do with a day job.
I started doing affiliate marketing and building websites on the side for about two years before handing my notice. I could have quit after few months where my revenues from the side job exceeded what I had in my day job as a software developer. Nevertheless it took about 2 years because I was scared, I should have quit much sooner. Now 4 years later we are doing 7-figures a year.

I think its the best way to start a company because you are only risking sweat-equity. The danger is that your day job holds you from growing your startup more.
It's worth mentioning that in Switzerland only downloading copyrighted material for personal use is Legal, not uploading.

So P2P and file sharing is still illegal since you are uploading while downloading.
Kindly contrast the effects of the crash in Canada

You've completely ignored the argument in the article I referenced, and instead are relying your own assumption that correlation equals causation. If you want to argue from a comparison with Canada, you're going to have to flesh out your argument much more than "Canada is more regulated, and didn't have the same effect we did", since there's a world of other differences in the situation.

The economics experts have studied the situation, and found that the repeal of G-S couldn't have been the cause. Consider [1]

[QUOTE]

Given a history like this people wonder how repealing the law could have been a good thing. But a significant academic literature has investigated these claims and rejected them. Eugene White, for example, found that national banks with security affiliates were much less likely to fail than banks without affiliates. Randall Kroszner (now at the Fed.) and Raghuram Rajan found that (jstor) securities issued by unified banks were (ex-post) of higher quality that those issued by investment banks. A powerful book by George Benston went through the entire Pecora hearings which supposedly revealed the problems with unified banking and found them to be a complete sham. My colleague, Carlos Ramirez later showed that the separation of commercial and investment banking increased the cost of external finance (jstor). Finally, my own work (pdf) unearthed the real reasons for the separation in a titanic battle between the Morgans and Rockefellers.

Thus, the history of banking before Glass-Steagall and now our recent experience after is consistent, generally speaking unified banking is safer and repeal was a good idea.

[/QUOTE]

And it's not just a question of academic theory. The actual empirical evidence bears this out. Let me expand my original quotation from the article [2]:

[QUOTE]

Just look at which organizations have failed:

* Bear Stearns was an investment bank before it was sold to JP Morgan Chase (which includes a commercial bank).

* Fannie Mae were Freddie Mac were government sponsored entities before the government bought them.

* Lehman Brothers was an investment bank before it want bankrupt.

* Merrill Lynch was an investment bank befor it was sold to Bank of America (which is a commercial bank).

* AIG is an insurance company with no commercial banking division.

...

If Glass-Steagall's repeal had meaningfully contributed to this crisis, we should see the failures concentrated among megabanks where speculation put deposits at risk. Instead we see the exact opposite: the failures are among either commercial banks with no significant investment arm (Washington Mutual, Countrywide), or standalone investment banks. It is the diversified financial institutions that are riding to the rescue.

[/QUOTE]

[1] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09/gla...

[2] http://blog.heritage.org/2008/09/22/the-glass-steagall-myth/
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If you consider marketing and selling as "waiting", you're doing it wrong my friend.
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Since Nobody else on this thread commented about the .mobi support yet, I'll put this here: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=3...

From the comments and googling it appears that the Fire supports .mobi just fine, except that it puts them in the "Docs" index instead of "Books". Something about some meta data that distinguishes them.
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Well, yes. It always was.

Using services like allofmp3.com in Switzerland was and is perfectly legal (if you can find a way to pay for it).

There's a reason for that: Swiss legislators believe that it can not be up to the user of a download site to judge if this site is legit and is licensed to sell downloads to Swiss customers.

This doesn't mean that uploading is allowed. As soon you upload files or even fragments of files you crossed the line into illegality.

The whole "It is very terribly illegal what you're doing here, downloader!" hokum was basically pushed by IFPI and the content industry.

It's a lie (at least in Switzerland).
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Is this the free MS antivirus solution for Windows 8?
It can work, but you can easily burn yourself out.

Rather than working 8-10 hours on your startup and having some free time. You work 8 hours and spend all of your free time on your startup.

I prefer getting some capital saved and then quitting your day job.
I've achieved this in school if that counts. GetDealy which runs flash sales for designers and geeks has 35,000+ users and 2.3 million credits earned, which is our rewards system.

http://getdealy.com
I agree with this comment. Saying 'start-up' has a load of baggage and hype attached to it... better off just saying something like: spare time project. There are lots of people running websites that make money, but I don't think they would call them start-ups.
I have two profitable SaaS products that were built while I was theoretically working full time on something else. I was a bit fortunate that my "something else" was Consulting, which you can ramp down by exactly as many hours per week as you'd like to devote to your side project.

The thing is, if you use the term "Startup" here to describe anything other than a zero-profit 80hr/week scramble for VC funding and eventual acquisition, you're going to get people popping up and claiming that what you're doing is not startuppy enough to count. So for the benefit of that crowd, you might want to rephrase your question in terms of building a product that brings in enough revenue to quit your job.

If that's what you want to build, then yes. It's absolutely possible, and there are dozens of people here who have done so.
Bayes' Theorem is a lot easier to grok if you make a slight rearrangement. Instead of this:

p(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / P(B)

move that P(B) to the other side:

p(A|B) p(B) = p(B|A) p(A)

Now notice that p(A|B) p(B) is simply the probability that both A and B occur. That is, it is p(A∩B). The same goes for the right side.

Basically, to compute p(A∩B), you can say "I've got to have A", which gives a p(A) factor, and "given that A, I then need to also have B", which gives a p(B|A) factor, so p(A∩B) = p(A) p(B|A). Or you can start with B, and then say you need A given B, and that gives you p(A∩B) = p(B) p(A|B).

So all Bayes really is essentially is a statement that there are two ways to compute p(A∩B) and they have to give the same result.

PS: if you are thinking "wait a second...I thought p(A∩B) = p(A) p(B)", that's for independent events. If A and B are independent, P(A|B) = p(A) and p(B|A) = p(B), and the general formula then reduces to p(A∩B) = p(A) p(B).
I call this the not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome. Where a seemingly rational developer runs off into esoteric land to add this, that and the other to a system that is used to replace functionality already provided in other well-known applications/systems/constructs/etc. All because they don't know how something works, therefore it's being replaced because it's NIH. Big tech companies are famous for doing this.

One of my favorite uses of NIH is to replace something like, oh I don't know -- SQL -- with another query language "to make it easier to write queries". Right. Because SQL is so baffling, that we need to replace it with another syntax. And what will that syntax do? Convert a statement to SQL.

I use NIH as a filter in interviewing. If someone cannot appreciate NIH as a productivity killer, I know they generally won't be a good fit for my team.
Again? It seems to have more lives that a cat!
It's also worth mentioning that entertainment is quiet expensive in Switzerland. For example watching a 3d movie at the local theater will cost you around 21CHF (~17€ or ~$23). Wich is really expensive IMO.
It took me 10 years of working on a few apps on the side, but today they are a $600K/year business and my full time job. Not the shoot-for-the-moon social apps everyone wants to do, but I'm quite happy.
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Because in Europe you have lots of very different countries that your mind cherry-picks the best parts out of when you hear these stories. Actually living in Europe requires that you pick one country, and involves compromising on something. (Germany doesn't really have freedom of speech. UK has big brother issues and crazy libel laws. France hates the internet. Sweden wants everyone to think they hate men. Etc.)

Of course, I don't hear a lot of negatives about Switzerland. Except from the IRS, of course :)
+1 for seesaw. For anyone who is interested and in the area, Dave will be talking about Seesaw at this Tuesday's Ann Arbor Craftsman Guild meetup http://craftsmanguild.herokuapp.com/
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If it doesn't revert the last commit, what you say would be a forced push, correct?
Who really wrote that post?
What do you mean by built? I ask because some people have noncompete or other contractual obligations that prevent launching a startup.
Hi ry

AUsedCar.com

How does that site compare in a very busy market with established big name players?

Thanks
My friend Sky wrote an HTML/CSS debugger for iOS - http://skyapp.co.uk/dbug/ - it doesn't give you all the functions of Firebug, but it's very handy and easier to start than this.
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Please, do not update the title. It does not matter if the year is 2009.

The answer is no. For ultra-fast web applications written in weird functional languages - check out the forum at news.ycombinator.com
I didnt even think about loosing this button when switching to the new UI, I'll have to see about adding a key binding or a button for this. Sorry about that, thanks for taking a look and reminding me.
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Very interesting post, is there a one detailing how you started?
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Santeramo Trading Limited was created in March 2007 to source and supply kitchen furniture and equipment for construction projects in France, crude glycerine, CSFO, fatty acids, olive oil, Aloe Vera.
With the integration of one of its shareholders freight forwarding, shipping, logistics and consulting activities, Santeramo Trading Ltd now offers freight forwarding by air/sea/land/rail, logistics solutions, warehousing, supply chain management, shipping and full export services relating to Certificate or Origin, EUR1, Documentary Credit, licences, Import and Export Customs clearances to its clients.
This article is dated November 8th. Surely this isn't still newsworthy?
It's very difficult to compete with the big names, but even .01% of a huge market adds up to something significant.

edit I should also say I started this a LONG time ago, so I have a long tail SEO advantage. I wouldn't envy anyone trying to start a used car site today.
That lower level of abstraction shouldn't be exposed in all languages, though; languages with complex instructions and garbage collection tend to be better implemented with a GIL, and it is a good idea to discourage the use of threads when these features are present. Your example of snapshotting is well addressed by forking, which eliminates the need for locks in unrelated parts of the code.
Yes, it's a force push. Useful when you accidentally pushed just a couple of seconds ago and want to undo. Of course, if people have already pulled it, they'll have to rebase or reset the branch later.
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My current company started out as a side project. I decided to make it a fulltime project after about three years. We are quite profitable.

Today, we operate a few "premium" domain name businesses, but we started with a rather obscure one, and did well enough to purchase more properties from cash flow.
Sorta...

http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2005/10/17/stylefeeder-step-1...

LMK if that's not what you are looking for.
As said before, in my case, I do not try to escape the taxes, I try to get the simplest setup to focus on my work and not on paper work. If your really want to limit your tax footprint, ask a good accountant, in UK with the City, you are packed with accountants specialized in tax optimization. But again, I am a small startup, so no ideas about all these options.
Thanks, glad ya like it.

So I've always thought the YouTube player was subpar, specially to players like Vimeo. I think its a bit bulky and could use some work. The UI I have in place was actually inspired by http://dribbble.com/shots/192404-Reservoir-Dogs-and-experime... and with his permission and help he helped me nail it into place.

While the new UI is by far from better, far as functionality it stays in line with what tubalr is all about, simplicity. I will continue to work on the UI and make it as streamline and user friendly as possible while keeping it simple and clean.

Thanks for the feedback.
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Since I can't reply to your reply, I'm answering right here.

Are you sure it's good practice to force other people to rebase, because you did a mistake?

That's exactly what I was afraid of what CMD+Z did.
I found it incredibly difficult to provide the value I'd expect out of an employee at a "day job" while building my business on the side. Ultimately, I took a different route. Note that this plan works best for young, single folks. This is also not a "get rich quick" scheme. Positioning myself took about three years on its own, much less getting going on a start-up. Keep in mind that this was my plan. It is not the only (or best) plan, but it worked for me.

* Position yourself for minimum cash outflow. Minimizing your cash needs means you can take bigger risks. I found a decent 500 sq ft apartment and drove a cheap car. Without a family, all my other expenses were dirt cheap.

* Save up a three month buffer and strike out on your own gig, but not your start-up yet. I chose consulting because the income potential is so high and it provided a great networking opportunity. I doubled my annual income (from my old salary) within a year, but far more importantly, I was able to accomplish a few transitional steps in getting my start-up going:

- I built a relationship with a great developer by feeding him work from consulting clients.

- I built relationships with other business owners and took a lot of time to understand their business.

- Ultimately, I met the person who would connect me with the greatest team I've ever worked with.

By the time I found the right team and opportunity, I had a year's worth of expenses saved up, and a small amount of money to contribute to the operational expenses of the company. Coming to the table with cash in-hand gained me a lot of respect from other team members. Because everyone came to the table with their own income streams, we were able to bootstrap and now, 100% of our equity is founder owned. That's a pretty exciting reality for us.
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I'm actually working on a startup while in school (not technically a day job, but similar). I think my idea has a ton of potential in the market I'm aiming for, so I've been working on it for almost a year now.
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I and 2 cofounders are near to launching our iphone app and we have our daily job.

I'm the backend and frontend developer(rest-full api needed for our iphone app), the other two are the creative guys,
and I've to admit that it has been hard to think, design, and do a product in a spare time(especially if you have a wife and a child).

And there are other aspects of the launching such as the site, the company to found and many things that require a lot of time.

I hope the app and the business I want to build around succeded so I will quit my current profitable job.
Note than when surgeons were barbers, the Sorbonne was awarding PhD's....

Aside from the staggering memorization load in Med School, I would think the typical STEM PhD involves more work, and more creative work, than the MD. Certainly a lot more writing.
> probably most of those will have had a security clearance.

That is a particularly bad assumption. Private Gomer Pyle, USMC, did not have a security clearance.
I'm not a lawyer nor any kind of expert, but I don't think what you are doing is completely legal, and might get you into trouble with the German tax people if their eye falls on you.

I have looked into this myself some time ago, and the problem appears to be that some countries in Europe (including the UK) apply 'Incorporation Theory', while others (including Germany) apply 'Real Seat Theory'.

'Incorporation Theory' states that a company is governed by the law of the country where the company was incorporated. So far so good.

'Real Seat Theory', however, states that a company is governed by the law of the country where the actual decisions are made (location of company directors). In your case, this would be Germany. This means you may in fact be MORE personally liable now, since under German law your company is de facto German, but unlawfully so, and you have that way lost whatever protection you would have had under German law.

Again, caveats apply, I have a business but I am not an expert, though I feel you should consult one.
I'm English, and a southerner at that... Let's just say I'm quite a fan of Alex Samond.

Don't get me wrong... There are many advantages to the Union, but I believe that a lot of them could exist without it. Free trade, for instance, doesn't require a union, whilst it removes our obligation to fund other regions (of whichever Union...)
I was under the impression that Doubleclick was the largest exchange by some distance.

How much wider reach do you get from going to multiple exchanges? It's maybe time I did some research on moving away from boomerang!