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> Frankly, I think you do many entrepreneurs an injustice in assuming that I'm talking about VC funded entrepreneurs only. At my talk at University of Chicago I repeated advice I give every time I speak "90+% of you should never raise VC. It's not right for you. Better that you raise smaller amounts of money and keep control of your business."

Except you didn't mention that in this post. You did, however, say:

>What’s it really like being an entrepreneur?

You are making a very clear point. You are talking to entrepreneurs, period. You make no mention of what "type", of what budget, of what size, of what scope, of what anything you are actually talking about. And then you say:

>You’re unemployable. You’re an entrepreneur.

Which I will happily call bullshit on. You started a company? Great, you've got at least some experience into management or what it takes. That's a good thing. So why do you think that makes one unemployable?

>Bitch, you don't know me. Don't assume you do.

No, I don't. I can only venture that you're an elitist by your blog post, and this defense of it based on aspects that you mention elsewhere, but not in this post. So... why don't you keep your tongue in check? I get the feeling it might help.
What a legacy -- he retires the same day that Intel wins. AMD just ceded the high margin CPU business to concentrate on the volume CPU business. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804602

Otellini's successor will be playing a different game, fighting ARM rather than AMD.
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The part about the flip being mostly on a single bit reminded me of [1], I wonder if we're seeing the same cause in two different ways?

[1] http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...
>I don't know what the OP would assume you were only talking about VC's only.

Maybe because Mark never said so in the post in question? Some of us weren't at that talk, you know.
That's actually Google's template, I'm sorry about that. I am told they're "working on it" thought I cannot understand why it would take them so long to fix a float. The blog is hosted on Blogger.com, and the default template does this while on the home page, but when you enter the article itself, it gets fixed.
To be fair, the claim isn't that they will get less reliable with time. It is that time will show how much they are really reliable, and the costs of possible failures would have to be included in the cost structure.
C++ doesn't have to be complicated. It involves such a compoundingly convoluted tool box however that you can create overly complicated contraptions that can explode right in front of you.

There was one fundamental decision made back in the day about the copy constructor, where it takes a const reference as its single argument, that removed logically the C pointer problem. It's still possible to reintroduce it, but it helped prove correctness. In other words you can't make something unless the compiler knows that it's made something. Using an address the compiler has to take your word for it. You can think more contractually, as in say Eiffel, where if there is garbage in its not the programmers doing by definition. At its best it cures some C gotchas. At its worst it can be contrived and misapplied.

But as I say, you can break it any which way.
In all fairness, regulating rockets that can put something in orbit is probably a good idea. A Falcon 9 is basically an ballistic missile that can drop a nuclear weapon (even a giant, heavy north korean nuke) anywhere on the globe (from any direction, see Fractional Orbital Bombardment). The ability to buy falcon 9's on the open market would greatly decrease the cost of developing a nuclear deterrent (since you don't need to develop a delivery system and you don't have miniaturize your warhead) likely leading to a large number of states starting nuclear weapons programs.

This is the reason the US and USSR worked so hard to kill cheap commercial space flight in the 1980's.
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But those were successful devices. He's talking about Google devices that failed, in part because they used Intel CPU's. Devices like the original Google TV.
"He'd told me earlier in the day that he'd never experienced stress until the Obama campaign, and I believe him."

So many people get stressed out about the dumbest things that don't matter. Especially in IT, people like to tell war stories about their stressful job and all the hours they put in and how they don't sleep because there is too many fires to put out. Yuk. Harper Reed has it right. Do what you enjoy, have fun. Go nerds!
If you can build a profitable company with good margins fast, the company could do what I would call a reverse private equity deal. The company would buy back the investment stake from investors and fund that via a loan or some type of debit.

The option feels like a "domino rally" type of plan since multiple parts would have to together perfectly in order to work. This type of plan is the only option I can imagine besides being acquired if an IPO is out of the question. I've seen this type of thing happen in the Oil and Gas world.
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There are sites that I visit regularly and many more sites that I arrive at only through search results. It's the second set of sites that keeps the adblocker turned on.

There is an option in Adblocker Plus, I think, to allow non-annoying ads. If it comes to the Safari version I will try it. OTOH, every time I open a new tab, the Expose version of 12 most visited sites are retrieved with ads, so maybe I'm contributing enough.
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Leaning on a global community like HN and only shipping to the US and Canada? Come on.
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As a different developer who's been using Windows 8 for about 2 weeks as well and I really like it. I will agree that some thing not being particularly intuitive and you really have to memorize a few keyboard shortcuts to get going. Once that's done it's great. The UI is almost exactly like Windows 7, with a bunch of small improvements, and while I have no benchmarks, my initial reaction is that it feels more responsive than Win 7. I have yet to really find a use the Metro part of the UI, but I simply pretend it's not there.

What in particular did you find was slowing you down?
@msuster I can understand how you found the title of the post disrespectful to you but I think he might have been going for the "Bitch Please" meme [1] rather than any actual intention to be disrespectful.

You're a well known and well respected entrepreneur turned VC (as opposed to VCs that have never seen the pain of being an entrepreneur themselves) so I doubt that anyone is going to take the "bitch please" part too seriously.

Ofcourse not being at the receiving end of that post maybe my perspective is different and I'd react similarly.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=bitch+please+meme&hl=en&...
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Awesome post. I absolutely agree that "getting them while they're young" is an important part of the solution. Thumbs up for the valuable work you do!
I'd consider paying for a clone of Gmail classic, but their new UI sucks IMHO. Another compelling feature I'm looking for is the ability to self-host. It's clear that many governments and cloud service providers don't consider hosted data "really all that private", despite best intentions. It only takes a single national security letter to remind us why it's nicer to have our data reposed locally.
Genius or madness? I can't tell.

The lack of a formal spec for the PHP language makes me think it's more the latter, though.
> "EADS allows Europeans to maintain employment and skills in critical launch industries in the event ICBMs become necessary"

EADS is the world's 2nd-largest producer of missiles, and produces a pretty large proportion of European militaries' missiles, so not entirely implausible. Of course, they could refocus: most of the missiles (the French Exocet, the British ASRAAM, etc.) are not ICBMs and don't share all that much technology with space launches.
Nothing against Lightroom though. It's one of my favourite programs from Adobe, together with InDesign. And I've heard that about Aperture, and recently FCP.
Here are the first three questions:

1. Is this something you host, or something I host?
2. How are you handling searching existing mail, tech wise?
3. Does this start to slow down after you have 10k emails in it?

If this supports custom domains and is plugged into decent spam filtering, I'd take a closer look at it.
If it's just logo and branding, you can do it cheap at 99designs or do it expensive by hiring a single person with a reputation.

If you're going to hire a design employee, that's an entirely different discussion with lots and lots of variables.
Thanks for taking the time to help me, those points will make it easier for me to put together a proposal when I start approaching developers.

I realize your time is valuable so feel free to leave it at that if you like. Having said that:

What kind of CMS backend is typical for newsstand apps? Are there any free or low cost solutions?

Are there some standard libraries for covering subscriptions and payments for these kinds of apps, or is it typical for these to be scratch-built per app? Is this typically a major feature in terms of development time?

After reading your questions, I'm confident my app will be on the simpler end of things--black on white, static text-only content with some limited hypertext, small content packages--but I recognize this doesn't necessarily mean a simple application.

To be honest, all I really need is the ability to deliver simple PDFs, have them display nicely, and charge a subscription for it. From outside of the app development ecosystem, I naively anticipated this would be fairly simple, but as I learn more this seems less and less true.
apart from market economics, it's frustrating to not have political choice. intel invests heavily in israel and for some of us, that was reason enough to buy amd (and yes, i know they recently opened a centre in tel aviv). really frustrating news.
If you can give a trial, and nice transition option, as well as backup option to mbox format, I'd pay around the same rackspace is asking for managed email.
[Added on a second thought]: I'd also consider to pay a license fee for a domain or several domains for client websites.
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> Would you even consider using the app, in case I'd make a commercial product out of it?

No.

I use Google because of the stuff that happens in the background, that I never see. Their infrastructure, SPAM blocking, Android app, intrusion detection, seamless support for custom domains, filtering and search, etc.

GMail looks like a simple app, but it's actually a herculean effort on behalf of Google, a multi-billion dollar company. There's a reason they have very little competition in that sector.
Every time I read an article like this I feel enraged, as I'm sure many other people do too.

I'm a UK resident currently working on a suite of business apps, when I eventually am able to launch the company and (hopefully) make some money what can I do to avoid being a victim of patent trolls?

Seems actively seeking to avoid violating patents could get me into more trouble than doing nothing!
>"This is why it pays to have a visionary CEO, one that can feel where things are moving years ahead of the others"

The problem is, you only ever find this out with hindsight.
Off topic, but why would you put "html { -webkit-text-size-adjust: none }" in your CSS?

Not everyone has great eyesight, and I happen to like being able to zoom in and actually read.
I've always been an AMD fan, but their recent cores have left much to be desired when compared to Intel. I'll really be looking forward to what they do with ARM servers.
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Back then: don't learn how to use a mouse -> can't use a computer.

Nowadays: don't learn how to use metro -> use something else.

I don't think anyone would be worried about windows 8 lack of ease if it was a monopoly on very important devices that you must learn to be productive. It's not.
I think people are leaving google because of privacy concerns. Providing a new service does not change anything from the privacy perspective.

Privacy concerned people want to host their own mail server.

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The only entrepreneur I can relate to is the one spending their time coding, designing, and implementing ideas. None of which involves hopping on a plane.
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You're right in that growth per-se does not of course need a team. What I should have said was high-scale growth.

It is of course possible that to some degree, even high-scale growth can happen without team but I think the most sure-fire route to it is by building an amazing team of talented people.
Maybe you'd have to provide a separate right to the characters in a fictional work, so that characters can be reused in other fictional works, but not in a way that implies that the original character/author supports some other entity or product, such as the aforementioned Calvin and Hobbes promoting cereal and toys.
Fair point Mark, I do not know you. Even though my post may come across as aggressive, that wasn't my intent. I'm just getting started with blogging, and next time I'll have to be more careful with my language. Apologies.

I agree that VC funding is not the only path to stressful business, although it certainly helps a lot. In this sense, VC is a part of a larger problem - people's tendency to take on more risk than they should. I dare say that if more people lived and did business within their means, we'd all be calmer, have less bankruptcies, and maybe even less divorces.

It is very easy to read your post and come away with the feeling that being an entrepreneur is necessarily stressful, and that just isn't the case. It starts being stressful when you can't meet your obligations, and that mostly happens when your ability to meet your obligations is heavily dependent on circumstances you can't control - circumstances like relying on outside money.

Is VC better than loans from family? Most definitely, because by taking money from someone who fully appreciates their potential losses, everyone gets to be less emotional about the whole thing.

Still, I believe that by not taking any outside money, or extracting a heavy price from yourself, you get a shot at a significantly calmer variant of Entrepreneurship, and that's something people should know.
Awesome UI, but I wouldn't pay for it.
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I've had similar thoughts to you, and it looks like a good start.

However, for me, one of the main reasons I'm dissatisfied with GMail these days is the clutter and UX. Unfortunately your app looks too similar to GMail for me to find it an improvement.

For me, the ideal GMail killer would be simpler with more clearly labelled user controls (i.e. less cryptic symbols and more standard UI buttons).

It would also have separate FORWARD and REPLY buttons. (Why on earth these most used buttons are in a drop-down is beyond me).

Don't get me wrong - I think you're onto something - I just think you need to be very careful which parts of GMail you copy, which you improve, and which you axe completely.

If you could deliver a non-bloated, snappy GMail I would consider paying for it. I would probably prefer a cloud solution though (like GMail) because I hate setting up my own email.

Good luck with it!
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Not many web frameworks in the list. http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt is a good one that should have been there ..
Goodbye reasonable priced Intel chips.

Welcome overpriced i9 or whatever will be the next generation.
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I find this entirely unpersuasive. Most of the things that are getting funded by VCs are not shoot-for-the-stars world-changers. Look at the list of recent funding announcements:

http://www.crunchbase.com/funding-rounds?page=1

Mobile-PC syncing of videos. Mobile-PC syncing of contacts. A way to save your child's artwork. Yet another payment solution. Yet another e-signature solution. Fine businesses, I'm sure, but nothing that's worth dying for.

The Silicon Valley hype cycle creates a lot of unnecessary drama. I can agree with you a little, in that people doing big things will sometimes experience big drama. But too many people, VCs included, work that equation backwards: big drama is a great indicator of doing big things!

As far as I can tell, most of the drama is just macho idiocy.
Not as far as I'm aware, no (I'm not directly involved with the operations / hosting)
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You say that like Gmail is the market leader here, they're not. Most of the features you mentioned do exist in other services and other services do have features that Gmail doesn't. The OP can definitely make a business out of email, it is far from a solved problem.
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1) Considering the hosting: It's currently basically a SaaS.

I initially had a prototype, which used Dropbox-as-a-Database. Basically I stored all emails and metadata (labels, etc) in a private dropbox in JSON-format. It actually worked, but the performance was so bad, that I ditched this approach.

2) PostgresSQL comes with a great full-text search. It's not perfect right now, but it does it job.

3) Honestly, no idea :)

Spam filtering is done by MailGun. CustomDomains are a must, of course.
Open source the app. There's a huge lacking in good web based open source mail clients. Fill it. Offer a pay-for premium hosted version. Have us pay for service, not software.

If you released this, assuming it doesn't suck balls, I'd be running it immediately. I'm currently using Rackspace for my email hosting; check them out. They're good, good be better. ;)
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How do you know it failed because of Intel CPUs?
> When I eventually am able to launch the company and (hopefully) make some money what can I do to avoid being a victim of patent trolls?

Depressingly, nothing.
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Oh please spare us. You buy [just about everything] from china, your car/bus runs on gas from [some dictatorship], your home is powered by coal. You don't want to buy from a multinational because they employ Israelis? You need to get out and meet some israelis, nice people. Probably worried about a rocket landing on thier heads, but nice people.
Which is the game Intel should have been playing for the last N years.
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IIRC they did have this sort of visionary CEO, but they sacked him because he was spending too much money developing new technologies.

OTOH I expect AMD will do pretty well in the lightweight thread server market. They've got server experience and infrastructure, they've got a decent low-power x86 core, and they've spent of lot of time thinking about having cores with different instruction sets living together.
One of the saddest things about this move is that they're moving into a market currently dominated by a competitor that they directly enabled. One reason that Qualcomm is doing so well is due to their purchase of the Adreno platform from AMD in 2008.
I don't think that a touch laptop is puzzling in the eyes of the average consumer- in fact, they're a pretty simple concept. I was in Best Buy over the weekend and saw a good number of people playing around with the display Lenovo Yoga. The only downside was that the hinge on it was broken- not the best advertisement, but I don't judge it too much (display devices take a hell of a beating)- if anything it just shows that a good number of people were using it.
I personally would use it on top of something reliable like Fastmail. I mainly use Gmail over IMAP and it's painful slow and glitchy.

If what you're building could give me a great UI on top of Fastmail for when I want to use the web, and access to some kind of self-hosted archive, I'd probably go for it.
Thanks for the honest answer. I have no desire to start a flame war. Having an open discussion about costs/tradeoffs between the two seems helpful. Either way it seems worth my time to learn more about C++, so I can make these assessments for myself. However, it's great to hear other people who've "Been there, done that - here's what I found" from inside the trenches.
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Right, I totally understand that the people who leave Gmail for privacy concerns, most likely would host their own mail.
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You're absolutely right - there are different types of businesses that fit different types of entrepreneurs, and that's exactly what Suster fails to capture. By reading his post, you could easily walk away with the feeling that entrepreneur = stress.
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I'm sure AMD would be more than happy to sell their position to any would-be competitor, if it's transferable.

I think the bigger problem is just that it's extremely difficult and expensive to compete with Intel on x86. And all of a sudden the x86 market has taken a turn toward lower growth and lower margins. So, really, why would anyone bother when it's cheaper to get into the mobile/low-power ARM race and those markets have so much more up-side and room to make advancements that aren't contingent on billion dollar foundry investments?
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