Monday, July 14th, 2008
From a post on Enterprise Ireland's forum
"We're a small software consultancy in business since Q3 2006; we've recently lost our main customer (they've pulled out of Ireland), upon whom we were dependent for about 90% of our revenue; we're a small team made up exclusively of engineers; in advance of ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Microfinance
see Microcredit. –noun
the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, esp. to a start-up company or self-employed person.
The problem with Microfinance and Microcredit is that, at the end of the day, someone ends up owing someone else money. And that's a shaky way to get started in ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
DHH writes that it doesn't have to be all or nothing with a startup:
Startup mythology demands that to create something great, you need superhuman sacrifices. You need to work for no pay, you need to put in 120 hours/week, you need to preferably sleep under the desk and live off ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A while ago I ragged on Robert Scoble (almost silently because, let's face it, who read my tripe?) because he was talking about marketing and startups and worked at Microsoft. See the oxymoron there? Working at arguably the most powerful corporation in the world (yeah, they know the backdoor codes ...
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