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Well, the guide is well-meaning but sadly WRONG.
The more reliable approach is:
1) Sit in a bar with your buddy and say "Gee! Have you noticed how all the money is in computers and stuff these days?
2) Come up with a great idea by looking at a successful business and deciding to copy it.
3) Get a venture capitalist on board by talking about fanciful made-up-on-the-spot margins and giving it large with the whole Apprentice-style "I is a business tiger! I is always selling fridges to Inuits, innit?" routine.
4) Find an office on an "innovation park" in the middle of nowhere.
5) Think of an original name (you can either go down literal route e.g. MyAttemptAtAmazon.com but that's a bit last week, alternatively just invent a new word that'll be really Google-friendly but utterly non-descriptive, let's say "Squonkle").
6) Spend money where it matters, on logos and signage.
7) Hire a code monkey (bad ones are a dime a dozen and you can probably get away with having just one as they don't really do anything useful). Give them some vague instructions involving the words "cloud" and "Agile" and tell them that you need their software to be building warehouses and delivering goods by the end of last week.
8) Borrow a couple of million to pay an SEO consultant who will guarantee that you are always the top result for "Squonkle".
9) Declare yourself bankrupt, leaving a long trail of bad debts (if there's any justice in the world, these will include the 2 million owed to the SEO consultant - unless you went to school with him, of course).
10) GOTO 1 (that's techie talk, that is - shows you're in the groove and primed to succeed!).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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There's a really great book Bad Blood about a silicon valley conwoman who managed to be worth $9 billion before everyone realised that she was selling a big lie.
She pretended to have blood testing machine that would revolutionise blood testing and modelled herself on Steve Jobs. Consequently lots of gullible powerful and rich investors fell for her con.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: about a silicon valley conwoman who managed to be worth $9 billion before everyone realised that she was selling a big lie
HBO turned it into a bio-pic and it is absolutely amazing.
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raddevus wrote: HBO turned it into a bio-pic and
There's also 'Valley of the Boom' on Nat Geo about the same thing. Good show imho.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'm more worried about the questions. Are there really people who would ask those?
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Part of flat heard for spinner (5)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yep, nice and easy for a Monday - haven't got any idea about your clue
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The solution to my clue would be over most people's heads.
Nice take on 'spinner'
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115. Hear see noisy visual impediment (5)
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Cloud ?
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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Yup!
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I hate ADFS.
Just thought of putting that there.. to share the hate!
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Glad we don't have it, it also requires IIS which we don't use either
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If sharing the hate was a thing, I could probably have a daily blog.
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Haha, so true!
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Did you ever wonder why they are so resilient? Amazing video!
clickity[^]
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
JaxCoder.com
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Amazing! There's so much we have to learn from nature.
/ravi
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Mother nature is amazing, but I do hate fire ants. For such a little critter they sure do have a bite!
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
JaxCoder.com
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Disappointing. I watched the whole video, but they were at no time actually on fire!!!
Nah, give me Game of Thrones any time! Dracarys!!!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
modified 3-Jun-19 2:52am.
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Reminds me of Gray Goo, one property of which is explained here[^].
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Funniest Fire Ant Commercial - YouTube[^]
big deal, welcome to evolution bitch, I have Ortho on my side
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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