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How many is many? A dozen?
Speaking mainly from my own experience, I believe that very few developers would be good at running a business. And historically, there have been fewer than a hundred I expect. They get a lot of attention because they're so rare.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: very few developers would be good at running a business
Ah, yes you are probably right, because many of us just want to code and focus on technical details. Running a business requires so much other surrounding work.
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And we're likely to just give our stuff away to anyone who wants it. Not generally a very mercenary bunch.
modified 23-Mar-15 21:13pm.
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I think you deduction is very wrong, not only are most developers not entrepreneurs but they are pathetic at running a business. I hold myself up as an example, I have run 2 failed software companies in my time before I admitted I was hopeless as a businessman. Now I won't even take a management role!
I admire the few who can transition from a developer to running a business, I would have liked to work for a few of them. Some of us are just not leaders and we tend to be much happier when we accept and work within our limitations. A bloody good developer, not a businessman!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: most developers not entrepreneurs but they are pathetic at running a business.
Yeah, I know and I agree with you on this. I understand what you mean and what others are saying too.
I think what I was thinking is more about the risks (entrepreneur) of trying to build something and make something. Not necessarily running a business straight up, but the challenges of making something that solves a problem.
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A wiser person than me said: "A man's got to know his limitations". I don't feel comfortable enough to drive a business, and seeing my girlfriend (Management Engineering) managing a big fantasy convention I confirmed it. I'm a way better developer/problem solver than a businessman.
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Well, an entrepreneur developer don't have to necessarily be the business person.
This is why having good partners goes a long way to the success.
Entrepreneur means you like to create a service that generate revenue, instead of selling your time.
Thinking that the developer needs to be a business person for entrepreneurship is fallacy and dangerous if he does not like it.
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Spam!
No advertising in the lounge.
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These seems appropriate response from you.
I removed the link. Thanks for your input.
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The rules are, apparently, that you can put a link to it in your sig, but not promote it in any way.
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Request you to please remove link which can be considered adv. I totally understand that you didn't post that intentionally but some members have objection[^] to this post. I'm not going to report anything.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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Link removed. Tell a friend, bring a buddy.
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Thank you.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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I think using html5 canvas and javascript just to show an image is a bit over the top when you could just style your img tag using css and all browsers can access your site.
Second of all
"You're browser does not support HTML5."
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: "You're browser does not support HTML5."
Who said I wanted all browsers to be able to access my site? 
I'm trying to keep the people on Windows XP out!!
Thanks for the input.
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*your
 
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Oh wow! I didn't even notice that mis-spelling. That is really lame of me. 
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I will first respond to the fallacy of people thinking that a developer wanting to be entrepreneur needs to be a business man.
This is false. This skill can be into one of your partners. A developer does not have to be a business man if he does not like it.
Entrepreneur only means that you prefer creating a service that generate revenue instead of selling your time.
Paycheck versus recurrent income and equities.
It is a fallacy to mix up "being a business man" with "being an entrepreneur", these are two different things, you can be one without the other.
It is not the nature developers to be entrepreneur, but the nature of their skills.
Programming is one of the only job where you can create a service by investing nothing but your brain.
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Steve Jobs was not a developer, and Steve Wozniak is not an entrepreneur.
People who do what they are best at doing are usually successful at it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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you are wrong on the terminology.
Steve Jobs is a business man and sales person. Wozniak is a developer.
But both are entrepreneurs.
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Nicolas Dorier wrote: But both are entrepreneurs.
That's the way I see it too, but I see I've confused people with that term.
Steve Jobs was a risk-taker / maker but more focused on making business.
Woz was risk-taker / maker but more focused on making things.
They are very similar yet I see the strong differences too.
Great feedback. Thanks for continuing the conversation.
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Thanks for giving the feedback. I really like the things you say and agree with it.
I think of entrepreneurship (if that is a word) as the new Maker Movement, where you make things you want, then others are interested in them and you provide those things and people pay a fair price for those things.
But, alas, that is somewhat of a pipe dream, I know.
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