Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real entrepreneurship

Re:Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real... by theonemind on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:05PM (#13147912)

I see "build it to last" as better for society at large. Steve Jobs, for example, believed in the importance of putting things back into the stream of human consciousness and built Apple. They didn't build it to sell.

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Re:Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real... by madgar on Saturday December 10, 2016 @05:19PM (#13148245)

I don't think entrepreneurs can be expected to have much consideration for society at large except as legally required. Why would they do somebody else's job? Their job is so dang hard as it is.

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Re:Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real... by olewhalehunter on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:33PM (#13148047)

>They didn't build it to sell.

except they totally did

people and businesses had no intention of actually pulling paper-based systems into computational ones, and thus all Steve Jobs had to do was reproduce office-quality typography and document presentation on a screen, selling 1870s typewriter workflows as innovation well enough to convince the world they were revolutionary

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Re:Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real... by throwaway2016a on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:40PM (#13148093)

I think he meant exiting/selling to a larger company not selling as in sales and marketing.

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Re:Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real... by DonHopkins on Saturday December 10, 2016 @07:24PM (#13148818)

In the timeless words of the great Bruce Tognazzini [1]:

MEVSGP MPIZ JBKQSI DBAPH TLUM XFEA HRBH CNUDNT PZIZDK VZOPZW DX. TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT IS THE GZINCLE FLORTEN GLOFFLE.

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SO CLOSE.... SO VERY CLOSE....

PERHAPS WITH JUST A FEW MORE MONKEYS........

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMDWhc_ohU

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Re:Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real... by sean_patel on Sunday December 11, 2016 @01:15AM (#13149848)

Love this. Just saw the video. So is it true that real monkeys in the jungle stepped on the typewriter keys and this genius quote came out of 1 of them??? Fascinating!!!

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Re:Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real... by gaius on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:46PM (#13148123)

Selling the company vs selling the product, you have mixed up

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