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

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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