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Re:Engineers: Build businesses not apps by thetrumanshow on Monday December 13, 2010 @03:20PM (#2001830)
When the first deposit from a paying customer hits your bank account, or the first serious investor opens their wallet to validate you, or you convince some innocent wide-eyed soul to quit their job and join you, then you can call it a business. Before that, I'd just call it an expensive hobby.
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Re:Engineers: Build businesses not apps by dholowiski on Monday December 13, 2010 @04:31PM (#2002051)
Yikes. I have several expensive hobbies on the go right now.
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Re:Engineers: Build businesses not apps by thetrumanshow on Monday December 13, 2010 @04:38PM (#2002069)
App Engine and Heroku have recently taken a couple of my projects infrastructure costs down to nil... so it is getting less expensive. However, the opportunity costs are still eating me alive. :)
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Re:Engineers: Build businesses not apps by tomjen3 on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @03:37AM (#2003550)
That will always be the case. Just know that the opportunity costs of not doing it will be a little bit higher.
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