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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by juped on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:23AM (#22791307)
I would have written inhouse plugins for Word - it's actually pretty easy and I don't want to be in the business of writing a word processor.
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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by ratww on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:20AM (#22791524)
Nobody in my story was in the business of writing a word processor.

Interestingly, that's probably another lesson on mistakes that kills startups: thinking that the only thing able to replace X is an exact replica of X.

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