Reverse YC funding program. PG, what's your thought?

Re:Reverse YC funding program. PG, what's your thought? by rokhayakebe on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @03:22PM (#38056)

Call me crazy but it feels good to have PG comment. To get back to your comment, I respectfully disagree. that is like putting a limit to the power of thought. Think about manufacturing. How many clothing line make millions of dollars and are highly successful, but the founder can't even use a sewing machine. Same for moms who make millions because they thought of a crazy fork-knife combined and hired a manufacturer to make a prototype. Or how many people own a Italian restaurant and are American and never been to Italy and don't know how to cook. It all start with what if if I can say that, then I just need to get up and go find someone to make it. Excuse the typo, suretype is still at its primitive stage.

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Re:Reverse YC funding program. PG, what's your thought? by blader on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @03:42PM (#38068)

Unless you're a celebrity, how many people have clothing lines can't design clothes? How many people own restaurants and don't know how to cook?

How many people think designing software is as easy as designing a spork?

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Re:Reverse YC funding program. PG, what's your thought? by rokhayakebe on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @04:15PM (#38107)

Thinking of a unique clothing line isn't that different from thinking of a unique web app. If you doubt then I suggest you grap a grab a pair of loafers from cole haan and compare it to one from banana republic. Look at the threads inside. Look at the cut and drive with it. If you think it is the same then you are as my friend who cannot understand the differnce between hotmail and gmail. Designing a jcrew sweater for complicated people like me is as hard as designing a web app. You are looking at major clothing lines, but maybe you should digg underground and find brands that are less known. The restaurant argument is harder to prove. So you got that one. And even if designing a sweater was easier than building a web app, I can argue that you can distributing your service is 25 times easier than distributing your sweater.

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Re:Reverse YC funding program. PG, what's your thought? by blader on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @05:56PM (#38165)

Yes, exactly.

You're kind of proving my point here. Designing clothing is hard. Designing web apps are hard. You need to be good at each to be successful at each. You won't be good at either if all you have is a "business/marketing genius" with an idea.

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Re:Reverse YC funding program. PG, what's your thought? by rokhayakebe on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @04:16PM (#38108)

Thinking of a unique clothing line isn't that different from thinking of a unique web app. If you doubt then I suggest you grap a grab a pair of loafers from cole haan and compare it to one from banana republic. Look at the threads inside. Look at the cut and drive with it. If you think it is the same then you are as my friend who cannot understand the differnce between hotmail and gmail. Designing a jcrew sweater for complicated people like me is as hard as designing a web app. You are looking at major clothing lines, but maybe you should digg underground and find brands that are less known. The restaurant argument is harder to prove. So you got that one. And even if designing a sweater was easier than building a web app, I can argue that distributing your app is 25 times easier than distributing your sweater.

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