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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by ryanSrich on Friday February 14, 2014 @09:20AM (#7238601)
"Join us and help change change the world" - _every valley startup ever_
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by EGreg on Friday February 14, 2014 @11:22AM (#7239303)
Some businesses change the world more than others :)

http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/a-new-kind-of-platfor....

What do you think?

http://platform.qbix.com

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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by LandoCalrissian on Friday February 14, 2014 @12:16PM (#7239604)
"Help us make <INSERT PRODUCT> beautiful."
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by ulfw on Friday February 14, 2014 @10:18AM (#7238937)
The world must be one hell of a shitty place if it needs to be changed so much every single time.
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by vdaniuk on Friday February 14, 2014 @10:54AM (#7239163)
The world is extremely shitty place and you dont see that only because, I assume, you are the part of the top earning cohort.
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by pjc50 on Friday February 14, 2014 @11:20AM (#7239285)
It certainly needs a lot of change. The change it needs is not necessarily the change it gets.
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by lmm on Friday February 14, 2014 @10:58AM (#7239188)
And how many tech startups serve any other cohort?
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by vdaniuk on Friday February 14, 2014 @02:28PM (#7240483)
Most startups are b2c and serving mass markets. This is fairly obvious if you look at their target audience.
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by ulfw on Sunday February 16, 2014 @04:25AM (#7247132)
Exactly! I don't see how an Uberpriced Taxi changes the world you describe.
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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by michaelochurch on Friday February 14, 2014 @10:26AM (#7238991)
"We're changing the world." This will be our excuse for low pay, crappy benefits, fast firing, and nonexistent career planning. We want you to think of yourself as a founder but you'll have employee-level equity and if you try to use our rising star to advance yourself (i.e. by acting like a founder in the public) we'll fire you.

Those companies are halfway houses for college kids who don't want to grow up, but they're actually more dangerous to one's career and income (short-term and long-term) than regular corporate jobs-- and the quality of work is often, ceteris paribus, worse in the goofy startups.

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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by ryanSrich on Friday February 14, 2014 @10:34AM (#7239040)
If you truly are changing the world for the better, (eg. healthcare, energy, non-profit, science, etc.) that's awesome and you should totally flaunt it.

...but if you're building another rehash of some shitty social network that helps people "connect" at a more "intimate" and "personal" level please don't say that you're changing the world. You may very well be changing the world but it'll be a shittier place when you are done.

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Re:Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" by toomuchtodo on Friday February 14, 2014 @04:11PM (#7241023)
> and you should totally flaunt it.

Eh, not so much. Yes, you should be proud of what you're doing, but don't waste time "flaunting it." Spend that time getting the people and resources together you need to accomplish your mission. Passion about your mission isn't the same as flaunting what you're doing.

This also assumes that healthcare, clean energy, etc are "sexier" problems then connecting maids to people who want their house cleaned.

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