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Re:Before the Startup by strlen on Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:10PM (#8401344)
Getting university and government grants requires a great deal of gaming the system. I'd say governments and academia also attract gamers of the system moreso than startup world (indeed, that is a point that pg makes).

I can't speak of "most interesting", I can only speak of what I've worked on :-)

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Re:Before the Startup by rokhayakebe on Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:39PM (#8401567)
What have you worked on that could not have been done without VC backing?
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Re:Before the Startup by strlen on Thursday October 02, 2014 @02:25PM (#8402223)
Distributed systems that span tens and hundreds of thousands of nodes and provide excellent reliability characteristics. A multi-year C++ project being built by a small/medium sized team. Those are just a few example (stated deliberately vague due to NDAs, etc...)
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