Pzumk
Reminds me of this guy in Austria who has 5 rfid/nfc chips in his hands. Article is German, but there's an x-ray image. He's using one to pay and the other four for opening doors and accessing his gym. derstandard.de/sto...
Cole Hudson
Curious what percentage of the world's knowledge of how to build advanced, commercial robotics is available within Boston Dynamics exclusively. Skydio also comes to mind as having great autonomous navigation software. Hope they generalize (and/or sell) the technology that allows them to build relatively small and nimble robots, would like to see more startups in that space.
Cole Hudson
there's a great book to be written on the economic impact of rails. i'd love to see a side by side graph showing rails adoption and the number of launched startups
😃 Javier
Rails was so popular that people started mistaking Rails with Ruby as in: "I program in Rails". For some unknown reason to me did not embed in the internals of Linux distributions, it was always an option, like Lisp.
Dan Heath
Could enterprise learn to act like a small business by changing its approach to its tooling?
Ritardando
Arguably, no. Enterprises are mainly political orgs designed to manage problems or administer services, and not solve them. SMBs and startups are even separate, where SMBs are usually services delivery heavy, where a startup is a product company focused on growth. You developing a product?
Dan Heath
Who can share an example of technology initially used in a personal context which has shifted into a business/enterprise environment?
Ritardando
IRC is now Slack. BYOD everything. Enterprise is different from business, as enterprise is basically bureaucracy/institution, where business includes startups and SMBs. The entire security market originated in personal hacking tools, etc.
😏 Yt L.
Anyone watch anything on Quibi? I subscribed after reading an article about how terrible it was because I want to help give a new thing a chance, but I've not found anything good to watch on it.
🌊 Zero Two
Quibi was just another startup hyped up by investor with no market knowledge
😶 Pipas_
Do you think new websites like this are ever going to break people's reliance on the big players like FB/Twitter or are they always destined for smaller and niche communities?
🚫 Zero Bomb
Maybe these small cannabis startups will break people's reliance on the big players of alcohol and tobacco companies. What is more likely is that the big players will copy or outright take over any successful companies in the space. Text only is in the same boat, but probably even easier for big tech companies to copy than cannabis.
Wes
That's a good book. Some others that affected the way I see business and finances are The Four Hour Work Week, The Lean Startup and Rich Dad Poor Dad
👽 Massimo
life update: not really eating meat anymore, stopped drinking coffee, sleep schedule is still fucked. I'm not really doing anything with music, but I've been drawing some. I'm skating again. I've been working at a startup for the last 2 years and it's doing fairly well. Post corona goals: move to the east bay or a new city, sleep more, get a dog
👽 Paul Webb
I pre-ordered a book, The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a Startup by Yourself (cliffordoravec.com...), a few months ago and the author made the first section available recently. I finally finished it and it was refreshing to read something that wasn't startup bullshit. There was "homework" at the end of the first section and it's to not work on ANYTHING regarding your startup for a straight week. So, I'm going to work on my social network idea. (:
🤔 John
I was reminded of the Chuck E. Cheese story when it popped up again as an NPR "How I Built This" podcast. CEC was ubiquitious growing up in the 90's, but I never thought about it as a technology startup. Really worth a listen. For me, it's a good reminder that tech companies can do more than apps and websites. npr.org/podcasts/5...theatlantic.com/te...
😀 Tom
I was at a mattress store and the saleswoman wanted me to stretch a rubber band to show how comfortable the adjustable foundation was. Asked her what the purpose of that was and she didn't give a straight answer. I said I don't want an adjustable foundation so let's not waste our time with it, and yet she still tried to go one with it. Sorry lady, I won't be buying a mattress from you.
👽 Paul Webb
Lol! That's hilarious. Casper and another startup (I forget the name) are making mattress stores increasingly irrelevant, especially when they offer 100 days free.