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RSS FeedAuntrepreuner. Entreprenur. Entrapreuner. I can’t even spell this damn word. If you read some popular Silicon Valley blogs*, you realize that Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are the equivalent of LA’s movie stars and NY’s stock brokers. Everyone wears this hat in an attempt to gain worthless social respect.
* – Actually, some of these bloggers are NY residents. But they spend much time in the valley and reflect the culture that originated there.
I don’t know what “entrepreneur” means anymore. It’s in French or something. What I do know is that right now the size of my paycheck is proportional to my time. I also have the option of being paid proportionally to my talent. I believe I have more talent than time and so I am trying to build my own business to maximize revenue.
I would just as well start a restaurant or a delivery service (coding greasemonkey scripts in my free time). Of course, I’m not opening a restaurant because it seems more difficult. It pays off slower. It might involve practices such as hiring illegal workers to do the manual labor. I would generally expect to work with an uneducated, unexperienced personnel. Most important: It can’t be done from home, on the couch, in underpants.
So I’m going to build a software company. Not something like Twitter or Reddit which is all bells & whistles with no clear revenue model. I’ll focus on building something I can draw a sustainable business model for (although I have to admit, Youtube sounded like a great idea to me.) And that’s all there is to it. A software company is just a company. It sells knowledge instead of processed material. It can grow very fast (or fall very fast), but it’s no different than the hardware store across the street. There’s a good chance the hardware shop was just as challenging a startup.
Call me an entrepreneur. Call me a shop owner. Call me a code chef.
In the end it’s just me.
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I like the way you write. It’s personal and poignant.
One little point about the template you use – in first glance on the homepage it looks as though the small excepts that are displayed are all there is – nothing suggests that it is a small except of a longer article. I would suggest a “read more” link or something similar.
And also “leave the first comment” link is not really inviting. I don’t want to be the first at anything, I want to have social approval (10 people already commented, and recommend you do the same)
Thanks for the input.
I’ve actually heard of people using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to purchase traffic and commentary.