Hi Phu -- the topic is addressed to internet entrepreneurs, not hard-working small business people. I agree with you.

M

Marc, he law of the land here on Hacker News is not to sign your messages. Cheers!

Got it!

x

Competition != death.

Plenty of companies had the same basic idea as an existing company and still made it big. Sometimes execution really is the most important part ex: Dropbox.

only once a year pxl? that's better than i did! :)

marc

I agree. I think it is more like 99 times/day. Luckily the one time you feel like you are going to make it, it's give you enough high to not worry about the other 99.

you're entirely right bigsassy. the very polite woman in my post was definitely making "progess" - progress on her studies to create plans to set a schedule to discuss launching a site.

launch, launch, launch, launch.

marc

Awesome! You are learning the lessons well... ;)

How did you get the illustration of yourself (on the right side of your blog)?

It is a Photoshop effect. Fortunately, if you focus on getting real paying customers, you can eventually afford people who are better and smarter than you and know how to create cool effects!