Starts out good but just chooses and explains a "middle-ground" and then goes into "just be yourself, the situation will dictate the strategy to use". That's how I feel, but its a little bit drawn out.
I disagree with the comments so far--I think he makes a solid point.
The bootstrap model requires you to be good at both innovation/experimentation and sustained management/maintenance. He's says people have different strengths, and therefore it pays to separate out the business lifecycle into the creation stage, when the entrepreneur thrashes the company into something valuable, and the growth/maintenance stage, where the goal is to take a working company and make it better.
With the startup experience he's had, he's in a good place to share his opinion that dividing people into those two camps via the funding/acquisition model makes the entrepreneurs happier and the companies more successful.
If by "free transform resizer" you're referring to the green move/scale/etc. circles, then that shouldn't happen. They're supposed to only come up when you click on an object, not right after drawing each shape.
If that's happening it must be a bug somewhere in my code. I'll try to replicate it. Thanks!
hahahahahahahaha, those guys are making bank off of the publicity they're getting. The lawsuit probably won't even cost them near what they're getting. Its nothing more than a bundled up hackintosh. Their product is pure hype from the digg/slashdot/blogosphere. Any mention of a lawsuit is only helping them make more money.
I kept an open mind when everybody said (and even on here), OMG they won't last till the next day, apple is going to sue them hard!!! You'd be surprised how crazy stuff works out in the real world.
It is plausible that this wasn't an intentional leak, but it's awfully conveniently timed with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. This would lose a lot of the buzz if Microsoft-Yahoo had already gone through.
I can just feel the angst and envy in this thread. Despite being a silly product, they still worked very hard on it and built up enough spin and hype to get it to that point. It brings up the argument that a startup can do any kind of shenanigans as their business, but with hard work, resourcefulness, determination, and perseverance, they can still be successful. Go read their blog from years ago when it was just a couple of guys driving out to the valley, all the way up till now with seven digit offers coming in.
Xobni will make off like bandits despite how "worthless" the product is. The next offer will be for way more than the original $20 million. I wish them the best of luck.
The next offer will be for way more than the original $20 million.
You could be right. But when I saw that "20 million" I could hardly believe it. If I was a MSFT exec, I'd simply say, "we'll give you 1.5 million (or whatever), take it or leave it." If they left it, I'd have a couple interns replicate the thing.
