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Re: Startups Start Over
By Chaddus Bruce
From: Dale Schalow
Your "Startups Start Over" article rang a bell with me. I've founded several companies including the first practical music-on-demand search player hosted service in 1992, and the first cellular music-data-packets protocol for Vanguard-AT&T in 1993. I even won the American Enterprise Scholarship Award and "JMU Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1990 stemmed from ideas in those business models.
But as I've learned over the years, and most recently from natural language processing, the "one out of 10 businesses fail" theory may be endangered. In NLP it's called a continuous loop at "transition state 0." I've written literally thousands of plans and the total amount of funding raised for any has been "0." Mostly it's because the "steal" for building it, whether Gates, Apple, VC, CATV or Hollywood, supersedes respect for entrepreneurial risk for sharing the idea and prototypes, even under an NDA and USPTO protection. Most folks believe the U.S. government does the most of this, but can you believe from my view are the true tech-market brokers who really see the truth based on events over time? It's their "Earnest" model.
Keep up the good work. Excellent writing by the way!
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Re: Picking Sides in the Console War
By Chris Kohler
From: Anis Ali Khan
"It's the game system for your mom."
That was great! Actually I'm both a Nintendo and Sony fanboy. Although it's definitely part of the marketing plan, to attract non gamers and lapsed gamers, I think the hardcore fans will be quite satisfied with games like Zelda, Red Steel, FF Crystal Chronicles and forthcoming Biohazard (Resident Evil) titles. What I really can't wait to see is what will happen when we all connect our DS Lites to the Wii! Touch, speech, motion, and pointing! Too many input modes! I would wait and see what the third parties pull off with the Wii before dismissing it as a non-gamers console. But it must be said, watching people over 50 playing the Wii will be funny!
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Re: Complainers of the World Unite
By Lore Sjberg
From: Jay Reynolds
Your forum article spoke to me because I spend a lot of time here: http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2. A slightly different animal, being a support forum for recording software, but populated by a lot of the same denizens. Thanks!
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