Crashdev
crashdev.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Startup and venture investing essays on early-stage companies, angel investors, seed funds, and open source hardware.
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- 1Why not to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead)2 people · 82 points · first shared 2012 · 27 comments on HN
- 2The one thing you can't teach an entrepreneur2 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3More Bad Angel Behavior1 people · 70 points · first shared 2013 · 32 comments on HN
- 4The stealthy industrial revolution already underway in open source hardware1 people · 69 points · first shared 2013 · 24 comments on HN
- 5The Eye of the Needle1 people · 28 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 6How Amazon achieves excellence at scale1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7What is a non-Valley seed fund good for?1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8Why early-stage VCs are greedy bastards1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 9The one thing you can’t teach an entrepreneur1 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10More bad startup ideas1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 11Accelerator = Incubator (and why it matters)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12What does transparency buy you?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Think mobile apps are big business? Bigcos will spend 10x more to support them1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14How to turn your SaaS application into a high-touch service1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15Why betting on HTML5 / Mobile Web is the wrong answer for the enteprise1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
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eb007 · 2012-09-17
true... and i wonder how many other untold stories there are that are out there about small businesses benefiting from Pinterest.
the funny thing is how everyone goes after local with mobile and pretty much doesn't get much explosive success (sorry Foursquare but it's true). in fact, i was reading this founder's post on why you shouldn't do local: http://www.crashdev.com/2012/01/top-three-reasons-not-to-do-local.html
But the problem with that post is found in PG's black swan article... that blockbuster ideas and businesses that solve real problems often aren't attacking an industry directly but arise in completely different or adjacent spaces
It's another take on what "bad ideas" might actually mean... in other words, that an idea is a bad idea for what seems direct but it turns out to be a great idea because it surfaces a real problem that it does solve somehow