Old Jaanix Posts

If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup.

One thing is for sure: no entrepreneur can tell me that he needs $1 million, four programmers, and six months to launch this kind of company.

i’ve come out of nowhere to run a site that no one else has figured out how to do with less than 300 employees. I feel like the first car, and everyone else is still getting around in carriages drawn more...

An investor wants to give you money for a certain percentage of your startup. Should you take it? You're about to hire your first employee. How much stock should you give him?

People in their 20’s think differently because they are surrounded by people who do 24/7. The way they program, the tools they use etc are different then the 30 year old set. This makes them try different things because they more...

The early twentieth century was just a fast-growing startup overpaying for infrastructure. And we in the present are not a fallen people, who have abandoned whatever mysterious high-minded principles produced the high-paying union job. We simply live in a time more...

What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires: * Serial entrepreneurs - keep doing the same * Dreamers - expand their more...

Flektor invested time and focus up-front on building a platform (or toolkit) that would enable rapid iteration of the service in the future. The Flektor team wanted designers and product specialists to be able to edit and extend the product more...

Thank you for your continued use and support of RatingZone. Deciding to close this website has been the most difficult decision we have had to make since forming the company in 1999.

It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution more...