we'll throw a ui in front of an existing open-source project, waste a billion dollars, push all the code upstream, file bankruptcy, shrug, and do it again in 2 years.

      • Necco [any]
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        4 years ago

        The anna delvey of silicon valley

        • hotcouchguy [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          I just recently heard the dollop ep on Cassie Chadwick. It's amazing that the same basic scam would still work 100 years later.

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      That's why I need help, I'm not good at lying or powerpoint or business or networking or marketing. I'm also not good at design or implementation. Also not project management.

      • danisth [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Just talk about how you're going to use the blockchain to manage your big data using machine learning and you're all set.

      • Phish [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        Just talk about how it uses AI and machine learning to automate legacy business processes and seamlessly connect markets.

      • the_river_cass [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        hmm, too honest. you're good at all of those things and you definitely don't need help. just pay some undergrads to do the stuff you don't know how to do then claim credit and let everyone tell you how much of a genius you are.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          Also, make sure to reply "sure thing, champ" to every question or request. By not learning their names, you demonstrate that they're less important than you, the alpha businessman.

          • hotcouchguy [he/him]
            hexagon
            ·
            4 years ago

            I am terrible with names due to having a weird brain so that part should be easy

  • anthm17 [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Can we arrange it so that the founders get to cash out in the series-A and walk away with millions while hard working employees get screwed?

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Ah yes, I will pretend I understand half those words while writing out my check for an online streaming service for dogs.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    See if you can get OpenOffice to compile via Emscripten, to make a jankier, more full-featured version of Google Docs. Business To Business is hot in the VC world right now (because consumers have no money) and a lot of VCs are sore about not getting in on Google and Microsoft on the ground floor, so that should be tempting to them.

    • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      get OpenOffice to compile via Emscripten

      Think of the performance

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Isn't emscripten the thing that compiles to wasm? I don't actually know much about transpilers.

        • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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          4 years ago

          Emscripten compiles to asm.js, which is a subset of JavaScript chosen to be ideal to compile ahead of time (for well optimised engines). Wasm is kind of a successor to asm.js in that other languages will now be mostly compiled to Wasm instead of asm.js

  • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I think OpenERP beat you to this. But a half-functioning, spit-polished Web 3.0 user interface in front of Apache OFBiz might fetch some investors...

  • science_pope [any]
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    4 years ago

    Not sure why you're asking for help, my dude, seems like you've got the idea.