Looking at the list it appears all you have to be to be an "entrepreneur" or a "founder" is release some code you wrote, create you own domain (ending in .io usually it appears) and have it be moderately popular.
Looks like I'm an entrepreneur and all this time I haven't been calling myself that ad nauseam like everyone on here. All those years wasted. sigh.
I'm afraid this will be massively downvoted but self-censorship is wrong!
So I've heard of Gumroad (probably only from HN) but it didn't leave a big impression. I misconstrued sidebar.io (probably due to their generic .io domain) as having the distinction of breaking numerous websites of late (until I manually permitted their javascript) but then realised actually they were some kind of random design linksite - not the culprit in question - and weren't even having that impression.
Perhaps I'm missing something but if the systems created by these people are supposed to be a contribution to anything greater than the founders' own pockets then I am missing it. I don't mean to downplay the work these people have put in to whatever it is they built, or the success of raising some money, but honestly: is this something to emulate? Silly-Valley 2013: a sad state of affairs.
Still a good idea for a book, and probably full of interesting tales.
Regardless of whether it is worth emulating, clearly many people want to achieve some sort of financial success (i imagine the "entrepreneurs" in the ebook made some money already), and this book caters to that crowd.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 27.3 ms ] threadLooks like I'm an entrepreneur and all this time I haven't been calling myself that ad nauseam like everyone on here. All those years wasted. sigh.
So I've heard of Gumroad (probably only from HN) but it didn't leave a big impression. I misconstrued sidebar.io (probably due to their generic .io domain) as having the distinction of breaking numerous websites of late (until I manually permitted their javascript) but then realised actually they were some kind of random design linksite - not the culprit in question - and weren't even having that impression.
Perhaps I'm missing something but if the systems created by these people are supposed to be a contribution to anything greater than the founders' own pockets then I am missing it. I don't mean to downplay the work these people have put in to whatever it is they built, or the success of raising some money, but honestly: is this something to emulate? Silly-Valley 2013: a sad state of affairs.
Still a good idea for a book, and probably full of interesting tales.
Regardless of whether it is worth emulating, clearly many people want to achieve some sort of financial success (i imagine the "entrepreneurs" in the ebook made some money already), and this book caters to that crowd.