well, i suppose that is why a lot of people quit their jobs in the first place.
But if you really MUST stay with the job, get co-founders to help out. But it "might" be difficult finding a passionate co-founder who will understand why you cant quit a mediocre job to focus on YOUR own dream
look at it this way, you need to persuade people into paying a dollar for and app that sends an sms, rather than composing their own poems/messages (which by the way is more thoughtful and special) and sms it for a fraction of what your app costs.
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Well with more people increasingly dropping out of college, salaries have to come from somewhere
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This has been going on for years in many institutions, he has just managed to make it legal.
Instead of limiting his works to his classroom only, i think he will make more profit on his work if he pushed sales and adoption of his books in other institutions, to other professors/lecturers, even than he can ever make charging a class of +/-100 excessively. And forget about the stupid patent.
The main confusion comes in when you realise: Hey he's an economics professor, you'd think he'll understand business better.
its not just Facebook with us-only or us-first products. i believe it has to do with legal issues with other countries.........or good old beta testing
Has this always been the case? No, Apple gradually made all these countries available.
Terms of use have to be drafted and reviewed by lawyers for each country. This will take time. Why go through all that trouble and wait months if you can gain valuable insights by a quick launch in your most importanht market?
Facebook's apps on the app store do not make use of the option for a custom EULA, so nothing there needs translation. If they are already launching for the US store, what possible benefit could there be to withhold the app from the many (small) european app stores?
(And then proceed to put up huge banners in the other apps hassling users to download the new facebook camera and pages apps - even going so far as to provide a button that sends you an international SMS with a link that doesn't even work)
Also all submitted apps goes through scrutiny before getting published. To make sure they dont violate any top conflicting issues in your distribution store
On the contrary,when you get better at coding, just like mathematics,whe you compare your codes with others programmers and are comfortable with the similar code patterns and habits, thats one of the indications that you're becoming a great programmer, just like mathematics.
On point 5, thing is as a programmer (any career actually) with years of code experience, you just know the possible cause for any bug, and what function/class is at fault.
To elaborate, debugging is basically "applied memory recall". When you see a symptom, what happens is that you start guessing how it could have manifested. Sheer experience basically gives you better guesses.
I've been able to debug more effectively than my coding skill level would imply by dint of my better recall ability.
I think the problem is there are too many "me too start-ups" that have created a stereotype against social media start up that actually have a different and real business model.
However if there are problem in health,education etc, why not invest the time to be wasted on a social product that may fail, on an actual problem in the other areas?
But if you really MUST stay with the job, get co-founders to help out. But it "might" be difficult finding a passionate co-founder who will understand why you cant quit a mediocre job to focus on YOUR own dream