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Do you want to be bought by Yahoogle?

5 pointsgreatsuccess3 comments

Money is a nice thing. No need to elaborate on that. But since this is an incubator site I think it's a valiant question to ask actually, because as engineers or entrepreneurs, I think you or me or we would like to differentiate ourselves from those in med school and law school.

Talk to anyone in those schools and they will readily tell you that the law and medicine are wholly secondary to the goal of making piles of money.

Not enough money. Piles of money.

If software and the products we create with it are for the exact same purpose. We as a community will end up with the exact same result as those people.

So ask yourself if thats your gig, and maybe "are we already there". And when you say you want to change the world, maybe stop bullshitting yourself a little bit.

"And when you say you want to change the world, maybe stop bullshitting yourself a little bit."

I've already mentioned this in another post. That line above is simply a keyphrase to attract VCs. Nobody is changing the world with the next cool-dog-food-pic-sharing-6-second-iOS-app.

There's 3 things humans desire: fame, power, wealth

It's tough determining which one is the most sought after, but I would say that it all begins with wealth first (this is in the general sense, in terms of regular folk).

I'd have no problem getting bought by Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. if it meant my technology/product could get much broader reach and success than it would on its own; skipping 5-10 years of growth and risk would be worth putting up with some corporate BS.

I'll take the piles of money, thanks. No, wait, it's not exactly what you're thinking... It's not that I want to be a "sell out", but if I sold my company for piles of cash, I could do a lot of the things I want to do anyway (depending on how big the piles are) AND then I'd have the financial security and the seed capital to launch my next thing. And knowing that I would have the luxury of already having my personal financial situation taken care of, I could be even bolder next time.

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