So how does this work for paid apps? If you sell your app for 2.99 and you're paying 1.20 an install, aren't you making money? I know I'm missing something here because otherwise anyone could pay for infinite installs and make infinite money.
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Don't frame the homework as something he has to do to learn what he already knows, frame it as a stepping stone. If he doesn't do his homework, he will fail out of school. If he fails out of school, his chances of doing what he loves severely diminish (and having to work at Taco Bell is a lot worse than homework). Doing to homework now is the gateway to never having to do homework again.
“As someone who was in the room as an observer at the Groupon board when the decision to use these metrics was made, I think Groupon was honestly trying to provide additional information that investors would find useful, which mirrored the way management thought about running the business.
However, no good deed goes unpunished, and widespread media paranoia about business metrics still lingering from the 2000 dot com crash combined with other missteps on Groupon’s part combined to make the use of those non-standard metrics highly controversial and ultimately negative for the company.”
I don't like the complete loathing some people have towards founders that want to "get rich." I'm completely against people whose end-all be-all is building for a quick flip, but the reality of the world is that money solves a LOT of problems. It helps you pursue your dreams, it lets you travel. After 4 years, maybe you're just sick of working on your startup and need a vacation!
Money lets you pursue your dreams, and sometimes your dreams change. Not because you've given up on them, but because you've changed as a person. People shouldn't be faulted to that.
People like the OP are the reason we can't have nice things.
More importantly, you might not give a rats ass what your boss thinks of you. Just because he's "in charge" doesn't mean he doesn't have a large amount of accountability.
Conversely, companies like EA seem to honestly not care about anything but the bottom line. They might pay lip-service to caring about their customers, but their actions reflect that they just want revenue by any means necessary. Eventually I think this will bite these companies in the ass, revenue is always a lagging indicator of success.
Nothing wrong with that at all, but if they aren't spending the money they have then its not helping the economy (at least in this respect).
The same thing goes for a lot of these founders. When you get a substantial buyout offer, you've done something very few people have. Even if you blow it, odds are someone else will fund your next startup. Either way you probably won't have to worry about money. Once a startup is funded, the founder isn't rich but the company usually pays the bills so he can focus squarely on work.
I don't think we should reject the allure of money, it goes against human nature. But the ultimate motivation is freedom. That's what money gives you; freedom to do what you love. If what you love is building a startup the money becomes insignificant, but having enough to let you pursue your passion comfortably is very important.
I guess it depends on the problem, maybe the cleaning lady unplugged the servers while she was vacuuming...
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This obviously doesn't happen always, but when you're a kid that knows you have some superior intellect, you make immature kid-like decisions because of it. You fall in love with your own head. You believe that you just "get it." You ignore opportunities to develop skills because you have this irrational (and often misplaced) confidence in you abilities.
This sounds like exactly what happened to the OP. They never truly developed ther ability to focus because they could always skate by. Then when they finally couldn't skate by anymore, BAM, they realize "oh shit, I'm nowhere near as good at this as I thought I was."
The good news is that once you have the awareness you can fix it, which is what it sounds like the OP started to do. Just don't focus so much on grades :)
Is there anything we can do about this, or is it just a product of building on someone else's platform? Obviously, this has happened throughout history, but on a much smaller scale. I can't recall something as prevalent and simply integral to most people's everyday lives as Twitter/Facebook/the App Store where this sort of heavy-handedness could happen. Even when Windows was in its prime, people could pretty much build anything they wanted for it (for better or for worse).