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A friend of mine is the programmer behind ommwritter. It's a really good piece of software for writters.

My family owns a small forest of these trees so I have some verified information about the cork trees.

We harvest the cork out of the trees every ten years but it's absolutely false that the owners of these trees make lots of money like someone here has said in another comment. We just get enough to keep the forest clean of underbrushes. This is a real truth.

Moreover, because his area is very dry in summer we suffer fires that burn the forests every decade or two. Fortunately the burnt cork still works as an insulator, it's black on the outside and therefore can only be used as insulators in buildings. Amazingly, because cork it's such a great insulator burned cork trees survive the fires and develop very easily. You've mostly lost the cork production though...

We had a great fire at the beginning of the past summer that could be even smelt from Barcelona (180Km away from this forest). I have a couple of interesting pictures of the cork trees and how they develop.

This is a picture taken right after the great fire: http://goo.gl/3oM8O

Three months later all trees are developing again, however cork needs to be peeled. We actually lost three years of bark growth because the last harvest was three years ago: http://goo.gl/3ZBHl

Looks promising. I'll be using it in a meeting I have right now. Thanks.

I guess Apportable is building a framework to manually port iOS to Android.

"Apportable is a venture-backed team of six engineers, looking for a few more. We're solving some ridiculously hard problems porting iOS to Android. Our software is already being used by some of the world's largest and best game developers"

Any clue how an independent game developer can build the same app for multiple platforms without wasting a lot of time?

Being a sole developer I find it quite difficult to develop for multiple platforms at the same time unless there's a framework that allows me to do so. Are the people behind the games in the bundle using a sort of "multiplatform-framework" ?

Depends on how deep you dive and the time you spend down there. for instance, people that attempt world records in freediving might need some decompression time after the dive.

Agreed, top business schools should and do have successful business professionals as professors. Of course there are entrepreneurship classes, but are taught by real entrepreneurs.

But you will have to pay for the license fee no ?

I do work for moneyStrands and we do banking stuff in a similar way Mint does. We also license our technology to banks because they lack a modern and graphical way to digest their customers financial data. eg: how much did I spend on restaurants in the latest 6 months? And if it's too much and I want to save, why not setup a budget that allows me to know when I reached it ? Or setting up alerts depending on configurable parameters in an easy way.

This is the best idea I've got so far about how prevent problems when raising money from somebody close to you. Another way to do so, is to remaind them that the round is called Friends, Family and Fools not for nothing.

It's quite amazing. I learned a lot !

I can only agree with the title of the post, not with the rest of the article.

I'm a technical guy with +10 year background but I also have interest in the rest of areas of a company. Unfortunately I lack any business skills and I'm afraid of failing in basic things if I'm starting my own business.

I don't like at all MBA's with non-technical skills like the one who wrote the post. They tend to be very arrogant and do not seem to care much about the technical aspects, which are indeed crucial for many of the companies discussed here in HN. It's for this reason that I'm pursuing an MBA myself, I think tech+business makes a good tandem. I'll let you know when I finish in two years.