It's doable, but you need momentum on the first play to even think about executing on the 2nd eventually parallel play. It is very easy to cite the Jack Dorsey example but you must note that Twitter was his PRIMARY focus all they to mass-market adoption. Only THEN did he divert attention to Square and making that baby hum. It is extremely difficult to incept two nascent start-ups and make them both successful simultaneously when you haven't already got a position of power+influence.
Note: building two nascent start-ups is different from the "labs" mentality where you play with a bunch of ideas, execute conceptually on a few and deploy some into the market to see if they work. That's a very different mental model. Even in Labs land you have guys like Kevin Rose deploying one thing at a time into the wild (OINK).
Can anyone explain the virtues of asynchronous and dual input modes? Why would it average the inputs?
Why would it not give the co-pilot feedback? Is it because instinctual resistance to yoke feedback would result in imprecise inputs during manual maneuvers?
both my companies are built with the intent to improve lives:
http://www.civiguard.com = real-time emergency communications and guidance for organizations looking to protect their civilian assets.
http://secretsocial.com = SecretSocial is the most natural way to engage people privately on the social web. No groups, no sign-up, no curation - just spontaneous connections and experiences via Twitter, Email and SMS.
I believe there is merit in the advice from HN here about atleast making a concerted attempt to gain user trust before asking for a key rental to the car.
This is for HIPAA compliance and attracting that business sector. Nobody from healthcare was going to put anything personally identifiable on shared resources, as it would violate HIPAA privacy and security rules. I don't think there are very many performance advantages here.
