Entrepreneurs don't need a co-founder to be successful, yet startup dogma says they do and most startup accelerators seem to be fundamentalists. (Most startup accelerators are "me too".) The right co-founder can be a great help. But finding a co-founder just to meet an acceptance criterion for a startup accelerator is a recipe for failure. You should find a co-founder because you think your business has a better chance with the right one. That is the only good reason to find a co-founder. I would have thought that startup accelerators would be wise to candidates finding a co-founder purely to meet acceptance criteria. I never thought I would hear one saying go find one by the end of the week then we'll talk. That just encourages bad co-founder relationships. This is what happens when you follow dogma at the expense of thinking. You end up with startup co-founders that really don't belong together.
They made a mistake. They'll learn from it, hopefully (among other things) by ensuring no customer credit card details ever hit their servers ever again.
This reminds me of the Elon Musk NYT issue. He must have known he was wrong, but upped the intensity to defend his position instead of backing down. I'm sure Adria knows she effed up big-time, but pride won't let her back down. Had she turned around and asked them to stop, they would have been sufficiently humiliated to do so and perhaps learn a lesson, but not so much as to become unemployable. At this point, Adria could salvage some respect by apologizing, admitting she overreacted and expressing regret about the fact that they were fired.
The charts are nice and everything about the site looks well presented, including the thorough documentation. My only gripe is the lack of chart types at the moment (e.g. candlestick), but with the fundamentals well and truly in place, I imagine more chart types will be added with time.
I certainly don't mind tweeting to show my support. This is the first time I've seen tweet-to-download. I may actually use it myself to give users access to an upgrade of my game (for a limited time) that would usually cost $10.
Having co-founders is overrated. I wonder how many single founder startups became multiple founder startups just to get into an accelerator. I've been approached a number of times, sometimes even by people I've met only once or twice.
It's good to see the average spend for Linux is way above the average for Windows and Mac. That pours cold water on any notion that Linux users are somehow against paying for software. It also suggests that people use Linux distros just because they're damn good operating systems, not necessarily because they are free as in beer. It could also be interpreted as Linux users being starved of games and therefore having more to spend per game. Nevertheless, it challenges preconceived notions of the ability to make money selling Linux games.
It's not the same as Experts Exchange which would make you pay for content unless you happened to notice you could just keep scrolling. Quora isn't making users pay for the app. They're just pushing the app because they seem to be more invested in it (perhaps sentimentally) than the mobile web experience.
It just goes to show that social proof is extremely powerful. 1. Create a really crap game that's not really a game.
2. Create a site with a bullshit stats page showing how many geeks are supposedly buying it and how fast.
3. Spam about it on geeky sites.
4. Watch all the geeks throw money at you as they try to prove that they are geeky enough by buying a sandbox game that they "totally get."
Mojang, I salute you.