Bedroom Startups

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2009/04/bedroom_startup.html

by fallentimes • 17 years ago

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davidw2• 17 years ago

Interesting.... tsumobi.com. I've always been curious about what they've been up to since they originally had something similar to Hecl, apparently.

dbul• 17 years ago

It's good to get press, but if your product is in "private beta" like tsumobi then maybe it is time to remove the cloak. Or else how can the free press be effective?

davidw2• 17 years ago

It's been in private beta for years at this point:-/

wyclif3• 17 years ago

Hardly a new phenomenon, even in Web 2.0. del.icio.us, to take one example, operated lean like this for years. Think plastic lawn chairs:

http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg

edw519• 17 years ago

They can't afford real furniture to sit in 12 hours per day, but they can afford bottled water?

Is that Hacker News on his left monitor? Get back to work!

nostrademons• 17 years ago

Maybe the lawn chairs are a good thing, because they encourage you to stand up and take a break every once in a while? A few people have standup-desks at Google, and ergonomically they seem much better than the regular sit-down ones. Humans weren't built to sit in anything for 12 hours per day.

uservoice• 17 years ago

Here's the whole story, including Richard White (kiko): http://blog.uservoice.com/2009/04/17/the-year-of-the-scrappy...

andrewljohnson• 17 years ago

I slept and worked in the same room for four months while I got TrailBehind going.

You do what you gotta do, but I'm glad to have separate rooms for these things now, even if I still spend all day in my house.

Today, my two co-founders and I share a cabin in Truckee... which is a pretty good place to build a hiking site. We programmed in the winter, and we have a lot of users around to talk to during the spring.

Bedroom Startups

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