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hector_ka

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What vitamins and legal nootropics take every day

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: How hard it is to create custom device on Apple Lightning port

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What is the percent of the Kickstarter backer pledge cancellation?

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www.kickstarter.com 11y ago

Kalt – Non Contact Thermometer for Mobile Devices

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www.kickstarter.com 11y ago

Robotic 2D Obstacle Detector

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www.kickstarter.com 12y ago

Raspberry Pi Temperature Controller

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prefundia.com 12y ago

A new IR Rangefinder for Robotics

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www.kickstarter.com 12y ago

Kickstarter : 3000 mA Rugged Dual USB Power Adapter/Charger

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www.kickstarter.com 12y ago

USB power adapter for Raspberry Pi/Arduino

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www.robogaia.com 13y ago

Podcasts for keeping your (entrepreneurial) passion burning

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www.robogaia.com 13y ago

Cheap tools from China are helping small US manufacturers

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www.robogaia.com 13y ago

Factors That Can Influence Your Hardware Business

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www.robogaia.com 13y ago

How Google will enter in the trucking industry

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www.robogaia.com 13y ago

We Are the 99%(of the entrepreneurs)

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www.robogaia.com 13y ago

Why open source hardware does not scale

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Contractor payment issue

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Does anybody treat their wife/girlfriend's rants as error messages?

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www.robogaia.com 15y ago

Why when you are small is not important what are you making

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Paypal , wake up ,and don't hurt your potential customers

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Has anybody used Spree in production?

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I am a small electronic board manufacturer in US. I buy bare PCB boards from China and populate them here. Usually the parts are bought from Digikey, Mouser or other distributor. Adding a 25% tax will not incentivize any American company to start produce parts here.It is way to little and to late. If 10 boards are $2 in China, are maybe $30 in US , so even you put 100% import tax, the China price is still competitive. The law is unfairly hitting the small US companies. Sparkfun , Adafruit will be hit, but not Apple or HP because they are finishing the product in China. The only ones winning from this is the US government that is getting 25% of the money . This is definitely not creating jobs.

I am just surprised why the western companies don't copy this model more.That would be an advantage. Zappos is doing that from what I heard.

I am fascinated about this . Do you know where we can get more info about the way businesses treat their customers in Japan?

[dead] 11 years ago

You both are right . Paul Graham sees the things from VC perspective. You see the things from Founder perspective. For VC the goal is that he returns the money multiplied by X. For the Founder the goal is to grow the company and maybe be in control.