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imho, selling for $100k is harder than selling for a few million. Ask yourself why a company would buy you:

- are you accretive to existing biz models?

- are you disruptive to existing biz models?

- do you have amazing technology? <-- i hope not for you, this is always the hardest to sell.

In short, I think selling a startup for 100k is like selling a vintage, pristine '71 Ford Pinto. To the exact right buyer, somehere, it might be worth 100k - but to the general population it's worth about the same as a tall latte.

Best of luck!

...strange ad-hoc combination of other languages.

I call bullshit, sir. Ruby is objectively less strange and more consistent than Python. Some has to do with the fact that Python is older - hence has more baggage to carry. A lot of it, though, just has to do with poor/missing design choices. Specifics?

- ruby 'block' passing convention is much cleaner and more powerful than python's 'for'/iterators.

- python's global functions are stranger and more ad-hoc than Ruby's strict object-orientation.

- ruby's mixins > python's multiple inheritance

- python underscore (and double underscore) naming conventions to overcome simple language features

Don't get me wrong: i love python - but primarily because of the faster execution and larger community - not because of the language itself.