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Re: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain

Slim Amamou — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:35:12 -0000

DH5

"Isn't that a little bit like saying that having the right idea DOES matter?"

exactly. if 1 right idea is worth $1000000, and if 1 in a 1000000 idea is good. then and idea is worth $1. that's nothing given the current $ course.

"It also requires good judgment in order to choose the right route"

of course. but this is not the idea value. it's the persons value. a person with good judgment is actually worth $1000000.

Re: Markkit, Web 2.0 Text Highlighter

Slim Amamou — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:34:50 -0000

Thank you Marwen for mentioning markkit. I really appreciate.

You're probably right, it's missing the "my highlights" feature. Till this morning, I always left it for later. But since you asked for it, I'm giving it to you.

I'll probably deliver it in a week or two. so stay tuned and follow the markkit blog.

Any other feature request in the audience? anybody? :-)

Re: Darrb, Community Powered Shipping And Delivery

Slim Amamou — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:29:29 -0000

hi Darrb people,
I think it's simply a great idea. Although I find the word "deliver" is misleading. "transport" would be more appropriate.

I think the service is a killer and that it would benefit from a better designed homepage.

Re: Business Plan Or No Business Plan?

Slim Amamou — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:59:39 -0000

having done a business plan, I can tell two things :

1- it's painful to write

2- it's quickly outdated

If a VC asks me for a business plan I have to make a new one from scratch. my business plan is 6 months old.

I think this kind of things is for business people. And since I think only tech guys should make a tech startups. I think it's useless and VCs should stop asking about it.

Re: Yamli Wins “Best Web Technology Award”

Slim Amamou — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:31:18 -0000

congrats to yamli.
but... look at the complete list of winners :

http://markkit.net/archive/www.panarabwebawards...

there must be 100 winners, no kidding :)

I think it's not a really serious competition. I mean there is even a prize called "Best Website Built on Microsoft Technology". It's just like every website built in 2008 in the arab world has won :)

Re: The First, The Best, The Only…

Slim Amamou — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:20:58 -0000

IMHO, the worst is when some company says it's "the first in ". the only thing they demonstrate is they don't have a clue.

come on. this, is the internet people. if you make a search engine, you compete with google. period.

Re: Laser-Sharp Focus

Slim Amamou — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:11:43 -0000

don't care about productivity. enjoy your freedom. and focus on making your product smaller, to deliver faster with less work.