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Bill Sloman
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On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 10:13:28 AM UTC+11, Michael Terrell wrote:
Sure you would. Nobody has ever accused you of good judgement.
> You are a cancer on this group.
You don't like me, but that doesn't make me any kind of cancer. John Larkin probably comes closer to that, in tat he posts a lot of stuff and very little of it is useful.
> A lot of good people have left because of your continual attempt to be relevant, which you can only do with your mindless attempts to put others down.
Posting nonsense is what gets me cross. Being rude about that is the very antithesis of a mindless activity. You won't be aware of that, because you swallow a lot of the nonsense that I'm rude about. Since Jim Thompson fitted your idea of a "good person" your anxieties about the "good people" who have left the group can't really be taken seriously.
> If you were the man you want us to think that you are, you wouldn't act like a baby cutting their first tooth.
Your ideas about how people ought to act don't seem to see anything wrong with Jim Thompson's activities. Your judgement isn't to be relied on.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
On Monday, January 27, 2020 at 5:43:56 PM UTC-5, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 4:02:52 AM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:47:12 -0800 (PST), George Herold wrote:
On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 3:50:04 PM UTC-5, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 2020-01-26 15:42, George Herold wrote:
On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 11:16:31 AM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 09:21:58 +0000, Tom Gardner
spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
On 25/01/20 21:22, George Herold wrote:
The other bad thing about selling stuff is you've got to
spend ~1/2 your time on marketing... maybe more early on.
And all the other administriviaEven if someone
else is doing all that guff, and engineer operates
at full throttle for about 30%-40% of their time.
The rest is "unproductive" meetings etc. Hence in
the absence of better information, multiply your
first estimate by 2.5-3.5
I've seen a couple of startups make one mistake;
I suspect you are too smart, but here it is anyway...
The founder(s) are trapped by the glitz of being
"self-employed CEOs", and spend money on unnecessary
/visible/ trappings, e.g. cars, boardroom furniture,
and the like.
Some people think that the appearance of success (hence buying all
that glitzy expensive stuff) is success. It's the opposite.
One guy that I know of got some investors to join up, and first thing
bought a private jet. Next thing, they fired him.
(One common mistake is to give up too much equity early on, often to
less than savory/competent partners.)
They feel great and "energised", but none of that
gets money in the door.
More successfully...
I've also seen successful R&D consultancies that
only buy the minimum of equipment, i.e. equipment
that is guaranteed to be useful on every project.
General-purpose equipment is good to have around. These days, a suite
of good test equipment isn't very expensive.
Any equipment that doesn't fall into that category
is bought on a project-by-project basis and after
the project it is part of the deliverable to the
client.
NO! Keep all the toys! Well, you can provide custom test sets at large
additional cost. Price them separately; they may find that they want
several.
Yeah, a bad thing about losing my job, was losing most of my toys.
(I've got some power supplies, rigol scope and rigol sig. gen.
and as you say parts are pretty cheap these days.)
George H.
Good luck; all startups need that.
One can certainly be a consultant, and sell the IP and designs and
equipment on a one-time basis. That gets a company started, and some
people can do that forever. But that requires constant selling, and is
often feast-famine stressful. Selling products is a better long-term
force multiplier.
Right, you need a few horses in the stable for sales (at least at the
low volume level I'm contemplating.) to be semi-stable.
The other thing I think about is fun little pcb's and a part's bag/ list.
There's lot's of rather mundane circuits you can think about,
(gain, filtering)
fun ones are rev. biased led spads, and fast edge TDR's
Some standard box for little circuits would be nice.
Phil, what do you pay for your 'stomp' boxes.
(two piece dicast )
They're cheap--five or ten bucks depending on size. BTW once you have a
web site up, you can do pretty good SEO by adding your contact info and
a few keywords to your Usenet posts--SED is widely mirrored. (See below.)
Huh thanks for the SEO tip.
Re: SED mirroring. I do find it weird how many times I'm searching some
electronics thing and I get sent to a few years old SED discussion.
Sometimes that's good, cause it's a discussion I missed or skipped.
George S. Herold
unemployed instrument builder
Sometimes I google a subject and find my own old SED posts.
Want to do some occasional research for us? Email me.
Jim Thompson seems to be dead, so John Larkin will have to find some other right-wing lunatic to to tell just who has just e-mailed him privately.
James Arthur might serve.
I would rather have Jim here and for the Grim reaper to have done his assigned job on you.
Sure you would. Nobody has ever accused you of good judgement.
> You are a cancer on this group.
You don't like me, but that doesn't make me any kind of cancer. John Larkin probably comes closer to that, in tat he posts a lot of stuff and very little of it is useful.
> A lot of good people have left because of your continual attempt to be relevant, which you can only do with your mindless attempts to put others down.
Posting nonsense is what gets me cross. Being rude about that is the very antithesis of a mindless activity. You won't be aware of that, because you swallow a lot of the nonsense that I'm rude about. Since Jim Thompson fitted your idea of a "good person" your anxieties about the "good people" who have left the group can't really be taken seriously.
> If you were the man you want us to think that you are, you wouldn't act like a baby cutting their first tooth.
Your ideas about how people ought to act don't seem to see anything wrong with Jim Thompson's activities. Your judgement isn't to be relied on.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney