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0 pointskornish9y ago0 comments

Just because a business is using a proven model, doesn't mean it can't be a "hot new startup". Good for those businesses with sound fundamentals made accessible through new technology.

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hueving9y ago

Slack is a perfect example of this.

walrus019y ago

ircd-hybrid or bust!

bigiain9y ago

Yeah - aren't a good 20% of Silicon Valley startups just Unix commands reinvented (badly) as websites?

I'll by a beer for the first person to get to Unicorn status with an actual shell buitin (as opposed to all the SaaS companies that are just repackaged standard Linux/Unix distribution packages).

(Rushes off to register echo.io, pwd.io and logout.io...)

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rezashirazian9y ago

this. It doesn't matter who does it first, it matters who does it best.

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