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Silberengel @Laeserin - 28d

It's common... in America. Particularly the West Coast. I'm used to European investors, particularly German ones. They are much more attentive and critical because they are poorer and worry about making a loss. American investors throw gigantic gobs of money at 10 projects. If one turns out, they break even. If two turn out, they turn a big profit. That works because they have such enormous amounts of money, and it means that they don't have to care what the other 8 do.

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David @mleku - 28d

yeah, i'd prefer to work with investors with small cap and reasonable but attentive input on monitoring and having some input into the operations, but not a dominant role, of course. CEO is the one with veto power, and the investor has to trust them, primarily, and the CEO has to have a nose for bullshit in his contractors/employees

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Silberengel @Laeserin - 28d

Yeah, attentive, reasonable investors are a blessing, for a business.

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Silberengel @Laeserin - 28d

Yes, and we're too poor to invest, anyway. Even the investment funds here are surpringly tiny, unless they are government-backed. We're more savers than investors. But, people like to invest in *us*. Everyone knows we got no game and are honest and hardworking, to a fault. That's one reason they like to hire us. We get fronted a lot of trust because we have everyone's favorite flavor of autism: Can't lie, hyperfocuses, likes machines, good at maths.

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David @mleku - 28d

indeed, that's why i'm going to go independent, build out the back end infrastructure and then save my funds to build out a decent proof of concept front end web app. or maybe i'll figure out a better strategy involving flutter. this thing about not being able to make one UI codebase for mobile and desktop is bullshit in my opinion. i created a responsive layout for a PoW crypto web app that was acceptable and even not only between mobile dimensions (very small mobile like 800x480 display) it also scaled up to 4k. so idk what these people are talking about lol. lazy, is what i'd call it.

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Silberengel @Laeserin - 28d

The confusion arises in the massive gap between What American investors like (flashy stuff, built for influencers, tiktokers, and advertisers, massive audience you can capture to mine their data for your AI) and what PAYING users like (elegant, efficient, reliable stuff, that does something useful and makes sense running in a LAN, and good customer support) There is simply much more promise of fast 🤑, in the first one, but the second brings in steady income and is harder to dislodge with a competitor.

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David @mleku - 28d

yup. modesty is better than audacity. when you have a way to save your wealth. just look at felis catus sylvestris. the image of the perfect balance of modesty and audacity in a fluffy little bundle.

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Silberengel @Laeserin - 28d

There's a reason why #Einundzwanzig is so big, in Germany. And #Nostr. They appeal to the modest.

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Silberengel @Laeserin - 28d

Also #PurpleKonnektiv started here. Anything more modest than meeting up for tea 🫖?

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