FW: [MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

[shren]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nathan F.Yospe wrote:
> Matt Mihaly <the_logos at www.achaea.com> said: 
>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Travis Nixon wrote:
 
>>> Let me just take this opportunity to say that I am not currently
>>> working on an online game, but that if anybody has a spare few
>>> million dollars and a development staff burning a hole in their
>>> pocket, I'd be more than happy to take them off your hands. :)
 
>> I'll hire you if you don't mind being deferring payment for a few
>> years.
 
> Cute.  But... honestly, how *do* you start a commercial venture when
> you haven't got the capitol?  The only defered paycheck programmers
> left are the ones worth what they are being payed, after the dot-com
> shakedown, I suspect.  I certainly wouldn't work for stock unless I
> was the principal of the company... or one of the principals, and
> *really* trusted all the others.  And the business plan.  And the
> product space.  And...

You spend a lot of time making venture capitalists excited about your
company, then convince them to give you money.  Along with the money
comes a technical advisor to make sure you don't get anything
accomplished with the money.
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