I'm a dreamer.

(Kidding, poor startup founder)

You did a bad job? In that post, you analyze perfectly the causes of your failure. If you learn something from that experience, your job wasn't bad, was good. Have success is important, everybody wanna get money and fame, but fail and learn from it is important too.

If you don't look back and think you did a bad job, it obviously means you're not improving.

Thanks, that is exactly what I was trying to get at in the post, doing a "bad job" is not doing "bad" at all.

For me it depends. I think that rewriting the 100% of the code is a crazy thing. I'm working for some web startups, and expecially in the beginning, with really low experience, you or your fellows could create something that fit the need in that specific moment, but maybe in the future is not good, maybe haven't good scalability, or something similar. In that case, is better rewrite. Maybe you could save the company and learn a lot of things about that terrible experience.

I'm European, and my mothertongue is strictly derivated from Latin. In the 70% of High School Diplomas, Latin is really important subject, because really help the students in the total understanding of every word in their mother tongue. Also, we study latin because a lot of authors use latin for wrote their "essay", like Cicerone, Cesare, etc.. In some Classic HS Diploma, the students also study the ancient Greek.

Latin is really good for understand our roots, our opera, our story, our tongue, and is a really good exercise for keep the mind elastic.

P.S1: I'm speaking about Europe.

P.S2: I have an HS Diploma in Computer Science, so I never study latin :P (Although I attend a little 3months courses, when I was a kid :P)

First of all, forgive me for my english. I'm studying a lot for improve it.

I don't know Mark Bao personally, I live in Europe, but I really know a lot about he. He is not Lucky. He is so young, and have already created a some tech-company. 3words.me is only one of those, and was selled in few months. And nobody cares about how simple is an idea. The idea are worthless, the execution and the sociological effect are all, in a simple idea like this. Perfect execution, incredible effect on a lot of people. So, he is a good entrepreneur, and he will improve day by day.

You’ve explained what I was going to say clearly. Mark has worked on more than just threewords.me for the past couple of years. He’s not some guy that just got lucky with a simple idea and cashed in.