Ask HN: Entrepreneur or Hacker? Or Both

by ajaimk on 10/5/2009, 5:20 PM with 9 comments

Trying to get a feel of who uses hacker news. So, are you an entrepreneur? A technical hacker? or both?

  • by mahmud on 10/6/2009, 6:29 AM

    Life long academic. I spend 4 hours a day writing business communication, and about 6 or so programming. When I am speaking to people I am always teaching them something or learning something from them; a very strange take on sales, sure, but I approach sales as instruction, introducing the other to the possibilities and potential of my offering, and learning from them what I can do better.

    When I am coding, I and the machine are learning together; sometimes I do the teaching, when I am in the flow, other times it does, when I am debugging.

  • by jacquesm on 10/5/2009, 5:49 PM
  • by christonog on 10/5/2009, 6:04 PM

    I'm a little bit more complicated. A wanna be entrepeneur turned wanna be hacker aiming to become an entrepeneur, though you could argue that being an entrepreneur is more of a lifestyle choice rather than a job title.

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  • by dryicerx on 10/5/2009, 5:25 PM

    Technical hacker gone entrepreneur (at least attempting to).

  • by yan on 10/5/2009, 5:24 PM

    Technical hacker. Maybe eventually the former.

  • by ujjwalg on 10/5/2009, 5:32 PM

    Entrepreneur.

  • by nivals on 10/5/2009, 5:45 PM

    Both.