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		juped on April 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) I would have written inhouse plugins for Word - it's actually pretty easy and I don't want to be in the business of writing a word processor.

ratww on April 6, 2020 [–]

Nobody in my story was in the business of writing a word processor.

Interestingly, that's probably another lesson on mistakes that kills startups: thinking that the only thing able to replace X is an exact replica of X.

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