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by abiekatz 15y ago
What Tim Draper is planning on doing with Draper University, which is a former hotel in San Mateo, may end up being pretty awesome. http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_1984021... I think the rise of "hacker houses" is ind
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by abiekatz 15y ago
My favorite answer: ‎"In the ideal world, the Khan Academy [or another online learning solution] will progress to the point that you can get a deep understanding of most topics independently and "school" will be a physical place and support
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by abiekatz 15y ago
The problem with online education is the lack of available credentials that are well recognized. The main reason people pay $50k a year to go to a top school is to get the well recognized credential. The ability to learn has gone online. Ma
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The Internet is a Teleportation Device for Our Minds(abiekatz.com)
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The 1,000 Resume Problem(abiekatz.com)
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by abiekatz 15y ago
I wonder if the flip side of this claim can also be true in certain cases. Could staying in college prevent one from achieving a global maximum? For example (this is just conjecture of course) Steve Jobs might have had too much debt if he f
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by abiekatz 15y ago
What rule, that you should only drop out of college if you are working on a startup that looks like it could be incredibly successful? I don't think that is a great rule for everybody. Each individual has to look at the path that is correct
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Though I wonder, what is the best way to spend those years? Would working at and/or creating a startup at 19 better prepare the 22 year old to start a successful startup than attending college? Of course there is more to college than just m
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Steve Jobs would be the notable exception to this, he dropped out well before creating Apple
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Does anyone have any statistics on the success rate of startups in Silicon Valley versus elsewhere? It would be interesting to see some data that supports pg's claim.
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Mike Moritz' biggest mistake (according to a 2000 interview with Forbes): Not getting into the VC business sooner. http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0529/098_4.html
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A Great Idea: Worthless yet The Second Most Important Thing(abiekatz.com)
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Stake Your Digital Claim(abiekatz.com)
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Here is a crazy option. Buy Square. Make Jack Dorsey CEO. Square could be the "PayPal for Yahoo" and Jack Dorsey is probably the closest person to Steve Jobs that you could get to run a company today. Allow Square to operate separately, mak
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by abiekatz 15y ago
You could also travel for a year or less at some point when you are young. Also, working abroad is a great potential way to get some travel experience while not falling behind.
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Ask HN: Any advice on setting up phone support for a startup?
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Running an additional product, especially one that takes off requires a lot of resources and attention, is very difficult to manage when your primary focus is on a different business. From Justin.tv and their investor's perspective, they ar
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by abiekatz 15y ago
I wonder if this service will become more of a business or a non-profit. I feel that this site is providing a great public good, akin to Khan Academy, and it would be great if donations could cover the costs of further developing the site.
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Sounds like it was Heroku's $212 million sale to Salesforce that pushed YC into the black. Though, I imagine if you also include on paper gains, you were in the black much earlier.
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Thanks for the offer. I think having a quality editor critiquing your work is key to improving your writing ability.
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by abiekatz 15y ago
Congrats on taking the leap and I look forward to seeing what you end up working on.
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by abiekatz 15y ago
The post provides a great anecdote but I am just saying that more research should be done on the issue. Yeah, I think not giving grades is a great potential way to encourage intellectual curiosity. Has there been any controlled experiments
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by abiekatz 15y ago
With sales, in the very beginning you can just work in whichever way makes the most sense and test many different things out, not worrying too much about process. Mark Suster calls this "evangelical sales" http://www.bothsidesofthetable.co
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by abiekatz 15y ago
I wonder why some people end up being intellectually curious while others are not. I think intellectual curiosity is very important, especially now since the majority of the world's information is available for free online. The person who g