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by carpal 19y ago
1) http://novcrequired.com/2007/should-you-incorporate-your-con... 2) C-Corp if you plan on getting any investors. (S-Corps are easier to deal with come tax time, but have significant limitations concerning investors.) 3) Nolo ( http://w
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by carpal 19y ago
And I thought that 54 hours was hard... ( http://atlanta.startupweekend.com )
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by carpal 19y ago
Georgia's HOPE scholarship requires that you keep a 3.0 GPA in order to receive free tuition. My final GPA was 3.1. It is not a coincidence.
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by carpal 19y ago
I've used rentacoder.com in the past and didn't have great results. Now I just tend to do it myself, with mixed results.
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by carpal 19y ago
The thing that's wrong with most of these statistics is that it doesn't measure popularity. In my mind, popularity is "What is most new development being done in RIGHT NOW." These are more a measure of "What is the sum total of all developm
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by carpal 19y ago
No. In Ruby, array indices start at 0.
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by carpal 19y ago
I think everyone else has pretty much summed it up. My answer is: No, but it is closer than anything else. It is a huge stepping stone towards a truly powerful web applications framework. Rails won't stop innovating any time soon. There's
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by carpal 19y ago
1) You will never do anything new if you take that attitude. Anything new inherently requires risk. If you do nothing new, you fail. 2) Scaling is a problem for Twitter because it has to scale to such an absolutely massive scale. Saying
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by carpal 19y ago
1) Send email to ask them if the domain is available for sale. 2) Receive email back saying that it is for sale, for $40,000, despite the domain not being a dictionary word or a combination of dictionary words or anything anyone but you wou
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by carpal 19y ago
"odds are you can't skip down to the local coffee shop to get a feel what other startups are doing." Just head down to Octane one day. I can guarantee that at least one person there is working on a startup.
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by carpal 19y ago
Yes, your chances of success are reduced if you do not get funded by YC. If they're reduced enough for you to quit, you shouldn't be doing it anyways. I define "success" as being able to quit my day job and work on the startup full time.
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by carpal 19y ago
No, we don't know each other. But we have a lot in common. I even had an idea a couple of years ago similar to your Wamily thing. I called it "Grupevine". Pretty much a "website in a box" for a group. Groups would associate with each o
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by carpal 19y ago
I didn't find out about either Barcamp or Startup Weekend before they were sold out. I go to the Atlanta Ruby User's Group meetings and AtlHack ( http://www.atlhack.org/ ).
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by carpal 19y ago
I never said they would give up on their dream if they declined YC. They just have a smaller chance of it happening. As a YC-funded group, you have a 100% chance of pursuing your dream. If you aren't funded by YC, your chances of that are
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by carpal 19y ago
Yes, they're pretty bright. But the kids from Tech that I know, are doing one of 3 things: 1) Working at a job that pays and is stable (and this is what they want) 2) Working on their own startup 3) Working on a graduate degree, and not in
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by carpal 19y ago
I'm in mid-stage development for a startup in Atlanta. It is not going well. There aren't many people here that are available, willing, and smart. I'm finding that the biggest advantage to the "startup hubs" is that there are more people
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by carpal 19y ago
The key to this is to discover the golden key of negotation: BATNA- "Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement" Your BATNA: To keep doing what you're doing, and not get rich by fulfilling your dream. YC's BATNA: To fund someone else that i
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by carpal 19y ago
23+BBA in CIS and TLAs