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by gersh 16y ago
Go ahead and start working on your idea. Recruit other students to help you. Put together prototype and a team. Try pitching investors. Try pitching potential customers. See what happens. You will only get a conflict if working on your star
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by gersh 16y ago
Good writing is important, which includes finding typos.
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Questions for a non-technical co-founder(spreadsheets.google.com)
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by gersh 16y ago
As a technical founder, should I bring in a business co-founder? I think the article is pretty good. I'd want someone who is: - Can sell without BSing. - Knows how to get in touch with important people - Good at pitching to investors - Real
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by gersh 16y ago
Didn't their auctions appear to make money hand over fist? Were they rigged? Did they start doing poorly, recently? If you just multiplied the price of their bids by the number of bids, it would seem they were doing very well. What was real
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by gersh 16y ago
How many customers do you know? How close are you to potential customers? How much time can get your potential customers to spend helping you with the product? Now, take the ratio of the amount of time you can get potential customers to hel
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by gersh 16y ago
Contracts are written and signed. Specs should wikied.
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by gersh 16y ago
Is this site becoming Slashdot? Visual Studio does have some features that can make you lazy I suppose. ASP.NET web forms does suck, but ASP.NET MVC is good. Is Java supposed to be better than .NET?
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by gersh 16y ago
How did Mike Tyson do it? He reportedly blew $300 million.
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by gersh 16y ago
I think compilers today have much better error messages, and you can always turn to sites like Stack Overflow and Google. Back then, if it wasn't in some undecipherable manual, you had to figure it out by trial and error. When I first learn
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by gersh 16y ago
Focus more on what your customers want than what your competitors are doing. It is possible to get into a race with your competitors to implement features that your customers don't care about. In growing markets, you can both be acquiring c
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by gersh 16y ago
Google doesn't have all that many low-level employees. They are mostly only hiring engineers, who are likely get more money and perks than Apple's retail employees, or the people, who load trucks for Amazon. It is also worth a lot more for
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by gersh 16y ago
How about charging for longer tweets, or let you make your tweets have a larger font for a fee.
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by gersh 16y ago
It shows the highest readings away from Fukushima. Why?
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by gersh 16y ago
How many developers does hacker news have?
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by gersh 16y ago
Would he have been cultural fit? Google seems to be an extremely analytical, numbers driven company. Doesn't Steve jobs reject this approach?
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by gersh 16y ago
What if Larry Page decides he wants the future is to colonize the moon. Then, he decides to invests all or a large portions of Google's money in colonizing the moon. Will anyone stop him? Would this count as a startup again?
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by gersh 16y ago
How about a charter-school incubator? You probably have to be a teacher to apply. The incubator would provide you with a classroom, and help you recruit some students. If you succeed, then you get to start your own charter school.
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by gersh 16y ago
I assume the idea is to create American jobs. So, couldn't you just require the company to have so many US citizens on their payroll at a certain minimum salary.
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by gersh 16y ago
If you want any sort of physics in your 3d, you pretty much gotta know some calculus. You need calculus to understand acceleration, gravity, etc. Statistics also uses calculus. For example, the normal distribution, is \integral{e^(x^2)}. If
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by gersh 16y ago
You may be able to code some stuff without math. However, you need math for a lot of computer science, computer engineering, and programming. If you want to do 3d animation or vector graphics, you really need to know vector calculus. If you
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by gersh 16y ago
There are different types of service. If your time is valuable (I.E. you have money), you want to hire someone, who already knows what you want, what you need, and how to deliver it. Now, assume you have such a product. Then, you talk to po
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by gersh 16y ago
A few issues. Does he actually benchmark? Things don't always work in practice the way you would think. If you are going for ultra-high performance, do you even have error-checking? Do you write it in assembler?
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by gersh 16y ago
Accounting gets interesting when you get derivatives and the fed involved. You own a volatile asset, so the price can go up and down, everyday. However, you don't necessarily know how much said asset is worth. So, you have no P&L. You c
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by gersh 16y ago
How much infrastructure did it take for Google to run wave? They could put adwords on it like every other product they've done. They may have used some of their technology in Google Docs. However, they could have refined the Google wave mod
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by gersh 16y ago
Why did Google give up so quickly with Wave? If Wave were an independent company, would they have given up so quickly? How can Google win if they give up so quickly?
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by gersh 16y ago
Are the United States and Iran already at war? Iran held US displomats hostage. Are Israel and Iran at war? The president of Iran called for the destruction of Israel. Does the count as a declaration of war?
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by gersh 16y ago
Who actually wrote the worm? Was it Israelis? Was it Americans? How was it a join operation? It could have been just Israel involved.
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by gersh 16y ago
I love github as much as anyone. However, why is it that Git still drives non-technical people crazy? Why do those people prefer dropbox over Git?
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by gersh 16y ago
What was the startup? Did you write code for that? Is there a website? How did you manage to spend 6 years with nothing to show for it?

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