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This is a paranoid worldview. Of course angels operate in self-interest, just as you should. It's unfortunate if you get taken advantage of by an unscrupulous investor, but it doesn't make angels evil in general.

At the end of the day angels (and VCs) are handing you wads of cash to build your company. This might save you years of scrimping and saving just to have enough savings to bootstrap for a year or two (and forget about it if you have any serious capital expenditures). Should they just be cutting 5, 6, 7 figure checks out of the goodness of their heart? No, it's your responsibility as an entrepreneur to know what you are getting into. And I should add that that is much easier today with the wealth of good solid information about term sheets, etc, that is available today on the web for free compared to as recently as 10 years ago where you basically had to learn things the old-fashioned way (ie. personal connections, apprenticeships).

That said, yeah, bootstrapping is better if you can possibly do it, because you take all the risk and you reap all the rewards. But to say that the very idea of aspiring to build a large company is koolaid sold by angels is ridiculous. It's the fundamental silicon valley dream; painted by history, not some snake oil pitch.
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I do not think that being realistic necessarily means being bad. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to get along and the world to be great without some abiding laws that those involved agree upon. The fact that things have been luckily good so far is really not the whole story. These carriers are itching to reduce network load, and without any rules they could begin making decisions to lower costs without directly harming customers. This could be very toxic for what the Internet stands for, and while it's unthinkable today it is possible in the future.
I don't think that's actually the case. Huge companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google spend a massive amount of time and money fighting comparatively tiny patent trolls. While they might not want to abolish the current patent system, they certainly want to see it changed.
You should have the math chops to read the papers then, which make the point better than I can.
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I consulted to pay the bills. It worked for me.

I think the three toughest things with the contracting approach are:
1. Being disciplined and actually working on your business. I don't have a great answer for this one. Just knuckle down.
2. It often takes a fair amount of time to generate consulting business. This is time that you aren't making money.
3. When consulting gets busy you eat into the time you have for your project and stop making progress and loose momentum.

What I did to deal with items 2 and 3 was get a long term, part time contract (3 days a week). I then had two full days a week to work on my business and rarely struggled with burn out or time conflicts.

I think this approach is a lot easier than straight up freelancing.
You're confounding peoples preference for usability (including portability) with a preference for applications with low computational demands.

If you could pack the "extreme gamer" capabilities of a Playstation or an Xbox into a format as "usable"[1] as an iPad... Then you would of engineered the next iPad.

The iPad was able to come into existence because we've finally hit the point where we can cram that much computation into a small factor form (along with all the other engineering advances like wireless networking, reducing power consumption, improving display and improving battery life).

Most of those advances are directly descended from the pushing of the bleeding edge. Companies / people are not simply going to go "oh we've got iPads now. So no need to make anything faster / better / bigger".

[1] By usable I'm not talking about some magical Jobsian property of the device. I'm not even talking about the software interface. I'm talking about being able to surf the web / post to your blog / whatever while on the toilet. Try doing THAT in 1995.
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Certainly, but I don't see any automatic way way for a Google calendar reminder to automatically include a previous entry. That would need a Labs or something else more advanced.
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It is more than that. If you actually read the link for a few seconds, you'll see that one can simply reply to the nightly reminder it sends. Compare that to a Google reminder that would send you a link which you'd click, then log in, then open your Journal document, then scroll down, create a new heading, etc.
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It would be helpful if this article included some context as to when using try/catch blocks are appropriate, rather than contrived divide by zero error handling.
I have a simple question. Would you do this in your company? (assuming you have the power to do it)
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Dustin Curtis, in a tweet, also agrees: "This is absolutely awesome: http://ohlife.com Very well designed and very simple."
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Will this be enough to keep the site live?
IMO it's just better to stick to LTS releases, Canonical tends to make less experimental changes in those releases, because things should work for 3 years. In the other hand, on post LTS releases like 10.10 (which is a x.10 release) they have more freedom to do more under the hood changes.
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The only fact here is that Google very quickly switched from a whole-hearted support of net neutrality to, at best, a compromised position endorsed by Verizon, a company with a long history of outright opposition to net neutrality and one that has significant leverage over Google thanks to Droid sales. Their change of heart occurred very shortly after Android began to be perceived as a success and after rumors of a Verizon iPhone.

Fundamentally, this is an issue of trust. The deal Google is proposing creates significant wiggle room for the landline carriers, and asks us to trust that the issue will be revisited for wireless carriers somewhere down the road, even though an entrenched discriminatory regime will be much more difficult to dislodge if it becomes a reality on the ground. There is a fairly strong net neutrality movement today, even without Google, an apparently sympathetic FCC, and a Democratic Congress capable of passing a net neutrality bill. There will not be a better opportunity to legislate net neutrality for years, given the likely results of the upcoming midterms. Google is asking us to trust them and wait, when waiting will almost certainly put the enemies of net neutrality into a stronger position.

Personally, I don't see a lot of reason to trust Google on this issue. They are like a lifelong Republican who suddenly discovered the attraction of left-wing politics after losing his primary and joining the Democrats.
When you have that sort of money to burn, you don't exactly need any sort of cohesive longterm strategy. You can pretty much take a lot of speculative long shots as they've shown, and fail often.
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I wonder if they plan on throttling non-premium customer traffic.
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My invite didn't arrive until something like a month and a half.
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Ah. I (mistakenly, it seems) thought that VLC used the framework that Apple released awhile back for hardware accel as well. Whoops. Ouch, at -3 for that, though.
From the article : "But what problems are left to be solved?"

To ensure that Web companies (like Yahoo!) are keeping their API open, accessible and active.

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Yes. But not quite for that reason. A gun next to your head will make it stressful, and stress in general improves memory (even more than other emotions, thanks to the amygdala's dual role in memory and stress responses). But maybe instead of doing that, you should put your feet in ice-water or something.
You're right. If this feature had been available when I was working for a client few months back, it would have saved me a lot of time.
Sorry for the late reply, hand't seen this..

On Android it is fairly easy to some word out, only because it is a much smaller ecosystem. So hitting up all the standard blogs once your app is well reviewed and polished up will generally get you a mention.

From there it is pretty much organic, we did a bit of tweaking of our application name based on what we think common searches are 'news', 'rss'.

People like trials, though it is probably mostly relevant for an app like NewsRoom, where the real utility comes from using it for days. For smaller games I'm not sure it makes much of a difference, though that it is surely true that the Android market is especially harsh to the amusing for 10 minutes kind of games that sell quite a bit in the App store for 99c. Those apps make nothing on Android, as people return them within the 24 hour window.

The trial was also useful for international customers, as we allow people to get an unlock key from our website. Paid apps aren't available in a lot of countries that the Android marketplace lives, so this lets those users who want the full version have a way to buy it. We don't get a ton of sales that way, but a few a day.

I don't think the website helps much at all, though the video might help give people an idea of how it works. We consider those to just be checkboxes for getting blog coverage, most purchasing decisions are made on the phone I think, where people aren't googling the app first.
You can see it in the email when you compose.
This is a cool idea. I started one page per day http://www.onepageperday.com and have been amazed at how many writers choose to simply keep a diary (some are quite fascinating). Check 'em out under the glimpses section :)
I might be an antisocial misfit but I find the idea of having stranger's dogs hanging around while I'm trying to work distracting at the very least.
> I wonder when search engines will start indexing MathML

More importantly, to understand the same formula under different notations.
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Immoral? No. A bit tasteless and silly, though.

Really, if your goal (what you call a "win") is to get rich, go into finance. It's far easier to get rich in finance than entrepreneurship. Hell, your whole career path is even planned out for you.

Sure, you can go into entrepreneurship simply with the goal of getting rich, but it's a bit of a silly plan considering how difficult it is to build successful businesses. If you are into entrepreneurship in order to try build something useful and, as a side effect, make some money, then that's a sensible plan.
Sorry, I don't care to reveal that information. I work in an offline sector that is not as carefree with information as Silicon Valley software firms tend to be.

My company is actually far more capital intensive (think plumbing or dentistry) than a software firm would be. We had non-trivial fixed startup costs and our costs tend to scale up (slightly sublinearly) alongside our growth, but we still managed to bootstrap via consulting, one-off jobs, favors, and creativity. I often puzzle at why a software startup which has far lower costs than our firm would want to take outside capital.

From an entrepreneur's perspective, capital is much more suited to a firm like ours than a software company - when I look at the margins in the software industry and the small amounts of money angels invest in exchange for the equity, I think they must be laughing all the way to the bank.
How is it compared to iPhone apps like Sleep Cycle(it works and has ~5000 positive reviews)?
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I've been doing something like this with shellscripts for a long time.
The shellscript opens up vim. It concats the file to one on the disk, adding a timestamp, and posts the entry to my gmail account. A gmail filter labels and archives the mail.

One can also create a private livejournal account and post to it using a command-line program such as ljcharm.py.

You can create a private blogspot blog and post to it from gmail itself. You can set a daily reminder for 8 pm in google calendar if you so wish.
There is even the famous memo at XEROX sent to Bob Metcalf:

http://www.belsambar.net/mediasink/images/ethernet_memo.jpg

basically saying that Ethernet is not realistic on an engineering perspective. The memo makes me feel better when I'm reading reviews for a submitted paper at a conference.
Most of these "confidential" documents are presentations made by google employees to other companies to sell adwords.

A peep into the documents reveal the huge investment Google does into Product Marketing Managers who do industry analysis, sell products predominantly adwords

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

http://google.inxshare.de/01_Automotive/Google_AutomotiveMar...

http://www.in.gov/tourism/pdfs/Compete-Google_Travel_Economy...

http://www.mednet-tech.com/pdf/MedNet%20Webinar_11%2018%2020...
The name at first struck me as odd, but it's growing on me the more I think about it. As long as the chipmunk in the logo is really cute then it will be memorable.
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i said "sometimes." i have no idea what you're trying to build, and neither does the author of this blog. for every company that has made it bootstrapped, there's another example of one that made it without going bootstrapped.

raising money is what it is. some people need it, others don't. it doesn't make angels "evil" because they don't align with your goal of building a lifestyle business. it's not like they're forcing you to take their money, or holding a gun to your head if you don't repay the money they risked on you.
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Money overcomes mistrust - it's as simple as that.

Speaking for myself, I understand that the business development stuff isn't just hot air, but I don't understand the business development stuff in and of itself. Additionally, I probably don't have the spare time to learn it, since I'm going to be bogged down in all sorts of unexpectedly hairy technical stuff.

(Note: this is actually the case at the moment with the startup I'm coding for.)

I like my boss and trust that he's got some sort of plan to make us all rich(er), maybe a thousand-aire by the end of the year, but the plain fact of the matter is that I still have bills to pay and unlike him, I doubt I can talk people into giving me money without a real product to show (or even if I have a real product to show).
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During moments of danger, the mind (which is normally active and thinking all kinds of thought of past and future) stops. Thus there is a silent alertness, a clarity of vision and other senses. For such a person, it is as though time has stopped.

This is something which is quite common in the meditative practice of remaining in the present moment. Eckhart Tolle talks about this in "The Power of Now". The Buddhists (incl Zen) talk about being in the Now, too.

No, the brain does not speed up, and no, you do not start remembering each and every detail of what you see and hear. However, the clarity of the senses is remarkable. Its like one has been looking from behind a dirty window all one's life, and now someone has washed the window.
> there is no incentive for their Indian quality rater

I don't get what being Indian has to do with this, could you explain?
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There is also mathjax (http://www.mathjax.org/) which can render MathML if your browser supports it (the actual markup you use is the de-facto standard LaTeX notation).

Now I only need something that will let me paste Matlab figures into HTML documents as SVG... (would make for a great research wiki.)
CSS3 offers a lot; essentially it can let you programmatically draw whatever you want fairly easily. While it's cool to see demos and fun things made with it, I'm about as impressed by most "look what I can do with CSS3" things as I am with "look what I can do with <insert graphical design software here>". That's not to say that neither can create amazing things; I'm just noting that since it's apparent CSS3 is quite powerful, it'll take more to impress me. Regardless, it's always fun to see these things :)
It's better in the same way Posterous is better then a normal Blog. Email is a great UI!
There might also be something about turning a profit in the process...
Are you business or technical? If you're technical, then you have a chance at YC (lower than if you had a team), but if you're missing the ability to build your idea, I highly doubt YC will accept you.

Also, why would finding a cofounder add more expenses? Especially if you find a cofounder willing to work for equity.
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I personally find Searl's (and other "neural correlates of consciousness" people, such as Koch) arguments more generic and deep than all this simulation-emulation-dna-blah-blah talk. It is perfectly possible that our brain is the minimal thing that capable of self-awareness and, that is, irreducibly caused by physical nature of brain and our universe.

At least, I am sure, emulation of chemical processes is not a way to recreate mind.
"I don't need an IDE, thank-you-very-much"

Plenty of IDEs are open source as well, and Visual Studio is free.
Great idea guys - I bet this could be really big.

I like private by default, but an option to make your stream public (or share with family) could help. I'm sure you've thought of this though.

No idea how you'll monetize it, but I bet you'll get a nice base hit out of this. Whoever is doing your design kicks ass. Congrats!
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Yes, absolutely, but do make addons for Firefox/IE too. See videos of the Add-on-Con conference, lots of people talk about their experiences building business on top of browser extensions. http://addoncon.com/
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There is nothing wrong with building small companies with "only" the aim of living off their money, without being huge and world-changing.

But some entrepreneurs are in the game to build exactly those huge companies; I'm one of them. I don't think I'm just gullible by wanting this: it just sounds like a better use of my time, despite the risk in it. (Of course, I'd rather a small business that makes me a steady income over nothing at all.)

Also, to address the point of the advice given by angel investors. I think for some of them (pg being a notable example), you can read a lot of their writing before they became angel investors, and this can tell you a lot about the type of advice they gave before they had their own financial incentive.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I would feel uncomfortable mailing my most personal thoughts to a server I don't control, or even using clear text email at all for that purpose.
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I remember an "infinite" (1 hour long) music on soundcloud being quite popular too. Maybe James Brown, I don't remember clearly.
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Oh one more thing I forgot to mention: have you guys split tested putting the signup fields (email, password, timezone) RIGHT on the homepage instead of behind a click? My gut says you'll get a better conversion rate with that (big green sign up buttons are scary) but you never know.

Maybe even reducing it to a single email field on the homepage and putting the password + timezone after clicking a confirmation link in the email.
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Honestly, all these Psychological studies always seem amazingly irrelevant to me.

I'm no Psychologist, so I could be totally wrong, but I think comparing the actions of CEOs to the experiments described here done with College dorms and ranked popularity is a huge leap.

Not to mention that the experiment described with drawing an E on your forehead seemed absurd to me. It seems like the explanation for it (power going to your head) was totally ad-hoced in.
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