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First, thanks for a valuable comment.

I know it's currently not obvious, but the challenges are the ones that will offer cash awards. However, we didn't want to limit to only those, as for students even a recognition matters, as it helps them with their future career.

On the other hand, we set up the fee for companies so that we can provide independent awards to good ideas each month - 1500, 1000 and 500€, as a permanent incentive, yet with a monthly topic that matters to all. However, we are having the issue we are struggling with getting support, from the universities, governments, and companies. Unlike innovationexchange.com and others, to students 500, and even 100€ means a lot, but the official recognition is priceless. If considered on a global scale, how valuable for one student in India might be a recommendation letter, or honorable mention of let's say Proctor and Gamble, or BMW? It might change the whole life of one, yet the company received a value as it is issuing such.

An idea is a sign there is something that is not satisfied, and companies should listen carefully, as young are the current or future customers, employees and leaders.

We are two MSc. students at the Politecnico di Milano, and we hold the official support of the university, but that is so slow. It is exactly why we are doing this. With any idea at universities, it is so difficult to get any help. We are suggesting Aleveo as part of the Management of Innovation course, so that might be a start. We also imagined Aleveo as a form of an internship.

Well, we're online since two days ago, so we're hoping for a lot to change now, including the design (or lack of it).

We're still unsure about the service fee hence not charging yet, but what you suggest indeed makes sense. Recurring fee might not be the right choice.

Thanks again!
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I don't see why it's silly. Anyway you're not thinking about it in the right way. Sure, one or two of these ultra-dispersed neutrinos, assuming they exist, might not be interesting or even detectable. But in quantity, and I suppose one can assume the quantities are quite overwhelmingly large, they could definitely add up to an effect worth studying.

Consider a 100W globe diffused to such a degree that the light is spread out over the whole solar system. Nothing remarkable, right? Wouldn't even notice. But imagine a few trillion trillion of them and suddenly you have some interesting questions, such as "where is all this light coming from".

Personally I find regular neutrinos to be utterly fascinating. The idea that there exists a particle so small that it can pass, utterly unhindered, through the whole freaking planet just blows my mind.

Anyway, questions have to be asked, theories have to be proposed, silly or not!
LLCs may have corporate investors and S-Corps cannot. My first startup was an LLC with a Fortune-500 investor. I don't recall the LLC being a big issue with them.
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The record industry is dead. Anyone still trying to justify downloading in that it has not affected the industry is just plain old stupid. Millions of people who would have purchased did not because the music was available for free. The selling of records industry is completely dead.

Music is not going anywhere, and the large payments that musicians have will not be going anywhere either - they can easily make this money in concerts.

This is actually good - proceeds from a concert are spread out across a lot more people than proceeds from a CD.
But... neutrino is such a silly name. It would be a cold day in hell before I studied a particle with such a name!

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By all means, continue the questioning. Quantum stuff got silly a long time before I was born, and no doubt it will continue to get sillier, ie, non-intuitive.

I'm just saying that the math runs way ahead of our intuitive grasp of reality, hence the mind-blowing capabilities. Saying something is too small to measure, and could be anywhere? That's very close to saying it isn't there, at least in a classical sense.
"he had worked at Microsoft and had observed them transitioning over to WebDAV in a big way and started pushing for its usage in SVN as well"

That's why I am suspicious anyone who ever worked for Microsoft, specially when you talk about open-source. You never know when they will send a saboteur.
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It's interesting that there are a few Dutch start-ups doing such things. The other one is ReDesignMe.com. Italians have similar thing for advertising bootb.com.

Aleveo is meant to be a global complementary service to innovating, customer feedback and recruiting aiming at providing students with better opportunities, and that is the direction we're keeping.

Moreove, Aleveo is hand managed and filtered by hand, for public ideas. Garbage input doesn't get through, and human filter serves both, the author and the one reading it.
Yet, by having the ideas public, all benefit from the conversation.

Best ideas will be awarded either by companies or directly by Aleveo each month with three awards 1500, 1000 and 500€, no matter where they come from.

Thanks for the comment and info!
There is another point—international markets. I assume sooner or later Palm will want to expand to overseas. iPhone has it easy—it is all just software. How about Pre—will users be forced to memorize where the keys are, or will Palm incur cost of manufacturing different keyboards?
Ok. It's time I asked the question: is the plural neutrinni?

Because I'm not about to tell my friends we're surrounded by tiny, ancient neutrinni that nobody can see but exist everywhere at the same time.

Call it dark matter. That was an awesome-sounding name.
You're about to give up. What faces you in the next 6 months will be toughest period you will face in this enterprise, because you have a chicken and egg problem. The easy part is over, and now the very difficult part will come, and this is where you have a 90% chance of giving up.

Also, your focus is wrong. I know you won't change it, because you've spent 6 months working on this idea and I'm just some random dude, but as-is, you will have a very hard time gaining users for your project. This is what you can change to actually be successful:

"Companies post a process or business problem they are having. Students post solutions. One students answer is rated as the best and the companies pay."

That is a tried and tested model that works. You will have the students because everyone is looking for cash. I mean, think about it for a moment! What is all that text! What is all that signup form? Make a single field with an email address where the student can give in his email address, and he recieves the projects from the companies strraight up. When he wants to answer and earn $200 or so, he needs to give in his details then!

And charging companies?! You know you are aiming at the enterprise market if you follow that model, and I sure as hell hope you know how to do enterprise sales.

Let me give you an example of something that would work:

Student John Field comes to site. He sees the text - "Help companies optimize and fix their business processes with your ideas - and get paid for it. Enter your email address". He thinks, sure, why not, enters his email and forgets about it.

Joes Bicycle Shop stumbles across this website. He thinks - ah, I need to get cheaper bicycles from Asia down to my shop. Maybe these guys know how that works. He posts this. John Fields recieves the posting. He sees that he can make $90. He researches on the net, posts a reply. Bicycle shop saves several thousand bucks, John gets his $90, you get your cut.
Interesting. So what I was getting at was exactly what Tarski said. Except for that he coined some cool words for his explanation, which I will steal for future use.
Well, you can write fortran in Ruby, but it took DHH to show where it does shine. It is easy to underestimate the initial insight in hindsight "oh, that's obvious", but it only becomes obvious when someone does it.
And does not definition of geniality has something on having that insight for the "obvious"?
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Ooh! I like the font. Helvetica Neue, very daring. And moz-border-radius! Love the layout and typography, although there's maybe a little too much bold text, starts to feel patronising.

Not sure about the whole "ideas from young people" thing; I have learnt over time that the experience of actually trying to implement ideas radically changes ones' perspective on them and their viability. That's one of the reasons I like programmers so much, really - it's one of the few groups of people with direct everyday experience of actually implementing ideas, and so have a very realistic view of what is actually a good/useful/viable idea and what is not. My non-programmer friends seem to lack any such perspective, and I assume most students are in the same boat.

But whatever; looks good and I agree with you on the file saving idea.
I was thinking it's more like spending time in solitary confinement. No explicit torture, just the slow creep of insanity due to social isolation and routine.
So he is complaining that he might have to hit spacebar one time too often? I assume if you already are at the bottom of the page, spacebar does nothing?

Not sure what is more painful, having to process "white border - no spacebar" or "spacebar did nothing".
Why would the artists agree to that?
Oh tell me about it. Quantum mechanics is just nuts. And if you think the normal stuff is bad, try reading up on Foam Theory et al; guaranteed to make you wish you had been born a duck or something and had never even heard of science.

However, the point I was trying to make was - (almost) too small to measure is just so, but in vast quantities becomes significant. And everything's like that really, it's just a matter of degree. What "classical" physics would call an atom is treated as more of a probability field these days. This seems to be the same thing, just with the probability turned way down!
Using an eeepc with Ubuntu, the screen will dim after a couple of minutes without clicking. That's more a problem with Ubuntu's energy saving (or maybe the eeepc-specific kernel I'm running) than with the site, but it does underscore the presumption of clicking being linked to interfacing (scrolling does not keep the machine from starting the energy saving process - only clicking).

The site is a neat experiment, but I can't help but feel that most users are conditioned enough from previous flash sites and non-flash rollover actions (drop downs, tool tips, etc) that they would find it easy not to click.

The animation was more than a little sluggish on this poor atom processor. It could have been more effective and less distracting had the animations been limited to rollover/click interactions. I guess that's the case with most flash sites. I'd like to see the site executed using html and javascript.
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Actually, I have always liked the word neutrino! Cool name for a ridiculously cool, and mysterious, particle. Good thing I like them too, apparently I have 50 trillion of them passing through my body every second.
Not particularly a technical limitation, but a practical one:

Unfortunately, if your web site is intended to reach the masses, many of whom sit behind restrictive firewalls that only proxy 80 and 443 for web traffic, you need to be on ports 80 and 443.
I feel as if I'm the only one who is incredulous of the evangelism surrounding the Pre. The device rips off everything innovative about the iPhone including the accelerometer, the ambient light sensor, the proximity sensor, multi-touch, the App Store, notifications and hardware design.

Color me skeptical that a company that has only produced mediocre handheld PDAs is going to compete head-to-head with the widely successful iPhone. You can't beat Apple at their own game by cloning their design. Apple entered the cell industry forty years late and changed the game. It's deplorable that no competitor can muster enough innovation to compete with the device.

Give me innovation. I want to buy a book and the screen will instantly switch to eInk and I'll be reading said book. I want seamless syncing with my desktop across the room, or across the world. I want to record high definition video and I want to play it back on the built-in holographic projector. I mean, it's the 21st century; give us something worth getting excited about.

I'm sure the Pre is an excellent phone. All I'm saying is, to any reasoning person, the iPhone will win versus its second-rate copycat when they are at the same price point.
I imagine the relationship between the artist, and its contractor to be similar of small groups of hackers, and their investors. At any given time a record label has several "good enough" artists in their incomming tunnel to be able to make them sign just about anything.
I like the challenges part because many "scratch your own itch" startup ideas are narrowly focused on very few social or entertainment areas that younger startup founders are familiar with. Startups often lack real problems to solve in my view.

You should try to get companies to sign up and describe the really tough problems they have. Not the every day cruft that they might like to offload onto students. I think you should avoid the kind of mood that dominates sites like elance or mechanical turk or all the Q&A sites. It's so horribly depressing there.

The challenges should be BIG. That doesn't mean the ideas/solutions have to be big. Big challenges to incentivise small experimental approaches. That's what I would love to see.

Good luck.
That's a nice way to start a conversation :) Thanks for the encouragement, I get those a lot :)

You are absolutely right about what you say, but, I don't think you got the point of Aleveo. We're not trying to be next Google or Yahoo Answers, or any sort of similar service. What you describe is answer service.

Also the focus is wrong. We do not aim at making money out of students' ideas, but to provide them with help to get in touch with companies, so that they can have better jobs tomorrow, and there is space for profits too. I know it's difficult to understand social oriented business, but here is one.

If we think about companies, they do not have problems, or if they did, they wouldn't talk about. They have employees to solve their problems. But, Aleveo provides the company with this channel for external input on their offerings, with constructive feedback how to improve stuff, or make new.

Lets say I think of a new automotive door handle that is easier to user, looks better, yet is cheaper to produce. What will I do as a student? Build a company around that? Not really. But at least I will show it to someone who will appreciate it. If lets say FIAT adopts this idea or thinks its viable, they award the student with something either money, sponsorship, internship or whatever they like. Moreover, the company gets to see who can is suitable to be part of their innovation culture.

There is no innovation in tried and tested model, and for sure no entrepreneurialism. It's not all about the money.

The major idea of Aleveo is for students to push ideas to companies. And this is especially needed in visual things such as industrial design let's say. So, for the student above, he could tag his idea "FIAT" and when someone from Fiat logins, he can see ideas submitted to them. Challenges are a "pull" method on the other hand.

Indeed, we've been doing a research on the topic for 6 months, but the development took only one. I'll post the research as an idea, I think you'll find it shocking what the current youth unemployment situation is doing long term.

Thanks for the critic, I find it highly constructive, and I appreciate your toughness.
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You understand the quandary, right? I mean, it's one thing to say an electron really exists as a probability cloud and not some little particle, that it collapses into a particle. It's not there, but it's "in there" somewhere. Even electron tunneling is understandable: the electron is kind of in this "smear" and sometimes that smear can cross barriers. It's quite another thing once the cloud reaches the boundaries of the universe, and the particle can pass through a solar system and still not be affected.

It's everywhere, it's nowhere. It's huge, it's small. We've got all the classical bits of silliness in there.
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Thanks for the heads up. I couldn't agree more on the narrow focus of startups. We got online few days ago, and already have lined up very famous names. It should be seen these days.

We didn't get support from anyone and still don't, so that should explain the barebones.
But there is a lot to be changed, especially about the mood, this should be most of all fun.
And challenges will be awesome, I promise. =)

Thanks again! Cheers!
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You are damn right. Didn't really think about it, must be an awful habit of mine.

Sorry about that, hope you didn't heart your eyes =) will be changed, especially soon when we're able to afford a designer.
This isn't going to be the answer that you want, but it doesn't matter what corporate form you take. What matters is what you build. LLCs are going to be the least work. You won't sacrifice things down the road - worst case, you and your partners create a new Corp and sell the LLC to that corp.

Most likely, you aren't going to attract VC investment (most companies don't). LLCs can grow very large (like Fidelity Investments which has profits of $1B per year). They require little anything to run them.

Just make your product. If you're successful, it won't matter. If you're unsuccessful, it won't matter. This is just distracting you from making your product.
Palm will incur the cost of making a single part with different layouts for each region, but the cost of this is negligible as to make it a complete non-issue. Companies like Blackberry, and indeed Palm themselves, already do this and laptop manufacturers have been dealing with major keyboard differences for years, so I don't see why Palm will suddenly have any significant problems associated with it.
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Thanks. I got that for the bold text several times. It's amazing the disparity between using and coding.

Experience plays a great role in implementing, while a lot of times it is the one that sets the boundaries to imagination. This makes young minds very viable to imagination, but surely need the experience to go further. Aleveo should connect them, and give feedback on those ideas, by enriching them with others' experiences.

Only then can we judge if these students have viable ideas. So, soon we'll find out :)

Thanks for the comment!
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Well, what can I say? That's reality for you. "Collapsing" is just a convenient shortcut for calculation/conceptualisation purposes but never actually happens IRL. In fact the whole "classical" construct you mention is just that; nothing but a convenient oversimplification.

It's crazy all right, but exciting too. Personally I can't wait until we can harness these new understandings for technological advancement; somehow using neutrinos for communications, for example.
This should be a motivating story for anyone running or thinking of starting their own business. It definitely got me pumped up.
Your design is fine as it is for a first iteration - your choice of words is not (that is, in my opinion).

"GREAT IDEAS, CHALLENGES & AWARDS

a bridge between the worlds of education and work."

I have no idea what that means for anything - tell me what you do in more of a straight forward fashion. Those are all fairly uninformative words try something like....

"Aleveo helps your company get fresh new ideas

-Engage youth by evaluating their fresh ideas to improve your products/offering-"
Taping is lossy. Digital copying is not (unless you want it to be).

Taping doesn't scale easily (tape trees notwithstanding).

Both these served to limit taping's impact.
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Worth bringing up. The answer is that the community pays far more in police, court, and hospital fees than they would by simply paying the person's rent. So its a win financially in addition to being the right and decent thing to do.

(My stepmother is running a pilot program in Greensboro, NC to test this theory - so far the hypothesis is spot on. Google "Housing First" if interested.)
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afaik, when not using literal non-ascii characters in java source code you're supposed to use native2ascii. Running it on my mac gives this:

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{
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{
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}
}

The resulting program from that works perfectly fine in my mac terminal, which makes the "I know Java pretty well" statement pretty suspicious...
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Absolutely fascinating read. I think I feel the same way prehistoric man would feel looking at nature. Its a daunting task, but it feels like our journey has just begun just like our ancestors; and its getting more beautiful. I wanna hear Bach now.
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this article is fairly incoherent. how do any of these statistics sum up to mean anything definitive?
"Said they would use the expression ‘to bing it’"
You don't consciously select words; you just use them, unless you're forcing a meme.

Anyway, this article is a scam. Absolute bullshit.
55% sounds like a pretty skewed sample.

If Microsoft can leapfrog Yahoo into the #2 position, I think it could be considered a big success.