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Rayzaron Do Cryptocurrencies Provide ANY() Real-Economic Value at All?

If you, like some of us, live in a country where the government of the day can seize your bank accounts because of your political views, storing your assets as crypto has real-economic value.

Rayzaron Show HN: Postmake – A directory of tools and resources for your projects

Brilliant! Thank you for putting this together

Rayzaron Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

  * There is life after failing at a startup
  * When building a business, being organized matters more than being smart
  * Most things in life work out better when taken one step at a time, no matter how slow it feels
  * Things happen in life all the time. It gets easier when you can identify the ones you can change, which ones you can only change slightly and which ones you have no control over

Rayzaron PG on finding cofounders and being a strong team

What if you have a friend whom you've known for about 12 years, has stuck with you through some dicey times, you've worked with on a few things and trust and respect completely, is keen on the idea of a start-up and has a pretty good business sense and gets things done, But he's not passionate about technology. What would you advice?

Rayzaron Want to become an Internet billionaire? Move to Africa

@PG, I'm just saying...

Rayzaron Apple RIP Logo design

Cool tribute. I've used one of the variations for my Facebook Cover

Rayzaron How to get into Y Combinator

Well, I might know of one...I'll tell you at the interview :)

Rayzaron How to get into Y Combinator

Do you think in some cases it would make sense to be a single founder?

Rayzaron Startups: It's Not a Race, It's Parkour

Fantastic post!

Rayzaron Ask HN: Any word on the status of current late YC applications?

Yeah, I think I read somewhere here that the first dinner was this week or something...

Rayzaron Ask HN: Displaying a million images on a page, in a way that doesn't suck?

Yeah, I saw this on Facebook recently and was thinking of looking into it, thanks for the link!

Rayzaron Photos of Bird Stomachs

Truly disturbing, makes you wonder what other effects of pollution are out there that we won't get to see until it's too late.

Rayzaron Students fighting World Hunger with the 10 Million Dollar Wall.

What are your thoughts on social entrepreneurship?

Rayzaron Ask HN: Are there any good hacker mentors out there?

Thank you very much for your comment,your experiences by far put my situation into perspective. I have to admit that I was a bit naive in my approach to the whole idea of having a good mentor or working with someone I respect in this field and its good to see that with the right approach and a show of commitment and interest in the project on my part will go a long way. I also have to add that I am overwhelmed by the responses this post has attracted so far and I appreciate all your opinions on the matter, please keep them coming, cheers!

Rayzaron Ask HN: Are there any good hacker mentors out there?

Thank you for your comment. In retrospect I may not have adequately detailed the work I have done so far, so that explains the responses.On the other hand though,sometimes its not just about the programming aspect of a project,for instance, if I have an idea for an app that I want to develop, but my technical skills limit me, it would be nice to have people to bounce the idea off and have it implemented. In short, great projects are made up of good product vision and adequate technical skills to implement it, some people have the two skill sets while in other cases its not that easy to bring two different people with the complementing skills together.

Rayzaron "But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub."

Wow, this is a great find. I bet whoever wrote it painfully had to swallow his words as the years passed and Google became what it is today. It just shows that with the right strategy and ideas, any startup can unsettled an established field and come out tops.

Rayzaron Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009

This is great news for all aspiring founders out there, at least some of now have a bit more time time to prepare our applications and hopefully our chances will be better due to the higher number of startups that will be funded.