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Yeah, if only it actually served the purpose of getting the user quickly and easily to another page that might help them...

The next social network is Tumblr. Its the best combination of blogging, twittering, and networking out there.

platformuno.com unoplatform.com theoneplatform.com

all seem to be available

>>When their intensity is combined with multi-potentiality, these youngsters become particularly frustrated with the existential limitations of space and time. There simply aren't enough hours in the day to develop all of the talents that many of these children have. Making choices among the possibilities is indeed arbitrary; there is no "ultimately right" choice. Even choosing a vocation can be difficult if one is trying to make a career decision between essentially equal passion, talents and potential in violin, neurology, theoretical mathematics and international relations.

I'm curious how others have dealt with this. When faced with seemingly equal career and life decisions how to you go about choosing what vocation or path to pursue.

Does anyone have any specific methods?

What a great idea.

The way I see it, there are a couple ways to work with it.

1) You've found a size hospital that it works well for and you get resistance when trying to go to bigger hospitals? The forget the large hospitals and find hospitals that match this one's profile around the country. Interesting niche.

2) Use the technology and apply it to any place that you have to wait in line (for a table at a restaurant, public golf courses, etc...)

What else am I missing?

why not grab the feed from each of those links and create a collabpsable div that opens with the recent headlines and links from each site. that would go a long way towards making your site useful, sort of like a hacker's version of popurls.com

whether or not the idea itself is impressive the technology seems to be very much so. The sight is lightning quick for what it does.

I find it amusing how much Zuckerberg's apparent attitude has changed. Like not wanting to add resumes because they'd make the site less fun. I guess the idea of fun changes when you've got a 15 billion valuation to live up to.

I just can't believe that it basically amounts to "scientists find oldest animal on record, then kill it to find out how old it is"

I agree that the tough part about this will not be the build but developing the right strategy and relationships. A simple app will go a long way if you know where to put it.

I have some contacts in this area and ran at a pretty high level. If you want some help, my email is in my profile

well, where are you located?

to clarify, it would be to make money. Just a small bootstrapped development house where I can try a lot of ideas and have them either succeed or fail quickly.

The benefit that I see in these services is the free year of registered agent service and the other side features. I would do it myself if I thought I could find comparable prices on the individual elements if I did it myself.

Its not for a startup, I just need an entity to test some projects out and have some liability protection. If I was doing a startup I'd go with a lawyer no question..

something to let it interact with the lot its placed on...

I should clarify what I meant in a larger than the title field. Ok so this house is incredibly efficient in energy and space use and I really like the design of the interior. You would think then that it would also blend well with the landscape and not stick out like a sore thumb. However all you see from the outside is is a rectangular box that you only get to pick the color of. I just think the exterior lines are a bit harsh and out of place for something that is otherwise so well designed.

Its strange, but I think they may have found an interesting equilibrium point where they can reach larger organizations but without alienating smaller firms. I have no idea what their numbers are like but it'd be interesting to see where the numbers go at different price points.

Haha well if I live in Chicago, do I have to fight myself?

where are you located?

Also, if you have an inland startup (the midwest, the great lakes, texas, colorado, elsewhere...) that you'd like me to cover, send me a note through the contact form on http://GeekHeartland.com.

I have some free advertising slots for early stage companies as well if anyone is interested.

Well I think that one of the problems is that there just isn't enough information and coverage out there.

I just launched it but I'm gonna start using http://GeekHeartland.com to cover technology and entrepreneurial activity thats happening away from the hubs on the coasts.

It rose out of the geek.windylabs.com and www.chicagobeta.com

Soon it will have news coverage along with geek guides to a lot of the non-hub startup areas.

I encourage everyone to subscribe to the feed and keep checking back. Its about time startups in "flyover country" got more press.

linking to a whois lookup will invariably exceed the query limit

I just can't believe you went on record saying that one of your goals is to cash out within 5 years.

> Graduating with a technical degree is like heading out into the real world armed with an assault rifle instead of a dull knife. Don't miss that opportunity because of some fuzzy romanticized view of liberal arts broadening your horizons -- that's a great way to end up wanting to kill yourself when you hit 30 and you realize you still haven't done anything with your life.

The problem with this entire line of thinking is that sure having an assault rifle is great but it doesn't do much good if you don't have any context to know where to point it.

Think of a technical skill or degree as the lens through which you focus a broader education.

The broader education allows you do apply technical solutions to non-technical problems and may even help you come up with that "big idea".

Look at PG, he seems to be doing pretty well on both accounts (undergrad liberal arts degree, grad technical degree).

I think this is a bit unfair to the OP. Yes hackers are important but sometimes we tend to make ourselves want to feel too important. There's nothing stopping this kid from at least making a mockup. If he's going to hackers with just an idea that's his major problem. Show the hacker something tangible and he's more likely to get a partner.

All you need to know is right here:

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/dining/18mini.html?_r=1...

10 pages is too long.

Isolate the key variables and focus on them, the rest will come organically as a result.

Plans and rigidity are tough on startups. If you can't fit a summary of your idea and plan in the space that one of PG's essay takes up, you've wasted too much time on the plan.

If you haven't realized it yet, most of the education you're paying for in college isn't found in a classroom. College is a nice buffer against the transition to the real world where you can take risks without consequences for the most part. A lot of a college's value comes from your peer group, which is why smart people congregate at the top schools for the most part (aside from career prospects and prestige).

I think the place where business people in startups get a bad name is when you have "salesmen" with almost no technical understanding filling "business development" roles.

The startups that succeed seem to be the ones that look at the process from a "best available athlete" standpoint. In other words they hire the most intelligent people available and let them morph into the roles themselves.

> They aren't systems thinkers. They are the business equivalent of a bench researcher that simply pours blue stuff into green stuff, watches to see if it turns yellow, and then informs his boss of the result. In both science and business, most people aren't actually innovating.

Hypothesis: I think that this is the most important thing to a startup, regardless of whether you can write code or not. Startups need systems thinkers and innovators on the code side as well as the business side, people who can grasp a problem and come up with unique solutions. You can find these people no matter their background and this trait is likely quite tied into creativity in all its forms.

and I think either one is a valid question. what I meant was I wish there was at least some differentiation between stuff not just simple rehashing for different audiences, oh well.