dmpayton

As an Engineering major, I really wish I could go to this school. However, as a startup founder, I really wish I wasn't bogged down with school (Not that I'm saying school is bad, it just takes up much more of my time than I'd like it to).

Wow. I'm sitting here in class not doing my work (Intro to Computers. Feh.) with near-misty eyes. if I'm ever hit with the cancer dart, I only hope I can be so strong.

Awesome read, indeed.

Hmm... Logical, analytical, and empathetic is pretty much her in a nutshell. I'm more like Kirk, the "passionate, rash and gambler and decision maker."

I'm sure she'll understand (and appreciate) your anecdote much more than I ever will. She's a big time trekie, and me? Not so much...

However, this still leaves my original question somewhat unanswered. While the three of us may be a great team, I've known many people who believe that couples should not work/do business together as they feel it will inevitably lead to conflict and result in the breakup of the company, relationship, or both. I'm sure that they have some personal experiences, but how does YC generally look at this type of situation. Will they see it as additional (and unnecessary) risk? Are there any examples of husband/wife teams in successful startups?

Though I'm still pretty new to news.YC, I think another appropriate and parallel question is this: Does news.YC want to be Digg?

I've seen quite a bit of replication of content across news.YC/Digg/Reddit. Can't we pretty much assume that news.YC readers also peruse Digg and/or Reddit aswell? I do.

Doesn't work on my machine (Ubuntu 7.04)

Why is this even here, I thought this was NEWS.ycombinator.com? If I wanted stuff like this, I'd be on Digg.

One partner is my best bud from high school, the other is my wife (who I also met in high school).

Perhaps someone can answer this for me: Would the wife-as-a-partner thing have a negative impact on our chances at YC?

Neither. Django/MySQL (SQLite for dev/prototyping)

Unfortunately, no one has ever needed to ask me this question. I grew up poor and started working at a gas station straight out of high school. About a year after that I finally landed a job as a web developer, and I've been able to do that ever since. I've never really been without a "real" job.

One of my friends, however, once answered, "when the trust fund runs out."

Being that I'm relatively new to the *nix world (installed Ubuntu for the first time in May '07), I've been extremely glad to see such a great community behind the OS.

Ubuntu is taking over the world? Fine by me, I haven't looked back at Windows in 4 months.