hmm good point. I was just wondering that its a pain to read long mails and that it would come handy. Just select some voice which is pleasant to hear and then put it as default. I dont know how to get this on but it was just a thought
I know that pal, i was trying to highlight the fact that "the fear of failure itself is the greatest fear". I was just curious to know what kind of reactions i may get.
Suppose you spend your time and energy focussing on building a startup and suppose you get unlucky and your startup ends up in dust. Will the investor/industry forgive you? What is the life after the bust? Can you get a job? Do people look upon them as untouchables or unlucky mascot?
Is this fear keeping people out from venturing in?
ah this reminded me of an incident when a prof joked .....
A wrong answer is always unique :D
If it shows up in many papers then it either means you all copied or my answer manual is wrong
Freedom and independence minimum intervention, flexible timings, stock options, % share in profits, clean non-political environment and above all suggestion box type model where one is ready to listen even to the bottom most ranked employee. I know i am askingfor too much ;-)
Many a time, i get long mails and i just cannot help but to skip things. So wont it be good to embed a voice based email reader which will do a secretary's job by reading it to you when u carry out other talks? Whats the hard part in implementing this? Has anyone implemented this one?
Actual Karma is defined as "The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.". In hinduism there is this concept which says that whatever a person does is recorded and sum total will reflect in your next life.
But still people can open multiple accounts or ask their friends to log in and hike up the karma? They can manipulate the reviews and swing it in their favour
O man , they did lose out by not able to understand the business model. Bad analysts? They must hire some fortune teller instead who could predict future of companies :-))
Open source tools, low cost on bandwidth and storage space have all triggered low cost and overhead involved in starting something. When you have a passion for what you are doing and costs are way too low, then any wise person would run it on his own. Now a days everyone knows that going to a VC or scouting for funds would lead to power struggle inside the company with the result being the founder getting kicked out.
Or is khosla saying every normal person needs to hone further to excel? I think there may be 1% born hackers. Now how will those 99% get on par and get sharper? Education may be the key. I understand it as a general statement
Product reviews help common people lookup and see what are advantages and short comings of the product. But i have seen quite a lot of them biased. One such example being movie reviews, its alll hyped and tampered with. Be it movies or products/services, that kind of trust and credibility is need of the hour. There is no guarantee to see and find out if its being rigged. So a better model will be to allow reviews with good and bad points. Allow users to speak up with proof if good features are indeed hyped or to provide a proof which shows its indeed bad feature. As proper proofs come into play, there may be clearcut credibility in the process
People always copy that which is popular. Only difference being that they are giving space. This is so obvious that they are pushing to attract the crowd. But there is one thing they missed out, anyone with solid idea and attitude will get into YC, whoever lost their chance of YC will be gobbled by immitators. This explicitly means they are always 1 step behind.
Impressive stuff. All these humanoids and robots used to be forte of japanese and its good that there are more advanced stuffs in here. One japanese guy had joked to me once saying that all those outdated stuff in japan comes to US. Now i think he wil soon take back his words
Instead a model that would help them reach people, casual surfers can be made potential customers, educated customers would spread it around. This food chain will make everyone happy. I dont know if it would go as planned but still whats there to try :-)
So there is lot of money in getting small startup companies into advertising and web 2.0 is just a beginning. If someone thinks google adsense is ultimate product, there are flaws and once can correct this and still make ad revenue.
Smarter part of social networking is get your employees for free ;D
If you employ people and engage them in content management or info retrieval..it would end up being a costly affair. Instead allowing users to push in content is a smarter way to get traffic plus getting things for free. Now using a bot inside such a site would repeal traffic as they would view anything and everything as a bot. No one wants to talk to bots, they want to interact with a smarter being like them.
RMS, This is my viewpoint, i have always gone for either best or nothing, just like 1 or 0, there isnt any thing in between. I stand by what i say, even though i have no proof to show or say that i applied to YC and no where else. But i am honest in saying what i practice.
Well with the amount of fees i shelled out in here, buying a computer, installing linux and learning it wasnt easy. So had to go for computers provided by schools with no admin rights :(
oh ok. Well the model will be cool if an user can stream songs for others to listen. Say buy rights for the song and if someone has to listen to same, he can request trade or buy the song for airing it. This way he or she recovers money and could be something worth. rather than paying 99 cents and owning it and listening for few days...one can trade it and find ways to earn back 10 times :D
BLS you are missing a point. Money isnt the only thing at stakes. You need good mentors, advisors and backing of them to actually built a sturdy one. This $15k or $20k isnt what one wants, it works the other way, we are using YC/PG et al to learn few things we dont know. They are giving you one complete solution of taking idea to reality. The money you borrow from parents, friends et al wont come with that help. Plus YC isnt saying that u sign up for life with us, they are showing you a way by teaching you priceless things for nothing. Even if they take 99% of equity, 1% comes with 100% experience and happiness to have achieved something. Plus for some one smart, this isnt the ONLY IDEA, this is just a beginning :)
well what did microsoft do way back, they bought hotmail for millions from sabeer bhatia. Now what happened? hotmail is still way behind Gmail and yahoo mail. Did they improve that? NO. That shows 0 creativity or understanding of things. Only thing MSFT is good at is putting nice colors and popping things here and there and calling it cool tech. Inane people dont see that for this cool thing they are putting pressure on hardware, RAM guzzler cool things eh?
Well the truth cannot be shut down, it will come out eventually. Just like this author says there are more talks of PG, i ahve lately noticed a rise in anti-PG stuff, its rather sad to see people trying to obscure the truth by false statements and rumours. My only question to PG/YC bashers is