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It is both depressing and enlightening.

SOPA finally made me get off my lazy ass and do something about consolidating all of them to namecheap.

You could have said that about the dotcom bubble and be correct at that time. But the gold rush analogy fits very well for that scenario with the benefit of hindsight.

Any scenario including the current startup rush could be made to fit into either one of the options presented.

The reality is: a) currently we are not in an economic slump wrt startup funding b) there will be companies which will make it out of the gold rush looking like visionaries (ala Levis Jeans). c) there will be companies that have attracted significant capital which will go bust.

That is market economics with nothing unusual. The determining factor would be the % of the companies funded which will survive and thrive. I would bet towards a high percentage of busts than winners. And that doesn't make me a genius, i am just stating the obvious.

When a company decides to terminate an early engineer because the 5% they agreed at the start is deemed too high for an engineer, usually the reason given is 'non-performance'. Even though the engineer is performing his engineering duties.

Does a company need to prove that the engineer failed to perform and document it? or is it usually the company's word against the engineer's? What stands up in the court of law as 'failure to perform duties'?

Now, the tables have turned, we developers consider recruiters as dirt bags. I have no doubt that the tide will turn again. We just don't know when.

Drew built a product with considerable reverse engineering before he got any feedback, tried explaining to the vcs and investors without much luck. It all worked when he created a video.

Where in the mvp in that? May be I am too thick to understand but for me this is a case of retrofitting the story to match your theory.

Dropbox had a great product that people loved with a better video. No, they did not use feedback loop to pivot and all that mvp stuff.

I am afraid 50 isn't enough, time wastes too fast.

PS: I once made this snarky comment at my office water cooler If someone guaranteed I will drop dead at 50 without any health issues, I would take it any day over living with pills and dieting...and then a man in his 50s with a pace maker walked by to fill water. I felt incredibly stupid to generalize life for every one else.

The last product that I thought was cool, was Dropbox and that was a few years ago.

I was doing this judgment thing while I am trying to promote my own products. And I realize how hard it is, how difficult it is to find anyone to give a shit.

I now applaud anyone who gets a semblance of recognition or notoriety. Gimmicks or otherwise. I know how hard it is to pull those off. May be some are lucky and are born to attract the world towards them. But most are not.

There must have been an incredible amount of sacrifice, self doubt and disappointment that I do not know about.

I now celebrate every one's victories, no matter how small they are. I know how hard they are to come by.

I tell them I am busy with my own stuff but I take time to meet and listen to them. After the meeting, I do research, put together a plan with the breakdown of costs for outsourcing development, marketing and the estimated revenue.

That's when I stop hearing from them. They get either too busy or they realize that it's not as easy as they think. I am yet to find someone who followed up on the plan.

Isn't life always like that? Many with plans but very few who act on them.

I can see some scenarios like showing decor, pictures for each menu item, banquet hall facilities etc where they would want more than a single page.

I haven't seen anyone else say it but kicksend looks a lot like getcrate from sahil lavingia with facebook integration added to it.

90% of the email I get in my personal account is from people/startups/companies selling me stuff.

90% of the twitter stream is people pimping their wares (either blog posts or products they endorse).

90% of my facebook wall is filled with inane things.

May be the only way to be successful is to constantly sell yourself and your products.

I haven't viewed the world this way until I started friending and networking with entrepreneurs.

I keep telling myself, there has to be a better way, there has to be..

He was quite meticulous and wrote down every single account he owned, details like account number, login, password in an excel spreadsheet. It was a lot of help for her.

I worry about security of such a system. I also worry about security of online services for using such a system. I also worry if my wife would be able to locate that file.

Are there any schemes that work for you?

Also, the job growth numbers for each city look suspicious. Was there such a jump in growth rate in Jan '11?

http://www.quora.com/How-is-Color-doing-since-launch

Something about Murakami's writing style conveys great honesty.

A scrollable categories list would show different categories in a nicer way with 4 at a time and a more button to view the complete list if someone is interested.

You might have better metadata than anyone else but I didn't get it from looking at the page.

Flickr does a pretty good job of displaying other information on the side of a photo. You can do the same with your metadata http://www.flickr.com/photos/gcattiaux/2349773004/

Here are a few things I would suggest:

1. Search box at the top to search images. 2. slide show of random images front and center. 3. A call to action button to upload images. 4. scrollable or scrolling categories.

You pretty much have everything I said, but nothing stands out.

Screw business, if this happened to my clients, I would go spend a week with her, try and help restore her life back, be on the phone for her with credit agencies, police, lawyers, anyone.

Isn't that the reason why we start companies? To make lives of others better? Do you need better examples to drop your stuff and go help others?

How do talent acquisitions happen? Do they usually start with exploring partnership opportunities?