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One of my old co-workers gave us a article about average wages/pay for my city and industry, we were all being paid below average.

They have gotten angel investments, but there haven't been any VC's yet, the industry doesn't have a lot of hype and the company has yet to prove they have a sustainable business model.

Hate is a pretty strong word, but I was never happy doing it and didn't agree with a majority of things happing at the company.

Microsoft owns 1.6% of Facebook.

Its hard to know what the right product is. I've recently moved, so I'm hoping I see something that inspires me as to what to do next.

good idea.

Thanks.

What you say is true, I need to work on the hustle of building a company, not just the marketing.

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. I should do more proofreading and editing.

As for trying to run my own company, the truth is that it's the only thing I know I want. I went into programming because I wanted to build a product that could be a company, and I got the job at the startup because I thought it would be the type of experience that would help me get my company started.

Also, I've had a few interviews for developer position but have lacked the technical knowledge and skills needed for the jobs. At almost 30 I know that a purely technical position is not what I want or what I am qualified for.

There are so many 'start-ups', everyone and their cousin has a web product/company. How can I even know what ones to try when 20 'groups' are doing the same thing?

An inovation incentive from consumers would probably work better then the current system.

I heard one reasons myspace didn't scale was because it was hard to find people who had experience scaling so large.

thanks

There needs to be more information/reasons for me to trust you.

I realize 9.5 hours isn't that long, I meet a guy from another startup who puts in 80 hour weeks.

Yeah the hours were good, however i became disillusioned about what a startup is.

I'm a bad speller true, but the improvements to the mail were mostly aesthetic.

The company was pretty small and there wasn't much information about them outside of their website. What sorts of questions could be asked at an interview to sort something like this out?

This is a good point, when I first started I had no idea what to look for, now that I've spent some time at a startup hopefully I have a much better sense of what to look for before taking my next job.

It was a small enough company that there was room for everyone to contribute to every part.

Thank you, me too.

I'm not the greatest speller.

My story certainly is one-side and there would have been lots of opportunities for my own improvements in the work I did.

I've always wanted to start my own company, and this will be my second time applying to Y-Combinator.

But I am certainly more receptive to the benefits of working at a good company where I can learn a lot.

Very nice cool site, good execution. Also impressed that this was built with ASP

That is certainly a valid point. Mostly what happens with people on facebook is that they stay on facebook. They play games, they chat, they look at pictures they stay on facebook. When you goto a movie the ads don't have websites, they have facebook pages. Facebook has created a new type of internet, a more closed siloed internet (Dave Winer reference). People used to use the internet, now they use sites.

The new layer is data locked into private site that farm content.

Its true, facebook is making a new type of internet. Its hardly about search anymore, now people search facebook for content. Social networks are a fad like anything else but they are winning now.

a new revenue stream, sweet. To bad Facebook and Bing are winning the web away.

We have never used version control before, we literally have no idea what we are doing. Any help?

Would be cool to put some sort of label on time sections. Editable ones that is.