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It really depends on the case at hands, sometimes it's more practical to scale up, especially if there is no indefinite grows anticipated.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scali...

Not really. Facebook and other social sites nowadays all rely on one true personal identity. On forums on the other hand you can be whatever, multiple times, and have a discussion with yourself (even a meaningful one).

I also thought the same thing. A glass can be half full or half empty, depending on your attitude.

Is it at all legal for Amazon to selectively disable it's services for no real reason? I'm surprised that it looks like this.

Use this to be safe: "a multi-user, on-demand, sharded relational database"

I agree with @cynicalmood that if you don't know what it takes to pull this thing through, don't trick the users into believing you're have got solid plans. Experimenting is always fine as long as everybody involved is on the same page.

Is this the new era for start-ups with investments becoming a real commodity? Interesting times indeed.

Did you try Productivity Power Tools with Tab Well UI?

We have special terms for different family members, like mother-in-law. Why not keep it straight - equal sex partner should be just that: partner. And children should be not made believe their father (mother) didn't exist.

Also, if three people get together, shall they be allowed to marry each other?

Seedcamp's missing

SustainedLowLatency is a killer for many types of scenarios. One is when you create many objects that you don't intent to GC throughout the life of the app, dictionaries for example.

Memory is cheap, being able to use it to increase performance of a managed app makes me really excited with how c# can be used in apps typically written in C++

"Upload pitch" isn't working for me in Chrome. I think you can benefit by simply providing a link on top of page for the start-ups to apply.

There is a difference when YC wants you to live in SV for YOUR success and other accelerators wanting you to live somewhere for THEIR benefit, right?

The capital used to be in Bonn. Berlin was separated by the Berlin Wall for about 45 years so it's still in the process of resurrection.

I think the selling point here is ability to find tech talent and meet investors and prospective customers. For the moment money are in the UK, but all things considered they can move to Germany. And the action will follow along.

"HackFwd takes 27% equity in exchange ..."

And it's pre-seed money. Thanks but no thanks.

In the UK there is no consent among the investors where the action should go. I was quite surprised to learn than basically every credible accelerator has it's own view of where my start-up should be based.

Oxygen - Birmingham

Ignite100 - New Castle

Seedcamp - London

I get their desire to improve local culture but hey this is just ridiculous to ask me to settle somewhere because you gave me some money. Also, start-ups thrive in a tech-savvy areas only.

This all adds to the problem and Berlin has all the odds to become the answer.

The second one - even before the first one - is MySpace :)

Can somebody more experienced in the matter attest there are no seed money in the UK? I was under impression that Launch48, Seedcamp and others do a great job here.

indeed, kids are good at adapting ... the only thing that saddens me when I have to miss them is that I won't get this opportunity again to see them at this particular moment of their life.

giving them just 5 mins a day ... what a miserable dad would I be.

He started off as a developer and worked his way up to create a company and become the CEO. Why on earth should he had been versed in the things other than development? And isn't it unfair to pretend changing the world when all you want is to work for yourself, which is Ok?

While there are no kids that ask their mom "where's daddy?" - meaning you - there is little to worry about.

I totally wasted several years of my youth and that was the best time ever. And this guy was creating something, so +1 for that.

How about this attempt to be nicely critical and help the guy out: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed...

I wouldn't call it a solid advice. Others on the thread have already noted that the problem isn't really in not driving the conversation. It's how you differentiate and make it easy to grasp what you do. I find both advices in the end of OP blog post to be misleading.

There are nice exceptions, nginx is the most prominent one in the open source space. Nonetheless, the SV dream is just a PR.

If you're so keep on giving a different meaning to already defined standard why not use some other abbreviation, say MRC (R for Representation)

Good points. Will be great to summ-up all possible drawbacks and make a comparison table for all interesting incubators. What are other bad factors worth considering?

ADD: the biggest drawback I can think of is requiring to have a co-founder when sole founder would do just fine.

The OP doesn't really say how startups get hurt. I didn't went through any incubator but I'm planning to.

From my point of view there are definitely bad incubators out there - the ones that get started by random people which the OP mentions - but these are no brainer: if you part with your equity for their pitch you don't deserve to be an entrepreneur anyway.

There are also top-notch ones - YC the hottest one - these are no brainer too.

And finally there are about a dozen of in-between. And that's where it stops being black-n-white. There might be some benefits in going through their programme, it just all unpredictable. You get different experience being in a different bunch, but still, I have no idea how it could "hurt" a startup if they get 3 month pay and advance their idea.

Incubators are just like street market. There are overcrowded spots where there is always something going on, and there are spots that no one visits. Be in the right spot and you get piece of action.

Good incubators won't let you to code with one focus. They will shift your attention sideways so that you might discover new opportunities and validate your vision. Often it leads to abandoning the original idea completely.