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Thanks :)

Facebook, Youtube, Gmail (I don't get any important emails on weekends.), Reddit

yea. true. Thanks :)

"This week in startup" is missing. I like those guys.

makes sense.

look for things around you. see which things you wish there was an app for to make it easier.

Think more about how you would want software to do it.

and go for it.

Dont worry if you dont reach your goal. You will learn a lot.

Do one thing, put it on your website for a month or two and see if sales goes up. You will have your answer.

Depends. Geeks might like to email you the queries they have but other would definitely want to call and get their issues resolved quickly.

network with people.

Agree with you but why even use Phonegap, Titanium or other frameworks since they are meant to covert a web app to native app.

Developing an app is only 50%. Rest is going thru app approval process. If app isn't approved, value of that app is ZERO.

Is it not a good idea to develop a web app and make money adopt subscription model to make money. We can straight away bring down the cost by 30% which goes to Apple otherwise.

What say?

I use Evernote, Dropbox, Apple Mail, iTerm, Textmate, Tweeti and Skype the most.

There are tons on GitHub.

Yea, I do watch games but only when Trojans are playing ;)

Once you have started a project, you might feel this idea is not worth doing and you will have some other ideas. But don't change your mind. Finish what you are already building. If you leave this project incomplete and switch to another, you will never have a complete project. Instead note down all the ideas you have. Once you are done with current project, go to that list, see what you want to do next.

Evernote ?

Nothing.

There are many books for Usability, User Experience, etc. but if you are a hard core programmer, I would recommend "Designing Web Interfaces" is good for beginners and "Defensive Design For The Web".

Links: http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Interfaces-Principles-In...

http://www.amazon.com/Defensive-Design-Web-improve-messages/...

Enjoy :)

My ratings: 5/5

When I read about this movie, I thought this is something to bring down the image of Mark Zuckerberg.

After watching the movie, it seems, # of sign ups on facebook will sky rocket.

IDE: Netbeans or Aptana

Editors: Textmate on Mac GEdit on Linux Editplus on Windows

I would suggest you to find somewhere in Palo Alto area than SFO.

I would say, If you have money to pay your rent and bills for the time you need to get first version of your product out, go for it.

Also, have a good cofounder. You might have heard this many times but this is true. A good cofounder will take away some burden from your shoulders and you will keep you motivated.

If your idea works out, its good. If it doesn't, not a big deal. You will have learned alot along the period of time which will help you get better job than you would have got when you graduated.

Sorry but I have to disagree with many of the points Jessica pointed out.

Regarding consulting, How would you pay your bills when your company is not profitable. I mean, see Twitter. Their valuation is way high but they don’t make money. So the only option to pay your bills and rent is to do consulting on the side or VC money (which I personally don’t believe in).

During school you have time to network, take advice from your professors (many of them are entrepreneurs themselves), and you have enough time to learn if your idea will work or not. I don’t say you will have tons of time to build a facebook while in school but you can build a prototype (version 0.1) and see if that will work.

I really like this idea “Join an early stage accelerator program like YCombinator or TechStars” because here you meet people who are also in the same state of mind as you are. You meet good mentors (probably best in industry). You get enough money to rent apartment. These programs are best for fresh college graduates. Try for 6 months. If it works, it excellent. if it doesn’t, no big deal. You learned something.

+1

Be Good != Be Good Technically.

You should be good at what your business is going to be.

Wanting to be your own boss is 100% enough to start a business. But not to start a Successful Business.

If you don't know what you are going to do and you just start because you want to start. Chances are more that you will fail.

Some people give an excuse, failure is necessary for success. Total BS. Crap.

Those people misinterpret the saying.

If you want to start a business of Restaurant, you should know what is the job of a Dish Washer.

Impressed. 100% agree with you.

When you feel, you want to work for yourself.

Kill Yahoo Messenger (there are more bots than users there).

Google doesn't have API for URL shortner. Do they? Also, I doubt if applications already using bit.ly will switch to Google's one soon.

Thanks :)

I read about Threadless. Though not a technology company, I was impressed but their story.