chadp

Visit, travel, spend time or move there to get to know it.

Why not just hire a technical team to build your vision? You don't need a "technical co-founder".

If you can convey your vision, hire and manage tech teams you don't need to "date co-founders". Dating co-founders to find the right one sounds like an utter waste of time and energy.

I thought the article was useless. The only thing that would have been interesting is how (or if) polyphasic naps can replace hours of one's core sleep.

Uberman is too extreme to keep up, no one has done it for long periods yet. The Everyman with a core sleep of 3-4.5 hrs a day with 2-3 15 minute naps is much more interesting.

this is the way things should actually work in our western countries too.

Even if American jobs went to other countries they wouldn't have been "stolen" by outsourcing.

The market (for anything) is global now and other countries have smartened up and trained workers in CS fields and can offer their skills at a lower rate. It is called arbitrage.

Sovereign boundaries are meaningless in a true global market place. The western countries have to adapt and change or our lunch will be eaten. Protectionism won't help either.

I can't understand why people would actually want a US passport.

I got through 1 min and feel I lost one minute of my life. How annoying.

Someone should make an app for jailbroken phones to disable this location logging (or delete it regularly).. many would likely pay for it!

Not surprising at all. Expected actually.

Or smart people don't use facebook.

Switzerland has been seizing assets lately though. For example, they recently seized Gaddafi's assets there.

native apps will dominate for the foreseen future. it is easier to buy an app on itunes and then click that desktop icon when you need it, than to fire up a browser, browse the mobile internet and type / remember URLs.

apps are just easier for mass market users.

It is not up to twitter to be able to "ignore China". China has blocked twitter and give sina weibo a head start and has hundreds of millions of users already.

It is the opposite, China has blocked out and ignored twitter.

If you have a lot of offers all in the same range, wouldn't that be the market price?

It is not a bribe, they are taking an equity stake.

"The maximum support available is €50,000 for a 10% ordinary equity stake in the start-up company. "

haha. . does it start with a 4 by any chance ;)

Bugatti Veyron

Sarah Palin said today that he should be hunted down like Osama bin laden.

Family and health.

- medical advances add 40 years to our lives (maybe) so we can live to 120 - use polyphasic sleeping to sleep 4 hrs a day - for the next 80 years (for a 40 year old man) - and gain another 20 years in awake time so in effect you may be able to live 140 years! Cool.

Disappearance of facebook would affect me less than zero. Like throwing away a pair of socks with holes in them.

I could not work or live without email however.

Easy to defend? Rubbish. One intercontinental ballistic missile would decimate their floating platform "settlements".

They are sitting ducks, one well armed rogue pirate ship could finish them.

My email is fine and with my spam filter, only the good messages get through.

Also, business communication in every corner of this earth relies on email. That is not going to be going away any time soon.

The younger generation will have to use email when they get jobs.

Why not just delete your email accounts from the phone?

Not mobile web. Native mobile apps.

Mobile web will also be important soon too though.

Depends if you want to make use of a different UI for iPad AND make both of them excellent.

Yes, you will need at least a FTE for each device. 1 x iphone, 1 x ipad, 1 x android, 1 x android tablet.

Then if you start talking about blackberry, symbian, palm, etc. you start to look at a team of around 10 just to provide mobile access.

Not good, nor bad I think. Just the way it is.

HTML5 apps that outperform native mobile apps is not coming soon. Native apps are here to stay for 5+ years.

I get your point that all founders are, or should be rounding their skills out to "wear more hats".

But saying the business founder "is dead" almost doesn't warrant a comment it is so silly.

So, I am a business founder with $$, an idea and a vision. Think I will be learning wordpress? to code or anything? remotely technical? Nope. I will hire a smart, experienced and efficient team to build my vision.

about time someone in the press admitted to these LBS' (current) uselessness.

Potential for being big businesses (which is exciting for the companies) but personally useless for me at the moment.

I assumed the OP was the owner of the site!!