mwerty

I've never heard of this guy though I played full throttle back in the day. What were his channels for making this known? Was it only on http://www.doublefine.com/?

Do you have a link on why mongodb is bad?

I completely agree but that does not contradict my earlier definition.

It's 'fair' for the groups in the sense that each group gets to send in an equal number of people per year.

It's only an extra 3 hours by air.

That does not explain why the Indians did the same thing (I'm assuming) without arabic influence.

Not having a math degree will impact you later if you want to get into grad school in math/financial math. If you are pretty sure you are going into software, ditch the math degree.

Imagine you are a starfish.

try ms research

Deserve's Got Nothing To Do With It. - Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven.

A better strategy would be to cap your time investment to something you are comfortable with.

yeah, but it makes sense to focus on the bottlenecks.

What does that link show?

I signed up but I'm wondering, how does it make sense for you to run the site with just a small one-time fee?

try classmates.com

I think the infuriating logic goes something like this:

1. If the shareholders held a gun to my head, can I make this profitable? Answer is probably yes but for some tiny profit.

2. Do I see any other big prizes I can spend money on given I'm running a company with this skillset? Ans: Yes, but I still have lots left so what the heck.

Plus, if they return money to shareholders in dividends, its waaaay less fun.

It is: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080818/the-curious-case-of-face...

Do you know of others?

I think they mean in relation to the exit.

Why is it in YC's interest to do so?

What you say eerily reminds me of the argument Ballmer made to not buy Google in 2003 (the amount being spoken of was 10 billion - not too far there either).

My hypothesis is this: mind-share and network-effects are hard/impossible to value.

What about really real entrepreneurs?

Albert Einstein

AFAIK, everyone is free to quit and sell their shares on sharespost.com.

I worked there. It was awesome. Smartest group of people I've ever worked with. The job is more about working on cool things than shipping products.

Survivorship bias.

isn't it less work?

> a company founded to help special needs children.

Are they not after profits like we assume Mattel to be?

It is hard not to derive pride from your identity, whatever you think it to be.

Muscat could have been Dubai if they had developed their port. I don't think Dubai is in a worse place than Muscat in the long term.

The reason people see Dubai going down is the same reason people saw it go up - ambitious/optimistic development by the 'socialistic' ruler.

QB should have made it.