good point man, that was getting me confused too
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Netscape Time - Jim Clark (very educational for those interested in startups, good piece of Internet history, interesting insights to the culture of the first Internet companies)
How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie (found it through YC recommendations, THANK YOU. one of the best educational books I have ever read, it will teach you how to make friends, be a good leader, get along at home, encourage people, make them follow you and so much more...)
Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston (I found it relevant to what I am doing, good lessons, and interesting insights)
Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher, William L. Ury (teaches you how to negotiate and how to get the best out of each situation for yourself and the other part, will be useful both at work and personal life, a bit dry)
Winning - Jack Welch (great advices on leadership, might be more useful to someone that is running a big company)
Leadership Is an Art - Max Depree (great leadership advices, it will give you the right mindset of how to be a great leader)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell), Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), Interpreting Your Dreams(Freud)
and for everyone else even slower pdfs uhhhhhhhh
- karma whore: not really a nice way to talk to people, specially when its a tight community like here, kyro (but maybe thats why you don't disclose your real name and email here)! if you spend some time on this site then you would know its a lot easier to gain karma points here than what you think. I could simply push any of my articles that are submitted to the first page, or write something up that would gain me a lot more points than you would think. ( Also, my understanding was that just submitting a URL will not get you points, but thats besides the point.)
- after looking at your submissions it seems like you operate more like a leech than a true contributor. Most of your submissions appear to be self-centered, and will only benefit you. We are not here to help you on your textbook problems, finding you a partner or other stuff.
- if you think submitting links will get you more karma then you don't appear to be that smart! you should know there are easier ways to do it!!!
- FYI: the same exact story was not posted 30 min ago, its not even possible to do that with the same URL, you should know that. But if you mean similar coverage then its a different story. I have read them, but this was the one that was covering it live. Also I thought some of the comments on TC were interesting.
- I do post out of genuine intention to contribute. I actually believe I have posted many interesting articles, (some of which have even gone unnoticed). Also most of my Karma is coming from my comments, which are usually a lot lengthier than the average comments on the site
- you are right I have received a lot of karma for the past 18 days, reason being is how active I have been! I guess if you have been as engaged as me (and not as selfcentered as you are) you would have had thousands of points right now.
And to be honest I am not sure if it is a good idea to go really customized based on my preferences, since I really think there might be stuff that I should know about, but I just have no idea what they are and someone or something needs to point them out to me. But to be customized at a more general level, would in fact give you what the current sites are (but are doing a somewhat poor job at it as we mentioned). For instance, you come here for startup and hacker news, and you go to techmeme for tech, and you could find yourself on reddit for politics and so on. So to some extend they are customized, since they are more focused, but not so focused.
Its all about filtering the noise, but thats very subjective, as any news on Paris Hilton might be noise to me but must read for someone else!
techmeme, reddit, digg and others are all great as long as we can prevent users from cheating the system ... they kind of remind me of Yahoo and other search engines in the early days which had very simple ways of ordering the search results (and many took advantage and got better rankings for their sites), and then came about the more complicated Google ranking with much improved results (yes there exist SEO but half of SEO is to improve your site as well, and you don't really get on top of the list really easily)
I think as time goes by someone will find a way to make it harder for people to cheat the system and give news that is more relevant
also it happens a lot that I find something interesting, but couldn't ever find it based on my past history or interests (like some stuff I find here at hacker news)...
also there might be some important news for the day which I want to know about but is not necessarily what I always read about... for instance Amazon introduced Kindle today, I might have not been interested in ebooks before, but I would like to know about it, as it is the talk of the day!
so I guess the final solution might be a combination of all these, my previous history, what other people talk about (techmeme), what other people with more common interests as mine find interesting (hackers news), what the "wisdom of crowd" chooses for me (reddit, digg) ... and what some of the people I find interesting are talking about (my RSS reader)
but I guess if anyone can find the best solution here, they are in for a good ride and big $s
thats interesting!!!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_s3_exceeds_9999_...
1- you raise money from an idiot, i.e. someone that really doesn't know what they are doing. You are always better off not doing that no matter how much they give you
2- you can prove the idea will work, and you can gain the trust of the investor in you and your team. In this case you might be able to convince a good VC to invest in the company but you will then have to give up the majority of your shares in the company
If the market is in fact not that big, why would you have to raise so much money! do you think its reasonable! And if no VC out there can tell how big this market really is or how good the potentials of this business (which is already making money, a rare case!) then maybe there is something theyoungceo can't see, and maybe its really not as big as s/he thinks it is
Anyways, I have a feeling this post is a bit about possibly finding some potential investors rather than getting advice. Which is fair, but not sure if these advices are really what the theyoungceo is looking for.
Also why is the name of the company not mentioned? (specially that the company is already out there and doing business!)
this was pg's response: "... I have no idea how big the market is in dollars. It's not worth thinking too much about anyway. Startups evolve. It's enough to start with something you know people need."
also if you mean built on CMS out of the box, I don't either, and you will have to customize it in order to make something useful, but the point is that with RoR you have to pretty much build from scratch whereas with other CMS like Drupal you already have many functionalities included in the core and you don't have to really reinvent many things, you just customize or add the ones you want
but I can tell you when you do let it go and move on, you will feel a lot better about yourself, and the whole experience, you will realize how much you have learned. You should also realize that nothing is more valuable than your time, so the sooner you can let it go the more time you have wasted on it, and the less of a failure it will be.
Mark Cuban said it once, that you only have to be right in your life once and thats it, it is irrelevant how many times you have failed before it. I have taken this to heart and think of it everyday.
so get out there and try again (and again and again if needed..) you'll get it right one day, and thats all the assurance that you need
I guess in theory as long as you are not making the world a worst place, you must be adding values either directly or indirectly. If your company is successful then it must be satisfying a need, and that need could balance things out in the world, and either directly or indirectly make the world a better place. So in a way many of us are making the world a better place.
But if you ask how important is it to your startup to make the world a better place, or how much emphasis you give it, or is that one of your main goals, then you would probably find some interesting results, and I guess a lot of NOs (if people are honest!)
- It does not offer an out of box solution to allow authenticated users to create content forming pages as part of a Web site. It offers you a web app framework and you could build upon it your custom CMS from scratch (and it will take you longer to do so)
- but there is a nice binding to the database through the framework
- at the time stability was a bit of an issue!
with all that said there are great applications built upon it such as 37Signals Base Camp
In general whichever framework you would like to use, will have its own learning curve. Once you overcome that, it should be pretty easy and fast to start working. I think there are some obvious advantages in using a framework:
1- you don't have to reinvent a lot of the stuff
2- the solutions offered to you have passed all their tests as there are many people checking upon them, and many sites already using them
3- if you have a couple of ideas and are thinking of launching all, I think once you finish your first project you will see a huge advantage starting the other ones, and you will move a lot faster
at the end if you pick the right framework, that will satisfy your current needs (the features and options you like to offer) and future needs (such as scalability), you will feel like you are working with a huge group of developers on your site. Its kind of like you have hired other developers and formed a team for yourself.
Also make sure that the framework you pick will have a strong community as it will come handy.
You should make a list of your requirements and make a chart of the frameworks and which ones satisfy what. And in general I would take the following into consideration when choosing a framework (depending on your needs you could add to this list)
- Ease to install - Learning Curve - User Control - Session Control - Extensibility - Scalability - Themability - xHTML/CSS
just a side note for fun
Paris Hilton is a marketing genius ...
her stake in the Hilton hotels is worth just under 30mil in total
she makes over 20mil annually just by selling her own products, and using her name
she is not the only rich girl out there, but she def is the most successful one no matter how much you like her or hate her
and she does have a huge target market and does a great job at satisfying them
also: it won't be hard for you to prove pg is wrong, just sign your name and leave a link to yourself on your profile... but I wonder if you'll do that?
I think you should give the best answer to this question NOW, the one you say that takes 3500 days... I also hope that the first answer given by slashcom is not in fact the best answer (as you said it yourself) and you didn't just waste everyone's time for nothing ...even if its 5 min of everyone's time, it adds up to a lot of time and its not ethical...
the reason I am posting this is because this post is almost out of the news and it already seems to be forgotten ... I would be pretty pissed if I had spent more time like other users such as curi and everyone else that tried to solve your problem...