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Even that Mark had two cofounders: Chris and Dustin. And they were all roommates.

I'm aware of what they are (and in fact have one myself), but my point was that they're distinct from Ph.D.'s (so the title is misleading), and they can span across a broad spectrum of fields.

It seems that there's some kind of happy medium to be struck here. If you want to learn how to code, great, and it's something good to know if you want to work on a startup regardless.

Yet it's unlikely you're going to master a given language within a few months, so there may still be room to seek out someone who has had experience with it for a long time.

tl;dr Learn how to code, but there's still a time to work with longstanding hackers.

"[T]here are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s, other doctorates, or professional degrees."

Not clear what "professional" degrees they're referring to here, so doesn't sound like it's just Ph.D.'s. (MBAs, JDs, MFAs, MPHs?)

Unfortunately I can envision quite a few things that users may not want to be fully public (relationship status, family situation, sexual orientation) that would also be quite useful to advertisers.

Right, but the point is you'd be donating to a literary festival: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104085200/page-turner-a...

See this for highlights from the list: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/20/apple-posts-guidelines-for-ma...

The title was on the basis of this part of the article "If an app even exhibits a bug, it will be rejected -- does Apple know how many apps, open-source or otherwise, have bugs?"

The point that this could make FOSS especially vulnerable, although am open to discussion otherwise.

What happens when Apple "curates" it such that apps of a political nature are no longer allowed? Or apps that compete with their own?

EDIT: (1) There is a risk that the vast majority of the population (non-geeks), will increasingly rely on the store to get apps, so smaller innovators/FOSS projects will not have the same exposure as others if rejected. (Think the Microsoft antitrust issue with the preinstallation of IE on Windows. People could still get Netscape elsewhere.) (2) This could also be a first step, much like the iPhone/iOS app store, in Apple being the arbiter of all apps that are allowed on Mac OS X.

As for resources, have heard about this organization dedicated to helping lgbt entrepreneurs: http://startout.org.

This post is insightful: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/23/dividing-equity-between-founder....

At the early stage, people tend to overvalue past contributions, and undervalue future contributions. Equity grants should be for a person's expected value over the next four years.

I have seen time and time again friends trying to innovate in the music space getting screwed over due to the monopoly powers granted via copyright. When there are 4 record labels that are able to act in tandem and that together hold the rights to 90% of the music released on labels in the US, they are bound to hold people back.

Artists don't have to sign away their rights to labels, but unfortunately that has not changed at the pace that many had hoped it would. The real innovation needed here is a way for artists to be able to go it alone and break away from the control of the labels.

Sigh, you'd think a nation that overturned a patent on a genetically-modified mouse would reject something as obvious and non-novel as the 1-click patent.