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Good luck on the new venture!

Another way is to have an array of functions and just loop||recurse through them. This gives the illusion of serial execution.

There are actually a number of other ways to get around the function nesting issue as well.

For now. If you reach out directly, they should be able to help you. There are a good number of east coast students (and from elsewhere) already in the system.

Please use InternMatch to find interns. They will guarantee that you find a good one.

http://keynotopia.com/ is ftw. Super cheap, works on most devices, and when exported to PDF... the links (aka interaction) is maintained.

+1 for reliable internet. One dinky router is not enough to satisfy 200 hackers. I've been to half a dozen with internet issues and it destroys productivity. Even with iPhone tethering, if we had 200 tetherers the cross-interference would make it just as bad.

In addition to internet though, do not forget adequate power - electricity.

FYI, it is only the first chunk you get upon signup AND it stops being free after 4-5 weeks. It wasn't explicitly clear on the landing page.

Haha, a day after I said, not really, we did get that wave of emails/phone calls. Thanks for the warning!

Ohai Niket! Glad you made it :D. When do you guys start?

Try to make friends with founders whose products you like who happen to be in say the 500Startups portfolio. You're not the only one in this position.

The founders of Bee-Shopy moved from Spain to be a part of 500Startups. Use their product, help them get users, give constructive criticism - just be helpful & build rapport. Then, tell them your story.

Depends on your actual situation. In around 2004, Amazon was about to launch S3 until Bezos sent the team back to the drawing board because their current architecture would eventually hit a wall. Three years later, it finally launched. Big design up front paid off in their case as they've surpassed that "wall" many times over.

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Nevermind >_>, now there are 12 :D. The program runs 3 months with an option to extend another 3 months (if your demo fails). I think the acceptance process is rolling.

This current round is not officially over AFAIK. Dave wants around 10 accelerator companies in this batch.

Not yet. But probably soon. Right now it is our friends who want intros.

Yeah, not really a good comparison. There are a good number of YC companies in the 500Startups portfolio/mafia.

What I liked about the current process is that networking and pitching became a way to practice and learn more about that process - which will be extremely useful in later rounds.

There is a strict $1MM cap for accelerator companies.

If anyone has questions about what it is like in the prgram, I would be happy to answer.

For example, a common question is... how does one apply. There are some misleading answers on the internet right now but the official answer is you don't. It is a lot like typical angel/VCs, you have to network and come in via some mutual connection.

The mentorship and talks so far have been AMAZINGLY valuable. The 500Startups team has explicitly asked founders in the program to be vocal and outgoing about the program. So ask me anything :D

Is there a place I can go to find out more information like this?

My guess is he meant 1 master & 4 workers.

Not to mention the completely open source alternatives like http://getbeehive.com (which has been adapted to use Node.js already).

But on the other hand, Heroku doesn't solve every problem - here's hoping there is more room in the market!

Besides, one could argue that Google, Heroku, etc also sounded 'me-too'-ish.

I think we sat next to each other during the latter half of the event. Hehe, can't wait to see what you make next ;-).

I recommended Zerigo to a bunch of my friends, we all have been incredibly happy with it thus far. The web2.0 website is great, the API is excellent compared to what we'd been using previously and super fast TTLs/updates = super helpful.

Having more MongoDB-specific technical info might be a call-to-arms for other MongoDBAs who might offer their ideas/thoughts. You could also use that as a hiring/scouting opportunity.

Does 4sq have an engineering blog?

What kind of projects would you be most interested in? We're open-sourcing RetroCrawl (http://retrocrawl.com) if you might be interested. I know Prenup (http://github.com/nodejitsu/prenup) will probably want help but they're not directly advertising. Lots of nodeknockout.com entries will probably want help.

http://me-and-my-sherpa-from-mit.no.de/ also uses socket.io

Sounds right, we watched the video and Schell actually says social games "probably" make more money from lead generation. Thanks for the links, Teej. I was really curious about that.

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They're probably running 1+ Mongod process/node per core - not exactly ideal though.