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Rockstar energy drinks- it's like my coffee for the day.

After morning work out meal: protein shake blended with bananna, blueberry, and flax seed oil

Supplements: Multivitamin gummies

Breakfast: Kashi + rockstar

Lunch: I usually eat out- Subways, Thai, greek, sushi, Indian whatever my co workers and I feel like.

then afternoon Rockstar drink

Afternoon snack-power bar

Dinner- Some greens, lean meat, protein shake, and fiber drink.

I try to eat health throughout the week, but on weekends I usually eat mexican food.

Lunch and Dinner with friends just keeps me sane. I work so hard and intense during the work day that meals with friends is a great change of pace and keeps me from burning out.

Microsoft is not in trouble yet. They still make huge amounts of cash so they can keep trying to gain share in these "disruptive" markets. Though they have failed time and again they have the money to keep trying and they just need to be successful once and that cash and brand can solidify their postion.

I would somewhat agree. In Asian culture losing face is probably the biggest social fear there is. Americans for the most part don't have this fear. Americans love the comeback story, the rags to riches, etc. We also have government incentives in place that encourage you to keep trying even if you failed.

carlos is correct. An example of this is how America deals with developing countries that they are trying to rebuild.

Countries that are addicted to American "financial" aid don't go anywhere, but countries that create an environment, enforcable rule sets and standards that attracts foregin direct investment from businesses around the world prosper and raise their standard of living.

Charity is a bandaide and not a solution. Constant free aid kills inniative, inntiative creates economic prosperity, wealth, etc.

What sets America apart is we welcome innovative thinking and fund it more than any other country.

We have private and public institutions that put down the momey for these people.

This creates organic innovation, but also attracts the best minds to our country, who later turn into citizens.

Doing something you love to do, something that gets you excited to wake up everyday, with all your necessity needs taken care of (money, home, a wife, etc)

isn't the argument like the gun argument, guns don't kill people, people kill people.

The internet was not the problem it was person who immorally used it.

I have facebook and don't really care for my account I am too busy to use facebook and don't have time to read about my friends status updates.

Honestly if you are a serious business man you don't have time for facebook.

I think idea generation/ creativity is a competitve advantgage because it is a skill that a lot of people don't have and it is essentially the ability to create "possible" new value.

But as people mentioned they worthless if you do not execute.

I come up with good ideas all the time becasue I am naturally curious on how things work and love to solve problems. It is psychologically rewarding to me to solve complex problems and coming up with ideas and being correct. So if you are natually curious and can critically think you should be coming up with a lot of ideas.

You look really pretty and you know unix. I would definitely hire you.

Information in social networks are so valuable.The information can be used to generate targeted ads to the user or better search results. Everything in the facebook world can be tracked and mined to generate some relevant information on you. Based on that they can generate a targeted ad platform, identify who the opinion leaders are in your social network, etc.

That is why google wants to create a popular social network or wants facebook's data. Google is in the business of targeted ads, facebook is as well.

Facebook alone with that data and a platform to utillize it is worth billions. Soon they will get it right.

That being said, sometimes walled gardens are good, because if facebook didn't protect this data a competitor will use it and take away the facebook's money making opportunity.

damn i didn't know people hated larry ellison so much. He did have a rough upbringing and didn't have the advatages Bill Gates had and founded one of the most successful technology companies in the world.

How can anyone deny that he is a Silicon Valley hero and success story. He is going to save Sun.

larry ellison is a true silicon valley hero and success story.

Will this be a new hacker news meme or something? Being bored or current search tool on site is slow so I built (Insert Name) Instant.

I don't get why this is being down voted, but i don't care. It will happen just wait.

I think this is a natural step that youtube should be taking and I would say good bye to most of the online streaming sites.

I don't think youtube will open up the live stream feature to the masses, where anyone can live stream, like ustream or JTV because their infrastructure can't handle it and honestly most of the stuff regular people produce are horrible and a waste of resources.

They will in the short run offer live streaming to content partners and special people (celebrities) that produce content that people actually want to watch and has production value.

Ustream is known for having celebrities on their platforms, but once Youtube live stream platform comes out they will be gone. No celebrity will be able to resist the amount of eyeballs that youtube can bring and the switching cost is very low. It would be safe to say that people who have Ustream accounts also have Youtube accounts and Ustream hasn't signed any exclusive deals with celebrities.

Youtube will be the distribution platform of the premium live streaming content and the rest will be for the low brow stuff and illegal content.

I would go to college for the connections. Go to college with a good CS and business network, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc.

Be friends with your professors especially. They can open doors for you.

This is why facebook is worth billions. They can mine so much social data and deliver targeted ads to the proper influencers.

It is pretty sad that this exists and there is demand for it. Anyways if it shows great numbers I am pretty sure there will be similar businesses all throughout Asia.

I can't help but think of the potential in China with their lack of porn access and a huge mismatch between the number of women and men.

I would honestly look at your idea from a strategic and straight business perspective. Can you create something or have the secret sauce that is defensible and hard to copy from competitors? If your isound.com provides something that is a great product market fit and a secret sauce that is defensible I would stick with the product. But make sure the business is covered in terms of there is a real need and people are willing to pay for it. Distribution is very important. Most internet companies fail because of lack of distribution and people just don't know you exist. So if you have a killer product, business fundamentals look good, and you just need to put more effort in marketing and distribution then I would totally continue.

2. Pivot is a hard question because you need to know your customer. I would say totally question and understand what the customers need is and if your product meets well and do the same thing with information that you gathered that tells you that you shohuld pivot it. Basically question your product market fit and information that you have to prove it. Ask why 5 times in row.

you shouldn't care about the statistics of single founder success rates.

If you have an absolutely dynamite, compelling idea and can communicate it your business will get funded.

Investors do not discriminate against you just because you are solo. If your idea is good and you are solo they might play the entrepreneur match making game and introduce you to people that can assisst you.

I think coal will last us for a while and we should over time be diversify our energy sources. Which America is looking to do more now. For instance, some of the power generated from coal should be generated with nuclear, solar, etc. This should bring down the rate of coal consumption and allow us to extend our usage of coal in producing energy for a longer period of time.

So I think energy diversification is the key.

Also, I think nuclear is a great alternative to coal,but for it to be a global option there has to be a lot of stuff done foreign policy wise and in the global security space.

I think facebook will make billions on this. Basically facebook will have the ability to track all your interactions in the facebook environment and develop good intelligence of your consumer preferences.

Facebook will then create a targeted ad platform that utilizes this intelligence. Advertisers will pay good money for better targeting.

Targeted online ad market is huge.

This is facebooks way of delivering targeted ads vs googles targeted ad method, of pairing ads with search terms.

The competitive advantage facebook has is that it's hard for a competitor to copy and replicate the same ad network and get the same amount of consumer intellligence. The competitor in essence has to create a hugely successful and popular social network and get people to interact/ share a lot on it before they can even think of competing with facebook.

Facebook wants you to share and connect with people because the more you do the more information they can use.

Facebook is sitting on a goldmine.

my parents were middle class, but when I first got a computer my parents were lower middle class and my dad just got his first engineering job.

I think it is either social class or your parents worked in tech and wanted you to learn about it.

I think the best way to make money blogging NOW is to get a lot of readers and become an expert around a specific topic. Then go around and get paid for speaking engagements.

I agree. I actually now take notes with my live scribe pen while reading books and record myself giving commentary around important poiints. I go over the notes when I have free time. It seems that I retain a lot more when I do this.

People are usually the highest cost for most companies. Reddit for sure needs admins, developers, sales, marketing, etc.

This will totally help fight enemies in the 4th generation warfare. When the cost of these drones fall and can be equipped with infrared cameras we can keep eyes on the battle field constantly.

We can see enemies moving and hiding in the battlefield, gain intelligence and take them out.

This can lower american casualties.