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What's the main one advantage of Node.js over php (or ruby)?

The person has approached YOU :)

Imagine that you were approached by a kind person who offered you 100 million dollars to build something of your choice. This person is very powerful and you cannot possibly cheat,…

Seems like A/B testing for the new sites is a chicken/egg problem of its own - you first have to have users to test how to get users. For me too, Adsense was either too expensive o…

Vitamin vs painkiller is a better analogue. Consider Facebook, it isn't really a "must have", but seems to be doing just fine

And scientists. The reason I think is in the traditionally more system-oriented education.

The stats FlightCaster collects is like the stats on road accidents: if you go by route A on Ford you have a 90% probability to broke the car (and be late), so you better switch th…

The difference in pitching a VC vs. an angel is in presenting your far goals. I guess no VC will like your promise to quickly become a profitable company with few employees only an…

"The monetization model needs to at least result in a $100M revenue business growing at 20%-30% with strong EBITDA margins." - that was the stock answer to VC question

I have a feeling that YC tries to fund the companies that change how people perceive and use technology. Others are just the me-too examples. Is that the case with what you do?

Its interesting to see who they choose in the end. 20 companies is a pretty high number to get them all right. Anyway, keep going and maybe when the summer ends you will have bette…

Your team and the execution looks very good to me. But that is also the case with the rest of the applicants, I guess. Despite all that talk about ideas beign secondary to the appl…

The right way to do it is to set your price high enough and to introduce a discount. Playing the discount % up/down you can finally arrive at the best price.

-- ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC are actually completely different (even though they share the same name) -- They use dirrent rending engines, but the business logic is more important an…

Its Ok, coz the target market for the MVC Asp.Net is 2005 or ealier. Lots companies are still at dotnet 1.1 actually with the latest version 3.5

timez, timeflip, timeside, timezoo

If something just "cannot not work" then it will broke unexpectedly and will take you by surprise.

I guess the next logical step for 'other funds' is to lower the percent of equity they take and to increase the money they invest. That can make startups think twice before turning…

it is in the open now: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/22/the-nasty-exploding-ter...

As they say: strategy is all about what NOT to do

Timing is king. For MS it means that they have to adapt to new trends faster if they don't want their products abandoned. MVC is a really big step forward, something that most peop…

By itself .Net MVC is smaller than Struts, as it uses the rest of previous Asp.Net stuff. The perceived value on the other hand is big, as it totally changes the way how Asp.Net ap…

> "Ideas are priceless. If you are a programmer and you aren't "plugged" into the bubble money, a great idea is your only chance." Think about plentyoffish.com - a multimillion one…

" I suppose Google was just another me-too search engine and MS-DOS was just another copy of CP/M " I think you're wrong on both your assumptions here. Search wasn't a solved probl…

Why there were only 15 or 16 startups? Was it the initial number or have some companies not made it to the Demo Day?