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I hate to interrupt and go against the flow here, but it seems that some main points have not been mentioned. First, the OP is talking about his 'business', no doubt a software and…

Drew came to PG with a lot of good work done. As is common in VC, at least for funding from YC, PG said that Drew needed a 'cofounder'. PG in his http://paulgraham.com/startupmista…

Once again: Drew came to PG with a lot of good work done. As is common in VC, at least for funding from YC, PG said that Drew needed a 'cofounder'. PG in his http://paulgraham.com/…

"Without Paul Allen Microsoft as we know it would not have existed because he named Microsoft Microsoft." So he named the company? Now you are being totally silly and showing that …

"would they have been able to without the support of the other half?" The evidence overwhelmingly, yes they would have been successful. You are correct that Gates, Jobs, and Buffet…

Sure, Woz helped get Apple started. Then with that start, Jobs had cash that helped him at Next and Pixar and back at Apple where he worked for $1 a year. So, Jobs was really the '…

Sure. Still, what I said is on target: Gates, Jobs, etc. did the big, huge growth just from their own brains. There's no good reason to believe that they could not have done all of…

You are just flatly refusing to pay any informed attention at all to history or to read what the heck I actually wrote. Take Gates: When Allen was still around, Microsoft was a sti…

Naw! A good hacker has some BIG advantages! First, he KNOWS that his code works! This is a BIGGIE because there isn't a critic in the world who can write rhetoric that will stop or…

Allen and Woz both left early on. Allen was in a plane wreck and/or got cancer or some such? Woz was gone before Jobs was at Next, Pixar, or back at Apple. I'm sure Jobs had a moth…

Even if the roulette ball drops into the slot 00, the play was still a "big risk", and so was, under the circumstances, insisting on a cofounder. That is, given how much Drew had a…

On 'the rules': Again, just a fast look at VC finances shows that VC just MUST hit 'home runs' such as Dropbox or better. Then just a fast look at the history of home runs shows th…

"They look at patterns. This is what VC does." Yup, again, they don't have effective criteria. "You have a content business." Wrong. You are misinformed. "Also, if you conduct your…

You keep assuming that my concern here is my business. It's NOT. My concern was just being clear on just what the heck VCs do. VCs are welcome to do what they want. While I have ve…

"You seem angry." The reply by tptacek discarded the point I was trying to make and claimed that I was just complaining because, according to an uninformed claim of tptacek, I was …

It would be one heck of a super sandwich for Fred Wilson to do so! Maybe if the restaurant were right there on Union Square and did lunch deliveries in the area and had some fantas…

"nuh-uh, it's super hard to get funding". I never suggested any such thing. But I WAS being critical: PG's description amounted to saying that VCs want to get on the plane only aft…

"an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model" I've read that some dozens of times from Blank. Sounds like a guy opening a pizza shop knows better …

I don't quite 'get it': So, "Could you expand on your answer a little, please". You seem to be saying that the key is "traction", significant and growing rapidly. Then it sounds li…

Well, can back that down a little! For C#, there are some advantages in using just Visual Basic .NET instead: I'm doing a startup and developing a Web site intended to be a serious…

One "pointer" would be how a graduate student proposed their Ph.D. dissertation project. There is a lot of variety here. The way I did it was (1) pick my own practical problem I br…

VCs have some VERY serious problems: Mark Suster has some graphs that show that on average over the past 10 years VC returns SUCK. Thus, a lot of venture partners won't be able to …

"Single"? I was married for years and then she died. I'm not going to get married again. "Unemployed"? I'm an entrepreneur, not an 'employee'. I've been an employee of several larg…

Their Web site has no e-mail address for contacting them. The e-mail address they used to publicize died. When calling for an e-mail address, their phone recorder is full of static…