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So much love for this - nice work Watsi and Goldbely!

Left-of-field, but Tasmania (the island at the bottom of Australia) is stunning and you will not regret it. It's very much a cold climate, and home to pristine air and wilderness l…

Hey man! My startup will be in the bay area in August / Sept if you're still around to meet up. We're Aussie as well!

I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the level of encryption enabled by ODF documents? It's no secret the Australian Gov't has come under sustained hack attacks of l…

My advice - have a monetisation plan. Nut out all the potential monetization streams. But it doesn't mean to you have to implement them from the get-go - as you say, there's defini…

I like to be a contrarian with these things. The true genius ideas, to me, are those that no one was betting on. (that said, there's some good ideas here!)

Hey man! This is what my startup is working on. Travel is a ridiculously cluttered industry, yet no one's managed to nail it. (I think because they're so focused on pure monetisati…

I don't disagree, but Finnish students are subject to one OECD test at age 15, as opposed to going through a system geared around very regular, standardized tests. There's a big di…

The 'Program for International Student Assessment' is an international testing system of 15-year-old students undertaken every three years by the OECD - Finland repeatedly ranks am…

I don't think testing as a way of tracking progress should be stopped completely (what gets measured gets done, right?) But the focus on testing is too strong. In systems geared ar…

For anyone who's interested, I recommend watching the film 'Race to Nowhere' - it documents the current education system's focus on standardized tests and questions what 'success' …

Such a good question! It illustrates how for ideas to flourish they need a platform and strategy to be organized and improved upon. For example there's a great innovation tool call…

Edit: I'm thinking we could use nanotubes, with a strength-to-weight ratio 117 times greater than steel.

Microchip all guns? Or utilize nanotechnology to hook them up with a scannable barcode that can be scanned with a smartphone app? If it's not chipped, it's not legal. All police na…

Thanks for posting - it's fascinating to see the results of the KIPP program down the line! It reminds me of Finland - they have no standardized testing and less of a focus on pure…

Agreed - China has a Communist government, but with a mostly Capitalist economy. Deng Xiaoping's 1992 catchphrase - "To get rich is glorious" (致富光荣) - unleashed a wave of personal …

I can understand the motivations of those who do choose to participate...as a creative outlet, as a way to cement or learn new skills, to meet new people, and yes - it's incentiviz…

Unless a startup's highly technical, I wouldn't solely equate higher education with success - more than anything it's the behavioural skills of entrepreneurism, resilience, persuas…

The name itself doesn't describe to me what the app does, but that's not necessarily an issue if all your other brand attributes make it a clear proposition. Have you thought about…

I love this! It's one of the best pieces of startup advice I've read in a long while; I've sent it to my startup friends. New fave quote: "Determination is really two separate thin…

Amen! Thank you for highlighting this. I've been following threads such as these on HN - I'm surprised and saddened at the level of sexist (sometimes even misogynistic) comments th…

That people are even questioning the value of a person's input based on their sex is a form of subconscious discrimination. The title of this thread - 'Do female executives drive s…

Hey man! We're on the lookout. We're based in Kirribilli. We're flying under the radar at the moment so I'll email you with details :)

There are some great books which may help provide you with some structure on how to manage the team: Peopleware: Productive Projects & Teams http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Produc…