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I've been invited to do a talk tomorrow to a group of 15 year olds about startups. This is something I want to commit a lot of time over the coming years to do, and tomorrow is my …

That is the world wide web. You published it and anyone could save a copy of what you published (right-click, save as) at any time. This is no different surely?

Depression is not a barrier to doing a startup. Indeed, given that a large number of people (statistics vary widely as to the exact %) suffer from depression at some point in their…

Read the comment again dude. Never suggested that this (or similar) judgements are worth it. Also, I asked her, she didn't. Nor do the hundreds of thousands of other people who fal…

I liked the use of the "whack a mole" analogy. Here (for those who don't know) is how this industrial-scale counterfeiting scam works: 1. Set up OSCommerce or Magento site with des…

Over a 2-3 year period I have observed (by dint of having a frequently outranked legitimate site) probably in excess of a hundred websites run by counterfeiters (of brand name prod…

Glad it was useful. If you can teach yourself visual basic then I'd suggest that you teach yourself some programming. You are unlikely to acquire enough to do the heavy lifting on …

Couple of suggestions (take them or leave them): 1. say what your idea is. Or at least the sector / problem you are addressing. 2. say what technology set you are using. You say yo…

You can (or could) buy 'aged' hotmail address for cents - these have never been used by real users. As for captchas a quick google search will offer up a heap of solving services, …

I just meant that this deserves more than a yeah "people screw up" response.

But this isn't a moderately large company, and while it is not possible to get the full story from just one account, if one is to accept the OP's account as fact, then it is fairly…

I am a complete apple fanboy, but I still think Bill Gates is a legend. Microsoft made mistakes, but they made the PC the device that it is today, and they forced others to redefin…

Do these discount dresses come with the same rw social experience that tends to accompany bridal shopping? Glasses of champagne at (multiple) fittings, long lunches afterwards? Eve…

If you look at the numbers of a service like Dropbox (which I know is not a direct comparison, but is at least in an approximate neighbourhood), then you can see why an $1.8m inves…

According to a bank at least... Also, if you live and breathe the internet, it all is easy to forget that for a lot of people it only plays a minor role in their lives: Only 32% wo…