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It may be a good idea to have a weekly/monthly contest for the best startup pitches, and get some judges to evaluate the ideas/bus plans, and give some sort of award - maybe mentor…

While this is incredibly embarrassing for Sony, as it exposes gross incompetence, can someone explain why the FBI/law enforcement is not able to shutdown the hackers by filing crim…

The success of Airbnb and many others like it raises the interesting question - How many other billion dollar ideas, never got off the ground because investors thought they were aw…

Airbnb joins a long line of startups that became big in spite of initial rejection. In fact, it almost seems that a necessary - though not sufficient condition that your idea maybe…

Totally agree. Ultimately the only test for your startup idea is market acceptance and resonance - and experience repeatedly shows that no amount of prior experience and knowledge …

"Entrepreneurship is like science in that experiment is the sole judge of truth." - well said!

In a startup, most of the time you do not even know what the variables are that can affect the outcome; so you have to guess and hope for the best. The learning comes from examinin…

A startup is like a science experiment because its product design is a hypothesis about its market and its product is the experiment to test that hypothesis. And you the entreprene…

I really do not buy the oft repeated maxim that ideas are cheap. I think one reason for this thinking is because unless an idea is converted to an actual product there is no way to…

Every product a startup creates is really an experiment that test a particular hypothesis about the market - just like a science experiment.

Read this book by Will Durant : The Story of Philosophy. Considered a classic and one of the best introductions to philosophy See : http://www.amazon.com/Story-Philosophy-Opinions-…

While one specific benchmark may not sway your decision on which programming language to use for your own projects, it should certainly be a factor when designing a large web appli…

Surprised that LISP is 20x faster than PHP or Perl in this benchmark (median times). It is even faster than Python and of course Ruby.

Just checked themoviedb.org - but it does not seem like it has a lot of data. How many movies does it have and is it comparable to imdb in size?

Would you be interested in working with me on a couple of Twitter related projects? Currently outsourcing on ODesk, but can definitely consider using you. Let me know!

Elance is a bit harder - since they charge for premium placements to appear in search. Have you tried Odesk, Rentacoder (and a few more sites). Or even Fiverr seriously. The key is…

There are literally hundreds of ways for someone with programming skills to earn money online - and make more money than hourly wages. Here are just a few to get you started: 1) Se…