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We are working on something similar in Australia - http://www.startup-australia.org/thevalley . I am moving to SV early next year. I'll try to add to the SVstartup wiki based on fe…

For books, get a Kindle. I did that 2 weeks ago. Since then I have sold or given away most of my books. It took 1 more thing away.

Summary: scale sales and marketing team with no repeatable sales model. Personal experience: learned same lesson using other people's money. CEO hired 15 marketing and 10 sales peo…

Giving upon on the idea or entrepreneurship? I am curious to learn on when should pivot and when to stick with an idea. Thx!

I find the other video about finding 'great stories' from Ira is equally interesting. It resonates well with me after running my own startup for few months. Finding 'great startup …

Hmm .. maybe this will catch Virgin attention if all of us do it? http://twitter.com/hwijaya/status/5436741226

Clickable link: http://go-test.it/hackernews

Appoint them very carefully. Understand that it feels good to have an 'advisory board' but at the end of the day, the only person who's going to get your biz off the ground is you.…

Agree here. Never see anyone find a co-founder by networking. And, probably not suggest it as well since it takes time to know if someone is a GREAT cofounder. In Australia, we had…

No. I read somewhere, median age of founders are 40. Use your experience to your advantage. Get yourself a great cofounder and start kick some ass.

Anyclip?

Watching it for first few minutes ... but feel there is not enough focus on Garry. It feels more like about TC50 and other things Jason + Mike are doing with Garry as the advertise…

As i am reading into this whole "raising money" topic recently, this is what i came across in Venture Hacks. My understanding is, shop around, but, don't say it as "shop around". U…

Apparently, i just posted this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801605

Clickable links: http://venturehacks.com/archives http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive