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I appreciate the call-out of an important omission from the article. I've learned that having a bizdev on the team is truly critical . That whacked me on the side of the head when …

Another good idea resource from PG: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html That serves as a helpful litmus test. Not falling somewhere onto that map doesn't invalidate your idea, but th…

Enjoy this phase! Idea generation can be a lot of fun. Get some books to stimulate. I've gotten a lot of mileage from "A Whack On The Side Of The Head" and "Creativity" (Csikszentm…

That's probably a rather common situation for someone getting ready to take the plunge. I'd quit my job right now if I had 50K to get off the ground. You could probably live off th…

I have that down as reason #17 for leaving your corporate job. Seriously, though -- having your prize projects locked inside corporate walls is a huge problem, a real innovation-st…

I hope MIT's next innovation will be getting the prototypical engineer's handwriting OCR'd.

That article was kind of tedious to wade through. In general, I'm in the camp of "design patterns are language band-aids". PG seems to be one of the quotables on this topic. I was …

That's great! Everyone loves this comment since so many of us are banking on it (or have lived it). It just brought to mind my reading of some interviews in "Creativty" ( http://ww…

You guys are being kind of tough on his blog. I really only see one ad (though the motion is distracting). I just spent some time reading through some of his other articles. The gu…

I'm finally starting to find LinkedIn kind of useful ( http://micahelliott.blogspot.com/2008/04/sponteneous-recomme... ), when the various features are used holistically, and profi…

Hmm, does that mean everyone who want to share their email should put it in their "about"? I just did so -- someone correct me if there's a better way to share.

That's a good question. I looked into this recently too, but haven't decided yet whether to go with "Amazon FPS" or "Google Checkout". Search on those terms and you'll get some rel…

It would have been nice to also see the numbers for Bazaar, which seems to be #3 on the list of mainstream DVCSs. I adopted hg for $HOME a few months ago, and it's working great. T…