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I think that getting qualified mentors to commit time to the project will provide more value than funding.

just curious. An incubator in my city has a program to send local startups to Plug & Play for a few months. I considered it the only good thing they did, what's wrong with it?

I like the video, who made it?

This should be way more targeted. I suggest they show trending topics in the users' social graph. (1 person or 2 persons away)

The problem is that a new product should iterate on its design fairly often, which requires a little bit of design-skills. You should mockup the user experience before you go to a …

yes. The way I see it, the only way to have sustained positive impact on the world is to allow humans to be more human and entangle it in the worlds economic system so it remains i…

Well, that explains your lousy high-school teacher... The only metric we employ in our schools to measure teachers' performance is a. do they fit in and b. can they keep their clas…

you're failing until other people suddenly start to refer to you as successful

exactly. also, social norms don't blend well with market norms... nobody (sane) is going to pay to talk to their friends.

What is the advantage of this library over MDP? ( http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/index.html )

Would it still be productive when the 5th day is a company-wide hackathon?

start a corporate shell in the UK? (or some other cheap place)

finally! an accelerator that is friendly to graduating students...

Groupthink is not a situation where all members agree. Groupthink is a situation where members of a group self-censor their (critical) opinions in fear of retribution or loss of es…

I would have done this a long time ago if my country wouldn't levy taxes on companies that aren't active (dormant). I hadn't considered incorporating abroad seriously until now. Ar…

probably the same issue that Belgium has, banks with a lot of PIGS-bonds.

I'm surprised by the anti-world bank sentiment here. You should read 'The Bottom Billion', which was written by the director of the Development Research Group at the World bank (20…

The person cited to support the 'ignore the competition' argument hasn't launched his product yet... Why should I even consider advice from such a person?

I heard Greece could use some money

yes, but these aspects are 'post-idea' Most don't have ideas yet, although there is an active effort from the university to match CS students without ideas with academics from non-…

I'm a student in a non-entrepreneurial college and I would like to invite several speakers over the course of this year to my university. A lot of my classmates have interest in bu…