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yes, with money that was formerly reserved for a downpayment on a house. Just did a pitch practice at the Vegas Jelly and got great feedback from the VegasTech community too. We ar…

same boat - 3 liberal art degrees...from an engineering school.... sigh... 1 year into my project I have a back end developer, designer, graphic artist, illustrator and startup law…

My comment on a Techcrunch article awhile back sparks a new article and debate. Is technology really a zero sum game? I still say no...but it seems we're mostly arguing semantics.

112F feels great.... in the pool. That said, NY is really hot in the summer and really cold in the winter. I've been to SF and the weather seems too cold and gloomy (50 and overcas…

I would consider having design skills as a technical skill. Try doing a tech startup with a liberal arts degree (or three) ;) Good article!

Try Vegas. You can get a luxury 1 bedroom high rise condo on the strip for $1,500/month. Off strip a great 1 bedroom is $800-900 and it comes with an attached garage. The entire Ve…

The near future. Korean students already get celebrity teachers (teachers who teach hundreds of thousands of students through video and software). This is new to the U.S only becau…

The size of the market and obstacles in the way. For example, K-College education in the U.S. is about a $1 trillion a year economy. Government and self-interested trade organizati…

1 strategy might be to buy an established university and get rid of the wasteful excess. Another strategy would be to attract the brightest away via some sort of YC/Theil education…

If you want to disrupt higher ed first you have to realize how bloated it is and how it tries to do everything but educate students. more on bloat: http://goldwaterinstitute.org/si…